BEST LIVE PERFORMANCES / Roxy Music - Psalm (Musikladen 1974-01-23)

Roxy Music - Psalm

Musikladen, January 23, 1974 

Roxy Music performing "Psalm" - from their new album 'Stranded' - live on Musikladen. 


Recorded at Radio Bremen Studios, Bremen, West Germany - January 23, 1974.

https://youtu.be/aloaJv3n8cI :

Brian Eno - 1971 - 1977 The Man Who Fell To Earth / documentary film (documentary)

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno -  also known as Brian Eno defies categorisation. Musician, composer, record producer, music theorist, singer and visual artist covers some of what he does, but he's probably best known for his early work with Roxy Music, his production duties for U2 and Coldplay and as one of the principal innovators of ambient music. But however he's pigeon-holed, this remarkable, creative visionary remains amongst the most influential individuals to have ever worked within the music industry.
This documentary film - the first ever about Eno - explores his life, career and music between the years 1971 and 1977, the period that some view as his golden age, others as just one era in a long, extraordinary and very eclectic career.
Featuring numerous exclusive interviews, contributions from a range of musicians, writers [including his official biographer], colleagues, collaborators and friends - plus archive footage, performance and studio film and an abundance of arguably the most exceptional music ever created.


Full Movie: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8flSFeCsFvL3tRVFpR7jZ3iXG3q4-Tbk




Part 1 of 16: https://youtu.be/eKOIaAnrWIY :

Part 2 of 16: https://youtu.be/DVpy4sHHFO4 

Part 3 of 16: https://youtu.be/fj0Wm8zt13k

Part 4 of 16: https://youtu.be/vyO9ydEDoRo

Part 5 of 16: https://youtu.be/U9Iw-FLuY0k

Part 6 of 16: not available on YouTube

Part 7 of 16: https://youtu.be/dUOsMLxNt-4

Part 8 of 16: https://youtu.be/xMu9mdbnOvQ

Part 9 of 16: https://youtu.be/E9ZtS3dQTlY


Part 10 of 16: https://youtu.be/kSRjgJV2yBk

Part 11 of 16: https://youtu.be/QXZOF5niBR4

Part 12 of 16: https://youtu.be/wFT7B9WnpQY

Part 13 of 16: https://youtu.be/Rc0qpVPHa2A

Part 14 of 16: https://youtu.be/HlhBaz9lZ68

Part 15 of 16: https://youtu.be/ZJ753Gc-1SQ

Part 16 of 16: https://youtu.be/FLjrQbbvq3Q

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Interview with Lloyd Watson on Brian Eno and The 801.
From the documentary film "Brian Eno - The Man Who Fell To Earth (1971-1977)" :


https://youtu.be/1CoMffHpWWA?list=PL8flSFeCsFvL3tRVFpR7jZ3iXG3q4-Tbk

Birth Control (krautrock, prog. rock, hard rock / Germany)

Biography:

Birth Control was a German rock band known for their progressive hard rock sound and provocative album covers.
Amongst the longest running bands of German rock, Birth Control were formed way back in 1966/1968 in Berlin from two other bands, the Earls and the Gents. They chose their rather controversial name as a stab at Pope Paul's anti birth control policy.  

Birth Control were, from the start of their career, tipped to be one of Germany's top rock acts. They were originally formed by Bernd Koschmidder (bass), Reinhold Sobotta (organ), Rolf Gurra (sax, vocals) and Egon Balder (drums). Egon left in 1969, and Bruno Frenzel (guitars, vocals) and Bernd Noske (drums, vocals) joined. With a lot of talk by Pope Paul about abolishing the pill and other forms of contraception, they thought that the name Birth Control would be an appropriate way of protesting against his ideas, and this move led them to be classed as an underground group. They did several club tours and Metronome records signed them up. 

Genre: psychedelic krautrock to heavy progressive rock with elements of blues and jazz.

