I am not very familiar with the solo work of Chris Spedding, who appears to have played with a wide array of rock royalty as a '60s/'70s session musician.
Judging by his YouTube videos, as a solo artist he had a foot in glam, the pop/New Wave end of punk and that range of guitar music in the UK in the mid- to late-1970s.
I was attracted to this single, scored for just $1, at a garage sale because it's on the glam label Rak and was produced by '60s/'70s ace producer Mickie Most, who owned the label. This didn't disappoint.
"Bored Bored" is a nice mid-tempo pop-rocker with an obviously '70s punk-inspired lyric, but the flip is the star here. "Time Warp" features everything but the kitchen sink, a slow burner with loud backward guitar, synthy "robot" vocal effects and an echo-laden space lyric. It has nothing to do with the song of the same title from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Both sides of the single actually do end this abruptly, there are no technical difficulties, which I take it was also punk-inspired immediacy.
Do I sound enough like a music snob in my first "real" post?
Listen (two zipped mp3s, photo) right here.
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