Head Machine

Featuring members from the Gods executing under pseudonyms — Ken Leslie (keyboards/vocals/guitars), John Leadhen (bass), Brian Poole (drums), and Lee Poole (percussion) — United kingdom hard rock and roll quartet Head Piece of equipment was made to record an album of compositions by producer/songwriter David Paramor, the bandmembers pledging themselves to a simple, pummeling rock appear redolent of Atomic Rooster. Their music was accented intensely toward crushing rhythms, using the Poole brothers offering a unique multi-layered backdrop to Leslie’s alternately mythological or humor-based lyrics. Their exclusive album, Orgasm, premiered in 1969 but didn’t build a industrial profile. The music group ultimately morphed into Bottom Fat and afterwards Uriah Heep, following the bandmembers acquired returned with their even more well-known billings: Leslie, aka Ken Hensley; Leadhen, aka John Glascock; as well as the Poole brothers, aka Brian Glascock and Lee Kerslake.