RISING SUN - Born To Be Wild - Radioactive, 1969

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This their sole recorded effort, Born To Be Wild, with its fabulously-cheesy cover, duly appeared on Birchmount records in 1969. Although the band chose a covered track as the album's title, many of the dozen tracks on this album are self-penned and most of them are pretty good, and the band covers Steppenwolf's opus major effortlessly, but the garage-punk vibe of the first side of the record gives way to a more jazzy sound a la Blood Sweat And Tears on side 2 with plenty of horns in evidence. Could David Clayton Thomas, himself a Toronto resident at the time, have played a part in the proceedings? The only thing we know for sure it that this rare album is becoming increasingly sought-after by collectors.