On a good day, Coverdale's/Hughes' dual lead voc attack was nothing less than mighty, on par with the defining role Blackmore's guitar and Jon Lord's, errrm, organ had on the band sound.
"The other interesting thing to note is that Guy Stevens managed Spooky Tooth, Free, Mott The Hoople and then Bad Company. It's not hard to trace band lineage with that connection."
That IS interesting. I never knew and found the combination of a proggie-bassist, a glam rock guitarist and two Free members kind of eclectic! I had known that Ralphs had started to feel alienated within Hoople because he wrote songs in keys Hunter couldn't sing, but at the same time - at Hunter's invitation - did not have the strenghth of voice to sing them himself. Half of Bad Co's debut consists of rehashed Hoople riffs with a singer who can finally sing along to them (no disrespect to Hunter, he's great, but with his singer/songwriter voice not really someone who can yell over a loud guitar riff). That said, I always preferred Straight Shooter to the Bad Co debut.
