Madusa

This is my favourite Trapeze album, as they were local lads they used to perform at the Forum hall in Cannock a few miles away, me and my mates used to walk there and back to watch them every time they were in town, when I saw this cd for sale I was over the moon, they don't make real music like this these days, brilliant.

Shows promise. Just a bit of magic missing.

Amazing change from the first Trapeze album. Slimmed down to a three piece power trio incorporating soul & funk into a heavy rock setting. Great vocals from Glenn Hughes. Galley on guitar and Holland on drums cannot be faulted. Perhaps some of the songs are a little stretched. The track "Medusa" is a rock classic. This album and the next "You Are The Music" are gems from an underrated band. Later versions of Trapeze (with/without Hughes) would unfortunately never get near this level again

Superb album. Great to have it again.

I do not know why but this is an album I have never heard. (gasp) well boy I sure missed a corker! I remember buying `You are the music` in the early seventies and I loved it from the bus journey home to the second my hand eased the record arm into the shiny black plastic groove,( I still have the album).knowing what the third album ( you are the music )was like all those years ago. I thought I would treat myself to the second and its almost a continuation, again Im over the moon. Funky rocky souly class! Glenn, Mel,(RIP)and Dave. well done chaps ..

If you find yourself in this Amazon back water, then you might find a few well chosen words of comment on this Trapeze album helpful. If you rate albums such as Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, or early Black Sabbath, then this will appeal. Comparison with Sad Wing's is very apt indeed to my mind, Trapeze must have been an inspiration for a young Judas Priest, the two bands sound very similar indeed here. Let's not forget also that Dave Holland, Trapeze's drummer, ended up filling the drum stool for the very same band many years later. Hughes went on, as you will certainly know, to join a certain Deep Purple for Burn, Made in Europe etc. and certainly revived their sound no end. Medusa is a little gem that deserves respect. Buy it. I am certain that if you can relate to the music above and have yet to discover Trapeze, then you won't have any regrets.

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What a great CD! Some absolute classic tracks on there, with fantastic guitar riffs!

Trapeze-Platten, die heute als Klassiker gelten. Nach einem eher orientierungslos wirkenden Erstlingswerk verließen einige Mitglieder die Gruppe und übrig blieben Mel Galley, Glenn Hughes und Dave Holland. Hoppla? Genau: Galley zupfte später bei Trapeze-Fan David Coverdale die Klampfe, Hughes kam neben eben jenem Coverdale mit Deep Purple zu Weltruhm und Holland landete bei Judas Priest. Zunächst aber nahm das Trio zwei sehr gute Platten auf: Medusa, von der hier die Rede ist, und You are the Music, we're just the Band, dem, wie ich finde, Meisterwerk der Band. Medusa ist auch nicht von schlechten Eltern, allerdings wirkt es auf mich deutlich düsterer und weniger modern als der Nachfolger You are the Music. Mit einem Heavy-Song geht's los, Black Cloud, riffbetont und recht zugänglich. Jury, Seaful und vor allem das Titelstück kommen recht dunkel daher. Your Love is alright zeigt Hughes von seiner funky Seite, die auf dem Nachfolger noch weit deutlicher zutage treten sollte. Gesanglich war er hier schon auf hohem Niveau unterwegs - und das ist er ja bis heute. Wer eigenständigen 70s-Rock ohne Spirenzchen mag, roh und mit Funkeinschlag, wer Mountain mag oder James Gang oder eben Glenn Hughes, der sollte reinhören.

Non mi trovo d'accordo con le valutazioni a 5 stelle per questo album, che è frutto di una formazione a tre composta dal giovanissimo Glenn Hughes al basso/voce, Mel Galley alle chitarre e Dave Holland alle batteria. Tradito dalle entusiastiche recensioni e influenzato dai nomi delle band nelle quali sono approdati, in seguito, i sopracitati artisti (Whitesnake, Deep Purple e Judas Priest), non ho saputo resistere alla tentazione di farlo mio, ma ho toppato, perché i ritmi funky non sono proprio nelle mie corde e alla fine salvo 3 pezzi (peraltro belli) su 7: Jury, Seafull e Medusa, nei quali la voce di Glenn Hughes, seppur acerba, esprime tutto il suo potenziale rock blues. Consiglio un ascolto preliminare.

Glenn Huges en estado de gracia años antes de unirse a Deep Purple. Una banda super potente de Hard Rock. Recomendable al 100%

Discazo poco conocido. Grabación de buena calidad y entrega rápida. Buen precio. Lo recomiendo 100% a quién le guste la buena música.

