Hold Your Fire - PATTO***

Hold Your Fire/You You Point Your Finger/How's Your Father/See You At The Dance Tonight/Give It All Away/Air Raid Shelter/Tell Me Where You've Been/Magic Door

Hold Your Fire was the follow up album from the London based progressive rock group Patto named after their vocalist Mike Patto. Although building a reputation as an exciting live act, sales were disappointing and they were dropped from the Vertigo label.

“Not as good as their first release but not bad. Middle of the road rock music from a fairly average band.”

“Significantly off the pace of their debut, this one is much more loosely structured, improvised driven prog rock, but with some tracks more jazz flavoured than rock.”

“Looser and a little bluesier and jazzier than the debut, yet more consistent. The songs seem to have more direction overall.”

“The music on this album is well played and mostly well written. It seems a bit low on character, but if you enjoy guitar driven semi soft blues rock, you should try it out.”

“The lyrics often may rely on hippie imaginary and bourgeois values bashing, but their main problem was the lack of hooks on some songs, which tend to drag a bit and becoming monotonous.”

"Hold Your Fire was Patto's second release, and features an interesting blend of jazzy chords, bluesy singing and straight ahead rock 'n' roll frequently wrapped in epic arrangements of prog-rock length.”

“Inventive songs and incredible guitar playing. Others of far lesser ability have unfortunately received far more accolades, but his playing lives on in the minds and hearts of those who know this music.”