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Angel - Angel a Helluva Band

I found these a while back, and they got filed away and eventually ended up at the bottom of the pile, and the pile just kept getting bigger. I decided maybe I should shuffle things around a little and see what's in there. Well, boy howdy, here are the first two albums by Angel: their debut and their follow-up Helluva Band from 1976. I remember finding these and being kind of stoked to hear them. I recognized Greg Giuffria's name from "Call to the Heart" back in '84, a song that was pulled right out of the Journey playbook, but I always liked it. So there. The Angel albums were on Casablanca, the label KISS was on ... for me, this was the label of the gods. Except that the label would become only become profitable when they moved into disco and unleashed The Village People like a virus on the people of the world. The Angel albums came out back in '75 and '76 and, as you may have guessed, these records, while really, really cool, didn't exactly make th...