The Last Puff

Artist: Spooky Tooth
Label: Edsel Records UK
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 740155146825
EAN: 0740155146825
ASIN: B0000011W0

Release Date: 1996-03-05

The Last Puff

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Tracks:

I am the walrus
The wrong time
Something to say
Nobody there at all
Down river
Son of your father
The last puff

Customer Reviews:

Did it have to be the Last Puff?.......2001-10-02

The 'Last Puff' is the greatest musical accomplihment "Spooky Tooth" has made in thier on again/off again career starting in 1968.
I am hard pressed to think of a better song, to play very loud, than Spooky Tooth's take on the "Beatles" classic, 'I am the Walrus'. The sheer volume that Luther Grosvenors guitar is played and recorded on this, the lead track of the album is inspiring.
'Nobody there at all' is one of the best examples of Spooky Tooths tradition of offering thier special flair of interpretating. I would have said that "Elton Johns 'Son of your father'" is but I'm more partial to Eltons version.
The Gary Wright penned tune 'The Wrong Time' suffers only in that the "Dream Weaver" had not sung on the song, having left the band earlier in the year(1970).
The saddest day in this bands career was when splintered once again after the release of 'The Last Puff' and Luther Grosvenor left the band for greater stardom in 'Mott the Hoople'. Some would argue that that was OK since within the next year or 18 months Gary Wright would have come back to the band. But, even though the band would recapture the interplay vocals of Gary and Mike Harrison, the band had also irreparably lost the instrumental interplay of melody and rhythm from Luther and Greg Ridley/bass which was just as important as the vocalization.
One area that seems to miss alot of reviewers response is the musical ability of the band, which didn't just happen to come to them in time to record 'Spooky Two'. Which is the other main reason to give this effort a listen. The recently demised "Grease Band" alumni of Henry McCulloch/guitar, Allen Spenner/bass, and the now deeply missed Chris Stainton/bass/piano/organ/guitar, who was so instrumental in the early rise of Joe Cocker in '68/69.
The 'Grease Band' addition for this album gives the overall sound of the Spooky Tooth band the muscle it had lost due to internal collapse following the release of the earlier 1970 album "Ceremony".
One only wonders what could have been, unfortunately the band had taken its Last Puff and ran out of gas. All later renditions of the the band were really just vehicles for some alterior motive and lacked the original quintets ability to create and interpret on a level of early "Traffic" if not better.
If you are going to buy only one album/CD of 'Spooky Tooth' the this is the one.

Without Gary Wright, There is No Spooky Tooth!.......2001-05-20

This album tanks! Mike & Gary sharing vocals WAS Spooky Tooth. When Gary left, Spooky died, same with Mike being gone on "The Mirror" That was the beginning of the end. Even now, Spooky isn't Spooky until ALL players come home.

2nd best album by spooky tooth.......2000-10-01

only the tremendous spooky two album tops this one. their version of david ackles' down river is great as is the i am the walrus cover and their version of elton john's son of your father. spooky tooth were great with other people's material. mike harrison was surely one of the finest british vocalists of this or any period.this is a fine album worth picking up , not quite a classic( there's a pair of mediocre cuts on this ) but above average.

A Seminal Work.......2000-04-18

This is one of the great blues/rock albums. I want to echo a previous reviewer that three of the original members remained but, most importantly, Gary Wright had left. Chris Stainton, who guided Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishman tour, fills in. Alan Spenner on bass eventually would turn up on Roxy Music's Avalon album. This album combines an emotional wail with searing guitar passages that send shivers up my spine. If any album deserves a "Gold" remastering treatment this is it. In terms of its genre it ranks with Beggars Banquet and The Byrds Untitled.

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