Automatic Man Visitors CD

Visitors Music

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Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Progressive
Label	Lemon Recordings
Orig Year	1977
All Time Sales Rank	39722
CD Universe Part number	6855633
Catalog number	66
Discs	1
Release Date	Jul 12, 2005
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	Michael Lloyd
Engineer	Bruce Robb
Personnel	Pat Thrall - vocals, guitar Todd Cochrane - vocals, keyboards Glenn Symmonds - drums

Automatic Man Visitors Songs

	1.	Give It to Me
	2.	Live Wire
	3.	So You Wanna Be
	4.	Y-2-Me
	5.	Visitors
	6.	Here I Am Now
	7.	Daughter of Neptune
	8.	What's Done

Visitors Music Review

Average Rating: (4.2 out of 5 stars) 4 stars

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5 stars not as good as the fist........but
When I bought both albums on vinyl years ago I always prefered the first one, but when I listened to visitors on CD I thought gee this one is pretty good too! I'm so glad that AM made it to disc!!
Submitted by DMDoLAC (Middletown, CT. USA)
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5 stars Automatic Man CD Review
Great cd. Searched for a long time before I found with you guys. Happy to discover your site and look forward to future purchases. Thanks for asking! Ernest L Harris Jr
Submitted by rdharris (Albany, NY)
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5 stars great fusion
more great fusion from pat thrall & co this was all in all a great record at the time and still is remastered here on cd for the first time
Submitted by SAXONMAN (long island new york)
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3 stars The Band Automatic Man/Bayeté (Todd Cochran)
What people do not know is that the band was founded by "Bayeté (Todd Cochran)" And Michael Shrieve. And all of this music was composed by Bayeté (Todd Cochran), who is one of the most unique and gifted Keyboardist Composers of our time. After Automatic Man Bayete Joined The Peter Gabriel and recorded the 1st LP titled "Peter Gabriel" /Also The Band Called "GO" Wth Japan Percussionist "Stomu Yamasta" and "Steve Winwood". Bayeté (Todd Cochran) was one of the only African American Keyboard Players to play in a rock bands in the 70's. The only other I can think of was "George Duke" who worked with "Frank Zapa" Bayete and his songs where the soul of Automatic Man Todd & Pat play Call and Answer as true Blues Men.
Submitted by madsciencemusic (Century City CA, USA)
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3 stars Visitors Reissued Too, Eh?
Visitors wasn't as fully realised as AM's first LP, but it's still worthwhile for the great, if brief, playing on tracks 5-7. The rest - eh - makes it seem more like a perfunctory "contractual obligation" record. AM disbanded shortly after this. Too bad Fate is often cruel - AM would've made an excellent backing band for Hendrix.
Submitted by Nate (Beantown, USA)
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