rich ReeferDaGod
You want to talk about an under-rated band that came close to being an original and creative offshoot of a Pink Floyd style -- I offer Nektar with Roye Albrighton. These guys were incredible and this album Sounds Like This (1973 - recorded in Germany) was one of their best. Iron Maiden covered two of their songs. When a major label got their claws into them they turned them into a more commercially viable group and it fizzled. As well played as their 7th album Magic Is a Child was (without the late Roye Albrighton) that was the death knell. Shorter songs, insipid titles but it got good reviews. Their hardcore fans balked. From recording in Germany and England to a studio in NJ. Good grief. It did have wonderful melodies and performance but the edge was gone, the originality and the intenseness. Ameican FM rock radio abandoned them. But, I liked them enough to stick with them.