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The biggest hangup with this project (if you want to call it that) is the fact that Snowy White supplies a large portion of the guitar muscle, often mimicking Green's style, and separating the journeyman from the original master is downright difficult to do at times. On the positive side, and as a continuance of the longtime Green jam tradition, the majority of the compositions are instrumentals which is kinda cool considering Peter's voice was hit and miss at best (and would soon morph into the sub-par). Considering the depression and drug-addled hell he went through for most of the 70's, this project certainly came as a welcome respite if nothing else, both for him and his longtime fans.

All the tracks were purportedly written by Pete which is another highlight, with most of the lyrics being supplied by his girlfriend (and soon to be wife) Jane Samuels. By the time the album had been released well over a year after its completion, Green had unfortunately fallen back on old ways, having taken up coke in the place of acid. Some of the blame for this could fall squarely on the shoulders of his old friend Mick Fleetwood, care of the wild estate he ran in Malibu back then (even if Mick did try to land him a nice recording deal with the Mac's label, Warner Bros., which Green nixed at the last moment). He was also about to lose his wife but gain a daughter after the nuptual bliss had worn thin, along with the haze and smog of L.A. where he had recently relocated.

When you can enlist elite players like Snowy White, Pete Bardens and Reg Isadore on a single project, you certainly do the Green Machine justice. And he did for the most part on this one, even if sales weren't exactly brisk in the States. But the album did do well with the old reliable fanbase Peter has always had in England and continental Europe. To my knowledge, the majority of the album was recorded during the fall of 1977 in London, under the direction of Peter Vernon-Kell of PVK Records, with a little help from Peter's brother Michael.