The mono Deram original vinyl LP was issued alongside the stereo release in 1968 (not everyone had stereo record players then!) and is now the rarest version of it. I know, coz I have one in...
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The mono Deram original vinyl LP was issued alongside the stereo release in 1968 (not everyone had stereo record players then!) and is now the rarest version of it. I know, coz I have one in...
Yes, you pick the subject and you also suggest recommended reference sources - Sid's book was a no brainer. Picking a subject is not as easy as you might think, though - there are numerous criteria...
Thanks all - yeah, I guess Jon himself doesn't write the questions, but him being Welsh doesn't tend to help the delivery speed. I really wondered where the HELL he was going with the lyric question,...
Yes, some of the questions did go on forever - I especially wondered where the hell he was going with the lyric question, and it showed on my face!
I'd 'question counted' on some of the previous...
I doubt you can view iPlayer in Europe. However, all of the Masterminds to date this series have been popping up on this channel on YouTube soon afterwards.......
Tonight.... <bump> :lol
Grey... :)
Not during my questions - I can't say too much without giving the game away!
:O
Thanks for the kind wishes! My lips are regrettably sealed... ;-)
I know this to be so because - it was me in the Black Chair... :horns
Please don't ask me how I did in advance as I'm not allowed to divulge!
Please indulge me then whilst I theorise that - for those who love Crimson but put them in the same 'love' bracket as Yes, Genesis or whoever else - maybe SaBB is the weakest of the three.
For...
I. Love. This. Album.
This one prepares you for and takes you straight into The Great Deceiver box set. And from there, all hope of avoiding becoming a helpless Crimson fanboy is lost....
It's very good, but then he's always been a top notch songwriter and musician since day one.
But prog? Just because it's in 5/4 (and doesn't once deviate from that)? Really?
I don't own a single one of them and have never seen any earthly reason for wishing to!
Even back in my Thieves' Kitchen days, it worked out considerably cheaper to actually fly over to the US from the UK with a load of CDs, T-shirts and stuff and either post them over there or (in our...
I hate you with a passion. I'm now going to have to listen to that again tomorrow... :O
Oh no, oh no, why have you done this? Because it's brought back to mind that monstrosity that was posted on here - it may even be ten years or so ago now - which was an attempt to include all of the...
I had never come across this as a 'genre' before. But I rather like most of this stuff, not just the Enz! And besides, it's a good excuse to bump this thread......
This doesn't quite compete with your find, but it's still a heck of a lot of fun...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtuAagyrI8Q
Rye-Ergot - that's truly scary. I literally found this very clip for myself on YouTube around about 20 minutes ago and have been marvelling in it. I'd never seen it before. It's so old it's even from...
Damn, seeing that makes me so annoyed with myself. I was actually aware of this lot and that they were touring the UK from the music press of the day at that time and could have gone to see them....
Any convert to a vastly underrated band is always a good thing, ThomasKDye! Now you've heard arguably their best 'pop' album, though, you MUST check out 'Second Thoughts'...
Thanks SS. The only word I disagreed with in your post was the use of the word '-minor-' ... ;)
Fabulous, wonderful band. Things were complex in the UK with their early releases - the album that the rest of the world knows as 'Mental Notes' never got a formal release here back in the day....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0
Wonderful as the book is, I've noticed several typos in the first half (as far as I've got so far...)
Talking of Wyatt and his genius for lyrics - if anyone hasn't heard the Peel Sessions version of 'The Moon in June', then you are in for SUCH a treat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JrPnep5Aw
That's a true original gone... what a body of work he leaves behind!
My wife and I and a friend of ours had dinner last night in the very cafe on the Fulham Palace Road where it all began, and snuck down into the basement for a few moments for a peek. It really is...
One of the first bands I ever saw live. They were very, very good!
I do remember Akiko using my drums when Ars Nova played with us in the UK. She was a TINY little thing, I thought 'what could possibly go wrong?'.
She absolutely beat the shit out of my kit, I...
I too thoroughly enjoyed it (the Hyde Park show in 1976 was my very first gig), but the inaccuracies were a shame - the first and worst in my view being the implication that the completed version of...
I am 110% certain that our GLD show was at Kenny's. I checked in my scrapbook in which I used to faithfully detail the dates and venues of every GLD and Thieves' Kitchen gig immediately after they'd...
We in Grey Lady Down played on Bleecker Street with Tristan Park under Bob Wolf's wing in November 1996, although I'm certain the venue was actually Kenny's Castaways...
I SO nearly went to this bloody gig! :meh
Why, VdGG are utterly wonderful!
It's Genesis that suck!!
:lol
When I was about 15, I was a member of the Daily Mirror Pop Club Cassette Library (don't laugh!). You gave them a list of say 30 or so albums you wanted to hear and they would send you a randomly...
Yes, there is more than a passing resemblance to 'Generals and Majors' in that chorus line...
Nope - only Kiki Dee with a cardboard cutout of Elton John! :doh
Queen in Hyde Park, London, in 1976 - and it was my very first gig! :D
So are they a missing Purson now? |)
I thought this was quite nice, in a very mellow sort of way. His voice on this reminds me a lot of Tom Petty....
It has to be said that Starless and Bible Black is probably my favourite KC album too. I've never found it remotely difficult - it was the first full album of theirs I heard and I loved it at first...
Walthamstow.
Enid - I think 'Breathless' from 'Exposure' gives one a fairly good idea...
On a track by track basis, Red has to be the better album. Stunning and seismic as 'Schizoid Man' is, 'Starless' remains the finest ever moment in progressive rock.
Great album. I actually went to see this band at a teacher training college in Chichester in 1977, one of my earliest gigs. They were LOUD! God, I'm getting old... ;-)
Why, Fripp, of course, although Latimer's beautiful solo on 'Ice' takes some beating too...
Holst clearly had nothing to do with it, then... :D
Wonderful as the Crimson gig was last night, I have a simple equation...
Bruford > (Harrison + Mastelotto + Stacey)
Finntroll! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GclKDei5hHU
'.... Cosmos' was, I can assure you, totally improvised - the spoken intro was a bit of Fripp humour... :) And Doctor D was being played in 1973 and was obviously overlooked for both 'SABB' and...
The first full Crimson album I ever heard, weirdly, and still probably my favourite - one of my desert island disc albums. It grabbed me on my very first listen. I knew little about the band at that...
Long live the King!
Oi, we at Grey Lady Down had an album called Fear yonks ago... bloody plagiarists... ;)
I enjoyed them in Leamington on Wednesday but was considerably more impressed by the second support band, Special Providence, from Hungary. If anyone is going to the London show tonight or Manchester...
Yes, he sang the original lyrics on the first night of the tour in Aylesbury too, MarKco.
Yes, that was the correct set from last night. The 'Interlude' was actually a drum-off...
I only got 7 and 10 wrong. And hey, the contestant would have swotted up...
The set in this thread bears no resemblance to what was played last night. The FM set list is (I think) correct except that they also played 'A Sailor's Tale' after 'The Letters'. I know, coz I was...