Austin Roberts & Advent

Austin Roberts Chelsea 1972

Last Things on My Mind Chelsea 1973

Rocky Private Stock 1975

Eight Days: A Personal Journey Newpax 1976
A decent yet strangely ignored progressive rock musical with all the desirable ingredients: hard rock guitar crunch, synthesizers, classic rock organ, symphonic, classical and acoustic passages. Perhaps people recognize that Roberts had a couple pop hits in the 70's ('Something's Wrong With Me', 'Rocky') and figure this is more of the same. Not true. And don't let the "musical" tag throw you into thinking this is some Godspell takeoff - to me Eight Days comes off more as a conceptual album than a musical. No immediate comparisons come to mind though sections reminded me of The Barratt Band and Daniel Amos circa Horrendous Disc. I like this better than Cry 3 or Because I Am. An atypical release for this label. KS