High Tide is a proggy, heavy (for its day), fuzzy rock experience featuring LOTS of guitar, electric violin (Yes, that's right, I said violin), and a singer who sounds like Jim Morrison.  This is an odd combination, to say the least, but High Tide makes it work.  As a mentioned previously, lead singer Tony Hill sounds eerily like Jim Morrison, almost exactly like him at times.  Sea Shanties was one of the first albums to use said violin in a rock and roll setting, something that band member Simon House would do later when he joined the band Hawkwind.  On their second album, the band took the 70's approach of long drawn out jams, resulting in a record that only contained 3 tunes.  A third album was in the works when drummer Hadden's mental state among other things signaled the official end of the band.  "Basically, it was money. A bit of untogetherness getting gigs and the record company wasn't too helpful", as House described in a 1974 Melody Maker interview, "Plus there were some very strange people in the band. It was? a very strange scene. They were all brilliant musicians, but a bit unstable."