AYNSLEY DUNBAR Retaliation (To Mum From Aynsley) LP LIBERTY 1969 UK orig MAYALL

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THE AYNSLEY DUNBAR RETALIATION

Of the numerous British blues-rock bands to spring up in the late '60s, the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation 

was one of the better known, though solid reception on tours did not translate into heavy record sales. 

Musically, the group recalled John Mayall's Bluesbreakers during the 1966-1967 era 

that had produced that group's A Hard Road album, though with a somewhat more downbeat tone. 

The similarities were hardly coincidental, as the band's founder and leader, drummer Aynsley Dunbar, 

had been in the Bluesbreakers lineup that recorded the A Hard Road LP. 

Too, bassist Alex Dmochowski would go on to play with Mayall in the 1970s, and guitarist Jon Morshead 

was friendly with fellow axeman Peter Green (also in the Bluesbreakers' A Hard Road lineup), 

whom he had replaced in Shotgun Express

"RETALIATION"

Worldwide release as "To Mum, From Aynsley and the Boys", it was published in UK as "Retaliation"

Produced by JOohn Mayall

1969     LP     LIBERTY RECORDS    LBS 83223   STEREO

MADE IN ENGLAND     ORIGINAL PRESSING

First copies were issued on the blue Liberty label

FULLY LAMINATED SINGLE SLEEVE

This version: on front cover "To Mum, From Aynsley and the Boys".

On spine and labels "Retaliation".

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LABEL:  LIBERTY -  LIGHT/DARK BLUE LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) LBS 83223

Catalog on labels: LBL 83223 (Side 1 / Side 2)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): LBL 83223   A?1  420

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): LBL 83223   B?1  420

On labels: STEREO

? 1969

Produced by John Mayall For Bam Bam Productions

rim text reads 'All rights.......Manufactured by Philips Records Ltd.'

Rights Society / Publishing: Lupus Music

On Back Sleeve: Cover/Hypgnosis

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A Product Of Liberty Records

A Product of Liberty/UA Records Ltd. London, England   ®LIBERTY

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: DON'T TAKE THE POWER AWAY - RUN YOU OFF THE HILL

LET IT RIDE - JOURNEY'S END

Side B: DOWN DOWN AND DOWN - UNHEARD

SUGAR ON THE LINE - LEAVING RIGHT AWAY

  grading

RECORD NEAR EX (please, also read above description) 

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Dunbar had expressed some interest in moving further afield from the blues-rock format 

around the time the record was done, and the addition of keyboardist Tommy Eyre 

(from the Grease Band) to the lineup was one step in that direction. The enlistment 

of John Mayall as producer was perhaps another step in attempting to refine their sound. 

Still, much of To Mum, From Aynsley and the Boys is pretty standard late-'60s 

British blues-rock, in line with the previous two albums by the band. Eyre does 

inject some of the arrangements with a jazzy, more R&B feel, particularly on 

"Leaving Right Away" and the instrumental "Unheard," the latter of which sounds 

like a rock band trying to do modern jazz and finding themselves a bit out of their depth. 

You also hear the quintet trying to stretch boundaries a little with the eerie, trumpet-overlaid 

intro to "Don't Take the Power Away," which has the downcast ambience 

typical of quite a bit of the Victor Brox-sung Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation material. 

There's also some exceptionally funereal organ in the march-plodding instrumental 

"Journey's End." Otherwise, though, much of this is rather-run-of-the-mill, 

if always well played, British blues-rock...(AllMusic)