and not a fair one at that.
My family had a bakery on Devon Ave and here were lots of store on the street.
on the intersection of Devon and Calilfornia was a head shop / record store.
I picked up albums there regularly and one day they were playing what I now know to be “Christian Rock”( Think “Spint in the Sky” Norman Greenbaum- a jew but no unusual at all as Chicago and Skokie have had “Jew for Jesus” people around since the Sixties, for example "The Jesus People "
So the album cover was on display and it was beautful, an oil painting of an angel in the surf and it was done in a Moody Blues kind of painting if you know some of their prog-rock album covers you’ll know what I’m talking about.
The abbum was "Angel Dust " by Dharma Record - 1975 and I kid you not it sound like it could have been recorded today.
Anyone ever seen a copy of this?
Jacob E. Farber
Welcome to the board, s100bus. I’ve moved your thread to the Cafe Society forum, which is where most of our arts discussions go, and I’ve expanded your thread title a bit so people will know what you’re asking about. We’ll see if somebody recognizes this album from your description.
The album you’re talking about is indeed Angel Dust. It’s the first album by a Chicago prog rock band called Gabriel Bondage, and it came out in 1975 (yes, on the Dharma label).
The band was fairly talented and well-thought-of locally, but failed to break out into the wider world. IMO, they failed because they didn’t adapt well to changing styles; they maintained their late 60s era San Francisco sound at a time when prog rock had pretty much left folk music behind and was embracing increasingly harder forms in both rock and jazz.
They have a Facebook page, which seems to have been started fairly recently.
Youtube has posts of songs from Angel Dust:
First Stone In A Pyramid
Island
Sing Me A Song
The guy who posted those videos has the whole album up, btw.
They released a 2nd album in 1977, Another Trip to Earth and continued playing together until about 1984.
Progarchives has a listing for them that says they have reformed and are working on new material, but there’s no date attached to that information. At the bottom of that page, you can find links to streaming mp3s of both their albums in their entirety.