Years active: 1966–1983, 1993–2016


Past Members:

Bernd Koschmidder - bass, vocals (1968-1973)
Reinhold Sobotta - organ (1968-1972)
Rolf Gurra - saxophone, vocals (1968-1969)
Fritz Groger - vocals (1968-1969)
Reiner Borchert - guitar (1968-1969)
Hugo Egon Balder - drums (1968)
Klaus Orso - guitar (1968)
Gerd Alsheimer - guitar (1968)
Bernd Noske - drums, percussion, vocals (1968-1983, 1993-2014; died 2014)
Bruno Frenzel - guitar (1969-1983; died 1983)
Wolfgang Neuser - organ (1972-1973)
Zeus B. Held - organ (1973-1979)
Dirk Steffens - guitar (1973-1974)
Horst Stachelhaus - bass, vocals (1977-1980, 1993-1999; died 1999)
Manfred von Bohr - drums (1977-1980)
Wolfgang Horn - organ (1979-1981)
Jurgen Goldschmidt - bass, vocals (1980-1993)
Stefan Linke - guitar, vocals (1981-1983)
Ulrich Klein - keyboards, vocals (1981-1983)
Xaver Fischer - keyboards (1993-1999)
Rocco Zodiak - guitar (1993-1995)
Peter Engelhardt - guitar (1995-2011)
Rainer Wind - bass (2000-2002)


Current Members:

Peter Föller - bass, vocals (1973-1977, 2016)
Hannes Vesper - bass, organ (1999-2000, 2002-2016)
Sascha Kuhn - keyboards (1999-2016)
Martin Ettrich - guitar, talk box (2011-2016)
Manfred von Bohr - drums (1977-1980, 2016)


Gamma Ray (1973) : https://youtu.be/y7tDhS3Hlao




Give Me Shelter (The work is done) 1971 : https://youtu.be/NMVTt7LIUXs :

Discography:

Birth Control (1970)
Operation (1971)
Believe in the Pill (Best of…) (1972)
Hoodoo Man (1972)
Knock Knock. Who’s There (1973)
Rebirth (1973)
Goldrock (1973)
Live (1974)
Plastic People (1975)
Backdoor Possibilities (1976)
Live (1977)
The Best Of (1977)
Increase (1977)
The Best Of (Vol. 2) (1978)
Titanic (1978)
Rock on Brain (1978)
Live 79 (1979)
Count on Dracula (1980)
Deal Done at Night (1981)
Bäng (1982)
Gamma Ray (Special Mix) (1989)
The Very Best Of (1990)
Condomium (1994)
Two Worlds (1995)
Jungle Life (1996)
Definitive Collection (1996)
Getting There (1998)
Crazy Nights (Studio Session) (1998)
Live Abortion (2000)
Live in Lachendorf (2000)
Alsatian (2003)
Live in Fulda (2004)
35th Anniversary - Live At Rockpalast (2005)
We are Family (2009)
Here And Now (2016)

The Beatles (Art)

BEST LIVE PERFORMANCES - Deep Purple - Child In Time (1970 and 1972)

Performed in front of a live TV audience, Deep Purple storm through the amazing song 'Child In Time'. 
This song features the classic Mk2 line up of Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice/Blackmore.



1972:   https://youtu.be/8tBRQynVxTQ :

1970:   https://youtu.be/OorZcOzNcgE

Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix (Art)

Deep Purple - documentary

Deep Purple - A critical retrospective Rock Review: https://youtu.be/ZQI1LYpGD5A :

This is the powerful independent review of the music that changed the face of rock music forever.
Featuring new in depth interviews with original founder member Nick Simper and Purple Mark 3 stalwart Glenn Hughes, the film draws on footage of Purple in concert, in the studio and on the road. Also featured is behind the scenes footage of the band on tour 1974, the first television appearances by the Mark 2 line up and a rare glimpse of the original Mark 1 line up in performance. We also hear the views of the Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Paice, Ian Gillan and David Coverdale.

