{"product_id":"three-man-army-third-of-a-lifetime-music-cd","title":"Three Man Army - Third of a Lifetime (Music CD)","description":"The first Three Man Army album, despite its confidently trio-based title, actually teamed Paul Gurvitz and Adrian Gurvitz with a number of different drummers, including Buddy Miles, Spooky Tooth's Mike Kellie, and Vanilla Fudge's Carmine Appice. Though the Gurvitzes were able at mimicking the cliches of early-'70s hard rock, their material was ordinary to the point of dullness, and their guitar soloing stereotypical almost to the point of unwitting self-parody. A good number of British bands in the Led Zeppelin-Deep Purple spectrum did this kind of stuff better. There were occasional glimmers of something that went outside the genre's narrowest bounds -- a bit of pop harmonizing in \"Three Man Army,\" acoustic guitar flavorings for \"Agent Man\" and \"See What I Took,\" blues-soul organ improvisation in \"Midnight,\" a strange lyrical grounding for \"Butter Queen\" (\"if your name is Barbara, how come they call you butter queen?\" they ask rhetorically). The two best tracks were the least typical -- \"Together\" is much more Beatlesque early-'70s rock with a hippie attitude (and a synthesizer) than it is hard rock, and \"A Third of a Lifetime\" is a genuinely pretty orchestrated instrumental ballad. ~ Richie Unterberger\r\n","brand":"Not Assigned","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54306697904513,"sku":"ECLEC2558","price":13.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/9050\/5986\/files\/2944894.jpg?v=1747336200","url":"https:\/\/hit.co.uk\/products\/three-man-army-third-of-a-lifetime-music-cd","provider":"Hit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}