Absolutely 1977 Album

Boxer

There's a couple of fairly informative articles out there on this record, and good thing, because otherwise it would fall into the dustbin of history. My interest in Boxer comes through the band Patto, an early 70's band of note, for a few reasons – one of them being just about everyone in that band was in a bunch of other less-known bands people should know about, but more important, Patto cut a couple of records that were pretty damn good. Very unique in that they contained a guitarist (Ollie Halsall) who played guitar as if he was a free-form jazz artist. But that's another story for another review. Boxer was a different thing, a supergroup of sorts, playing more straight-ahead rock. Actually, this record sounded a lot like the very last Spooky Tooth record (The Mirror, if you're wondering), but with just Mike Patto's vocals, and lots and lots of Tim Bogert's bass playing. I mean, LOTS. Too much, as you can tell by my last comment. Overall, it's not even close to a good record all the way through, but I do like the first 3 songs. Stuff like "Red Light Flyer" and "Big Lucy" was classic Patto in action and probably should have scraped a chart somewhere. For that alone, I cut Absolutely some slack. Absolutely.