peterfrederics
Thanks for your comments and totally understand what it’s like to be so busy! Really glad that emusers is here for the long term. I likewise listen to many of your tips and often for similar reasons. That is, to my mind, what makes this group so great to belong to.
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Heading over to Canterbury, you can't do much better than Caravan. From my point of view, on a par with Soft Machine.
My favourite albums are "If I Could Do It All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You" and "In the Land of Grey and Pink".Swinging sixties "cool". Jools Driscoll + Brian Auger & The Trinity (see my post over in "Favourite Rock Albums from the late 60s and early 70s").
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January 2021
Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger & The Trinity.
I can remember thinking as a young teenager in the swinging sixties that Jools was the absolute ultimate in "cool" and what a fabulous voice. Brian was a match for her as a musician and, …Moving on from John Mayall to the Peter Green version of Fleetwood Mac.
To my mind, their best studio album of the Peter Green era was "English Rose" with all time favourites, "Black Magic Woman" and "Albatross". Unusual album cover.
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers “Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton“.
AMG says of the band, “Finishing school for leading British blues-rock Musicians including Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, John McVie, Jack Bruce and man…“Diesel and Dust” by Midnight Oil, one of Australia’s top rock groups of the last 50 years.
Captain Beyond are top of my list of those many 60s/70s Bands which deserved to have been so much more successful than they actually were. A quasi supergroup made up of ex members of Deep Purple, The Johnny Winter Band and Iron Butterfly their first…Gryphon “Red Queen to Gryphon Three“
ProgArchives rates the album No. 14 in 1974 and says “With a seamless fusion of British folk and medieval rock, Gryphon developed a strong sound all their own”.
British Sea Power “Do You Like Rock Music?”
@stewrat soooooo luckyyyyyy!!!!!!!“Everything is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes”
Unless you want to say this as well!
And if we’re getting into Frank we really can’t miss out on his great friend Don Van Vliet, founder of “Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band”.
“Trout Mask Replica” is an outstanding album and I also really like the track “Zig Zag Wande…I first came across King Crimson in 1969 via the Island Record sampler album “Nice Enough To Eat”. The included track was “21st Century Schizoid Man” and I can remember thinking what a fantastic song it was.It was only when I …Santana’s performance at Woodstock was amazing and my love for their music and artistry was reinforced by their outstanding second album “Abraxas”.“Black Magic Woman” has always been one of my favourite songs - both the Fleetw…“Every Day” by The Cinematic Orchestra.
@greg what a great album indeed! I don’t have all the album formats that you are so lucky to have but I do have the face mask!in Favourite Rock Albums from the late 60s and early 70s Comment by peterfrederics January 2021
On my first weekend at University, I saw Cream live and went up and had a brief chat with “God” otherwise known as Eric Clapton. This was late 1966, so round about the time that “Fresh Cream” was released. However, the album that to my mind still re…“At Fillmore East” by The Allman Brothers Band
What I’m really loving about this is you all giving me my daily playlist. So a big “Thank You” to you all!
The album that really introduced me to the best of creative, innovative and then so called “underground” rock was "The Ro…First year at university and who should be playing one weekend but Pink Floyd featuring the one and only Syd Barrett! That first album of theirs “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” was the start for me of a life-long passion for progressive rock.
…If you want top live Mountain (some available for download) head off to Wolfgangs.
https://www.wolfgangs.com/music/mountain/audio/1426-4908.h…Watching the Elton John bio movie “Rocketman” the other day reminded me that he got his name “Elton” from one Elton Dean, a fellow band member of Long John Baldry’s Bluesology and later to be a key member of Soft Machine (SM).…@Brighternow In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is one of my favourites too.
I just love the story behind the naming of the album and song, to quote AMG "With its endle…"Forever Changes" and "Da Capo" by Love. Whilst I really like both albums, unlike most people I have a slight preference for "Da Capo", even that close to 19 minute classic of "noodling" (another topic for discussion!?) "Revelation".
How…Really in the mood for The Doors today - see separate new discussion "Favourite Rock Albums from the late 60s and early 70s".
The Doors live recordings weren't always great, particularly towards The End (get the pun!). However earlier on…Back on with compulsory masks in Melbourne so here's one of my all time favourites, "Odessey and Oracle" by The Zombies, in the form of matching mask and t-shirt!
Quoting All Music Guide, "Odessey and Oracle was one of the flukiest (an…Thanks to @confused for the intro to Replica Records. This label features some excellent late 60s and 70s mainly French Prog. To my mind, one of the best Prog labels on Bandcamp…Even more tragic! I've discovered that I've got 66 out of ProgArchives all time top 100.
http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?salbumtypes=1<…