Rock Family Trees - California Dreamin'

California Dreamin' :


https://youtu.be/lLrdTNJZu88

SONG OF THE DAY / The Who - Love, Reign o'er Me

From the album "Quadrophenia", the sixth studio album by English rock band The Who (1973)

The Who - Love, Reign O'er Me : https://youtu.be/ZhSdNy1snaU

Janis Joplin (Art)

BEST LIVE PERFORMANCES / Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Sebastian (1974, 1975 and 1976)

Filmed on June 3rd 1974 - Pink Pop Festival - Netherlands.

Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Sebastian : https://youtu.be/LKi6oOYoK2E 

Filmed on February 1976  in "Beat Club" studio, Germany.

Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Sebastian: https://youtu.be/hcX09aSs9bw

Filmed on December 14 1984 in London Camden Palace: 

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel "Sebastian":  https://youtu.be/4JgLVuzrcGQ 

the 27 club (art)

Janis,  Kurt, Jim, Brian, Jimi

Jim, Amy, Kurt, Janis, Brian, Jimi

Mick Ronson - Hang On To Yourself (interview/documentary, BBC, 1996)

The complete outtake of Mick Ronson's interview (the most about his collaboration with David Bowie) from the 1996 BBC documentary called "Hang On to Yourself" with lots of revealing memories filmed on October 20,1992.  

Poignant that it's one of Mick's last TV appearances (If not the last) in an empty Hammersmith Odeon.


https://youtu.be/dFQnIU3lkBQ :

BEST LIVE PERFORMANCES / Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us (1974)

Disco 1974: with Ron Mael - Russell Mael - Ian Hampton - Trevor White - Dinky Diamond



Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us (1974) https://youtu.be/QAzESJ62irI :

https://youtu.be/8QWmQ5sojyU :

Lyrics: 

Zoo time is she and you time
The mammals are your favourite type, and you want her tonight
Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat
You hear the thunder of stampeding rhinos, elephants and tacky tigers
This town ain't big enough for both of us
And it ain't me who's gonna leave

Flying domestic flying
And when the stewardess is near do not show any fear
Heartbeat increasing heartbeat
You are a khaki-coloured bombadier it's Hiroshima that you're nearing
This town ain't big enough for both of us
And it ain't me who's gonna leave

Daily, except for Sunday
You dawdle in to the cafe where you meet her each day
Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat
As twenty cannibals have hold of you, they need their protein just like you do
This town ain't big enough for both of us
And it ain't me who's gonna leave

Shower, another shower
You've got to look your best for her and be clean everywhere
Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat
The rain is pouring on the foreign town, the bullets cannot cut you down
This town ain't big enough for both of us
And it ain't me who's gonna leave

Census, the latest census
There'll be more girls who live in town though not enough to go round
Heartbeat, increasing heartbeat
You know that:
This town isn't big enough,
not big enough for both of us
This town isn't big enough,
not big enough for both of us

And I ain't gonna leave

Riff Raff (prog. rock, jazz rock / UK)

Biography:

Riff Raff was a British progressive rock band formed by keyboardist Tommy Eyre in 1972. The band was a continuation on the back of drummers (and Harrow School of Art friends) Rod Coombes and Joe Czarnecki's (aka Joe Peter)'s project originally called 'Crikey' which started in 1969 and completed in 1970, when Coombes had to accept growing tour commitments with Juicy Lucy. These sessions comprised half of the Riff Raff album Outside Looking In, in which Coombes wrote half the songs.

Riff Raff later went on to release two albums to lukewarm response; however, their use of jazz and hard-edged rock garnered them a large underground following. Riff Raff also released the single "Copper Kettle".

Riff Raff was practically Eyre’s own band and in part was a continuation of previous projects. By mid-1974 they had released a handful albums, culminating in Original Man. A gentler, more temperate offering and not overly successful at the time, Riff Raff’s music has lasted well. Despite being somewhat unconventional, it portrays high calibre, soothing blues-tinged progressive rock with occasional splashings of jazz. Eyre showcased his talents on “Goddam The Man”, where a Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, Grand Piano and Hammond can all be heard playing in one solo on the song! 

