Old55

craigb
I wonder how many record sales were affected by clueless peer pressure?

Craig, you'd better buy a CHB album when it comes out.

Old55

craigb

Old55

craigb
I wonder how many record sales were affected by clueless peer pressure?

Craig, you'd better buy a CHB album when it comes out.

I already have a signed copy, don't you?  Heck, I even got two so I could hear it in stereo!

7.1 surround!  

Old55

craigb
I wonder how many record sales were affected by clueless peer pressure?

Craig, you'd better buy a CHB album when it comes out.

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
Been catching up on some listening by getting a few more CD's to replace the LP's.
 
Mother Gong - Gilly Smyth is still one of my favorite ladies out there.
 
Byzantium - Had 2 albums and the first one is very pop'ish, but the songs are excellent. The second album as a long piece on it and it is very good as well.
 
Batdorf and Rodney - Bapu probably remembers these guys. Their first album was really good, but sadly it died after that.
 
Charlie - I thik this was another LA band that had a bunch of very nice albums,a nd I still love to hear the first album "Fantasy Girls". The drummer was named "Steve Gadd", and he has said that it is not the same Steve Gadd that got famous later with some outstanding work, specially with Rickie Lee Jones.
 
Rickie Lee Jones - All the way to "Magazine", so that is what the first 3 or 4 albums, including that live EP that had "Walk Away Renee", and a couple of other things. Fabulous designed music that really brought out her voice and feelings. After that she went for a blues and **** sound and she has not been half as good as she was. But I bet that early stuff was really hard to play on stage with different folks, thus making simpler and stupider music was better!
 
Edgar Broughton Band - Ignored for the most part, and they would never get a gig in the US with their nasty song about VietNam, but since the event was now over, they would have to update the song to Iraq, or Afghanistan, and I'm not sure it would go well, with some named cleric sending out edicts to kill them! But if you have never heard "Oora" it is a treat. And this is the drummer (Brothers in the band) that colored a lot of Michael Oldfield in the early days, and then Roy Harper for a long time as well. The early stuff is harsh, and difficult and sometimes sounds weird and out of tune, and I often think that this is more "punk" than punk ever was, almost 10 years later. In the end, this was very intelligent music, and it definitly was about the words, not the "song"!
 
Capability Brown - First album had a beautiful version of "Liar", before Three Dog Beagle did it. Very nice album. But the 2nd album of theirs "Voice" is primo and fantastic. And the cover is worth the purchase of the album alone! GEt the LP and put it on your wall! And then flip the inside, and the singers are all with their mouths open and the eyes closed. And I can tell you that the harmonies and the folk music in that album is second to none and magnificent.
 
Carmen - Won't say much, as Bapu and Craig love to trash it for fun. But no one in the CHB can do Spanish Guitar scales on an Electric Guitar, not to mention a Bass Player that Jethro Tull stole, that killed the band, along with the band's producer not wanting to do anything with them anymore. They got dumped, but you could say that the music was limited, although the 3rd album saw a distinct change from the 1st or the 2nd. On top[ of it, this band was from LA, not Europe!
 
Don't think that LA is not progressive or experimental!
 
Aphrodite's Child - Odd band with the late Demis Roussos and Vangelis, had a magnificent mix of greek music and electricity and rock music. They had a few songs that made it to a single, but the last album of theirs (666) created a furor but it didn't matter. The band was done! But it gave us, along with other bands, the man who pretty much helped bring progressive music to the public ... Mr. Gomelsky! And the next band was also his own personal touch!
 
Gentle Giant - Between "Acquiring the Taste" and "Three Friends", there is not much that can be said about this band. I love it when Ihear Gary state on a tv special that they never wrote the music and they just played what came to mind and helped each other. When I saw them, their encore was their 20 minute piece, and all 6 band members played all instruments, and they were doing the musical chairs routine. Funny as hell, specially when Gary looked at a drum stick, couldn't figure out what to do with it, threw it up in the air, and played drums with his hands and fingers! Musicianship and then some! Total guts! Impressive harmonies!

