Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Alex Harvey New Band's The Mafia Stole my Guitar, from 1979





The keyboardist was Tommy Eyre, who was one of the composers on the fabulous Riff Raff prog band posted just a couple of weeks ago back here.  Throughout the decade he played mostly with Alex Harvey the guitarist whose original namesake band in the early 70s was given  the modifier Sensational, discographed here, and they existed from 1973 to 1978, so presumably this album continues straight on after the earlier ones, without the modifier of course which by then was superfluous.  

I personally was never impressed with the Alex Harvey LPs though they are sometimes described as prog, really more glam rock or generic rock with that ridiculous British sense of humor or rather nonsense of humor.  Anyways in this 1979 outing Alex plays mostly electric guitar based fusion, with a minimum of attempts at singing.  The quality is fair to good, we are definitely not talking about masterpiece level like Big Jim Sullivan or Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow, or Ray Russell, though the basic sound and feel are similar.

The opener, Don's Delight:



Wait for me, Mama, a track where Alex brings out his semiridiculous vocals:



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