Back in the year 1973 I happened to run across an album called On the Frontier by a band called Shoot. I did not know anything at all about them at all. But the music on that album was really, really god melodic music. The music was like a cross between folk rock music and pop music. Several of the songs had superb melodies.
The band Shoot seemed to disappear without a trace after that album. If my memory does not fail me I learned somehow that one of the members of Shoot was Jim McCarty, who was the drummer in the Yardbirds and who also helped to found Renaissance. I have no idea if that means that there was a connection of some kind between Renaissance and Shoot.
About ten years ago I was overjoyed to run across Shoot´s one album On the Frontier on iTunes. I purchased it immediately and found it to be just as great as I had remembered it (I had lost my vinyl copy of the album forever way back in the 1970s).
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