Getting to This

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title: "Getting to This" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["blodwyn-pig-albums", "1970-albums", "albums-produced-by-andy-johns", "chrysalis-records-albums"] description: "Album by Blodwyn Pig" topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_This" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Album by Blodwyn Pig ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox album"]

Field	Value
name	Getting to This
type	Album
artist	Blodwyn Pig
cover	Getting to this.jpg
released	10 April 1970
recorded	1970
studio	Olympic and Trident Studios
length	38:29 [album]
label	Chrysalis
producer	Andy Johns
prev_title	Ahead Rings Out
prev_year	1969
next_title	Lies
next_year	1993
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***Getting to This *** was the second album by British blues-rock band Blodwyn Pig, released in 1970. The album was the band's last until a brief reunion in the 1990s. Peter Banks joined from Yes after the recording of Getting to This, but the band split up at the end of 1970. The album reached number 8 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 96 on the US Billboard Top LPs.

Track listing

1. "Drive Me" – 3:19 (Abrahams)
2. "Variations on Nainos" – 3:47 (Abrahams)
3. "See My Way" – 5:04 (Abrahams)
4. "Long Bomb Blues" – 1:07 (Abrahams)
5. "The Squirreling Must Go On" – 4:22 (Abrahams, Pyle)
6. "San Francisco Sketches" – 8:11 (Lancaster)

• a) "Beach Scape"
• b) "Fisherman's Wharf"
• c) "Telegraph Hill"
• d) "Close the Door, I'm Falling Out of the Room"

1. "Worry" – 3:43 (Pyle)
2. "Toys" – 3:03 (Abrahams)
3. "To Rassman" – 1:29 (Berg)
4. "Send Your Son to Die" – 4:25 (Abrahams)
5. "Summer Day" (bonus track on CD release) – 3:48 (Abrahams, Pyle)
6. "Walk On the Water" (bonus track on CD release) – 3:42 (Abrahams)

Personnel

• Mick Abrahams – guitar, vocals, seven-string guitar, tenor guitar
• Jack Lancaster – flute, violin, electric violin, tenor sax, baritone sax, soprano sax, phoon horn, cornet
• Andy Pyle – electric bass, six-string bass
• Ron Berg – drums, tympani
• Graham Waller – piano ("Drive Me", "Beach Scape")

Charts

::data[format=table] | Chart (1970) | Peak position | |---|---| | Canada RPM Top 100 Albums | 38 | | UK Top Albums | 8 | | US Billboard Top LPs | 96 | ::

References

References

1. ''Melody Maker ad- 18 April 1970 edition, page 18''
2. {{AllMusic. Richie. Unterberger
3. "Blodwyn Pig | Artist | Official Charts". OfficialCharts.com.
4. Whitburn, Joel. (1973). "Top LPs, 1955–1972". Record Research.
5. "RPM Top 100 Albums - July 18, 1970".

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