I spent a happy night doing the lighting for John Martyn many years ago. Such a monumental stoner, let alone alcoholic, I cannot understand how he managed to play so well.
I know but he still managed to produce some beautiful music. He stayed at my mum’s place when he did a gig in the Lakes, she wasn’t too impressed. It’s a wonder Danny Thompson still survives given the times he had with JM.
Another album I have been searching for for years Until I find it, I’ll have to make do with the download. Reputed (by RT) to have been the worse selling Warner Brothers album of all time at the time, so probably not many copies around.
I’ll get this out of the way. Only thing I could stand by them.
I know someone who has a copy, not that he would part with it. As for RT, Pour Down Like Silver is up there with the best when it comes to Folk Rock (use that term very loosely). A lot of it has to do with Kirkpatrick’s playing, but it all tremendous.
And then of course there is this
This probably should be on another thread, but it’s just too good…
and this should be compulsory listening for all infants
Nice Enough To Eat.
More memories of student days…
Probably the song that has made a bigger impression on me than any other…
I went to see VDGG a few years back. On stage was a tiny keyboard no whopping Hammond. I thought this will not be the same, however was i wrong, great gig topper off with a stonking “Plague of Lighthouse Keepers”
VDGG and Gong, bands ive seen many times over the years.
Never saw VDGG, but liked their off centre take on prog (I wouldn’t class them as that though). First album I heard was Pawn Hearts but I have a soft spot for Godbluff.
Nice choices. I’d agree somewhat with what you say about the above, it did resonate with my 14 year old self at Grammar School.
I saw them first on a Triple header with Genesis, and Lindisfarne at Newcastle city hall at the whopping price of 50P.
And thr first prog rock band i saw was the Nice, hitched a lift with my mate 20 miles on the back of a coal wagon, deaf in both lugs for a couple of days.
Think I’ll have to get the album out later and give it blast through the headphones.
Good to see this thread branching off in different and interesting directions. Really can’t imagine why more people are not posting, well maybe I can.
Only saw Genesis once, on the Foxtrot tour. Lancaster University. Living in Ambleside at the time it wasn’t easy to get to gigs.
Ha. One of the best lifts I ever got was back from Kneborth in '75. I stayed in Stevenage after the show on the Saturday and went up to the roundabout on the Monday morning, only to find a few other stragglers. Shortly after a large van drew up and in we all got. Full of Geordies and some Scots lads, there was no way I was going to get back to Yorkshire saner than when I left. The story was that Floyd had sent out vans to help people get away from the site.
And another
And now not playing a J. Page composition.
Talking of loud bands. Traffic were one of the loudest I saw. Not that this is. Lyrics courtesy of Viv Stanshall.