How could a meeting of two chart forces as formidable as Foghat and Kramer (who has produced or engineered Kiss, Led Zeppelin, the Stones, the Beatles and Bad Company) run afoul of each other? Writer-publicist Pat Cox, who's represented Kramer informally, says that "Eddie Kramer by now has very definite ideas about how he wants to produce a band like Foghat. Foghat by now has equally definite ideas as to how it wants to be produced. That could lead to conflict."

Whatever the facts behind the discord, all recording ... including some last-minute vocal overdubs in Nashville ... is completed and 'Stone Blue' is now in the hands of the studio sorcerers. Back on its five-month tour trail, Foghat has also found time to tape a two-hour NBC-TV special, "The First Hundred Years of Recorded Music." Foghat's "I Just Want to Make Love to You" is the only rock music in the program.