{"product_id":"third-of-a-lifetime","title":"Third of a Lifetime","description":"Three Man Army: Mike Kelly, Adrian Curtis, Paul Curtis.\u003cbr\u003eAll songs written or co-written by members of Three Man Army.\u003cbr\u003eThe first Three Man Army album, despite its confidently trio-based title, actually teamed Paul Gurvitz and Adrian Gurvitz with a number of different drummers, including Buddy Miles, Spooky Tooth's Mike Kellie, and Vanilla Fudge's Carmine Appice. Though the Gurvitzes were able at mimicking the cliches of early-'70s hard rock, their material was ordinary to the point of dullness, and their guitar soloing stereotypical almost to the point of unwitting self-parody. A good number of British bands in the Led Zeppelin-Deep Purple spectrum did this kind of stuff better. There were occasional glimmers of something that went outside the genre's narrowest bounds -- a bit of pop harmonizing in \"Three Man Army,\" acoustic guitar flavorings for \"Agent Man\" and \"See What I Took,\" blues-soul organ improvisation in \"Midnight,\" a strange lyrical grounding for \"Butter Queen\" (\"if your name is Barbara, how come they call you butter queen?\" they ask rhetorically). The two best tracks were the least typical -- \"Together\" is much more Beatlesque early-'70s rock with a hippie attitude (and a synthesizer) than it is hard rock, and \"A Third of a Lifetime\" is a genuinely pretty orchestrated instrumental ballad. ~ Richie Unterberger","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004649328927,"sku":"5013929465848","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/32be39e322815f85d5fd307b4c57c414.jpg?v=1777786805","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/third-of-a-lifetime","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}