Riff Raff guitarist Peter Kirtley recalled his first meetings with Eyre. “I first met up with Tommy Eyre and Rodger Sutton on the gig and session scene around London. They were looking for a guitarist/songwriter and Tommy put me through my paces at his house in Grove Park, South East London.

Kirtley also remembered Eyre’s enthusiasm at the time for performing, wherever and whatever the audience. “We had just been to another fruitless meeting with a record company and headed straight for the pub, mostly full of city business types. There was a piano in the corner. Tommy headed straight for it, playing whatever came into his head. One of these suits came over to enquire if this scruff could play any Chopin. Tommy promptly asked him which particular piece and then rattled it off, followed by several others. The gent stood flabbergasted. Tommy had a vast catalogue of music stored in his ever curious mind.”


Riff Raff ultimately disbanded and by the end of 1974.



Discography:

- Riff Raff (1973)
- Original Man (1974) 
- Outside Looking In (1999) (originally recorded in 1969)



Riff Raff (full album, 1973) : https://youtu.be/6rRnS5Yq8EE :

Original Man (full album, 1974):  https://youtu.be/iYNLG05-AU8 :

Outside Looking In (full album, 1969)  https://youtu.be/SqCEIP2Nocg : 

Personnel:

Bud Beadle - saxophone
Rod Coombes - drums, percussion and songwriter
Joe Czarnecki aka Joe Peters - drums, percussion
Aurero De Souza - drums
Tommy Eyre - keyboards, vocals
Pete Kirtley - guitar, vocals
Roger Sutton - bass guitar, vocals
Steve Gregory - woodwind
Joanna Newman - vocals 
Joe O'Donnell - viola



More info: http://www.alexgitlin.com/npp/rr.htm 


Sources: Wikipedia & website Tommy Eyre

SONG OF THE DAY / Phideaux - Microdeath Softstar

From the sixth studio album by American musician Phideaux Xavier "Doomsday Afternoon" (2007).

Microdeath Softstar: https://youtu.be/czY2-526Ous :

Cris Williamson (rock, folk rock / USA)

Cris Williamson is an American feminist singer-songwriter and political activist, born in 1947 in Deadwood, South Dakota, although her family moved to Colorado and Wyoming when she was still young. Her musical idol at the time was Judy Collins, and Williamson developed a musical style and sound that was similar to that of Collins. She released her first album, The Artistry of Cris Williamson in 1964, when she was sixteen. She became a local musical sensation in Sheridan, Wyoming, releasing two following LPs afterward.  

Instruments: piano, guitar

Years active: 1964 - present 

She achieved fame as a recording artist, and who was a pioneer as a visible lesbian political activist, during a time when few who were not connected to the Lesbian community were aware of Gay and Lesbian issues. Williamson's music and insight has served as a catalyst for change in the creation of women-owned record companies in the 1970s. Using her musical talents, networking with other lesbian artists of musical quality, and her willingness to represent those who did not yet feel safe in speaking for themselves, Williamson is remembered by many in the LGBT community for her contributions, both artistically, and politically, and continues to be a role model for a younger generation hoping to address concerns and obtain recognition for achievements specific to people who have historically been ignored.

Williamson recorded two albums with her long-time producer and lover, Tret Fure. Williamson and Fure ended their 20-year relationship in 2000, and each now records as a solo artist.

Cris has worked as a session musician both to support herself and to lend assistance to other fellow artists. She has collaborated with other women's music artists, including Meg Christian and Teresa Trull. She has friends in many corners; one longtime friend is musician Bonnie Raitt, who has played on some of her albums.


Williamson has been a lesbian feminist and a promoter of women owned music companies. She has recently become involved in a new project with Bonnie Raitt.


