[Review] Rare Bird: Somebody’s Watching (1973)
The group was becoming progressively less proggy, despite the addition of VDGG’s Nic Potter on bass.
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[Review] Bryan Ferry: Let’s Stick Together (1976)
Re-makes of Roxy songs make this his most appealing solo record to date, but the remodeled covers are equally rousing.
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[Review] Bryan Ferry: In Your Mind (1977)
Ferry’s first full album of original material smooths over the rough edges of Roxy.
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[Review] Phil Manzanera: K-Scope (1978)
An 801 album in all but name, featuring the same spectrum of players from his last few albums.
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[Review] U.K.: Danger Money (1979)
The group slims down to a trio and fattens up their sound with another classic album to stave off prog’s winter.
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[Review] John Wetton: Caught in the Crossfire (1980)
His first album could be heard as a precursor to Asia. (Stop that and take your hands from over your ears.)
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[Review] Phil Manzanera: Primitive Guitars (1982)
Manzanera gets his Fripp on and you get an interesting attic’s worth of instrumentals.
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[Review] Wetton/Manzanera (1987)
The reunion of Wetton and Manzanera produces surprisingly good results, reminiscent of those Squire/Sherwood collaborations or, you know, Asia.
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[Review] Phil Manzanera: Southern Cross (1990)
If Mike + The Mechanics wrote an album about Cuban politics and hired a proper guitarist, it would probably sound like this.
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John Wetton: Chasing The Dragon (1995)
“Calamitous,” the dragon croaked, “and cold. It doesn’t do a dragon well to stay in such an inhospitiable place. And so I left the west for east; tale told.” Except there’s more to it than that, and some. The battle lines had hardly just been drawn when Wetton-san, John asiatic flew. He took with him…