Comprato per curiosità anche se avevo ascoltato qualche brano sul filo conduttore di Glenn Hughes, è risultato un album piacevole che mi ha pienamente soddisfatto. OK la spedizione per tempi e imballaggio.

SEMPRE UN CLASSICO RESTA TALE..HUGHES IN UNA DELLE PRIME SUE CREATURE..CANTANTE BASSISTA STRAORDINARIO...DAVE HOLLAND ON DRUMS...POI COI JUDAS...E MEL GALLEY ALLA CHITARRA COMPLETANO LA FORMAZIONE...CONSIGLIATISSIMO

This CD was on time and undamaged . This is a new band for me, and I'am just love it, it's just great. Thanks Drew Parsons.

Du rock dans tout ce qu'il y avait de classique. Sauf la présence de Glenn Hugues qui apporte énormément. Dommage que la restitution sur CD soit un peu bancale avec des problèmes de son. Quelques bruits récurrents sur cette version qui entache l'écoute.

１ｓｔアルバムの『ＴＲＡＰＥＺＥ』と、この『Ｍｅｄｕｓａ』を一緒に注文して聴きましたが、１ｓｔの方は正直言って「．．．？」（ホントにグレン・ヒューズがいるバンドなの？）って感じで、あまりロックの匂いがしなかったのですが、『Ｍｅｄｕｓａ』の方はまあ聴いて一安心、「グレンが歌ってる〜」。グレン本人もこのアルバムはお気に入りなのか、最近の『ｓｏｕｌｆｕｌｌｙ　ｌｉｖｅ』の中でも、「ｍｅｄｕｓａ」と「ｓａｅｆｕｌｌ」の２曲をを演奏しています。なかなかグレン・ヒューズの存在感を見せ付けたアルバムになってると思います。

I was too young to be into music until the 80's, so I did not grow up listening to this era of music. I did listen to some 70's rock, but only the stuff you heard on the radio. But I have been a huge music fan for most of my life. I have not been much of a fan of most modern music and really can only name a handful of bands I like from the last 10 years. I listen to all genres some, but mostly rock. I started listening to a lot of lesser known and even some almost unknown British rock/prog rock bands from the early 70's lately.This is one of the bands I discovered during this process. It is really a great album IMO. I do know of Glenn Hughes from some of his other work, but never really did any research on him to discover Trapeze. I think this is the best album from them, from everything that I have listened to anyway. This is good ol classic rock n roll! My only regret is there are only 7 songs on this album! It is just refreshing to hear some old material that I have never heard before. Give it a listen!

The first time I was ever exposed to Trapeze was the title track from Medusa. I thought it was amazing as a song. I was born a decade after Trapeze, and being a child of the 80s, I was exposed to music, but Trapeze was pretty much an unknown band to me until recently. No regrets in discovering them, I wish there were more albums made with Hughes/Galley/Holland. I guess it's unfortunate that won't ever happen, but the albums that are out there are gems.

Its just amazing that this baby came out in the early 70s. Glenn Hughes and Mel Galley in their younger days, setting the stage for what was yet to come in their careers. Glenn is still stellar today with Black Country Communion. Whats crazy is as a teenager I kept waiting for them to do a follow-up album that was just as good but it never came. Trapeze played some big arenas with some big bands in the day, how jealous am I that I never got to see them. I can still remember the first time that I heard this album, and the impact that it made on me, I knew then that I was listening to something special.

Trapeze had several different bands due to members going elsewhere. In my opinion the Medusa album was their best.

Medusa was the 2nd release for British rock band Trapeze and their first as a trio after losing two of their original members. This CD version of that vinyl release is on Threshold records - the label that was created by The Moody Blues and, not surprisingly, it was produced by Bluesman John Lodge.There are only seven tracks on this CD. Most of the songs run between four and six minutes long with the exception of the overdone opus "Jury" which exceeds eight minutes. For those of us who remember what rock music was back in the 1970s (this album's original release date was 1970) that was typical.Three of the songs on this CD stand up to repeated listening; "Black Cloud", which was released as a single (but only in the USA), "Touch My Life", and the title track "Medusa". The remaining tracks are not memorable at all. Funny thing about the title track is that the basic guitar riff seems very similar (at least to my ears) to that of Nazareth's "Hair Of The Dog". One other things about this CD is that all of the tracks seemed to have a muffled sound. I don't know if that was by design or just a byproduct of remastering for the CD.Whether you should buy this CD or not will depend on if you really love 1970s British hard rock or if you just want to know what Glenn Hughes was up to, musically speaking, before he was invited to join British super group Deep Purple and share vocal duties with David Coverdale.

If you are a Led Zeppelin fan, this is a no doubter.