=-> Quoting David Marheine to Kenneth Newman re: Friendly GIANT:
 **> re: Renaissance _Live at Carnegie Hall_....
 DM> Only picked this up in the last year or so, and it IS fine...
   Yeah, that's a good album!  I was a *big* fan of Renaissance back in
 the 1970s.  ;-)
 DM> ...rare example of a live album delivering the punch they never
 DM> quite achieved in the studio.
 DM> Ever hear _One Live Badger_?
   I'm not sure if the mention of this album was intentionally connected
 to your previous comment about another band, but _One Live Badger_ is
 definitely an example of group delivering a live punch that wasn't even
 hinted at on the studio recordings.  Not that it's a particularly great
 album, but their sound is much 'beefier' on that one than on the only
 other recording I heard by them.
 DM> I remember only one song ("The Preacher") that seemed okay.  The rest
 DM> seemed like 7 minute backing tracks waiting for an interesting overdub
 DM> that never occured.
   Yeah, "The Preacher" was the only concise, tightly structured song on
 that album.
   You have a good memory.  The other five tracks were all within a very
 few seconds of the 7 minute mark - almost as if they had some kind of a
 formula.  I *do* like a couple of them, though.  Despite going on too
 long, "On the Way Home" had a cool riff and, as I recall, some typically
 70s, pseudo-religious, introspective lyrics.  There was another one or
 two I liked as well....  Anyway, it'd be a keeper if only for the great
 Roger Dean cover - one of my faves of his!  ;-)
   The one studio album I had by Badger didn't stay in my collection for
 very long at all.  It was quite different from the live one.  I seem to
 recollect it being a sort of lukewarm, white soul effort.  Tony Kaye was 
 on it, but I can't recall any of the other participants.
 DM> If I remember correctly, Brian Parrish was the singer....
   Yes.  And FWIW, he wrote "The Preacher".  All other tracks were credited
 to the collective Badger.
 DM> (Tony Kaye from Yes on rhythm organ).
   What's rhythm organ?  No soloing involved?  IIRC, Brian Parrish took most
 of the solos didn't he?  Anyway, Tony Kaye plays a Hammond B-3 and I've
 always loved his sound, even if his style is not flashy and his technique
 is not all that impressive.  But he sounds great on _The Yes Album_ (1971),
 which is still one of my faves by that group.
      Cheers,
               Martin
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