I was torn from the tomb of the foolish Egyptian crown
Wow. Talk about trippy. The remnants of The Action slowly morphed into a new band named Mighty Baby in the 1968-69 time frame. Gone were all attributes of the mod band that failed to find a record company after their five singles flopped. As mentioned in a prior post here, The Action managed to record an album's worth of excellent popsike demos, but their soulful lead singer Reg departed, and multi-instrumentalist Ian Whiteman and guitarist Martin Stone arrived to lead the group in a new direction.
Their first LP kicks off with Egyptian Tomb, an impossible amalgam of jazz, British psychedelia, and West Coast jam. The opening sax riff repeats while layers of guitar counterpoint weave a sonic soup that is damn near genius. This is a band that knew how to build a groove and carry it forward to a satisfying conclusion without running into a ten minute workout.
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