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
 
 Edgar Broughton Band - Ignored for the most part, and they would never get a gig in the US with their nasty song about VietNam, but since the event was now over, they would have to update the song to Iraq, or Afghanistan, and I'm not sure it would go well, with some named cleric sending out edicts to kill them! 
 
Capability Brown - First album had a beautiful version of "Liar", before Three Dog Beagle did it. Very nice album. But the 2nd album of theirs "Voice" is primo and fantastic. And the cover is worth the purchase of the album alone! GEt the LP and put it on your wall! And then flip the inside, and the singers are all with their mouths open and the eyes closed. And I can tell you that the harmonies and the folk music in that album is second to none and magnificent.
 
Aphrodite's Child - Odd band with the late Demis Roussos and Vangelis, had a magnificent mix of greek music and electricity and rock music. They had a few songs that made it to a single, but the last album of theirs (666) created a furor but it didn't matter. The band was done! But it gave us, along with other bands, the man who pretty much helped bring progressive music to the public ... Mr. Gomelsky! And the next band was also his own personal touch!
 
Gentle Giant - Between "Acquiring the Taste" and "Three Friends", there is not much that can be said about this band.

Moshkiae
GG is one of those bands that I respect to no end, musically. Even more so after Gary Green said that almost none of it was ever composed, and mostly they sat and just did whatever they felt like doing, which, somehow, always worked well. It is not one of my favorites at all (Amon Duul 2, Guru Guru, Can, Ash Ra Tempel are!), but the musicianship and the dedication to make something like that work is insane and second to none, and there are not many folks that are musically confident enough to even try that, let alone play it!

jamesg1213

craigb

Moshkiae
GG is one of those bands that I respect to no end, musically. Even more so after Gary Green said that almost none of it was ever composed, and mostly they sat and just did whatever they felt like doing, which, somehow, always worked well. It is not one of my favorites at all (Amon Duul 2, Guru Guru, Can, Ash Ra Tempel are!), but the musicianship and the dedication to make something like that work is insane and second to none, and there are not many folks that are musically confident enough to even try that, let alone play it!

A friend of mine who is way more talented than he'll admit has played in a GG cover band and called it the most intimidating stuff he's had to play.

I can well believe it. I tried to learn 'Freehand' a couple of years ago, and Ed suggested covering 'Time to Kill' a while back..both were waaay beyond me.

Moshkiae

jamesg1213

craigb
A friend of mine who is way more talented than he'll admit has played in a GG cover band and called it the most intimidating stuff he's had to play.

...
I can well believe it. I tried to learn 'Freehand' a couple of years ago, and Ed suggested covering 'Time to Kill' a while back..both were waaay beyond me.
...

I don't think, that this stuff is about "talent", as much as it is about trying something different and in the end, it sounds like nothing we have heard before anywhere at all. You have to ahve courage to stick with that, or one of those, I don't care what you think, mentalities, to do something like that.
 
I don't think that any of those guys were waaay beyond anyone at the CHB, with one exception! They did more of it and learned it, and the folks here might not have done it to the point where it would (I guess) feel intimidating. It's sort of like trying to play Stravinsky with a rock band ... the guitar parts and bass parts would be insane and all over the place, and any guitarist is likely to say ... that's not even a challenge, I quit!
 
It all depends how unafraid you are to try something outlandish and different, and do not think about the result whatsoever. I have always thought that the biggest issue with folks creating music is always the worry about an ending and flipping the piece so you can get to a conclusion of some sort. The Europeans for a long time, lived by the Godard experiment ... everything has a beginning, middle and an end, not necessarily in that order ... except life!

I don't think, that this stuff is about "talent"

Moshkiae

jamesg1213
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They would have been hard-pressed to create that music without it.
...

I don't quite ... believe you. You know why?
 
They were all 18, 19, 20 and 21