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I guess I must be missing something in the hundreds of times I've listened to all of my FM from P
G's FM to Say You Will. Honestly I cringe when I put Penguin in the CD player. It's like drowning in a cat!! I only listen to a few of the songs and then move on.

The Dave Walker contributions are like an afterthought at best!! It sounds like they said, "Well we've got this guy, we have 2 tracks left for the album, what's he got?" And after the bong was empty and the acid wore off, they realized they actually recorded that crap and sent it to the record company!! "OOOPS!! Too late to stop it now, guess we'll have to live with it."

As far as there not being a specific FM sound, I would agree and disagree at the same time. The original sound was, of course, blues. They tried to stick to that, but Jeremy took them in a more rock direction, as did Danny to a degree. Bob Welch definitely took them in a more rock direction. Dave Walker and Bob Weston also (I guess you could say, although I'm not sure how) also led them there. Welch had a kind of "spiritual" (for lack of a better term right now) quality to his songwriting that was carried on with Stevie and to a lesser extent Lindsey. Peter had it too but with a blues bend.

As far as Dave Walker not getting enough of a chance, I think the Penguin contributions speak for themselves as to why!!

Sorry.