Getting to This

Getting to This
Studio album by Blodwyn Pig
Released	10 April 1970
Recorded	1970
Studio	Olympic and Trident Studios
Length	38:29 [album]
Label	Chrysalis
Producer	Andy Johns
Blodwyn Pig chronology
Ahead Rings Out (1969) Getting to This (1970) Lies (1993)

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Getting to This was the second album by British blues-rock band Blodwyn Pig, released in 1970. The album was the band's last until a brief reunion in the 1990s. Peter Banks joined from Yes after the recording of Getting to This, but the band split up at the end of 1970. The album reached number 8 on the UK album chart.

Track listing

1. "Drive Me"  – 3:19 (Abrahams)
2. "Variations on Nainos"  – 3:47 (Abrahams)
3. "See My Way"  – 5:04 (Abrahams)
4. "Long Bomb Blues"  – 1:07 (Abrahams)
5. "The Squirreling Must Go On"  – 4:22 (Abrahams, Pyle)
6. "San Francisco Sketches"  – 8:11 (Lancaster)
   • a) "Beach Scape"
   • b) "Fisherman's Wharf"
   • c) "Telegraph Hill"
   • d) "Close the Door, I'm Falling Out of the Room"
7. "Worry"  – 3:43 (Pyle)
8. "Toys"  – 3:03 (Abrahams)
9. "To Rassman"  – 1:29 (Berg)
10. "Send Your Son to Die"  – 4:25 (Abrahams)
11. "Summer Day" (bonus track on CD release)  – 3:48 (Abrahams, Pyle)
12. "Walk On the Water" (bonus track on CD release)  – 3:42 (Abrahams)

Personnel

• Mick Abrahams – guitar, vocals, seven-string guitar, tenor guitar
• Jack Lancaster – flute, violin, electric violin, tenor sax, baritone sax, soprano sax, phoon horn, cornet
• Andy Pyle – electric bass, six-string bass
• Ron Berg – drums, tympani
• Graham Waller – piano ("Drive Me", "Beach Scape")

External links

• Blodwyn Pig – Getting to This (1970) album review by Richie Unterberger, credits & releases at AllMusic.com
• Blodwyn Pig – Getting to This (1970) album releases & credits at Discogs.com
• Blodwyn Pig – Getting to This (1970) album credits & user reviews at ProgArchives.com
• Blodwyn Pig – Getting to This (1970) album to be listened as stream at Play.Spotify.com