A serendipity story - 

After listening to a track on YouTube last week it then went into something that immediately caught my ear. Glancing at the screen I saw it was titled ‘Conversation with Billy’ ! As I continued listening a whole story emerged concerning a band and their music from 1970 that was never released until 2011. No surprise therefore that you’ve probably never heard of Sabattis. 

Today's video goes part way to telling the story of an underground hard-rock band from New York formed in 1968 by Jim Marvin (guitar & lead vocals), Gary Culotta (keyboard and vocals), Larry Wegman (drums) and Rocky Kaler (bass). Influenced by bands like Deep Purple, Mountain, and Grand Funk, they gigged around town playing a lot of psychedelic clubs and venues. In 1970, they recorded a demo with the intention of securing a record deal which never came. The demo tape was in fact a fully finished album recorded and engineered by a friend of the band, Mick Gauzaski, who despite using a homemade studio, managed to obtain a real professional sound. The Sabattis demo remained unreleased until 2011 when Jargon Records discovered the tapes and put out a CD edition with the band involvement. The album 'Warning In The Sky' was remastered from the original tapes.

There's more background plus an interview on this link: Psychedelic Baby

Here's the track 'Conversation with Billy' - which reminds me of Focus  

What a surprise! It's a really good 70s prog rock sounding LP - great organ playing and drums and guitar > Suggest listening to the whole album [at only 33 mins. long] - why not 😉