Re: Going round in circles
Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 11:17 pm
Slinger, you will probably love 'Sounds Like This' and the Roundhouse live album.
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Playing this now and think it is quite good. I might have heard of them years and years ago with them slipping my mind. The early 70s were the golden years for rock and there is so much out there.Fretless wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 12:04 pm Getting hold of that 'Live Kraut' compilation a while back, featuring a whole parade of 70's Krautrock groups in full, raw power has sparked off my latest round of manic collection fury. German rock bands.
Running through the Eloy catalogue again got me seeing their music with a fresh view and took me back to another old favourite, Nektar. They were (are) a bunch of English musicians who operated from Germany - many thought they were a German band - and who had a brief shot at fame in America.
I heard some of their LP's back in the 80's and two of those stuck with me; the psychedelic 'A Tab in the Ocean' and the circus-based joyride 'Down to Earth'. Both of which still regularly get played. But there is more, much more, the album that almost broke them through to the big-time in the US was a conceptual epic called 'Remember the Future'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3YcB28lq1E
With 2 side-long tracks this LP sounds like Supertramp jamming with the Grateful Dead. Catchy songs interspersed with soaring guitar workouts in one euphoric whole. I've had this on CD for a while but never really got around to listening to it properly before - now I can't stop playing it. Stunning.
Nektar took a slightly more commercial turn later on but still made fine-crafted and enjoyable albums, although not the 'prog' they were associated with. In the 2000's they have reformed with much of the original line-up and returned to their roots with albums like 'Evolution' proving they can still make great music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY7GmwXjzOo
Check out above the hugely energetic 'Sunday Night Live at the London Roundhouse', It'll blow your socks off!
Next on the list: Grobschnitt.