Poobah-"Let Me In" (1972)

Poobah are complete strangers in Europe, but legends in the United States, where their powerful hard rock was all the rage in the 1970s. Founded in 1972 in Parkersburh, Ohio by guitarist Jim Gustafson, with the help of bassist Phil Jones, they added Glenn Wiseman to drums thus forming this power trio, all of them high school students. Within a few months, Poobah would enter the recording studios to lay the foundations for what would become one of the quintessential North American hard rock albums "Let Me In" (1972) with which a frenzy began rock´n'roll that would see its continuation with a series of great albums to this day. Fusing psychedelic elements of Cream's early days with the heaviness of Black Sabbath's distorted guitars, Poobah's debut album soon became legendary, as did Jim Gustafson's heroic guitars, and with it the band began its steady rise until reaching the status of a cult band.
An album that begins with the overwhelming "Mr. Destroyer" a theme that transports us to the first albums of Tony Iommi and Ozzy Osbourne, the psychedelic streak is in "Enjoy What You Have" with a really fascinating atmosphere, "Live To Work" and "Let Me In" are powerful hard rock and the long progressive "Make a Man Outta You" and the visceral "Upside Down Highway" show the versatility of the group.
The force of this "Let Me In" and the subsequent incendiary live shows of the band led Poobah to get to play in many concerts with bands like Canned Heat, Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, ZZ Top or Foghat.