Steve Hyams
Feather and a Tomahawk

Treat Yourself Right (Hyams, West, Banks)
Bethlehem Steel (Hyams, Banks, Winn)
Feather and a Tomahawk (Hyams, Majors, Banks)
Chasin' Money (Hyams, Banks, Winn)
Eldorado (Hyams, Banks, Winn)
Never Judge a Man (Until You're Standing in his Shoes) (Hyams, Banks, Majors)
In the Morning (Hyams, Banks, West)
One for the Bride (Hyams, Banks, West)
The Hard Way (Hyams, Banks, West)
Blue Guitar (Hyams, Banks, Winn)
Lying in the Dark (Hyams, West, Banks)
Do it Again (Hyams, Thumpston)
Cold Cold Comfort (Hyams, West, Banks)
Dig (Hyams, West, Banks)

SJPCD039 Available in all good record stores, or by mail order from Angel Air Records

Musicians:
Steve Hyams, Ray Majors, Carlton T West, Jennifer Banks, Mac MacCaffrey plus Mickey Winn, Perry White, Will Parnell, Mark Crosbie-Smith and Paul Foss.

Produced by Joint Productions
Recorded and Mixed at The Lounge, Richmond and Touchwood Studios, Richmond.

"Judge" recorded live...

Half Moon Bay says... I suppose I viewed this record with some suspicion at first: I had read (somewhere) how Hyams had been put, or had put himself, in the frame to replace Hunter at one point in a version of Mott or Mott the Hoople... hey, why am I telling you lot? You all know more than me...

Anyway, as we all know, it didn't work out but there was a CD that I once saw in Tower in London that purported to be Mott the Hoople featuring Steve Hyams and I could never work out the motives and who really put it out and all that.

So, I viewed this record with some suspicion. But, hey, you know what? It's OK. It has taken me a while to get around to posting the details of this disc here on Half Moon Bay and I have just played it again and I find myself singing along to it!

Its not the best thing that has come out of the Mott the Hoople and Friends association with Angel Air, but its OK. Played well enough, songs are OK and one or two are pretty good.

Also, you can see why some may have felt Steve could have been a Hunter type person for our heroes: in one or two places the phrasing and the sound are quite reminiscent of the shaded one.

A bonus is that Ray Majors turns up on a couple of tracks and his playing is as top drawer as ever. I am now a big fan of his, thats for sure...

So, completests will need this CD as it features Ray and maybe because of Steve's brief flirtation with Mott the Hoople as well. Can't say that its a must have. If you only have enough for one CD then choose a British Lions disc or Ray Majors' own and very fine 'First Poison'.

But hey, it's OK.

Review Date: May 2001