When The Tea Party first emerged out of Windsor, Ontario, with this song, there was no other indie band who sounded like this. It was vaguely Zeppelin-esque with its Middle Easter flourishes. Heck, Jeff Martin even played his guitar with a violin bow just like Jimmy Page.
Years later, some people forget that the first Tea Party album was a demo that no record company wanted to touch, so the band released it independently. When the demo version of Save Me (1991) started getting airplay, there was a sudden scramble with EMI finally landing the band. Save Me was re-recorded and appeared on the 1993 album, Splendor Solis.
If you have one of the 3,500 cassettes of that self-titled indie album, you have something rather collectible.
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