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Ron Dough
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« Reply #45 on: 19:02:32, 25-04-2008 »
Funny how things progress serendipitously: checking though YouTube, I found mention of Damon Shulman, son of Philip, the eldest of the Simon Dupree and the Big Sound/Gentle Giant Shulman brothers, who left the band after Octopus. He's followed in the family tradition, with his dad co-writing some of the material, and his albums are produced by uncle Ray: the first clip I found is unmistakably related to the previous generation's work, but of today. I feel another order coming on: delighted to see that distribution is through the site run by yet another member. (SK, is their Glass House issue different to the German one? DRT's is still available, too)
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« Reply #46 on: 20:31:46, 25-04-2008 »
Quote from: Morticia on 18:46:18, 25-04-2008
Quote from: richard barrett on 17:31:57, 25-04-2008
Speaking of vocalists, I find it a great shame that Messrs Fripp and Sinfield decided in 1970 that Bryan Ferry, who had auditioned for King Crimson as vocalist to replace Greg Lake, wasn't suitable for the group's material. For me every version of KC has been let down by indifferent singing.

Then again, Sinfield did produce the first Roxy Music single 'Virginia Plain' a few years afterwards, so, although a thumping oversight, perhaps he did BF a favour? Your post has just prompted me to put on 'Court of the Crimson King'. Dang, it still sounds good to me. I still love those very visual Sinfield lyrics. Juvenile? Me? Possibly. But I don't care Grin

I think Fripp and Sinfield were instrumental in getting Roxy Music its recording contract too, so clearly they were impressed by Ferry. Equally clearly they had a different idea from mine of what a suitable vocalist for their group ought to sound like.  Roll Eyes On the other hand Fripp did team up much later with David Sylvian so maybe he saw the error of his ways.  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

This is awful. I have no prog rock on CD at all and no record player. No wallowing for me today.
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« Reply #47 on: 20:43:14, 25-04-2008 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 20:31:46, 25-04-2008

This is awful. I have no prog rock on CD at all and no record player. No wallowing for me today.

Well, there's always the Topographic Oceans links above.  Alternatively:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv9DouGSXW8
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« Reply #48 on: 22:50:11, 25-04-2008 »
I was prompted by this discussion to get Pawn Hearts by VdGG out of the library today, it was the only album of theirs that the library had. Haven't spun it yet, I've still got the music from tonight's Tippett Quartet concert flowing through my head. I do still have a record deck but it would require a bit of setting up to enable me to play my Godbluff LP.
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« Reply #49 on: 22:55:00, 25-04-2008 »
Quote from: Ian Pace on 11:43:03, 25-04-2008
Quote from: IgnorantRockFan on 11:36:36, 25-04-2008
But I rarely listen to Anderson's lyrics. I just listen to his voice, which is as beautiful as any violin to my ears Smiley
So this must be your nirvana? Wink

Ah yes, perfection Smiley
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« Reply #50 on: 23:09:32, 25-04-2008 »
Funnily enough the other CD I got from the library was Nirvana's Nevermind Cheesy
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« Reply #51 on: 23:29:33, 25-04-2008 »
Quote from: Andy D on 22:50:11, 25-04-2008
I was prompted by this discussion to get Pawn Hearts by VdGG out of the library today, it was the only album of theirs that the library had. Haven't spun it yet, I've still got the music from tonight's Tippett Quartet concert flowing through my head. I do still have a record deck but it would require a bit of setting up to enable me to play my Godbluff LP.

I hope you enjoy it, Andy.  That was my favourite VdGG album back then and, as I said, if I saw it in HMV for £5-7 I'd buy it.  But when it comes to paying as much for an old rock album as for, say, Brilliant Classics' Complete Shostakovich Concertos I'm afraid nostalgia takes a back seat!

You'll certainly get a better rendition of 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers' than I found when I looked at some of the clips in the link above.  Some of the other clips are interesting, though.  The 7 min+ version of 'Darkness' isn't bad and there's a lively performance of George Martin's 'Theme One'.  There's also plenty of footage of 'two saxes' Jackson.  One of the things that marked VdGG as a special band for those of us who liked them was that at a time when all of us adolescent boys were expected to pick who was the greatest out of Jimmy Page, Alvin Lee, Eric Clapton etc, VdGG had a lead guitarist who hardly ever even bothered picking up the instrument!  There's cool!
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« Reply #52 on: 11:52:54, 26-04-2008 »
Mention from SK of the live GG (double) album Playing the Fool means that he'll already be aware of So Sincere, a very odd, almost atonal number from the sixth album The Power and the Glory, which in its live version concluded with all five band members plying percussion. I've heard several performances, since it turns up on recordings of other live gigs, though I've never seen it - until today.
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