Prog/psych/etc. "Now Playing" and All-purpose Thread (Part 2)

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Fear of a Blank Planet, Porcupine Tree!

 

Still top 5 for me after all these years. In his own words, Phil was "playin' my a$$ off!":

 

Soft Machine Legacy – Live Adventures (MoonJune Records)
— With John Etheridge, Theo Travis, Roy Babbington, John Marshall

 

Yeti!

 

Classic!

 

A little earlier:



Gryphon - "Midnight Mushrumps"

 

Genesis - "Trespass"

 

Definitely, it sounded especially good last night in the dark.

 

A band I have yet to check out but they sound really interesting. This one seems to be the place to start eh?

 

Godbluff, released Oct 1975. The first release after their reformation.

 

Or Red Queen to Gryphon Three. That oughta capture your attention.

 

Yeah it's great, so is this:



Gryphon - "Gryphon"

Well worth having a listen on YouTube.

I love 'em

 

Not sure what it is about Black album covers today. This was recorded at Robert Wyatt's Meltdown Festival at Queen Elizabeth Hall London in 2001. Which, BTW, is where Gryphon held their reunion concert in 2009.

Massacre: Meltdown (Tzadik)

Fred Frith: Guitar
Bill Laswell: Bass
Charles Hayward: Drums

 

Cool, looks like the first three are the ticket. Thanx!

 

I've just started to get heavily into King Crimson--I had In the Court of the Crimson King for a while, but within the past few weeks I got In the Wake of Poseidon, Lizard, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, and Red. Really digging all of them. Islands and Discipline are coming in the mail tomorrow, and in a week or two (when payday comes) I plan on grabbing The Great Deceiver set, along with maybe USA and/or another live album or two.

-Simon (bluej's son)

 

Warning! You'll eventually want these:



AND a Starless and Bible Black boxed set coming this Fall

 

My pleasure, hope you like them

 

Now you've gone and done it.......

 

I wasn't all that thrilled with the sound of a lot of the shows in in the LTiA box.

 

Listening to the Chateau D'Herouville tapes from the new Passion Play release. It's interesting

 

Nobody was, but having them is the thing. They hadn't yet begun to record themselves. The SaBB will contain the so-called "blue tapes" and, like the Red box, will sound significantly better.

Sometimes if the music is worth it, we make sacrifices. Imagine all the Bird and other jazz air shots that wouldn't have been heard if people only cared about sound.

 

After many years as a Tull fan I bought "Stand up" because I heard Ian Andersen say it was his favorite Tull record.
Very good. Also TAAB II is excellent! I love hearing Ian signing about Starbucks Coffee!

 

I have all five Gryphon albums, and their 4th release "Raindance" is my favorite.

 

I agree with both you guys here. The quality of the live material is often pitiful but I guess ultimately good to have but what does not square with me is that by this point, 1973, and FIVE records into their 'career' and Fripp still did not have the prescience or even concern to run tape during their performances? Even their Front of House guy? When I look at, well, listen really, to all the Dead shows from this period, even the two-track shows, many are very very good sonically. It just escapes reason that someone who was such an obsessive craftsman with a concern for performance would not want to document what was going down on stage. I say it's the ENDLESS ENIGMA.

What does work with that live material is if you dub it to cassette, TDK D90, and play it back as though it were a 10th gen boot? Sounds fine.