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After All - selftitled 1969

My fellow musicologist's notes on this album starts ...
Hastily put together in 1969 by a veteran quartet of Tallahassee, FL, musicians and together for only a handful of months, After All is merely a footnote in the history of late-'60s and Florida rock. Their single recorded effort, however, was a moody slice of acid-tinged progressive pop that, while perhaps not among the finest obscurities from the era, brings back the grooviness and off-the-cuff adventurousness of the decade in full color.

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Benjamin Blake Mitchner2 said of the song 'nothing left to do' -
'Really dark and ominous deadly psychedelic progressive crossover! Love it! This is as out there and strange and shocking as it gets! And the beginning half is so spooky it's just wonderful! The guy has a voice like Jim Morrison meets Lucifer himself! Heavy metal is nothing compared to REAL music like this!'

Listen to a song or 2 on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PjYmfXXgbU

Sound interesting? You can find the album for less than a tenner on amazon or if you are going to use it under the following conditions, i could give it to you.

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Re: After All - selftitled 1969

https://youtu.be/J2S5kCrjQlY?list=PL4uTeU_1y8Te0pQDvY4cGFV10GIz_YxF7


Quite like the actual songs on this album, particularly as there is a bit of hammond organ which I'm always a sucker for.

I found the vocalist hard to get into. Instead of Jim Morrison comparisons I was reminded of a cross between an old style crooner/lounge singer. On checking the photo that accompanies the track above maybe I'm not too far out. Don't know if the photo was taken in 1969 when the album was recorded but they look pretty out of touch with the fashion and hair length of the time if it is the case. The guy second from the right looks about ten years older than the rest of them. If he was the singer maybe he was around in those old days.

By the way, who is Benjamin Blake Mitchener? A renowned rock writer, critic or something?