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Rupert Hine, a very talented producer, found himself with the impossible task of producing a very high-energy team handicapped by political undercurrents. Trevor remembers:

Trevor recalls: "Everyone involved had to make so many compromises I'm sure that nobody really felt happy with the album. Personally I very much enjoy the strengths but I have to confess that the weaker bits make me cringe! It left me very determined that the next album (Sudden Prayers Make God Jump) would be totally without compromise. I sat down to write new ideas, seriously motivated to recording the next album."

Despite the bands reservations, the third album "Growing" was released to great critical acclaim and in 1974 received the Montreux Diamond Award as the top rock/pop album of the year beating artists such as Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, King Crimson and others.

Trevor remembers:"Bernie, Terry, John and I did what felt like a very long tour of Germany. Sadly, there was a lot of tension in the band and when Jonesy returned to England two of the guys decided to go their own way. Bernie had been offered a really good gig in a band called Tranquility and Terry retired from music completely to settle down to a much saner lifestyle in retail management."

Trevor and John auditioned for new musicians and recruited Jamie Kaleth (joint lead vocals and mellotrons) and David Potts (drums). However, the two brothers still found themselves arguing about the direction of the band and Trevor was not a happy bunny.

‘I had started the thing in order to continue the music I was playing in Sweaty Betty, specifically progressive rock, but John wanted to include white funk (listen, for example, to Ricochet on the first album No Alternative). By contrast, I was writing very different songs. During this period, for example, I wrote the first version of 'Inside the Dark Room' which was about early experiments in sensory deprivation which I was studying as a psychology student at London University. We had very heated arguments about musical direction and eventually I sat down with John and had an in depth discussion along the following lines: "Listen! We’re brothers and we are sharing the same house. If we continue like this we are going to end up hating each other. We have different musical tastes. Also, I'm enjoying being a psychology student and I've been offered a residency in the West End (of London) playing with Charlie Charles (see Ian Drury's Blockheads) who is a great drummer . I've decided to leave the band."

Shortly after, David Potts parted company with the band and John found himself auditioning for a new rhythm section.

TREVOR (GYPSY): Lead vocals, bass
JAMIE KALETH: Lead vocals, keyboards
JOHN: Guitars, backing vocals
ALAN BOWN: Electric horns
PLUG THOMAS: Drums, percussion, backing vocals
BERNIE HAGLEY: Electric saxes
KEN ELLIOT: Ssynthesisers
MAURICE PERT: Percussion
TONY TAVERNER: Recording engineer
RUPERT HINE: Producer

01. Can You Get That Together - Lead vocal: Trevor (Gypsy)
02. Waltz For Yesterday - Lead vocals: Jamie and Trevor (Gypsy)
03. Know Who Your Friends Are - Lead vocal: Jamie Kaleth
04. Growing - Lead vocal: Trevor (Gypsy)
05. Hard Road - Lead vocal: Jamie Kaleth
06. Jonesy - Instrumental (recorded after the road-crew had brewed up some very strange tea)
Producer: Rupert Hine
All songs written and composed by Jonesy