STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - BRAND X - UNORTHODOX BEHAVOIR

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Good morning Friday people and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. It was on this day in 1999 that English singer, drummer, songwriter, record producer and actor, Phil Collins got his star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. To commemorate the date we shine a light on the debut album by progressive rock jazz fusion band, Brand X. The band was formed in 1974 by John Goodsall (guitar), Percy Jones (bass), Robin Lumley (keyboards), and Phil Collins (drums). Their debut LP, Unorthodox Behavior was released June 18th 1976 on Passport Records and was produced by  Brand X and Dennis Mackay. It peaked at #191 on the Billboard 200. all the tracks are instrumental. We've had our copy for years and finally listened to it last night. It was purchased at the now Legendary J.R.'s Junk Trunk. Speaking of The Trunk, I found a couple of old promo videos for it on You Tube that I will share down below around the pictures. 

"Nuclear Burn" – 6:23
"Euthanasia Waltz" – 5:42
"Born Ugly" – 8:18
"Smacks of Euphoric Hysteria" – 4:30
"Unorthodox Behaviour" – 8:29
"Running on Three" – 4:38
"Touch Wood" – 3:03

Robin Lumley – electric and acoustic pianos, Moog synthesizer, string synthesizer on "Nuclear Burn", Echoplex on "Smacks of Euphoric Hysteria"

John Goodsall – electric and acoustic guitars

Percy Jones – electric and acoustic basses, marimba on "Unorthodox Behaviour"

Phil Collins – drums, percussion, vibraphone on "Euthanasia Waltz"

with:

Jack Lancaster – soprano saxophone on "Touch Wood"

Production

Brand X – producers
Dennis Mackay – producer, engineer, mixing
Robin Lumley – mixing
Geoff Leach – tape operator
Julian Taylor – tape operator
Steve Taylor – tape operator
Hipgnosis – sleeve design

https://youtu.be/IvAov0pZM5k

https://youtube.com/shorts/fZAAoETJJdw?feature=share