At the beginning of the 70s The Flock would be one of the most important bands that the city of Chicago initially gave, together with the Chicago Transit Authority as the maximum expression of sound freedom that was very widespread at that time. It is very likely that under the influence of the Chicago Transit Authority themselves, Flock based their music on a very spontaneous rock, full of influences that ranged from jazz and blues, through country and folk, the latter due to the violin of Jerry Goodman, the leader and promoter of the group. Flock's style was in line with jazz rock, but unlike his contemporaries such as the aforementioned Chicago or Blood Sweat & Tears, they did not give prominence to the inevitable metals that seemed inherent to the genre, and that is that the main proposal of Flock was the solo violin, something unheard of in the world of pop and rock and that thanks to the French Jean Luc Ponty was beginning to take a nature card in jazz.
The band records their first album, honestly called "The Flock" in 1969, in which some great themes are already glimpsed, such as "Clown" or the long-developed theme "Truth", made from a blues structure. With the song "Tired of waiting", they managed to enter the charts and their presence in the famous CBS compilation, "Fill Your Head with Rock" (1970), a double album that would garner spectacular sales around the world, and whose cover was a spectacular photo of Goodman with the violin, definitely settling them on the market. A year later "Dinosaur Swamps" would arrive, a different work from the first, where the blues is no longer so present, much more progressive and partly experimental with enough rigor, with country nuances and very well polished.
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