Psychedelic and prog rock

[gweimer]

[Pekka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hsp-C6mQGo&list=FLqRZ268Ck3FxrpJwaPKMIoA&index=3

Brilliant! I love Canterbury prog as they call it. Hatfield & The North, National Health, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Caravan, Soft Machine etc. Camel were at their best too when they had Richard Sinclair on bass and vocals. Andy Latimer thought about calling the band Caramel in 1978/79 when they 3 ex- Caravan alumni in the ranks. (Jan Schelhaas and cousins Richard and Dave Sinclair).

[Pekka]

Chicago's own Trillion.  I went to high school with the drummer, and keyboardist Pat Leonard was the musical director for Madonna when she hit.

Pat Leonard also worked with the late great and much missed mega talent Kevin Gilbert in Toy Matinee. Kevin's posthumously released rock opera "The Shaming Of The True" is one of my favourite albums.

[Pekka]

I saw Gentle Giant a couple of times in the 70s and they were an amazing live band. They were so tight and all multi instrumentalists. Really high quality footage here from The Missing Piece tour.

Big fan here. The live footage is sometimes a bit hard to watch because of the stage antics (and sometimes shouty vocals) of Derek Shulman but my god how tight and funky John Weathers and Ray Shulman are here! The whole show is availble on DVD "GG at the GG" IIRC.

[amptech]

Great thread! Love that GG show, and there´s an even better one (from 1974) on youtube.
Maybe not that sharp and tight, but less ´shouting´and really full of energy...

And seeing Hawk recently with their mid 70´s era setlist, it is really mostly music from that period that
lights my fire these days..

Maybe we should throw in some fusion as well, this could be the utopia of outpost threads!

[gweimer]

~ "When danger arises, up from inner space come the MIGHTY GROUNDHOGS" ~

[Barklessdog]

Some additions

Lucky Bishops


Temples

[Barklessdog]

My friend's band Schnauser

[nofi]

check out ed king in the alarm clock. far left guitarist. i like this much better than his next band, lynyrd skynyrd.

[saltymonkey]

Big fan here. The live footage is sometimes a bit hard to watch because of the stage antics (and sometimes shouty vocals) of Derek Shulman but my god how tight and funky John Weathers and Ray Shulman are here! The whole show is availble on DVD "GG at the GG" IIRC.

Thanks. The whole show is on youtube in one video too. Great video and audio quality. I really think they were at their best during this time and tour. Watching it brought back a lot of great memories. I used an online youtube video to mp3 converter to download the audio from the whole show.

[Pekka]

Thanks. The whole show is on youtube in one video too. Great video and audio quality. I really think they were at their best during this time and tour. Watching it brought back a lot of great memories. I used an online youtube video to mp3 converter to download the audio from the whole show.

The audio was released on cd twice, first as "BBC Live In Concert" which omitted the track "Funny Ways" and then as part of "Out Of The Fire" double which had the whole concert.

"Playing The Fool" is probably the best GG album if you could have only one. Thankfully we can have them all. "Giant For A Day" doesn't get much playtime 'though.

[Denis]

Here's another I like a lot. Ford Theater's Trilogy For The Masses".

[slinkp]

Chrysalis was interesting. I heard about them because my dad did some string arrangements on their one and only album.
The story goes that the promotional budget was blown on gambling by their shady manager and that was the end of their recording career.

[4stringer77]

Well, as long as we've got Lemmy and Ed's old psychedelic bands up here we might as well add one from the Nuge.

[Highlander]

May as well colour it up a bit...