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Man Maximum Darkness Album T-shirt
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Maximum Darkness is a live album by the brilliant Welsh psychedelic/progressive rock band Man and was released on the United Artists Records label September 1975. It was the second complete live album released by the band after Be Good To Yourself... and featured John Cipollina as special guest. Rumours that Micky Jones had to over-dub Cipollina€™s guitar, as it was out of tune, before the album could be released, are greatly exaggerated. Only one track, "Bananas", had to have his playing removed/replaced. Deke Leonard said: "Everything ... which sounds like Cipollina is Cipollina." I've always assumed it is Cippolina on the cover with an industrial looking whammy bar fixed to his SG.
Man were one of the first bands I really got into in 1974, aged 13. I just loved everything about them. Little did I know at the time was how influenced by west coast acid rock they were, especially Quicksilver Messenger Service. Indeed, Codine, on this album was a song recorded by QMS but which only found a release on the hippie movie soundtrack Revolution.
We used to play 7171551 very loud on the speakers in the school hall during lunchtime. One day a teacher who was not cool came up told us to turn it down and said we had been brainwashed into liking this awful noise. Way to be progressive, daddio. As soon as he was gone, we cranked it right back up.
The album spent two weeks in the UK album chart, peaking at No 25.
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