Overdrive – On Wizard Ridge 2005 /On the run , Demos & Rarities 2019

The Lincolnshire act Overdrive were formed as way back as May 1977. In 1980 they released their own slice of legendary N.W.O.B.H.M. vinyl (on the Boring Grantham label), featuring the tracks “On the Run”, “Nightmare” and “Stonehenge”.

This single was made in only 500 copies and were sold-out almost immediately. In the book “The N.W.O.B.H.M. Encyclopedia” (I.P. Publishing) expert Malc Macmillan raved about the single: “The muscial contents elicit some reasonable strong comparisons with cult heroes Witchfinder General or the West Midlands version of Scarab, particularly on ‚Stonehenge’ and the atmospheric ‚Nightmare’, with Steve Farmer delivering his best Ozzy Ozbourne impersonation in places.” The band were troubled by more line up changes and the band gave up in 1982 but however reunited in 1988 and recorded a full lenght album in 1989 that were released, just as the single, on their own Boring Grantham label. “Dishonest Words” received little feedback from both, press and fans. Now finally we can hear more about this great band. High Roller records has released a lp called “Three Corners to Nowhere” and O.N.R has released this cd called “On Wizard Ridge”, containing 11 bona fide N.W.O.B.H.M. pieces like “Nuclear Bomb”, “Rules of the Inn” or “Once in a Dream”. The cd also features the tracks of the mega rare “On the Run” single.

1 In The Presence Of Heroes / Nightmare
2 Nuclear Bomb
3 Once In A Dream
4 Overdrive
5 On The Run
6 Piebald Pinto
7 Louis IX
8 Rules Of The Inn
9 All Day
10 Stonehenge
11 On Wizard Ridge

This disc sounds fantastic as the sound on the tapes where enhanced to sound the best they can considering these are low budget recordings from over 40 years ago in 1979/1980, great solos and totally british sounding, as i spin this disc im thinking about GASKIN and there first lp, think that lp but a bit heavier with the same type of solos and THAT IS HOW THESE GREAT TRACKS SOUND!!!!!, this comes with an extra track from the demos & 2 live bonus tracks that where dug up from someplace after 40 years, great stuff

01 All Day
02 Louis The 9th
03 Nightmare
04 On The Run
05 Once in a Dream
06 Overdrive
07 Piebald Pinto
08 Rules Of THe Inn
09 Stonehenge
10 Lashin It Out (Live)
11 Nightmare (Live)

turbo thx buks!