The first time I heard Family was on VIDEO... I rented the Dutch Festival "Stamping Ground" from my local vid store, just to see Pink Floyd. I do remember hearing a sloppy, ugly slab of rock with a freaked out singer, but I wouldn't remember it till later. As I probably mentioned 1000 times in the ole Family pages, I wore out a copy of the 1983 Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll (I'm on my second copy), and worshiped it as a tome of rock scripture. The FAMILY entry always caught my eye, describing the "eclectic progressive rock" and the "goatish vibrato" singer. Well a couple of years later, living in Boston and blowing all I could earn on used CD's, I found A SONG FOR ME. The guitar was what hooked me, and I thought the singer was grating, yes, but tolerable. Yet another CD to have friends laugh at me for my musical tastes. Second CD: probably the BBC Concert disc. The opening drums of that disc's "Burlesque" have fueled many beginnings to a good evening.