dogload Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 [quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1319843035' post='1419372'] we all on the jazz fags tonight ? [/quote] At the risk of being accused of unwelcome thread resurrection, might I cast your mind back to 1990... something... The Tangier Flandria Hotel and Planet Gong's 'Floating Anarchy'? The Terror! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Gong are on my list of bands I have never heard. Same with Egg, Captain Beefheart, The Band, Southside Johnny and The Ashbury Dukes and, get this, Bob Dylan. I must get out more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 [sup]Don't sweat it, there are loads of crappy jazz artists we haven't heard either [/sup] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Gong are one of the ones I should listen to, tough, as I was a prog fan and liked the Canterbury stuff. Trouble was, when I was growing up, if you wanted to hear anything out of the ordinary, you had to listen to the radio or buy it. Gong were certainly never on the radio and my meagre income would never stretch far enough to allow me to invest in too many 'maybes'. By the time t'internet came along, these guys would have been off my radar. My list of oversights is massive.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 [url="http://www.rescuerooms.com/gig-guide/217/gong"]http://www.rescuerooms.com/gig-guide/217/gong[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Gong may be more your thing Bilbo as they are quite jazzy in places. However, I did the same thing in the late 70's/early 80's having got into Hawkwind and heard Hillage, Here and Now and some other prog hippie types. I decided I really ought to give 'em a go and whilst I liked occasional tracks (first album I got was Camemebrt) I didn't find whole albums particularly strong. My cheapo 'best of' collection is still the only Gong album in my CD collection. I have been diverted in the last few years though. Some kindly soul made an entire collection of obscure prog/art music stuff available as a free download a few years back and I've been slowly wading through that. A good deal of that stuff is quite jazzy and off the wall and I enjoy quite a bit of it at least as much as, or more so, than Gong yet a lot of the artits were quite unknown to me even though I thought I had a decent grounding in the area (canterbury stuff etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earbrass Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1335193453' post='1626978'] Trouble was, when I was growing up, if you wanted to hear anything out of the ordinary, you had to listen to the radio or buy it. Gong were certainly never on the radio and my meagre income would never stretch far enough to allow me to invest in too many 'maybes'. [/quote] That was true for me too - but I discovered Gong thanks to Virgin Records selling the Camembert Electrique album for 50p - the price of a 7" single at the time. They did the same for the Faust Tapes. Last yule I received the Live In Sherwood Forest 1975 CD as a prezzie - great version of Isle of Everywhere. I love how that track cycles between 4/4, 7/8 and 6/8, moving from rocky to angular to more laid-back jazzy and back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) [quote name='dogload' timestamp='1335179744' post='1626689'] At the risk of being accused of unwelcome thread resurrection, might I cast your mind back to 1990... something... The Tangier Flandria Hotel and Planet Gong's 'Floating Anarchy'? The Terror! [/quote] pales into insignificance beside the nik turner albums you brought along. Edited April 23, 2012 by ahpook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I was lucky saw the Hillage band twice,thinks now time for a gong type play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musophilr Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Fish Rising - what a brilliant EllPee! And a spinoff from the same roots - [i]Fantasy Shift[/i] by Here & Now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 thin excuse i know but lets shoehorn the cardiacs in anyways [url="http://youtu.be/1-g1R3hOUeY"]http://youtu.be/1-g1R3hOUeY[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-soar Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 [quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1335201502' post='1627185'] thin excuse i know but lets shoehorn the cardiacs in anyways [media]http://youtu.be/1-g1R3hOUeY[/media] [/quote]Good man, man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highfox Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 How can you not like the Captain? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRHr5pEIFU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 He looks as if he's having fun here [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI7Z0jzNVAc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI7Z0jzNVAc[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul torch Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 [quote name='steve-soar' timestamp='1335202334' post='1627199'] Good man, man. [/quote] big +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamd Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 [quote name='paul torch' timestamp='1335203947' post='1627255'] big +1 [/quote] BC pond massive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogload Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 [quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1335194707' post='1627008'] pales into insignificance beside the nik turner albums you brought along. [/quote] It's never been the same since; like there's always something missing. Probably sunstroke and paranoia! [quote name='musophilr' timestamp='1335201468' post='1627184'] And a spinoff from the same roots - [i]Fantasy Shift[/i] by Here & Now [/quote] 'All Over The Show' by Here&Now is my favourite- live punky prog in the same vein as the Planet Gong Album but without Daevid Allen and the girly voices. Brilliant! Based most of my style on Steffi Sharpstrings guitar playing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 [quote name='dogload' timestamp='1335249594' post='1627802'] It's never been the same since; like there's always something missing. Probably sunstroke and paranoia! 'All Over The Show' by Here&Now is my favourite- live punky prog in the same vein as the Planet Gong Album but without Daevid Allen and the girly voices. Brilliant! Based most of my style on Steffi Sharpstrings guitar playing! [/quote] Have you heard Mr Sharpstrings' new music? Pretty damn nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogload Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1335251842' post='1627823'] Have you heard Mr Sharpstrings' new music? Pretty damn nice! [/quote] I've heard some of the Ici Maintenants stuff (Space and Time album)- but that was from 2003. Lovely guitar and synthi-burbles. Just like old times, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earbrass Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1335251842' post='1627823'] Have you heard Mr Sharpstrings' new music? Pretty damn nice! [/quote] I'll have to check that out. I rather lost touch with Here and Now. I must have seen them at least half a dozen times in their Floating Anarchy period, around 1977/8, with and without Daevid Allen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 [quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1335266860' post='1628229'] I'll have to check that out. I rather lost touch with Here and Now. I must have seen them at least half a dozen times in their Floating Anarchy period, around 1977/8, with and without Daevid Allen. [/quote] [url="http://soundcloud.com/steffe"]http://soundcloud.com/steffe[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earbrass Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1335267291' post='1628242'] [url="http://soundcloud.com/steffe"]http://soundcloud.com/steffe[/url] [/quote] Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 [quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1335267808' post='1628257'] Thanks! [/quote] A pleasure! Keith Tha Bass played a gig in Kingston last week for his birthday, he posts his poetic impressions of the weather every morning on Facebook, really quite funny to read, and oddly comforting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogload Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1335267291' post='1628242'] [url="http://soundcloud.com/steffe"]http://soundcloud.com/steffe[/url] [/quote] Cheers- I'll have to check that out when I get home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mep Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I shall look forward to checking out some of the video links in the comfort of my own home & set of cans on. I am a big fan of Hillage, Gong & Hawkwind. I can't believe no one has mentioned the epic [i]Live Herald [/i]by Steve Hillage. One of my fav LP's of his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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