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First listen, ever!Frigin' wild, halarious, excellent, but mostly frigin' wild, halarious...
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Warped to hell, worn out... sounds great, go figure!
No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
Follow Ups:
1) Rocka Rolla - Judas Priest's 1st album on UK Gull. Decent but not great sonics. Beats the CD I have by a mile though.
2) 801 - Live - good sound, good performance.
3) Tyndall - Nice German electronic, synthesizer music from 1980.
Legrand Jazz is a must have. Arrangements reveal Legrand's genius in jazz; performances are by giants (Davis, Farmer, Byrd, Coltrane, Webster, Evans, Chambers, et al); tracks are all gems; among them: nuages, night in tunisia, round midnight, django, don't get around much anymore, et al. Track it down if you don't have it! (Preferably an original columbia 6-eye copy. Outstanding orig mastering & pressing)'74 ICSTR, co-written by Ann Peebles, on Memphis' HI records label. This song and other tracks deliver that memphis soul sound. I prefer Peebles' version of ICSTR to Tina Turner's cover, as good as it is.
Mahavishnu, VEB, just a favorite that I never tire listening to.
And you thought "Somebody's Watching Me" was his only hit! "Obscene Phonecaller" sounds like it could have been Falco's musical inspiration for "Rock Me Amadeus."
...its always great to annoy the neighbours in my new digs with the following-Vanessa Rodrigues Soul Project
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Pat Mastellato and Trey Gunn "TU"
Deep bottom, and pounding stuff just to kill them post 11PM!!!!!!
"David! You can KILL a man with a chopstick!" -Keith Charles, Six Feet Under
Judy Collins/WildflowersJessi Colter/I'm
3lp box bootleg. It sounds like a bootleg too.
"The torture never stops"
On Thorens TD 125 turntable with oddball B&O cartridge. Into Fisher 800C receiver and modern Energy XL-25 speakers. Sweet.
Picked up this weekend for $2!
Bongwater - Double Bummer
The Decemberists - The Tain / 5 Songs
The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
Great movie, great music!
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Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk....
-Ray
I have GG three friends, which I like. My impression is that if you only had one GG record octopus is the one to have. Concur?
The more I listen to it, the more I prize the contribution (alongside the then-new excellent drummer John Weathers') of the elder of the Shulman brothers, Phil, on that particular album, as co-lead singer, misc. brass instrumentist, writer and lyricist.Plus the whole production is simply a timeless 8-facet jewel! ...Plus with some of the best early-70s rock market album sonics imaginable!
After that one, a period in their career which is in fact more important in both duration and wordwide (West) popularity, they became sort of a different musical entity. Not only because they resized from a 6- to a 5-piece band, but also because they worked towards (in my opinion very successfully with The Missing Piece, from '77) reverting into a simpler, more pop-oriented (yet still inimitable) electric combo. The Genesis syndrome perhaps.
From a quality standpoint, the original Vertigo pressings of Octopus are far superior to the Worldwide Artists pressings of In a Glass House.I also like "Three Friends" and "Acquiring the Taste" quite a bit.
The LP's after "Freehand" all seem forced and devoid of the Gentle Giant innovative music and precision timing IMHO, but the rest are keepers.You can still find original first generation UK Vertigo's out there. Those are the ones to have. The second generation Roger Dean "spaceship" Vertigo's are not quite as good but still head and shoulders better than the horrible US Colombia abominations.
Cheers,
Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk....
-Ray
than on my original UK Vertigo swirl copy: Dog's Life!OK, my UK swirl is second-hand and not NM. But it is NOT one of those "problem copies" (worn-out grooves on those hot end-of-side tracks, etc.). It sounds fabulous (and really not much scratchy) on every one of the other tracks. But once you get to Dog's, it's good, but you just wished you had never heard the other two references...
I wish I can aford a really minty one some of these days... It seems on ebay every single Vertigo swirl from the UK (or Europe) fetches immediate high money, regardless of how obscure the artist or group is!
Had an old 1972 Toyota wagon many years ago with an 8-track player in it. The only thrift store 8-tracks I found at the time included
Soft Machine: 7
Terry Reid: Seed of Memory
Gentle Giant: Acquiring the Taste
Sure got a lot of mileage out of those, and still enjoy them. I think my total collection ran to six, but I can't remember the other titles.p.s. Got to see Gentle Giant live on a double bill with Yes in the 70s. What a night!
I caught them alone at the Tower Theatre in Phili in the 70's. A friggin' incredible show. Later I saw them again when they were touring Missing Piece, again at the Tower Theatre.A double bill with "Yes" is a line up made in heaven!! I wish I had seen that!
Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk....
-Ray
although I think you can't go wrong with Octopus or Power & the Glory.
All three have very good sound and are all great musically.
Bought it new in 1974. Didn't really hit my hot button back then, so almost never played. When I set my turntable back up several years ago, pulled it out and really enjoy it. As is true of every Zappa album I've played, it is exceptionally well recorded...great sonics, and mine doesn't have a noise on it. Will have to add it to tonite's playlist. Thanks for the reminder. "Stink-foot" ranks right up there with the all-time creative masterpieces.
Greg
w/Dexter Gordon's incredible solo on "White Christmas".
1975AMG is full of $hit, I think this is a great album and Bolin is all over it.
CTTB was a great record. It was relevant musically, if you compare it to, say, Boston, Frampton, or the other "hard" rock acts emerging at the time. Bolin had very much re-energized the band. The biggest problem was, most people had given up on DP by 1975.
Bolin's drug habit didn't help matters, either.
IMHO I never thought of either Boston or Frampton as "hard" rock. AC/DC yes, Nugent check, Kiss ditto, etc.... I always thought Boston as a more "stadium" rock group. Built to fill up big venues with big sound. Frampton, sure a rocker but still.... I remember Frampton being booed off stage at Solider's Field in Chicago in 76. Crowd chanting Derringer, Derringer, Derringer....the opening act of course.Well Peter chastied the crowd and told them to behave or he wouldn't be back. The result: a roar of approval that he NOT come back. To his credit I always liked Frampton. Got to see him indoors by himself and it was much better with an appreciative crowd. Bad timing on his part though. His Solider Field show was the week after Nugent and Ted had gotten the Windy City rockers frenzied. Peter didn't have a chance.
A great album , still holds up after hundreds of listens
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