Quincy Conserve "Listen to the Band" 1970

Founded in Wellington, New Zealand in 1968 by lead guitarist and vocalist Malcolm Hayman, Quincy Conserve were one of the more popular local bands of their era. Their sound progressed more in the direction of jazz-rock, and they had success with audiences at jazz festivals. They split up in 1976. - discogs

In an international context, The Quincy Conserve was hardly unique, and it doesn’t take a special pair of ears to pick up the similarities with slick, jazz-influenced, horn-led American groups like Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago Transit Authority. Still, The Quincy were no copyists, and while their recorded output necessarily included a bunch of covers, their originals stand up as some of the best work by any New Zealand band of the 1960s or 1970s. On top of that, The Quincy Conserve, in all their different line-ups with Malcolm Hayman the only constant throughout their reign from 1967 to 1975, were tight, musician’s musicians, a description that’s often been used as a backhanded compliment to explain the group’s lack of commercial success.
What I didn’t know back then, in the early 70s, was that Malcolm Hayman had already been an integral figure in New Zealand popular music for more than a decade. In fact, he arrived on the Wellington scene as a gigging musician in the mid-1950s, and it was blues, then the first rock and roll revolution, that turned his ear.
“Blues, because there was no real rock and roll,” said Hayman. “Bill Haley started releasing records about two years after I started playing. Before that, it was general blues stuff like Bill Doggett and Arthur ‘Guitar Boogie’ Smith. Commercial Negro music was the basis of it all, then the English started getting into it in 62, 63 with all their Mersey stuff, which influenced our guitar sound a bit, along with The Shadows, that sort of thing.”… to be continued - AUDIOCULTURE

trax:
01. Introduction - Faith 02. Somebody Stole My Thunder 03. Ride The Rain 04. Sugar Man 05. I Feel Good 06. Frustration 07. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? 08. Everybody Has Their Way 09. Baby, I Couldn't See 10. What Is The World Coming To? 11. Finale (Encouragement)
…served by Gaius…