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DIRTY TRICKS

Album: Night Man

"Trouser Press" Magazine, No. 17, January America´s Only British Rock Magazine

DIRTY TRICKS
Night Man
Polydor PD-1-6082

Polydor has just released three LP´s of heavy metal complementing the releases by Blackmore´s Rainbow and the Ian Gillan Band (on Oyster, distributed by Polydor), presumably in a bid for a foothold in the hard-rock market. One is by an Angloid bunch from Long Island, including ex-Barnaby Bye-ers, called Wiggy Bits; one is by a Canadian expatriate now based in London, guitarist Pat Travers; the third and most promising is a genuine English band, Dirty Tricks.

Dirty Tricks have style – in fact, lots os different styles: Mountain, the Sabs, a dash of the usual Stones´n´ Who, Purple and Free. But there´s a synthesis going on. For instance, the title track is Free-style sneerling and strut-ting, bassist Terry Horbury sliding up and down the scale Andy Fraser-like, but when John Fraser-Binnie cuts loose, it´s obvious his screaming distortionladen solo has little to do with Paul Kossoff.