Electric Savage

by Colosseum II

Electric Savage cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1977
  • Label: MCA
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 41:36
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Reconfigured to feature the blistering fretwork of a young Gary Moore alongside keyboardist Don Airey, the second iteration of Colosseum leans fully into instrumental jazz-fusion. The rhythm section is explosively driven by veteran drummer Jon Hiseman, creating a highly technical, aggressive, and muscular sound. The album perfectly captures the high-velocity virtuosity that dominated the intersection of heavy rock and progressive jazz in the late 1970s.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Put It This Way (4:55)
  2. All Skin And Bone (3:46)
  3. Rivers (5:51)
  4. The Scorch (6:04)
  5. Lament (4:40)
  6. Desperado (6:00)
  7. Am I (4:16)
  8. Intergalactic Strut (6:01)

Credits

  • Colosseum II - primary artist
  • John Mole - bass guitar [fender jazz], arranged by
  • Don Airey - electric piano [fender rhodes], grand piano [steinway], synthesizer [arp odyssesy, mini moog, arp solina], organ [hammond], clavinet, written-by, arranged by
  • Gary Moore - guitar [fender, gibson], vocals, written-by, arranged by
  • Traditional - written-by

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