Featuring members of the Gods performing under pseudonyms - Ken Leslie (keyboards/vocals/guitars), John Leadhen (bass), Brian Poole (drums), and Lee Poole (percussion) -- British hard rock quartet Head Machine was created to record an album of compositions by producer/songwriter David Paramor, the band members pledging themselves to a basic, pummeling rock sound redolent of Atomic Rooster. Their music was accented heavily toward crushing rhythms, with the Poole brothers providing a distinctive multi-layered backdrop to Leslie's alternately mythological or humor-based lyrics. Their sole album, Orgasm, was released in 1969 but failed to build a commercial profile. The band eventually morphed into Toe Fat and later Uriah Heep, after the band members had returned to their more famous billings: Leslie, aka Ken Hensley; Leadhen, aka John Glascock; and the Poole brothers, aka Brian Glascock and Lee Kerslake.
Line-up / Musicians
Ken Hensley/Vocals,keyboards,guitar
John Glascock/bass,vocals
Lee Kerslake/drums,vocals
Brian Glascock/drums
David Paramor/vocals
Mike Road/percussion
Discography
Orgasm 1970
1.Climax - You Tried to Take it All
2.Make the Feeling Last
3.You Must Come With Me
4.The Girl Who Loved, The Girl Who Loved
5.Orgasm
6.The First Time
7.Scattering Seeds
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Head Machine - Orgasm 1970
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