Cris Williamson - The Changer and the Changed (Full Album, 1975) :

https://youtu.be/GIuau2vdWYY :

Discography:

Albums:

1964 The Artistry of Cris Williamson
1965 A Step at a Time
1965 The World Around Cris Williamson
1971 Cris Williamson
1975 The Changer and the Changed: A Record of the Times
1978 Live Dream
1980 Strange Paradise
1982 Blue Rider
1982 Lumière
1983 Meg/Cris at Carnegie Hall
1985 Prairie Fire
1985 Snow Angel
1987 Wolf Moon
1989 Country Blessed
1990 The Best of Cris Williamson
1991 Live in Concert: Circle of Friends
1994 Postcards from Paradise
1997 Between the Covers
1999 Radio Quiet
2001 Ashes
2003 Cris & Holly
2003 Replay
2005 The Essential Cris Williamson
2005 Real Deal
2005 The Changer and the Changed: A Record of the Times [30th *Anniversary Enhanced]
2007 Fringe
2008 Winter Hearts
2010 "Gifthorse"

2013 "Pray Tell"


Source: wikipedia

Madden And Harris (psych folk, prog. folk / Australia)

Biography:

Madden And Harris is a folk duo from Sydney Australia, Madden And Harris had the particularity of being a teacher/pupil team, Peter Harris being a classically trained music teacher who was a multi-instrumentalist (from keyboards to winds, harp and guitars), while Dave Madden was a guitar student of the former. The duo started playing together as early as 72, releasing a single in 74 (Remember Me and its flipside, A Simple Song, both track a pure UK/Celtic-like folk drenched in mellotron), before releasing their only album in 75, Fools Paradise. This album was released on their own private label, Jasmine Records, and only 500 copies were pressed. It was a suopebly illustrated gatefold album with an extremely fascinating innerfold, drawn by Jane Lerossognol and named Fool's Paradise. The album's sidelong suite is dedicated to this painting, and the arrangements are fully progressive some movements are drowned in mellotron drones. Harris once said of Fool's Paradise: "our music lies halfway between a 16th century chamber sound with light jazzy influenced breaks", but there is a pure 60/70's folk-rock vein to be found in their music as well. 

The album sank without a trace and nothing is known of the two author's post M&H days in music. Apparently the album saw a reissue in the very early 90's, but we had to wait for the Korean label M2U to release this album in its full-blown splendour, a mini-Lp with the non-album single tracks added as sweet bonuses. 

Musicians:

David Madden (vocals, guitar, bass) 

Peter Harris (vocals, guitar, bass, mandolin, piano, organ, mellotron, harpsichord, bassoon, saxophone, zither, cello)

Discography:

- Fools Paradise (1975)

 Fool's Paradise  (Full Album, 1975): https://youtu.be/MkG58lT3O2w :

Source: Prog Archives

BEST LIVE PERFORMANCES / Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache (OGWT, 1973)

Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache 

The Old Grey Wistle Test, broadcast on April 3, 1973

https://youtu.be/G56DaSAeZfM :

Forest (psych. folk, acid folk, prog. folk, acoustic, folk, folk rock / UK)

Forest were an English psychedelic-folk / acid-folk trio who formed in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in 1966. Made up of brothers Martin Welham, Adrian Welham and school friend Dez Allenby, they started out performing unaccompanied traditional folk music in a similar vein to contemporaries The Watersons and The Young Tradition. The band were pioneers of the nascent 1960s underground acoustic-psychedelic/acid-folk scene writing unconventionally crafted songs evoking Britain's ancient groves using a variety of acoustic instruments.

Years active: 1966 - 1972

Beginning life under the name The Foresters of Walesby, the group began singing unaccompanied vocal harmony folk songs in Lincolnshire folk clubs. After relocating to Birmingham, West Midlands, in 1968, they shortened their name to Forest and soon progressed to writing within the burgeoning psychedelic/acid folk movement in the wake of the Incredible String Band's emergence in the mid-1960s.

The non-album single "Searching for Shadows" was released in 1969, followed by Forest's debut eponymous album which featured an array of acoustic medieval sounding instruments, contrapunctal harmonies and pastoral lyrical imagery.

