Image (thee) - Inside the Triangle

Name: Thee Image
Album: Inside the Triangle
Year: 1975
Style: Prog, Jazz, Disco, Psych
Similar Bands: Traffic, Little Feat, Dr. John, Bee-Gees
"One-Word" Review: Hard Jazz Fusion Disco
Based Out Of: Miami FL
Label: Manticore, Motown

Cover & Record

Back, Record

Inside the Triangle (1975)

1. Fly Away 6:36
2. Far Away Places 2:55 (single b-side)
3. High Time Feeling 3:34
4. IOU's 2:32
5. All Night Long 4:15 / 
6. Good To You 6:02
7. Alone With You 5:05 (single)
8. Rapture of the Deep 1:45
9. Nobody Wins till the Game is Over 4:15 (cover Sir Mack Rice)

Album Rating (1-10): 5.5

Members & Other Bands:

• Mike Pinera - Producer, Guitar, Lead & Backing Vox (Blues Image, Iron Butterfly, Cactus, Alice Cooper, Ramatam, Classic Rock All Stars, Fanz, Thee Butterfly, Judy Mayhan, )
• Duane Hitchings - Keys, Moog, Synth, Backing Vox (Buddy Miles Express, Cactus, Charmer, Steel, Kim Carnes, Carmine Appice,  The Runaways, Rod Stewart, Bad Finger, Alice Cooper )
• Donny Vosburgh - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vox (Blues Image, Buddy Miles, Fortress, Mother's Finest, Darrell Mansfield Band)
• Karl Richardson - Recording & Mixing
• Ed Mashal - Asst. Engineer
• John Blanche - Mastering Engineer
• Srat Stills - Cover Art
• Mario A Algaze - Photography
• Thee Big "M" - Album Concept & Art Direction
• Mario Medious - Executive Producer

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band. Although the title and cover are is heading to somewhere ominous...the Bermuda triangle...the three guys in the band couldn't look more like three stoner surfer dudes incapable of evil. I assume the back image is of them at some palace in Bermuda, with the three guys looking a little glammy with cape, embroidered shirt, and bedazzled bell-bottoms. So I'm guessing this band is somewhere between glam, and prog, with the cover art being conceptual enough to make me think of prog.

Album Review: The Band name was a nostalgic throw-back tribute for Pinera & Vosburgh, who used to play together in Blue Image at a "legendary" club in Miami called Thee Image. Some of the album (Single "Alone With You") sounds like if a typical lounge singer like Tom Jones would decide to make a funky-disco album..okay, that might actually work or sound cool, but this does not sit in such a positive light. But some sounds like psych rock, or prog fusion. "IOUs" sounds kind like a video game

Stand Out Track: IOU's

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