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The release in 1973, of "Never Turn Your Back On A Friend" was the bands third studio release and it proved to be a major mile stone in the long, hard gigging career of Welsh rockers Budgie. It also established their hard rocking style with the drums and bass thumping along together and Tony Bourge doing great lead guitar work ruffling even the largest feathers. The first song off the perch was to become the bands standard bearer, "Breadfan". It opened rocking guitar, then the bass and drums come thundering in with the fuzzy crunch of twelve thousand banging heads. Add to this Burke Shelley and his very high pitched, quintessential 70's metal vocals (reminiscent of Geddy Lee of Rush but much sharper) and this heavy metal bird takes flight. Metallica tried to cover this song on their "Garage Inc". This revealed them to be the rather sad 'covers' band that they are (but I take nothing away from that bands first 5 studio cd's which were great). Budgie truly delivered it all in true hard rock style, pacing the album nicely with two acoustic songs to break up the heavy metal bluster. I'll even forgive the one minute thirty eight second drum solo at the beginning of the fourth song since it is so short, sharp and heavy. The final song "Parents", which is a supersonic power rock ballad that elevates you through the stratosphere is a song very similar in structure to the Led Zeppelin classic "Stairway To Heaven", Burke Shelley sings of the torment of turning from child to parent, hitting the heart fair and square with Mott who has a few puppies of his own. This song alone makes this cd worth hunting down...just be prepared to spend a little bit of money to do so!Read full review
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