I wish I had some pertinent details to offer on
Marshal Fields, a long retired Bay Area five-piece but fortunately the music can stand on it's own. Omitting one "L" from "Marshall," for fairly obvious reasons, this combo delivers a flawless record of rich, resonant power pop that occasionally skews slightly right of the dial. Ringleaders
Eric von Radics and
John McClellan, whether consciously or not, seemed to subscribe to the same modus operandi and stringent quality control of Tommy Keene and Todd Rundgren among other top shelf singer/songwriters, without being derivative of them. Immediately winsome hooks and deftly crafted arrangements make every moment count. Bloody good stuff. Incidentally,
Matt Wallace has an early engineering credit on this disk.
01. Come a Little Closer
02. Shouldn't We
03. Just Another Day
04. Changing It Again
05. Malaria Moon
06. Hurry Home
07. If It's You
Hear
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I feel that MF was a little ahead of its time. Brian and I formed a jazz group that did well until Brian left to tour with Eddie Money. Mac and Eric are still writing and recording, and Brian and I gig frequently. Mike Spinrad (one of the two drummers on the album)
Thanks for checking in Mike. I appreciate it. John contacted me a couple weeks ago as well. There's some excellent music here. Ya did good.
Hopefully Mac can hip you to some of the unreleased stuff--there's a lot!
I was a Bay Area resident from 87-91 and got the album at the Haight-Ashbury area. I still spin it today, along with other SF groups from that era like Psychefunkapus, Kill The Messenger etc. Definitely good stuff!
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Will fix this when I get home. Sorry for any confusion.
The link has been fixed. Enjoy.
Hi, I really enjoy your site and I was wondering if you could refresh the links to this cool album.
Thanks so much!
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