English vocals
International relevance: **
This is very strange. It was released through streaming sites only in early 2025 with the info that Mellotronen's behind it, but it's an unusually shoddy release coming from them. To begin with, it's short on info. What we know, or at least are told, is that was recorded at Club Fattighuset in Stockholm. But there are no musicians credits (although it sounds like Slim Notini on piano) and the recording year is uncertain. The ”cover” says 1972 (a date also given by long running Swedish blues magazine Jefferson on Facebook shortly before the release) but every streaming platform says it's from 1973. The ”cover” is as unimaginative as it gets and looks more like the work of some kitchen table bootlegger. The sound is in stereo; it's either an execeptionally good audience tape or a B+ soundboard recording.
Being from the early 70s it's an
all blues set but edited down to a six songs of a mere 25 minutes.
What's interesting is that it only has songs not on any other Peps
album, and being a good performance it's highly interesting to Peps
fans. But if someone bothers to release it even in such a
disappointing fashion, why cut it down to EP length, and why such
careless presentation? Being of musical as well as great historical
value, I wish whoever's responsible for this hack job would have paid more respect to the source material and
Peps devotees.
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