Not heard of these beauties before-truly amazing what you can get from a looper 2Guitars/basses and a great drummer. Love these!!
Search for the boiler room concert, if you didn’t find that already.
As summer’s fast approaching…
getting the the factory records deep cuts, eh?
Well I used to go to the Hac and the like back in the day so pretty well acquainted with most of that stuff. I remember a friend of a friend said he wanted to buy one of all the FACT xyz releases and he wasn’t happy when I pointed out one of them was the Hacienda itself.
Vini Reilly’s a legend though.
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Hi,
Tell me
- Why do fools fall in love?
- Why do birds sing so gay?
- Why do they fall in love?
- Why does the rain fall from above?
- Why do fools fall in love?
- Why do they fall in love?
- Why do birds sing so gay?
- Why do they fall in love?
- Why does my heart skip a crazy beat?
- Why do fools fall in love?
Thanks
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@Yeager This is a blast from the past. Great display of their musicianship. A group of us went through a phase with them and another similar band called Happy the Man.
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how about other brit prog from back in the day? Hatfield and the North are pretty good. Henry Cow…
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More King Crimson, ELP, Floyd, Hawkwind (which we’ve discussed before), a German or Hungarian band who’s name escapes me, Supertramp (borderline prog) and lots of fusion like Chick Corea and Mahavishnu Orch, Perigeo (Italian fusion). Other usual pop prog suspects like Yes and Kansas.
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oh, much good stuff. I assume you are talking later Yes if you are calling it Pop? CTTE is imao the best prog album ever. I think Mahavishu has held up pretty well. Later return to forever is a little hard for me to take. And this reminds me - go downstairs and find ummagumma and listen to it! I’ve been thinking of getting the Pink Floyd 1969 disc… Hey, and no Genesis?
staying on topic…
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oh, wow. wyatt was in that band, yes?
Yes it was a play on words, Soft Machine, Machine Molle
Agree about HtM, they sounded very Dregs-ish to me (that’s a compliment), and I’m sorry they didn’t produce more albums. My biggest problem with GG is Derek’s vocals which always sounded weak to my ear. The musicianship, though, was first rate. My introduction (I learned of GG fairly recently) was “The Boys in The Band” from Octopus. The middle part had a distinctly Zappa feel which was a hook for me.
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CTTE vs Fragile vs The Yes Album is a bit of a toss-up for me. I have songs on all I lurve. Hell, I even like some of TfTO. (Ok. I’m weird.) And ignoring early Tony Banks is a irredeemable sin.
The first time I heard a song from Gentle Giant was about 2 years ago, before that I saw their sleeves in all the record shops I visited many moons ago, but I somehow never got to listening to them. My bad, because I love everything about them. Same thing with Steve Reich, I’m also a late adopter, never heard anything from him, but now I know why I loved the first few albums of Mike Oldfield, he was a watered down version of Steve Reich (just kidding). But when I heard
and
I knew I was missing out for a very long time.
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Indeed , BUT… I start to like it more after every listen…
yeah, SR is awesome. I’ve seen him play a time or two. 18 M is for sure the hit. I’ve always really liked “Phase Patterns”, which is the flip side of four organs. It’s quite relentless and difficult to listen to, because of the timbre of 4 farfisa organs bashing away. I think it was finally released digitally recently, but I got it on used LP.
I saw Gentle Giant open for Black Sabbath in 1973. I had never heard of them 
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yes, he had a pretty distinctive voice