Neapolitan

1. A Friend Of Mine 5:25
2. While The Sun Still Shines 3:15
3. Not So Good 3:07
4. Three Minstrels 4:28
5. Slow Susan 3:45
6. Over And Over Again 5:55
7. Feeling Free 3:12
8. Fair-Haired Lady 3:00
9. A Place To Lay My Head 4:25
10. The Eagle 5:15

The art work was the first thing that caught my eye, it was done by Colin See-Paynton. (pictured above) He is an noted wood engraver. His mainly work consists of wood cuts, and prints that focuses on birds and nature.

The organ & keyboard player is fantastic, when he plays there are these phrases that remind me of other keyboard players like Tony Banks, Jon Lord, Keith Emerson, Goldy McJohn (Steppenwolf)

A Friend Of Mine - From the first five seconds you can tell what you're in store for: a Progressive Rock album with top notch musicians. The keyboard player is as talented as
While The Sun Still Shines The song features a funky clav keyboard sound. They sing "da, da daah" in harmony like Yes. They end the song with the organ and guitar jamming, during the fade out it sounds like Goldy McJohn organ playing from Steppenwolf.
Not So Good - a slow number. It starts off with what reminds me of Dennis Wilson playing piano and singing Forever. Then it builds up after about half a minute through. The bass enters followed by drums and organ.
Three Minstrels - One of the only thing that I didn't like about the album was the sound of the drum during the intro. If Chinese water torture had a sound it would be it.
Slow Susan
Over And Over Again This song opens with heavy Greg Lake riff, like something he did with King Crimson or ELP. The vocals are bit Jon Anderson but deeper. The lyrics would be like something Greg Lake would pen.
Feeling Free this songs opens up with piano part that sounds very similar to Bill Withers '72 hit Lean On Me. Notice that Fields release the album a year before. Bill Withers I am surprised at you! Pulling a page right out of Jimmy Page's book of tricks ... well really all musicians beg, borrow, and steal.
Fair-Haired Lady a slow quiet number, vocals accompanied with arpeggios on an acoustic guitar a warm clarinet played by Dafne Down that enters half way through the song.
A Place To Lay My Head back to business with this number.
The Eagle The intro to this song reminds me a little like Cannon in D. The rest of the bands joins in.

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Neapolitan

band: Dry Ice
album: Mr. Sawyer's Sound Mind (also released under various other titles)
band members:

• David Cutillo
• Frank DiMino
• Jim Fraser
• Michael Hare
• John Marino
• John Robert Tata

tracklist:

1. Mary Is Alone. 1:56
2. Ocean. 3:29
3. Sunny Day. 3:20
4. Mr. Sawyer. 3:11
5. Eyesight to the Blind. 2:23
6. I Saw Her Standing There. 3:16
7. Let's Go Down. 2:38
8. Mary Is Alone. 2:39
9. Oh Darling. 3:36
10. Lucy Mae. 2:26
11. Sweet Little Sue. 2:11
12. Sunny Day. 2:45
13. Ocean. 3:22
14. Mary Is Alone. 3:56

This is more of compilation of unreleased tapes, than it's a proper album. It has a few songs that repeat, and it's lo-fi but still worth listening to it in its entirety. The band never really took off, because like many young men during the time, two of the members went off to Vietnam. They were unreleased for decades. Erik Lindgren acquired tapes from producer Bobby Herne. The band plays music that hovers around Psychedelic, Garage Rock and Acid Rock styles of the late 60s.

Mary Is Alone It has a real hard driven Psychedelia bass line. It's very much like Paul McCartney playing on Sgt. Pepper. It worthy of being include on Nuggets, and probably would had been if was released as a single back in the 60s.
Ocean The guitar player is as apt on the wah-wah pedal as Eric Clapton on World of Pain.
Sunny Day this song reminds me a lot of The Guess Who.
Mr. Sawyer and this song has a little bit The Kinks to it.
Eyesight to the Blind a cover song of a cover song. It was written and recorded by Sonny Boy Williamsonin '51. Dry Ice version is follows the version by The Who song called "The Hawker" which is credited on the album as "words by Sonny Boy Williamson, music by Townshend." Interesting fact: Elmore James plays guitar on the original version of Eyesight to the Blind.
I Saw Her Standing There A cover of the The Beatles song.
Let's Go Down Acoustic guitars
Mary Is Alone Another take of the first track.
Oh Darling Another cover of the The Beatles song.
Lucy Mae Garage Rock number with hand clapping gives it a 70s feel.
Sweet Little Sue (Something about this song sounds vaguely familiar, however I can't recall what it is.)
Sunny Day - It has the same feel of a The Guess Who song.
Ocean an alternative take of the second track.
Mary Is Alone- edited version, splicing together two takes, which is noticeable by the change in volume and tempo, despite that I still like it. Where on the first track the music is more pronounced, on this version the vocals are at the forefront and you can understand the lyrics because of it. The slower pace and the subject matter of being trapped in drug addiction makes it more foreboding a song.

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