First official reissue under license of Warner Music! Hard Meat were a Britishprogressive rock group (1969-1971), founded by Brothers Mick (guitar and vocals)and Steve Dolan (bass) and completed by American drummer Mick Carless. The firstrecordings were a 7" on the Island label in 1969, but dropped by Island, theband very soon reappeared with 2 long players on Warner Brother Records in early1970 and late 1970, which today are very sought after by all lovers of latesixties early seventies guitar oriented British progressive and psychedelicrock. Musically quite varied, all seven tracks of the first eponymous album arepowered by Michael's likeable strong remarkable voice and his very impressivelead guitar and Carless' Keith Moon-styled percussion. The opener 'Through aWindow' (which curiously became the title of their sophomore LP) offered up anenthralling mixture of all of those earlier genres which should have become aradio classic. It opens up with some pretty accoustic guitar and quickly shiftedinto an attractive melody that's always reminded of a mash-up between Englishfolk-rock and Hendrix at his most progressive. There was a lot going on here butit was all driven by Carless' frenetic drumming and Dolan's guitar and strongvoice. With a sunny, lysergic feel, 'Universal Joint' sounded like somethingrecorded in the mid-'60s. 'Run Shaker Life', the album's longest track found thetrio showing off their hardest rock orientation and complete with a bit of ragainfluence, the results were stunning. Guitar rock at its best. 'Yesterday,Today, Tomorrow' is a beautiful acoustic ballad that sounded anything butacoustic. Showcasing Dolan's wonderful acoustic guitar work, it was one of thosesongs that picked up speed and energy and ended way too soon... 'Space Between'was built on what sounded like a native American rhythm with a touch of lysergicinfluences thrown in for good measure. Different, but engrossing and the tuneshowcased Mick on electric guitar. 'Time Shows No Face' is the album'sprettiest tune, for some reason on this one Dolan's vocal sounds beatlesque andPhil Westbrook provided a great flute solo. The recordings have been remasteredvery carefully. Many thanks to Warner Music, who gave Longhair access to theirarchive and an excellent transfer of the tapes. This and the loving one,time-consuming occupation with the sound material by Long Hair's sound engineerare responsible for the brilliant sound of the album decisively. The album comeswith insert and band story. Extremely highly recommended. Definitely one of thebest LH releases!!