R.I.P. John Gustafson

[Pekka]

This is one of my fav IGB tracks and John's bass is really pushing the track forward. His backing vocals very prominent too.


Does anybody have his solo album "Goose Grease"?

[gearHed289]

Cool. Would be great to see the concert make it to DVD some day.

That "Love is All" video... Holy 70s! Funny to hear Dio sing something like that too.

[uwe]

Dio was such a variable singer before Blackers got him in his medieval claws and turned him into this hard rock/heavy metal swords & scorcery (diminutive) behemoth. Of course he did that well too, but at the price of everything else.









Sure I have Goose Grease, Pekka, wasn't aware of the Al Jarreau connection though.

[Highlander]

John live with IGB and another interpretation of that "standard"...

Found the whole recording...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFdaqfM7BnA

[Pekka]

Found this tribute from Gordon Giltrap's site:
http://www.giltrap.co.uk/news/f/General_News/4657

Also this warm tribute:
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/whitstable/news/friends-and-family-pay-last-24138/

[uwe]

Pekka goes about resurrecting the dead!



But John G. deserves it.

[Highlander]

Where's the like button...?

[Alanko]

I really like what he did with Quatermass. They don't seem to get a lot of love, but I see them as a sort of hard rock ELP. I really like their track "Post War, Saturday Echo", which has some cool lead bass breaks in it recorded on what sounds like an 8 string.

Love their album cover.

[nofi]

they get no love because most of the great unwashed never heard of them. i bought this record new and still listen to it on occasion. great band. also liked jg's work with shawn philips. before you jump uwe, just because its old does not make it classis rock imo.

[Alanko]

Rainbow of course covered Black Sheep of the Family.... 

I've spent a productive day re-listening to Quatermass's album. It is definitely a studio work, with lots of piano and organ overdubbing that I guess wouldn't work out live without more musicians. There is also a proggy element with synths and ringmods and other elements.

[Pekka]

I really like what he did with Quatermass. They don't seem to get a lot of love, but I see them as a sort of hard rock ELP. I really like their track "Post War, Saturday Echo", which has some cool lead bass breaks in it recorded on what sounds like an 8 string.

Love their album cover.

It has an octave divider, Peter Robinson says so in the Esoteric reissue liner notes.
Great album that gets lots of love within the prog circles.

[Pete-C]

He was a talented guy
I seem to remember that him along with percy jones , Entwistle and a couple of others were involved in the early wal bass designing and refinements ,the first run of basses were named Wal JG models after him before the pro a d custom models.
R.i.P.

[uwe]

they get no love because most of the great unwashed never heard of them. i bought this record new and still listen to it on occasion. great band. also liked jg's work with shawn philips. before you jump uwe, just because its old does not make it classis rock imo.

Too uncommercial and musicians' music to be classic rock, I'm with you. Prog rock in the positive sense of the word, a little on the obscure side. Like the album too, a lavish remaster with even a 5.1 mix came out a few years ago, worth looking out for.

The keyboard guy later on became a Phil Collins sideman.

[Pekka]

Finally some! Their last single which reminds me of Purple's "Smooth Dancer" (oddly released few years later...).
Johnny sporting a Fender Jazz and Sonja Kristina hair. Great stuff.

[uwe]

Wow - that is rare footage. For a non-guitar band, they really rocked.