Nobody’s ever even heard of them.... except in Baltimore.... the best band you’ve never heard of and all that...
In the strange town of Portland Oregon there was this incredibly unique low budget am station, KVAN, that went way beyond AOR. They played almost everything (told us they did draw the line at Sabbath) over a signal so weak it was almost always hard to find on a transistor dial. First time I heard Smoke on the Water as a little kid was on KVAN (it was MIJ). They played some weird stuff that we didn’t get but mostly they played great music that no other station in town (or maybe the rest of the planet) dared play.
My brother claims he was the first to hear Safety in Numbers on KVAN and got me to buy the record (I had a summer job and he didn’t...) I remember it differently... but I digress. It became my favorite new Album. I went back to the first two from there and have since gone forward with them and Palumbo. I mean, the songs are original and cool, but the musicianship is just superb.
‘ think I posted recently about my listening experience with Greenhouse - being quite struck by the high production values on that record.
