The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Pekka on March 22, 2016, 06:05:09 AM
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Any fans? I love his work and the just released 14CD "The Last Of The Teenage Idols" box was an auto-buy. Includes everything SAHB released plus great bonustracks (single B-sides and outtakes from the "Live" album) and most of his solo work pre- and post- SAHB.
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/alex-harvey-the-last-of-the-teenage-idols-14cd-box-set/ (http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/alex-harvey-the-last-of-the-teenage-idols-14cd-box-set/)
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I liked what he did but 14 CDs of it would be a bit too much cherry pie!
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I liked what he did but 14 CDs of it would be a bit too much cherry pie!
Yeah, that don't take much...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjyZKfdwlng&ab_channel=WarrantVEVO
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Warrant? Please, make that go away. :-[
Here's Alex and his band at their proggiest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcjt5QU9aAM
That was the first track I ever heard from SAHB apart from occasional radio play of "Next" and I was hooked.
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Warrant? Please, make that go away. :-[
Hey, blame Uwe - he threw me a hanging curveball :o
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Hey, blame Uwe - he threw me a hanging curveball :o
You can't blame germans for everything. At least not for Warrant!
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i saw the sensational alex harvey band in 1974. i don't see how you can get fourteen worthwhile cds out of that band. can you say money grab.
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You can't blame germans for everything. At least not for Warrant!
I was just about to say!!! WWI maybe half, WWII ok, that's our load indeed, but absolutely innocent as regards WWarrantIII!!!
I always liked Chris Glen's bass playing and the way the rhythm section of him and Ted McKenna interacted (he was even better with Ted than with Cozy, Ted being the more bass-sympathetic player). You heard that well on Assault Attack, Martin Birch's production really brought them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93AWuWD4oms
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Chris Glen has turned bus driver now to make ends meet.
http://www.chrisglen.co.uk/about.html
Interesting interview:
http://www.rocktopia.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5360:fireworks-magazine-online-64-interview-with-chris-glen&catid=903:fireworksmagazine&Itemid=474
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i saw the sensational alex harvey band in 1974. i don't see how you can get fourteen worthwhile cds out of that band. can you say money grab.
Hey, no knocking a completist urge!!! I have great sympathy for Pekka! Collect, my son, do köllekt and hoard, it's all good ...
(http://www.gardenweasel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/shutterstock_110099348.jpg)
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i saw the sensational alex harvey band in 1974. i don't see how you can get fourteen worthwhile cds out of that band. can you say money grab.
No I can't. Quoting myself: "most of his solo work pre- and post- SAHB". The man started in the fifties and had about ten years worth of recorded output before SAHB who released 8 albums and managed to make to solo albums after SAHB and before his early death so to me 14 worthwhile cds isn't a difficult task at all.
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Hey, no knocking a completist urge!!! I have great sympathy for Pekka! Collect, my son, do köllekt and hoard, it's all good ...
Thanks, 'though I do not hoard, otherwise I would have kept the previously released 2-in-1 SAHB double cd's. The vinyls aren't for sale of course. :)
I would have preferred if they had released Alex' solo stuff on one box and SAHB rarities and unreleased on other but the trend nowadays is having the whole lot in one big set. It wasn't expensive 'though, 100 euros from cdon.com.
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I always liked Chris Glen's bass playing and the way the rhythm section of him and Ted McKenna interacted (he was even better with Ted than with Cozy, Ted being the more bass-sympathetic player). You heard that well on Assault Attack, Martin Birch's production really brought them out.
A brilliant rhythm section that could handle loads of styles with SAHB. Very groovy and at times sounded like Little Feat ("Jungle Rub Out") or Killing Joke ("Rock Drill").
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A thread with red squirrels...! :mrgreen:
Out of my price range at present but nice...
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Chris Glen had one of the best live bass sounds I ever heard. I also saw him with MSG at a club date in Chicago. I was there for the sound check...Glen left with a pair of lovelies, and the three of them returned an hour or so later, quite disheveled.
I'm sure this was remixed, but I do love the sound of Glen's bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVrUqPbnk2o
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I'm sure this was remixed, but I do love the sound of Glen's bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVrUqPbnk2o
'51 Precision (or Telecaster) and Acoustic 370/371 amps and cabs. Very similar JPJ's Telebass sound. Both liked 'em shaved. :)
(http://www.rock-photos.co.uk/photos/SAHB1.jpg)
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A thread with red squirrels...! :mrgreen:
Out of my price range at present but nice...
Surely you just leave some peanuts in your back garden and they turn right up? ;D
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I always liked Chris Glen's bass playing and the way the rhythm section of him and Ted McKenna interacted (he was even better with Ted than with Cozy, Ted being the more bass-sympathetic player).
of all the musicians I have worked for Chris Glen is the only one I would consider a friend rather than just client, he is an absolute diamond of a bloke. I have him to thank for the majority of my success, if he hadn't taken me under his wing and introduced me to the rock world I would probably have spent my whole career doing visuals at raves.
I never got to see Chris play with Cozy, but him and Ted are boyhood friends, they are like Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee when on the road and that closeness really shows when they play together