Fuse

Fuse made a little-known album for Epic at the end of the '60s, and is chiefly remembered for including two future members of <a href="spotify:artist:1LB8qB5BPb3MHQrfkvifXU">Cheap Trick</a>: <a href="spotify:artist:6aXZHzvxNhl8rhA0qd4YYH">Rick Nielsen</a> and Tom Petersson. The album is an average, perhaps somewhat below average, late-'60s hard rock recording. It looks forward to some facets of '70s metal and art rock in its overwrought vocals, tandem hard rock guitar riffs, and classical-influenced keyboards. It was reissued, with two bonus tracks from a single, by Rewind in 2001.

Fuse was originally the Grim Reapers, and aroused interest from Epic after they were seen supporting <a href="spotify:artist:12fRdeKejG8BBzybGf0ygk">Terry Reid</a> in Chicago in mid-1968. Changing their name to Fuse, they recorded a self-titled album in late 1968 under the unlikely auspices of producer <a href="spotify:artist:514rYzm9duShIxukwaPn0T">Jackie Mills</a>, who later produced The Brady Bunch. The album did virtually nothing, and although they did have enough material for a second album, they would not release another LP prior to their breakup in 1970. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi