Getting to This

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Getting To This
Getting To This cover
Studio album by Blodwyn Pig
Released April 1970
Recorded Olympic and Trident Studios
Genre Rock
Label Chrysalis
Producer Andy Johns
Professional reviews
Blodwyn Pig chronology
Ahead Rings Out
(1969)
Getting To This
(1970)
Lies
(1993)


Getting To This was the second album by British blues-rock band Blodwyn Pig, released in 1970. The album was the band's last until a brief reunion in the 1990s: Peter Banks joined from Yes after the recording of Getting To This, but the band split up at the end of 1970.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Drive Me" – 3:19
  2. "Variations on Nainos" – 3:47
  3. "See My Way" – 5:04
  4. "Long Bomb Blues" – 1:07
  5. "The Squirreling Must Go On" – 4:22
  6. "San Francisco Sketches: (a) Beach Scape (b)Fisherman's Wharf (c) Telegraph Hill (d) Close the Door, I'm Falling Ot of the Room" – 8:11
  7. "Worry" – 3:43
  8. "Toys" – 3:03
  9. "To Rassman" – 1:29
  10. "Send Your Son to Die" – 4:25
  11. "Summer Day" (bonus track on CD release) – 3:48
  12. "Walk On The Water" (bonus track on CD release) – 3:42

[edit] Personnel

  • Mick Abrahams — guitar, vocals, seven-string guitar, tenor guitar
  • Jack Lancaster — flute, violin, electric violin, tenor sax, baritone sax, soprano sax, phoon horn, cornet
  • Andy Pyle — electric bass, six-string bass
  • Ron Berg — drums, tympani
  • Graham Waller — piano ("Drive Me", "Beach Scape")