@Brighternow you have just reinforced in my mind why I am a fan of eMusers. Where else would i have found out the derivation of the name "Matching Mole"!
@Brighternow you have just reinforced in my mind why I am a fan of eMusers. Where else would i have found out the derivation of the name "Matching Mole"!
. . . There's more to the story that I just can't remember. I've probably read it in some interview with Robert Wyatt, but I was too lazy to find it.
There was some great Rock (particularly Prog Rock) coming out of Japan in the late 60s and early 70s.
A great example is Blues Creation and their best album "Demon & Eleven Children".
AMG says "it's safe to assume that only geographical isolation stopped Demon & Eleven Children from turning Blues Creation into a major concern overseas on par with, if not Zeppelin, Purple or Sabbath, then possibly Leaf Hound, Buffalo, or Cactus."
Another great example from Japan is the Flower Travellin' Band and their 1971 release "Sartori".
AMG says "Early-'70s long-haired Japanese hard rock gods and pioneers of Japanoise and stoner metal"and "Flower Travelling' Band was Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin".
AMG's view of the album "Sartori" is "Forget everything you know about hard rock from the 1970s until you've put this one through your headphones. It's monolithic, expansive, flipped to wig city, and full of a beach blanket bong-out muscularity. In other words, this is a "real" classic and worth any price you happen to pay for it".
One of the best, underrated 1970s Heavy Rock bands is "Truth & Janey". Their two outstanding albums are "No Rest For The Wicked" (NRFTW) and the live album "Erupts".
AMG says that NRFTW is an "overlooked gem of an album still sounds so amazingly vital and engaging today".
Bizarrely, "No Rest For The Wicked" is available for NYOP on Bandcamp! An absolutely "no brainer" buy for anybody into 1970s Rock.
Confused, if you love the Bonzo's try this masterpiece, in an office I worked in at the end of the week was a singalong to " Who would like a suck of my thumb" glorious stuff.
Any list of top 60s and 70s rock has to include some albums by Yes duringtheperiod when they were at their best. My picks are “Close To The Edge” and “Fragile” both rated No.1 by ProgArchives in the top ranking Prog years of 1971 and 1972. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=105
ProgArchives says "As a side project to Roxy Music, guitarist Phil Manzanera teamed up with Bill Mc Cormick (of Matching Mole fame), Dave Jarrett and Charles Hayward (ex-High Tide and future Gong),,," and "Recommended to progheads......This is almost one of those lost gems except that it was never lost".
This album was ProgArchives No. 23 for the year 1975.
Confused, if you love the Bonzo's try this masterpiece, in an office I worked in at the end of the week was a singalong to " Who would like a suck of my thumb" glorious stuff.
Thanks for the suggestion. I couldn't find that album but I did find a few BBC shows at archive.com that I will sample later this year I hope.
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The song "I'm Going Home" on the album "Undead" is one of my favourites, particularly as performed at Woodstock.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ten-years-after-mn0000020050/biography
An all-time classic.
Bonnie Bramlett
1974 It's Time 1970 Delaney & Bonnie & Friends
On Tour
Your Kind of Kindness
Version 1 with Al Kooper, in my view the best version of the band
ETA: Matching Mole is Soft Machine translated to french: "Machine Mol" and then "translated" back to english.
A great example is Blues Creation and their best album "Demon & Eleven Children".
AMG says "it's safe to assume that only geographical isolation stopped Demon & Eleven Children from turning Blues Creation into a major concern overseas on par with, if not Zeppelin, Purple or Sabbath, then possibly Leaf Hound, Buffalo, or Cactus."
https://www.allmusic.com/album/demon-eleven-children-mw0000745345
AMG says "Early-'70s long-haired Japanese hard rock gods and pioneers of Japanoise and stoner metal" and "Flower Travelling' Band was Japan's answer to Led Zeppelin".
AMG's view of the album "Sartori" is "Forget everything you know about hard rock from the 1970s until you've put this one through your headphones. It's monolithic, expansive, flipped to wig city, and full of a beach blanket bong-out muscularity. In other words, this is a "real" classic and worth any price you happen to pay for it".
https://www.allmusic.com/album/satori-mw0000469959x
Not really anything more to it that I know of.
Good to see Mani's band above.
Saw Guru Guru in '78!
Lot of those albums are favorites -
especially this one (just love
everything on this album):
AMG says that NRFTW is an "overlooked gem of an album still sounds so amazingly vital and engaging today".
Bizarrely, "No Rest For The Wicked" is available for NYOP on Bandcamp! An absolutely "no brainer" buy for anybody into 1970s Rock.
https://iowabasementtapes.bandcamp.com/album/no-rest-for-the-wicked
https://www.allmusic.com/album/no-rest-for-the-wicked-mw0000301622
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
1969 Tadpoles Recorded 1969 The Peel Sessions
Confused, if you love the Bonzo's try this masterpiece, in an office I worked in at the end of the week was a singalong to " Who would like a suck of my thumb" glorious stuff.
My picks are “Close To The Edge” and “Fragile” both rated No.1 by ProgArchives in the top ranking Prog years of 1971 and 1972.
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=105
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1078
ProgArchives says "As a side project to Roxy Music, guitarist Phil Manzanera teamed up with Bill Mc Cormick (of Matching Mole fame), Dave Jarrett and Charles Hayward (ex-High Tide and future Gong),,," and "Recommended to progheads......This is almost one of those lost gems except that it was never lost".
This album was ProgArchives No. 23 for the year 1975.
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1813
The 1969 demo for their 1971 album "Sacrifice" and in many people's opinion, the better version.
The best known track is "Come to the Sabbat" which was on the excellent CBS sampler "Fill Your Head with Rock: The Sound of the Seventies".
https://www.allmusic.com/album/return-to-the-sabbat-mw0000254703
@peterfrederics - See one, play one.
The Butterfield Blues Band
1966 East-West 1971 Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin'
1973 Paul Butterfield's Better Days
- Better Days
(Paul Butterfield, Amos Garrett, Bill Rich, Chris Parker, Geoff Muldaur, Ronnie Barron