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That "Wow" Moment!

So I am at my local record shop store. Retired pharmacist. Had a big collection. Decided to open a brick and mortar business. Great couple and I love going there once a week and spending my money to support them. My panacea. Anyways there is an album on his system and my ears/brain immediately tune to it and ask "Who is this"? He says the name of the band whom I have never heard of before today. I say, "Will you sell it"? He says, "Sure". I bring it home and put on my system and it is a "You have got to be kidding me moment". Wow! Weren't they outstanding! Savoy Brown is the band. "Looking In" is the album from 1971. Please chime in on your similiar experiences of discovering a sound you didn't know was out there.
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mofimadness
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Love Savoy Brown!  I have almost all the vinyl they ever did.  They had a pretty vast catalog and had many, many members through the years.

+1 for Chris Whitley and AFWSFWF
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mapman
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Finally saw Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown live in a small local club a couple years back. Good stuff! Been a SB fan for 40+ years. Jack The Toad is probably my favorite non live or compilation SB album. Loads of fun from start to end. Classic album cover on Looking In that first caught my eye and got me to take the SB plunge way back when. So much good stuff spread out over so many years! Don’t discount their more recent releases either.
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waltersalas
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I was in the Record and Tape Depot in Boone, NC,  in the fall of 1982, and the manager put on a new EP entitled Chronic Town by an unknown young band from Athens, Georgia, named R.E.M. It sounded like the Byrds played at 180 miles per hour. I had never heard anything like it. I was gobsmacked. They became my favorite band for about the next ten years, and I still love them today.
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dekay
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I saw Savoy Brown in March of 1972 in St. Paul, MN.

They were playing with Fleetwood Mac and Long John Baldry.

For an encore, SB & FM played traditional 4-bar blues for @ least an hour and a half.

No Peter Green by then, but I’m almost certain that both Kirwin and Spencer were present @ this particular concert.

The concert, by the way, is missing from most databases, but searching all three bands will bring it up.

They were no George Gobel mind you, but the encore was memorable.

DeKay
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geoffkait
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The very best Savoy Brown was up til 1970 when Chris Youlden left the group. The YouTube stuff of recent Savoy Brown sounds great, I admit.
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