1075 - DILLINGER - Don't Lie To The Band (1976)

DILLINGER
''DON'T LIE TO THE BAND''
1976
OCT 1975-JAN 1976
UNIDISC
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1/Two Time Love/Jones, Patto, Wright/3:15
2/Taxman/Harrison/3:08
3/It's Not All Mine/Cockburn/3:39
4/Munchkin Men/Cockburn/9:35
5/You Lied/Bramhall, Cockburn, Harrison/8:06
6/Robot Race/Brahmill, Bramhall, Harrison/6:07
7/Coming Home/Cockburn/7:53
8/Bumpadidilly/Cockburn/3:11

Terry Bramhall/Accordion, Bass, Vocals
Paul Cockburn/Guitar, Vocals
Frank Davies/Producer
Dillinger/Vocals
Bob Harrison/Percussion, Vocals
Jacques Harrison/Accordion, Flute, Flute (Tenor), Harpsichord, Mellophonium, Mellotron, Mini Moog, Organ, Piano, Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor), Vocals

REVIEW
by Keith Pettipas/ALLMUSIC
"Don't Lie To The Band" is the second album by the Toronto based band, Dillinger. Originally released on the Daffodil Records label in 1976, two years after the band's debut, this album sees the band starting to pursue a hard rock direction on some songs rather than keeping with the progressive style of the previous effort. There are still some bright moments on this album that includes the songs, "It's Not All Mine," a radio friendly cover of a Spooky Tooth tune from the Mirror album, Munchkin Men, a superb psychedelic tinged progressive opus, the frantic Robot Race and the emotional ballad Coming Home. The band also does a miserable funk cover of the Beatles song, "Taxman," that is perhaps one of the worst adaption of a Beatles song ever done. Don't Lie To The Band was to be the last release by Dillinger before founding membersPaul Cockburn and Jacques Harrison split to form the hard rock band "The Hunt". This release by Unidisc is a straight reissue of the original album at a budget price and contains no bonus tracks.

1074 - DILLINGER (1974)

DILLINGER
''DILLINGER''
1974
UNIDISC
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1/People/Harrison/6:17
2/City Main/Harrison/4:53
3/Nature's Way/California/3:20
4/Live and Return/Cockburn, Harrison/17:03

REVIEW
by Keith Pettipas/ALLMUSIC
Dillinger (not to be confused with the reggae band of the same name) was a Canadian progressive band from Toronto, Ontario. The band's debut self-titled album was originally released on the Daffodil Records label in 1974. The album contains three original songs composed by the band and a superb cover of the song "Nature's Way," originally done by Spirit on The 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus album. Dillinger's music is a complex, guitar-and-organ fronted progressive sound which moves from jazz to blues and features a variety of instruments including piano, synthesizers, flute, sax, acoustic and electric guitars bass, and percussion. In places the band sounds like Santana, while in other places like Iron Butterfly or Emerson, Lake & Palmer.Dillinger has a unique sound for a Canadian band that attracted more attention in Europe than it did in North America. With long songs and drawn-out solos, Dillinger is more or less one of your typical early-'70s progressive bands, nothing special, but nonetheless interesting and typical of the genre. This release by Unidisc is a straight reissue of the original album at a budget price and contains no bonus tracks.