{"id":7199,"date":"2025-08-12T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:34:06","slug":"shindig-166-skin-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7199","title":{"rendered":"Shindig! #166 – Skin Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"

SKIN ALLEY\u2019s third album TWO<\/i> <\/i>QUID<\/i> <\/i>DEAL?<\/i> <\/i>mixes relaxed hippy sentiments with strident, funky rock and prog \u2013 a winning formula, perfectly attuned to the festivals of the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

JON \u2018MOJO\u2019 MILLS meets multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Nick Graham on the road to and from that defining statement<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Skin Alley were quickly ushered into Rockfield in Wales to re-record the songs. Once again, management company Clearwater\u2019s Fritz Fryer stepped into the producer\u2019s chair. \u201cWe had played most of those songs live many times by then,\u201d adds Graham about the sessions, \u201cso they were definitely slicker and better thought out. Fritz was a lovely person and very tolerant of our foibles. We pretty much just played what we had and then left him to mix it. Rockfield had just gone to 16-track. However, there was a completely different sound in the room compared to Trident, and it was relatively primitive compared to the acoustically designed space they had offered. Not that either was better \u2013 they=were just different.\u201d<\/p>\n

The recordings were packaged together as Two<\/i> <\/i>Quid<\/i> <\/i>Deal?<\/i> <\/i>and released in November 1972 on Transatlanic.<\/p>\n