Fat Mattress - Fat Mattress II

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Fat Mattress - Fat Mattress II Description : Personnel: Noel Redding (vocals, guitar, electric guitar); Jim Leverton (vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, bass guitar); Neil Landon (vocals, percussion); Steve Hammond (electric guitar); Mick Weaver (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Eric Dillon (drums, percussion).Audio Remasterer: Paschal Byrne. Liner Note Author: Jim Leverton. Photographer: Gered Mankowitz. In the manner of many second albums, Fat Mattress' sophomore outing was similar to, but also inferior to, their debut. Again, Noel Redding didn't take as much as a leadership role as some listeners might have expected given his prior stardom as bassist in the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In fact, he's less of a presence on this record, at least as a composer, his contributions in that regard limited to three songwriting co-credits. And again, the mood is breezy folk-rock-psychedelia with a dash of early progressive rock, though some of the songs on side one in particular have a heavier feel than most of the first album. The songs aren't even up to the debut's modest standard, however, and the lingering feeling is that of a tolerable but fairly anonymous '60s-turning-into-'70s band with a Transatlantic feel. There's a bit of jazzy influence la Traffic in songs like "Roamin'" and "At the Ball," and there are some pleasant vocal harmonies. But there's not a single standout tune, and though Redding and his bandmates were no doubt straining to avoid being the answer to a trivia question as to what one of the members had done after playing in one of the world's biggest groups, that's what this music ends up being. ~ Richie Unterberger

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