This was old Percy’s second solo outing after leaving the behemoth that was Led Zeppelin. This album gave him his biggest solo hit with Big Log, which has that haunting old blues riff with the chorus effect, along and Robert’s superb vocal. It’s quite a simple song but so effective. The rest of the album is Robert trying his hardest to be as far away as possible from Zeppelin.
Messin’ With The Mekon flirts between reggae and 80’s synth pop, Wreckless Love is very Talking Heads as they were becoming flavour of the month at this time, Thru With The Two Step dipped its toe into the blues with a superb solo from Robbie Blunt.
Big Log is such an obvious choice as favourite track because it’s the best track on the album. All credit to him for keeping as far away from the obvious, and he has made some good albums as a solo artist.
7.5/10 from The Grooveman.