Full Circle was released a year later, an eclectic set of songs with dark themes that saw more disparate styles incorporated into their brand of pagan folk, including the neo-classical piece 'Graveyard' and the bleakly baroque "Midnight Hanging of a Runaway Serf". Opening track "Hawk The Hawker" was given a country hint by the inclusion of steel guitar (played by session musician Gordon Huntley) and the traditional folk piece 'Famine Song' saw the band return to their unaccompanied three-part harmony roots. Both gatefold album covers featured strikingly haunting artwork by artist Joan Melville.


Dez Allenby left the band in 1971 and the Welhams drafted in Dave Panton (viola, oboe and saxophone) and Dave Stubbs (bass) for their live work. 
Forest's final festival appearance was at the 1971 Pinkpop Festival in Geleen, Netherlands, which saw them record their final BBC Radio 1 sessions before disbanding later that year.

Forest's second album, Full Circle, was one of The Guardian's 1000 albums to hear before you die.
Martin Welham is now one half of psych-folk duo, The Story, with his son Tom.
Dez Allenby is active playing music in East Yorkshire and beyond.

Personnel: 

Martin Welham
Adrian Welham
Dez Allenby
Dave Panton
Dave Stubbs


Forest - Full Circle  (full album, 1970): https://youtu.be/TYNjjU1zorA :

Discography:

Albums:

Forest (1969)
Full Circle (1970)

Singles:

"Searching for Shadows" / "Mirror of Life" (1969)




Source: wikipedia

Spring (prog. rock / UK)

Spring was a Leicester-based British progressive rock band that represented the early 1970s progressive rock movement. A one-shot band, it recorded only one album in its career, a self-titled LP released in 1971. Spring's music is notable for the use of the mellotron, with three of the its five members credited with playing that instrument on the album.

A turning point in Spring's fortunes happened after a gig in Cardiff, when the band's van broke down somewhere in the Welsh countryside, coincidentally very near where producer/engineer Kingsley Ward had recently set up Rockfield Studios. Ward would later marvel at the "coincidence of meeting a group with a broken down truck in your own home town when you have previously spent months traipsing around the country in search of talent". 
He was particularly intrigued by the fact that they owned a Mellotron, and "invited them down the following week for an audition with my brother Charles and myself", the outcome of which was "good enough for us to want to be involved with them". Several demo sessions followed. The band were rehearsing at Rockfield when producer Gus Dudgeon (of David Bowie and Elton John fame) dropped by to check the studio out, heard them play and expressed interest in producing them. A few months later, sessions took place at both Rockfield and London's Trident Studios, and the resulting album was released on the RCA/Neon label in 1971.


In spite of supporting Velvet Underground on a UK tour, plus Keith Christmas and The Sutherland Brothers on various dates, the band broke up in 1972 following aborted attempts at recording a second album. Two previously unreleased songs from these sessions (featuring new bassist Peter Decindis) appeared on The Laser's Edge's 1992 CD reissue of the album, along with "Fool's Gold" from the first album sessions. 

Moran later worked as sound engineer at Rockfield Studios, notably for Van der Graaf Generator and Robert Plant; he died in early 2011. 
Martinez became an in-demand session guitarist, working with the likes of Alkatraz, 
Michael Chapman, Gypsy, Tim Rose and Robert Plant. 
Pick Withers later became the drummer for Dire Straits, playing on their first four records. Kips Brown became a session musician, playing with Andy Fairweather Low and others, and was in a later band called 'Wellington'. 
Adrian Moloney returned to the Midlands, where he worked alongside several well-known artistes and groups. A solo career as a jobbing musician and minor impresario, took him all over the Midlands and also to Tenerife for several summer seasons. He was working right up to his premature death in 2010.


Personnel:

Pat Moran - vocals, mellotron
Ray Martinez - 6- and 12-string guitars, mellotron
Kips Brown - piano, organ, mellotron
Adrian "Bone" Maloney - bass 
Pick Withers - drums, glockenspiel


Spring (full album, 1971) : https://youtu.be/gqQQ3M35oc0 :

Discography:

- Spring - Spring (1971)


Source: Wikipedia