Singer: FUSE
Title: Fuse
Label: Rewind ‎– 55018-2
Type: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Date of released: 2001
Category: Rock
Style: Hard Rock
Size MP3 zip: 1654 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1434 mb
Rating: 4.0✭
Format: MP3 AA XM RA WMA APE WAV MPC FLAC

Tracklist

1	Across The Skies	4:35
2	Permanent Resident	4:24
3	Show Me	4:17
4	To Your Health	6:02
5	In A Window	5:54
6	4/4 3/4	4:02
7	Mystery Ship	3:23
8	Sad Day	5:49
9	Hound Dog	2:55
10	Cruisin' For Burgers	5:01

Credits

• Bass Guitar – Tom Peterson*
• Drums – Chip Greenman
• Keyboards – Rick Nielsen
• Lead Guitar – Craig Myers
• Rhythm Guitar – Rick Nielsen
• Vocals – Joe Sundberg

Notes

Tracks 1-8: previously released as Epic LP BN 26502
Tracks 9-10: previously released as Epic 45 5-10514

Recorded at Columbia Studios, Chicago from Oct4 - Nov 4, 1968.
All songs published by Ohms Music (BMI)

***
There's something to be said for FUSE. They are new, very young and very promising, and they can play heavy, hard, very confident music. Chip and Joe are both 17, Craig is 18, Tom 19, and Rick 21. In a time where most of the finest rock and roll is said to be made exclusively by "supergroups", FUSE emerges fresh on the scene with their first, newborn album.

The sound is heavily influenced by the English hard-rock sound, probably due to the fact that Rick was first "messed up" (to use his own words) with soul music after a sub with the now defunct Yardbirds (which has also been one of Tom's favorite groups) a couple of years ago. Joe also admits to being heavily influenced by R&B via Ray Charles and Otis Redding and his searing soulful vocals pay loving tribute to his well-chosen idols. Chip aspires to playing in a big band, having been greatly influenced by Buddy Rich, and it's Chip's drumming that spurs and supports the relentless rhythmic drive of FUSE's hard cooking locomotion. It's Craig's lead guitar figures, flashy, melodic and solidly musical, that rise to the top and sweeten the well-paced pulsating turbulence that FUSE collectively represent.

FUSE is move music. They'll make your blood rush, and your head swarm and your body dance. One cannot help but admire how musically tight and energetically organized this album is, nor their remarkable control in exerting such high voltage rock and roll in such a tasty array of instrumental extravagance and vocal savagery. This is an exciting first album, full of solid, precisely executed hard rock, dizzying centrifugal energy that grips your gut and shakes it loose. FUSE is new, young and very promising -- and the fun really starts when they charge and deliver.
***

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BN 26502	FUSE	Fuse ‎(LP, Album)	Epic	BN 26502	US	1970
BN 26502	FUSE	Fuse ‎(LP, Album)	Epic	BN 26502	Europe	1970
HF 9520	FUSE	Fuse ‎(CD, Album, RE, Unofficial)	HF	HF 9520	Unknown
GEM 119	FUSE	Fuse ‎(CD, Album, Unofficial)	Flawed Gems	GEM 119	Sweden	2014
BN 26502	FUSE	Fuse ‎(LP, Album, RP)	Epic	BN 26502	US	Unknown