Artist: Nektar
Album: Down To Earth
Label: Passport
Catalog: PPSD 98005
Year: 1974
Genre: progressive
Grading: VG+ cover / VG+ LP
Sleeve design:Pierre Tubbs
Cover photo: Bryce Attewell
Grade: **** stars
This was the first used LP I ever bought and the late Roye Albrighton was the first musician who ever stumbled across one of the BadCatRecords reviews I'd put out there and took the time to send me an email. He was funny and insightful and took some of my criticisms in good nature. All that aside, there's something about Bryce Attewell's cover photo that just perfectly grabbed that mid-'70s zeitgeist (always wanted to use that work in a review). Yeah, maybe there was a little bit of The Who's "Magic Bus" in the concept, but other than that, these guys just looked like a stoned German and English band.
