Electric Warrior - T. Rex

Do you have to have an obsessive personality to recognise it in somebody else? Or more to the point, do you have to admit you have an obsessive personality before you can tell someone else? That's more like it. For once, I can't claim to be the only person I know with such traits, as the T. Rex track 'Jeepster' brought them out in one of my mates. In keeping with my blogs anonymous ruling I won't name names... let's just call him Mr H. It's certainly shorter than writing Hughes. Blast! Well they were more like guidelines anyway.

Back in the time before conveniences like the internet the track 'Jeepster' became, for a short while anyway, the Holy Grail of music. Mr H searched high and low for it. Not 'Get It On', 'Hot Love' or 'Ride A White Swan'. Nope. Only the boogie tinged 'Jeepster' would do. Chuckling on the inside, as for once someone else had come down with the dreaded affliction. Driving us mildly mad with the hunt for an elusive song.

The track was eventually tracked down, I forget how, and then it became a regular item on the playlist of the time. For a short time. That's the problem with obsession - it is all consuming and then fleeting as attention is diverted onto the next subject.

T. Rex are one of those rare bands that totally changed direction; transforming themselves from acoustic folk tendencies to full on glam-rockers in the space of a few years. And what a transformation it was as their singles battered the pop charts for several years. 'Electric Warrior' is arguably their strongest album and with mega-hits such as 'Get It On', 'Cosmic Dancer' you'd be hard pushed to disagree. And of course the third track 'Jeepster'. Not so elusive now.