Punky Meadows   Lead Guitar

Felix Robinson  Bass Guitar

Barry Brandt - Drums

Greg Guifria - Keyboards

Edwin Lionel Meadows, commonly known by his childhood nickname of Punky, signing a record deal was nothing new. As a member of the DC-based Cherry People he'd recorded an album for Heritage Records in the late sixties, then joined Bux (featuring bassist Mickey Jones).Bux recorded on album for Capital that wouldn't actually see the light of day until ANGEL were two albums into their career and had been voted Best New Bond by the readership of Circus magazine in 1976. St. Louis born keyboard player Gregg Giuffria had also recorded with Capitol Records Us a member of David And The Giants, a band that also featured Tommy Aldridge on drums. The DC scene being as incestuous as any local rock circuit, it was somewhat inevitable that Meadows, Jones and Giuffria should meet and form a band together. They subsequently persuaded drummer Barry Brandt and Boston-born vocalist Frank DiMino to join them.

ANGEL'seponymous debut album emerged in October 1975. Produced by Derek Lawrence Big and Jim Sullivan, it's nothing short of of masterpiece.With a sound that combined elements of Deep Purple, Yes, Genesis and a touch of the Beatles, Angel is full of outrageously grand pomp rock—nowhere more so than the majestic opener Tower.

The band's second album Helluva Band, surfaced a year later. Again produced by Derek Lawrence and Big Jim Sullivan, it was a heavier, more rock oriented production. Big things were expected of the bond in 1977 A fan base had been established thanks to constant touring, and Casablanca Records were looking ahead to bigger sales. Eddie Kramer, fresh from his success with Kiss, was brought in to produce the band's third album.The resulting album, On Earth As It Is In Heaven, featured White Lightning, a reworking of on old Bux song, in retrospect con be described as on experimental and, at best, transitional album.

Eddie Leonetti was handed the ropes to White Hot in the fall of 1977 by which time Mickey Jones had left and was replaced by Felix Robinson. To Leonetti'scredit the sound was much glossier, the production sounding bigger and more modern. White Hot was released in January 1978 and was preceded bythe Christmas single, The Winter Song. ANGEL spent the next nine or ten months on tour with the intention of releasing a double live package at the end of it all.

Sinful appeared in the spring of 1979 after a good deal of wrangling over the original cover art and album title (Bad Publicity). Often regarded as ANGEL's definitive work, Sinful was another magical Leonetti produced affair.The double live album Live Without A Netfinally released in 1980, proved to be the fitting epitaph for the band - a band who never failed to deliver on thelive front. Utterly frustrated, the band disbanded in 1981.