Old Enough to Forget

Yeah, I know I've written about B.T.O. more than once, but dang it, man, these guys were THE SHIT when I was a kid. They were the original monsters of rock for me, and every so often I will go and revisit different albums and take the musical time machine back to the land of nostalgia. I found a nice copy of the debut and figured, why not go back to the beginning and see what the fuss was about? This may have been their debut, but it didn't show up in my collection for a long, long time. I think I first heard the album in its entirety when I got it on CD. The halcyon days for me were those that accompanied the band's bookend releases in 1975: Four Wheel Drive and the Christmas present Head On -  those were my jam. Dang, "Wild Spirit" from Head On should have been as big as anything they'd ever done - even if it was a mono mix, which even as a preteen was perplexing, as I had a stereo. I digress. It's not unusual, in the words of Tom Jones. The first song ...