A Nick Mason Production....Utterly Amazing Record!!!!!!!! Any Fans??????
A Nick Mason Production....Utterly Amazing Record!!!!!!!! Any Fans??????
Yes. A fan, although I have to admit to not listening to this since years.
"Palm Trees" is still a beautiful track, and I had a strange, nostalgic experience when it played on Norwegian FM radio a few years back - without introduction or explanation at all; just played between regular programs. And his voice actually works on that one.
"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
Steve was heroically hippyish at the time, and a great guitarist. I prefer his first two studio albums Fish Rising and L, and the live double Live Herald.
I seem to remember this being my favourite of his...it does help that the vocals are kept to a minimum!
I remember somewhere I read where his lyrics were described as "unrelentingly upbeat" or something like that.
I happen to like all of Steve's solo records, but Green I think in particularly was a high point. I like that all the tracks are segued together, making each LP side a continuous suite, as it were. And I think he incorporated the funk influence better on Green than he had on Motivation Radio (which was perhaps a little too funky).
I actually just pulled this one out for a listen a few weeks ago. I like "Fish Rising" better, but of the Hilliage albums I own I think "Green" would probably come in at #2.
Steve Sly
I'm holding out for the Wilson-mixed 5.1 super-duper walletbuster special anniversary extra adjectives edition.
BBC Radio 1 show with some of this material is ridiculously good and such a fantastic recording. Awesome album.
I love everything he did up to For To Next And Not Or (or whatever the heck that pair was called) although one of those was pretty good IIRC
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?
I'm a "Fish Rising" and "Rainbow Dome" fan. But "Green" is another good one. A return to his earlier work in a way.
"Palm Trees" is by far my fave Hillage tune. Wish I caught it live a few years ago when Steve did his solo band set at the Gong UnConvention. I have Green on green vinyl. Cool
As far as the, For To Next - And Not Or set, the And Not Or album (that's the instrumental one) is brilliant.
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
Anyone know what the image on the cover is about?
I have two of the Green Vinyl versions, cool album, my fav after "L"
I too have this one on green vinyl. Great album. Up there with Fish Rising, "L", Radio Dome.
Has its moments but I don’t like it nearly as much as Fish Rising or L. He gets awfully mired in hippie-era cheese on this one. I liked “The Glorious Om Riff,” but I liked it even better as “Master Builder.” (I actually heard Hillage’s solo version first)
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
"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
Yes, agreed. It's a pleasing irony that artists who strive too hard to sound contemporary usually eventually sound the most dated. Especially from the early 80s. Disappointingly few 'old wave' acts had the courage of their convictions and said 'bugger the latest trends' at the time.
Yes, one might have hoped that Tull, in particular, would have proudly stuck to 'living in the past'.
Listening to this album with headphones whilst tripping in the mid 1980's was an illuminating experience for me.
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