Rock - what are you listening to?

[Fran]

Watching and listening... amazed at how fresh and good it all sounds...

[cybot]

Watching and listening... amazed at how fresh and good it all sounds...

Nice one Fran :-) Will you be getting the new Winterland set? I have mine on pre-order - on vinyl..... Amazon seem to be doing a fantastic deal on the four CD set - €24.99!?!? See link below. The Lp set is retailing here for £126 not including p&p. I'm getting mine for €77 direct from the Experience Hendrix set (first time I've done this!). I probably won't receive it until a month after the release date :-(




http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_ ... refix=Jimi+

[cybot]

Desert winds billowing around the room....



Evan Caminiti (Barn Owl) - West Winds

[Fran]

Thanks for the heads-up on the winterland set, I'd say ill get it alright, although I might just wait for the reviews...


Fran

[cybot]

On vinyl and glad to have the boys back after too looong an absence....

[Sloop John B]

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SJB

[cybot]

Thanks for the heads-up on the winterland set, I'd say ill get it alright, although I might just wait for the reviews...


Fran

Just came across this on the Experience Hendrix site. Looks like if you buy from Amazon you're getting that little bit extra....grrrr!!!!



Amazon will offer an exclusive bonus CD to be bundled with all orders of the four CD and 8 LP Winterland box sets sold through Amazon during 2011 consisting of recordings from Jimi's February 4, 1968 Winterland performance: "Killing Floor," "Red House," "Dear Mr. Fantasy (Part One)" and "Dear Mr. Fantasy (Part Two)."  These tracks have been previously available only as part of the rare Dagger Records official bootleg Paris '67/San Francisco '68  and have never been available for retail sale.

[cybot]

On vinyl and sounding soooo good :-)

[JAW]

Sometimes perfection is a real bore. In an age where karaoke puppets and corporate niche marketing have rubbed any rough edges from our aural diet, it comes as quite a shock to hear stuff like this. For, while most of this material stems from a timeframe and genre that prided itself on its musical ability, it's by no means a smooth and unchallenging ride. Even Richard Madeley's favourite band, the Moody Blues (who provide the title track to this anthology) sound edgy and mysterious to modern ears. And yet it all fell under the banner of the mighty Decca label.

By late 1967 something was happening, and (to paraphrase Dylan) it wasn't just Mr Jones who didn't know what it was. Major labels were faced by an audience who now wanted something considerably more challenging than three minutes of the Hollies singing about bus stops. Those pesky Beatles had opened Pandora's musical box and it wasn't unreasonable to ask for at least three time signature changes in the space of one song. Mellotron solos! Lyrics about women selling tea! Scary chord changes! Folk music played on electrical instruments! Blues played backwards! It was all legal tender in them days and Decca wanted a piece of the action. Signing acts left, right and centre to their subsidiary, Deram, the label inadvertently set loose some of the strangest music known to man. It's all here...

To be fair most of this music's fascination lies in its position somewhere between psychedelia and progressive. It's some evolutionary stop-gap, like a musical sabre-toothed mongoose and, on the whole, clumsy and not a little pretentious. Let's face it, there's a reason why you've probably never heard of Human Beast, Clark-Hutchinson or Aardvark. But for every Keef Hartley obscurity there's a lost gem waiting to blow your mind.

Revel in the jazz exotica of the Johnny Almond Music Machine (featuring a fledgling Alan White). Be dazzled by the young Robert Fripp on Giles, Giles and Fripp's ''Suite No.1''. Realise why the folksy intricacy of Mellow Candle has won them cult status. To lump it all under prog or underground seems utterly pointless; Ten Years After's blues owes just as much to Wes Montgomery as to Freddie King, while the Canterbury sounds of Egg, Khan and Caravan juggle complexity with a self-deprecating homeliness (and how many modern bands even bother to sing with an English accent these days?).

3 CDs may seem daunting, yet such is the passion and vaulting ambition (9 times out of 10 falling charmingly short of ability) that you merely wish that major labels could still be this adventurous. Those days are long gone but, thanks to this fine compilation, far from forgotten. --Chris Jones

[cybot]

That was brilliant reading Johnny and every word true :-) Out of their trees indeed!

"Ten Years After's blues owes just as much to Wes Montgomery as to Freddie King" I love that! Wonder is it the track "I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes"?