Yes I agreeOriginally Posted by chalkpie
I always loved Psychedelic music but never went deep into it before now
and this time I am coming from a different direction since I am listening to a lot of 60's & 70's pop music as apposed to before were I came from progressive so it gave ame a diffrent perspective
I now realize the reason I prefer the British stuff is cause it seems to be more poppy
An unlikely subject for a pop song if ever there was one:
Another classic:
cool keep them coming !
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Superb
Agreed. Where else have you heard lyrics and arrangements like that in the context of a "pop" single? Those days will never be repeated...
Instantly fell in love with this !
Thank you!
YW! BTW, there's a crazy, fascinating story behind this. Ramases was a certain Barrington Frost, an ext-RAF PT Instructor, Jazz Singer and Edinburgh HVAC installer who apparently found his real muse as follows:
Barrington shaved his head and began dressing eccentrically in silk robes. In 1968, the story goes, during a drive to visit a client he was visited by the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses who told him he was the Pharaoh's reincarnation, and he must take up the Pharaoh's message in a musical career. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramases)
His better half Dorothy Laflin (Selket), has an interview on YouTube - The Saga of Ramases... it's a tragic tale.
I have a re-issue of their album Space Hymns featuring the wonderfully whacky Molecular Delusions.
Cheers,
Bill
Last edited by Buddhabreath; 03-27-2018 at 08:13 PM.
Count me as a fan. I first heard a couple tracks from this back in the 80's, on a comp of psychedelia.......tracked this album down as a result. What's In My Mind's Eye.....that hooked me.
"And this is the chorus.....or perhaps it's a bridge...."
on the french side of things...
UK...
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
July with Tom Newman!
Indeed, and on this track also featuring Tony Duhig and Jon Field of ensuing Jade Warrior, I believe. Fred Frith apparently got his studio-musician's gig on Kites (playing viola) through their acquaintance with Newman.
July's sole record from 1968 is one of the brightest lights from that whole era of UK psychedelia; equal amount bubblegum, freakbeat and stone oddball, it beats the likes of Tomorrow, Factory, Kaleidoscope, The End, Dandalion's Chariot and Open Mind on the doorstep. IMHO, of course.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
I have that July album, too....same situation as with Aorta: I heard a couple tracks on this psyche compilation, and searched it out. "Friendly Man" was the track, if I recall....
"And this is the chorus.....or perhaps it's a bridge...."
I agree, although for me Open Mind's Magic Potion is a stone cold classic of the genre:
Last edited by Buddhabreath; 03-28-2018 at 12:26 PM.
... and how about this simple but beautiful song?
...another absolute classic (in my book).
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