BEEFCAKE GONE BAD: FREE & BAD COMPANY
I never thought Free were a great group, but they had moments of greatness—and Paul Kossoff could really play guitar. I never thought Bad Company’s immediate American success was necessarily a sellout of Free’s more bluesy roots, either—but closer to a meeting of Mott The Hoople’s old pop staples and Free’s less controllable excesses.
BEEFCAKE GONE BAD: FREE & BAD COMPANY
Iman Lababedi
I never thought Free were a great group, but they had moments of greatness—and Paul Kossoff could really play guitar. I never thought Bad Company’s immediate American success was necessarily a sellout of Free’s more bluesy roots, either—but closer to a meeting of Mott The Hoople’s old pop staples and Free’s less controllable excesses. But the way it turned out, it’s a moot point. It doesn’t matter whether Bad Company fitted themselves to their audience or their audience grew into them.