Quatermass II Long Road Tracks: 01. Prayer For The Dying 02. Good Day To Die 03. Wild Wedding 04. Suicide Blonde 05. River 06. Long Road 07. Woman In Love 08. Hit And Run 09. Daylight Robbery 10. Coming Home 11. Circus Line up: Bart Foley - vocals, guitar Gary Davis - guitar Mick Underwood - drums Nick Simper - bass Don Airey - keyboards Record Label / Year of Release: Thunderbird / Pony Canyon 1997 Notes: Mick Underwood (drums) and Nick Simper (bass) have long-standing careers in rock music having been founder members of Gillan and Deep Purple respectively. The other two members, Bart Foley (vocals, guitar) who has worked with Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath) & Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) and Gary Davis (guitar) complete an impressive line-up and they are all joined by ace keyboard player Don Airey (Rainbow, Brian May). The "Long Road" was released with two different covers; one by Thunderbird in Eruope, the other by Pony Canyon in Japan. Back in the early 1970s the original Quatermass was a archtypal "Progressive" rock band featuring Underwood on drums and John Gustafson (who contributes two tracks to "Long Road") on bass. Nick Simper was in the original line-up of Deep Purple at the time of the highly successful single "Hush". Following Purple, Simper fromed Warhorse. The idea behind Quatermass II is to write and perform music in a modern 90s idiom, whilst maintaining the original (70s) group's high standards in songwriting and playing. In 1997 the album "Long Road" was released in Japan and Europe. Re-relased by Angel Air in 1999 with different artwork and bonus track "Undercarriage" (Demo).