Originally posted by Serial_Apologist
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What Rock/Pop/Jazz-rock/Fusion/Prog/Experimental etc album are you listening to?
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Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
Really sad to hear this news earlier. I think it is true to say that almost nobody ever had a bad word to say about her. She remained very enthusiastic about new music to the end. The Sunday request show was surely a deserved career highlight. It was really enjoyable required listening, with a great connection to her audience with a shared love of music. And she just did radio so well.
Through her broadcasting,her spirit and influence will live on.
She has a special place in music history
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Just about to listen to No Other, by Gene Clark.
i hope it lives up to the expectations built up in the sleeve notes , which it has to be said, are in ridiculously tiny font.
incidentally, Byrds fans will doubtless be excited to hear that I recently bagged a copy of the super deluxe edition of the recent 1964-67 photographic book, at something of a bargain price. It is a beautiful thing.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Turns out that No Other really is as good as its latter day advocates say. A really beautiful, epic , wonderful thing. Part of its magic I think is a combination of lyrics that look inside, with music that reaches out in all directions.
Do give it a listen , if you don’t know it.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View PostTurns out that No Other really is as good as its latter day advocates say. A really beautiful, epic , wonderful thing. Part of its magic I think is a combination of lyrics that look inside, with music that reaches out in all directions.
Do give it a listen , if you don’t know it.
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Originally posted by Roger Webb View PostJade Warrior: Kites.
I had no idea there was a thread covering these genres, several of which I have been a keen advocate....particularly the one now labelled 'Prog' - back when it all started I don't think we called it that!
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Originally posted by anorak View Post
I agree. Back in the day me and my mates called it 'progressive rock' and in the music shops this type of music was often filed under 'progressive', or just 'rock'. Prog is probably an internet invention. I've never liked the word 'prog'. To me it sounds jokey and apologetic, as if those who like this genre have something to be ashamed of. We don't!!!
My first real brush with 'Prog' was King Crimson in Hyde Park, where I'd gone with a keen Stones fan in 1969. I was amazed at KC....not so with the Stones!
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Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post
Yep, it now is a term of derision - I think it immediately brings to mind Rick Wakeman in a silver cape....on ice. When in fact progressive music really was an interesting genre...or rather several influences blended in different proportion depending on band.
My first real brush with 'Prog' was King Crimson in Hyde Park, where I'd gone with a keen Stones fan in 1969. I was amazed at KC....not so with the Stones!
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Originally posted by anorak View Post
I'm more than a tad embarrassed to admit that I attended one of those 'Wakeman on ice' spectaculars at Wembley. I saw Rick a few times during the 70s and he was always entertaining, an amusing raconteur, though I happily sold his concept albums to the second-hand shop before the decade was out. My first brush with progressive rock was a chance encounter in black and white with Edgar Winter playing 'Frankenstein' on OGWT in 1973 (footage now on YouTube). Alan 'Fluff' Freeman's Saturday Show was essential listening for me. I remember him playing Henry Cow which was pretty daring.
Although my whole life has been connected with 'classical' music (I ran a specialist classical CD shop until I retired) I have a soft spot for 'prog'!
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostSome very early National Health [sic] for other lovers of Canterbury Progrock.]
Try this clip from Bruford 'Rock goes to college'
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Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post
If you like that National Health Lp which has Dave Stewart (later with Annie Lennox in The Pretenders) on keys, try the first Bill Bruford solo album 'One of a kind'. Apart from Bruford and Stewart it features the now departed Alan Holdsworth, one of the truly innovative guitarists to come out of the Canterbury scene (ex Sort Machine) and amazing bassist Jeff Berlin.
Try this clip from Bruford 'Rock goes to college'
https://youtu.be/2GAnb2-lYuI?si=RFTz4Bry_xqBxAm-
before the Tourists, Annie Lennox was musical partner with the talented ex folk musician Peet Coombes, who wrote almost all of the Tourists original material, much of which was very good pop/rock , despite their lack of fashionable status.
I suspect that AL may at some point have had a helping hand from Elton John, both being ex RAM , but I can’t remember why I suspect this !!
Coombes must have found Lennox and Stewart’s stratospheric success with Eurythmics quite difficult to take, as his own career fizzled out, and he died too early.
edit : this Wiki article puts me right, a bit. Stewart and Coombes hooked up first, on Elton’s Rocket label, and the recruited Lennox as singer in a band called The Catch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_To...%20pop%20music.
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Originally posted by anorak View Post
I agree. Back in the day me and my mates called it 'progressive rock' and in the music shops this type of music was often filed under 'progressive', or just 'rock'. Prog is probably an internet invention. I've never liked the word 'prog'. To me it sounds jokey and apologetic, as if those who like this genre have something to be ashamed of. We don't!!!I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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