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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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Visiting Byron Bay north of Sydney for the Byron Bay Bluesfest which lasts for 4 days over the Easter weekend.
@jonahpwll "In Memoriam" is indeed an excellent track and a big thanks for reminding me to listen to the great Don Cherry!
Another album of his that I really like is…Great Australian Heavy Psych band which I will be seeing live next month. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets with their best album "High Visceral (Part One)"
in What are you listening to right now (on the floor, 25 or 6 to 4)? Comment by peterfrederics March 2025@Lowlife I streamed it@jonahpwll thanks for the tip re Strata-East. I have spent a delightful Sunday morning listening to over 4 hours of excellent Jazz on their compilation album "Strata-East: The …In Australia, you can download "Fragments" by Library Tapes from iTunes for $A 3.99. Most of the other Library Tapes albums are also available.
(Quote) @jonahpwll funnily enough, I think you will find that you can indeed download your music at no chargeThis conversation incentivised me to go back and have a look at the current eMusic.
Pretty basic but what surprised me is that most of the albums that I bought over the years are still available to play and/or download on "MyMusic".
…"Mundus Incompertus" by the Pär Lindh Project
AMG says "This is exquisitely classy, polished, virtuoso keyboards and sundry rock elements....PLP is 100% pure class, fine art rock, complex, moving, lush, and an all-around grand experien…Porcupine Tree is my favourite modern Progressive Rock band but, coming a close second, is Opeth.
A top album of theirs is Pale Communion, released in 2014 by which time they had largely abandoned Death Metal for Prog.
I will b…"Tarot", the 1973 Krautrock/Progressive Rock album by German national Walter Wegmuller who was a mystic, artist, and eccentric as well as a friend of Sergius Golowin, H.R.Giger and Timothy Leary.
AMG says "This massive double al…"Gretchen Goes to Nebraska" a Hard/Progressive Rock album by King's X.
Thanks again to @Germanprof for the introduction to this excellent band.
AMG says …@djh if you enjoyed this album then you must try their live albums "Erupts!" (same album cover and tombstone [!!] but different colouring) and "Topeka Jam".
"No Rest For The Wicked" by Truth and Janey
One of the top, obscure hard rock bands from the 1970s. Highly rated on All Music Guide and Rate Your Music and an absolute must for anybody who is into 1970s rock.
And the best thin…Thanks @jonahpwll for reminding us about The Clientele. I, likewise, hadn't listened to them for a long time. My favourite album of theirs is "Strange Geometry" and I have real…"ZAM" 2019 Psychedelic/Garage Rock album by Frankie & The Witch Fingers
Particularly like the longer tracks "Dracula Drug", "ZAM" and "Underneath You".
in What are you listening to right now (on the floor, 25 or 6 to 4)? Comment by peterfrederics February 2025@rostasi really love it!Marianne Faithful singing "As Tears Go By" introduced and interviewed by Brian Epstein, then manager of The Beatles, plus a glimpse of Paul Anka hosting the TV program "Hullabaloo".
"Kew. Rhone." a 1977 Progressive Rock album by John Greaves, Lisa Herman and Peter Blegvad with Lisa Herman and Carla Bley on vocals.
AMG comments "An unfortunately neglected masterpiece of '70s progressive rock, the first exten…Akin to Strawberry Alarm Clock and their song "Incense and Peppermints" and from the same era, "Creation of Sunlight" by Sunlight. The first track "David" (see video link below) gives a good sense of the album.
in Obscure Groups from the late 60s and early 70s that should have done so much better! Comment by peterfrederics January 2025I am not normally into 1970s traditional folk but rather liked this s/t album released in 1970 by Heron, particularly the tracks "Yellow Roses", "Upon Reflection" and "Lord and Master".
in What are you listening to right now (on the floor, 25 or 6 to 4)? Comment by peterfrederics January 2025Not truly a cover version but more a reworking of The Allman Brothers Band's "Whipping Post", is the really enjoyable "Whip That Ghost" by Motorpsycho.
in Awesome Cover Versions . . . Comment by peterfrederics January 2025On the subject of highly regarded live rock albums, it is difficult to go past "At Fillmore East" by The Allman Brothers Band.
Rated No.2 in both Rolling Stone's Top 50 live albums and Rolling Stones Readers' Top 10 live albums.
With the departure of Garth Hudson, last surviving member of The Band, time to listen in to some of those well remembered and highly regarded albums of theirs.
"Music From The Big Pink"in What are you listening to right now (on the floor, 25 or 6 to 4)? Comment by peterfrederics January 2025
“So Long Marianne”, a really good take on Leonard Cohen’s early days, his life on Hydra and his relationship with Marianne Ihlen.
https://www.imdb.com/title/…“Swaddling Songs”, the 1972 Progressive Folk album by Mellow Candle.
ProgArchives says about the album “MELLOW CANDLE specialised in imaginative psychedelic folk rock and early progressive rock, with the singing talents of two ladies (…“Cuando Brille El Tiempo”, the 1974 album by Argentinian band Montes
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