Now quite sought after this Rare LP from 1970 by Prog Rockers `High Tide` came in a `Textured` sleeve which was very prone to wear and thus makes it very hard to find a truly `Mint` copy, however if you, do expect to pay 200+ British pounds! It must be on the original Black/Silver Liberty label (cat no LBS 83294) - I update regularly why not subscribe

Side 1
1 Blankman Cries Again
2 The Joke

Coming off of a short stint playing with David Bowie and Bowie’s gal Hermione in the avant-garde “cabaret” act / folk band Turquoise (later Feathers), guitarist and singer Tony Hill started High Tide, a very heavy UK band that created two great LPs over a short few years together. Hill was previously of the highly-regarded Misunderstood from 1963 to 1968, a band who set a new standard for the light show in rock shows in the UK. He recruited Peter Pavli on bass guitar, Roger Hadden on drums, and Simon House on violin. The band was among the early practioners of the violin-in-a-rock-band novelty for High Tide it fits in quite perfectly and doesn’t feel forced.
Hill’s guitar is deliciously dirty and powerfully messy and is the absolute highlight of the record. High Tide shares Led Zeppelin’s and Uriah Heep’s heaviness, but is not blues-rooted. Instead they forge ahead in a raw garage rock fashion where prog-like lines of melody exist with just enough intricacy to show you they can play their instruments well, and just enough dirtiness to make sure you know they aren’t taking that proficiency too seriously.
They also ventured into prog territory with changing time signatures and tempos, soft-hard dynamics, multi-part arrangements, and even some ornate Baroque interludes".
This second album, High Tide, was released in 1970, but Roger Hadden, who had been suffering from chronic mental instability and depression since before joining High Tide, had a mental breakdown and was hospitalized soon after unable to continue without Hadden, the group split up.

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