Quiller - General Direction

ORIGINATION b side of 7"
LAST LISTENED TO sometime in the past month
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT not all that high, really
RATING

This is the b side to a song called Quiller, which was the theme tune used for a short-lived '70s UK tv cop show. I suspect the reason that the group was given the same name was because the theme (and by default this track as well) must surely have started life as a library tune and therefore there was never really a group behind it, just composers and session musicians.

General Direction is funky in precisely the '70s cop show way you'd want. From a fairly innocuous acoustic guitar start, it quickly builds (by way of bass and percussion) up to a fine moog melody (think Rockford Files). After that things just get better: percussion breaks, bass run downs, more funky moog and wah wah. A brass section as well, of course. It moves along, it breaks down, it builds up further, it breaks down. Repeat a few times and then top off with the opening moog melody. Job done.