--- Sez Kenneth Newman to David Marheine ---
There's the big boot...
 
 DM>  KN> On 08-26-96 TONY RIGBY wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 KN> Digging up ancient messages? Slipped into a time warp 
 KN> again have you, Billy? Is this the one where you get to 
 KN> horizontal mambo with Valerie Perrine while the 
 KN> Tralfamadorians watch?
A big thank you to Bryan and Will for informational responses too...
I recall a review of a Wizzard concert which took the form of a
three paragraph run on sentence as if to emulate Roy's Tralfamadorian
guitar soloing on that occasion while keyboardist Pianos Demolished
went about his business...
 DM> I received a 2 CD _Giant For A Life_ tribute album yesterday... 
 KN> Ug, tribute albums, a pernicious evil which, like pierced 
 KN> navels, is something I hope will be entirely contained to 
 KN> the 1990's which, thankfully, hasn't much left to go. 
Mmmm, yeah...  Somebody axed where to get one, tho...  Chris Topham
is where I got mine.  E-mail me if this is insufficient info for
Italian Prog acquisition...
 
 KN> You need to get _In a Glass House_. 
 KN> In a slightly more rock vein, but not much less excellent, 
 KN> are _Power and the Glory_ and _Free Hand_. The 
 KN> double-live _Playing the Fool_ is excellent and well 
 KN> worth having. IMO, the last good album is _Interview_. 
 KN> It's a good album, but the writing is on the wall.
 KN> And if you like GG try checking out the Quebec band Et 
 KN> Cetera some time, if you can find anything by them. 
"Sounds like good advice," as Linda used to sing...
 KN> I'm thinking of writing a book about the 70's double 
 KN> lives. They are an art form that's come and gone, brought 
 KN> about mainly by the need to have something to clean out
 KN> stems and seeds. Try doing that with a jewel case, Mr. 
 KN> Progress.
So which was more influential, _Allman Bros @ Fillmore East_ or
_Framptone Comes Alive_?  Or _Kiss Alive_?
 KN> Anyway, there were some fine and classic prog double lives...
 
You're right, better keep on topic.  Hmong others, ewe mentioned...
 KN> Zappa _Roxy and Elsewhere_ 
_YCSTOSA II (The Helsinki Concert)_ makes a fine 2 CD addendum to that
single disc, too.  The same band playing even tighter after months of
touring...
 KN> Jethro Tull _Bursting Out_ 
I'm considering spending the 4 bucks for that double LP one of these
weekends.  It was beloved by a friend who also thought _Too Old To
Rock & Roll Too Young To Die_ was a great Tull album.  But then, his
kids gave it to him, and even a gatefold cover on a single LP is better
for cleaning out seeds and stems than a double jewel case.  Come to
think of it, isn't _BO_, like _Focus 3_, one of those double LP's
jammed in a single sleeve?
 KN> Renaissance _Live at Carnegie Hall_
Only picked this up in the last year or so, and it IS fine...
 DM> Though some would disagree, I find _Yesshows_ to be on the redundant 
 DM> side of useless or the useless side of redundant. 
 KN> Yes and no. On the surface I agree, but I think it's also 
 KN> nice to have a memento of that tour which I saw them on 
 KN> (RFK stadium in Washington), so the long tracks from 
 KN> _Relayer_ and _TfTO_ are nice to have. On the other hand, 
 KN> _Yessongs_ is a fine triple live (another category 
 KN> entirely, see Santana _Lotus_, Hawkwind _Space Ritual_), 
 KN> and a nice package. I find the video for it slightly 
 KN> disappointing, though it would be good if they would do 
 KN> digital remastering of both the sound and picture. 
I probably meant to cast aspersions on _Yessongs_, then, since it was
a triple live album I swiped from the bro-in-law in LA last summer.
Better than the atrocious _It's A Beautiful Day At Carnegie Hall_,
yet nowhere near as good as _The James Gang In Concert_ (both also
swiped from LA in-law), which is as close as I'm going to get to the
Tammy Bolan thread today.
Got to hear about a side of _Space Ritual_ last week, which was
pretty interesting.  Sometimes they make it sound like anybody
could do it.
 KN> I just bought the LP of SAHB _Live_ which is nice. And on 
 KN> topic since they do a cover of Tom Jones' "Delilah." You 
 KN> know my motto, "if it's Welsh, it's weird!" 
Never heard anybody deliver the line "Let me put my hands on you" quite
the way Alex did there...  BTW, do you file them under "S" or "H"?
And yes, a highly recommended live album in my book.  A deceptively
rare example of a live album delivering the punch they never quite
achieved in the studio.
Ever hear _One Live Badger_?  I remember only one song ("The Preacher")
that seemed okay.  The rest seemed like 7 minute backing tracks waiting
for an interesting overdub that never occured.  If I remember correctly,
Brian Parrish was the singer (Tony Kaye from Yes on rhythm organ).
Parrish sings one song on the Graeme Edge Band's _Kick Off Your Muddy
Boots_ CD that I found for $2 last week.  I must still give it a proper
listening on a good system, but so far it doesn't really stand up that
well against Baker Gurvitz Army, Three Man Army, or Gun.  Or even the
few Moody Blues solo projects I've heard.  But the cover painting is
definitely Moodiesish and therefore Prog, even if the music isn't.
DM
david.marheine@yops.com
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