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| burtonlmb... |
 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:15 am |
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9/28/74 S.F. Civic Auditorium (now called Bill Graham Civic)
Rick Wakeman
Riding the huge wave of the success of Yes, and prog rock in general,
Wakeman went solo for a number of years and was replaced in Yes. He was the
biggest name from Yes at the time, evidenced by his getting solo billing at
a good-sized venue on his first tour (this didn't happen a lot then, unless
you were big).
He did not dissapoint solo (and he did have a band with him), he had an
excellent first album out, and he did everything you could imagine on every
type of keyboard you could imagine. Mostly organ and synthesizers. Probably
not a show I'd enjoy now, but I loved it back then!
I went to a ton of shows around this time and for about the next year;
sometimes 2 nights in a row, or 3 nights a week. The price was so
reasonable, there were SO many incredible acts, and I guess I had lots of
energy (as we all did in our late teens/early 20's). But I knew we were
witnessing greatness and were lucky to be doing so. I knew it. I'm glad I
went to every one of em. |
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| Robert Neugarten... |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:57 am |
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"burtonlmb" <burtonlmb at (no spam) comcast.net> schreef in bericht
news:ha27oi$q7g$1 at (no spam) news.eternal-september.org...
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Wild. I never heard about that one. We should do a thread about 70's
gimmick album covers. There were quite a few of them. "Sticky Fingers"
with the working zipper is probably the all-time champ.
Ian Dury's second album "Do It Yourself" was released in five or ten
different covers, each one displaying a different wallpaper pattern.
Then there was a compilation of bands from Akron, Ohio when that town
enjoyed a brief Next Big Thing period. The compilation, which featured bands
like The Waitresses and Jane & the Belvedaires, came in a scratch 'n sniff
cover that emitted the smell of a tire factory.
Heck, even Greetings had a gimmicky cover.
Quote: It was. Which was part of the reason I bought the album, despite only
having heard 1 song off it ("Changes"). I was very surprised to hear
Wakeman actually playing almost nothing but straight acoustic piano
throughout. But no doubt that he had the chops to do so. It seems Bowie
always surrounded himself with great musicians, despite what genre they
normally played in.
Mick Ronson, Adrian Belew, Carlos Alomar, Gail Ann Dorsey, Robert Fripp...
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And I agree: the only shows I regret are the ones I didn't see. Bob
Marley on a school night when I was fifteen comes to mind.
You're a lucky guy to have seen him. He's one I missed; it took me a few
years to get into any kind of reggae, despite the fact that we had a great
local radio station that was right on top of it, playing Jimmy Cliff;
Toots & The Maytals; the Wailers; etc. as soon as it hit the states.
Must have worded that wrong. Alas, my parents wouldn't allow me to go see
Marley, and I never got the chance again.
Zevon, Cash and Lynott are my other main regrets. |
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| Mystic... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 5:42 pm |
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Quote: Wild. I never heard about that one. We should do a thread about 70's
gimmick album covers. There were quite a few of them. "Sticky Fingers"
with the working zipper is probably the all-time champ.
Don't forget the Small Faces Round Album "Ogdens Nut Gone Flake" one
of the most stand out efforts of the 60's! |
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| burtonlmb... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:14 am |
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"Mystic" <mystic at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:st3dc5ha9nl9b4nin1j24tv5buom65dgfl at (no spam) 4ax.com...
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Wild. I never heard about that one. We should do a thread about 70's
gimmick album covers. There were quite a few of them. "Sticky Fingers"
with the working zipper is probably the all-time champ.
Don't forget the Small Faces Round Album "Ogdens Nut Gone Flake" one
of the most stand out efforts of the 60's!
How did they manage that? The album must have fallen out of the cover a lot!
The Stones had that octogon stopsign-shaped greatest hits record, the only
album at the time with "Jumping Jack Flash".
Later as the Faces, they had some gimmick covers: "Ooh La La" had a
photo of a guy in a top hat, and you could make his mouth and teeth open and
close, to make it look like he was talking, kinda like a puppet or a dummy.
"Long Player" had the hole cut in the middle, exposing the entire label.
I guess the Doors' "L.A. Woman" wasn't 3-D, it had cellophane over a
die-cut, with a
photo of the group in the cut-out. But the original "Satanic Majesties
Request" by the Stones did have a 3-D photo on the cover.
People loved their ganja .... Cheech & Chong's "Big Bambu" looked like a
pack of Bambu rolling papers, and even came with a giant 18" rolling paper
(my giant paper is missing, so I'm sure we tried to use the thing back in
the day, probably at a party, since it would have taken ... contributions,
though for some reason I don't recall exactly!). I bet if anyone has a copy
still containing the paper, it'd be worth big $, since most who would buy
that album would tend to put it to good use!
Jefferson Airplane's "Long John Silver"'s cover could be made into a stash
box; and there was a picture of some huge righteous buds on what would have
been the inside bottom of the box.
There was a trend for a couple years, I guess started by the Beatles' White
Album, to make live albums look like bootlegs. Plain covers with no photos
or artwork. The Who "Live At Leeds"; The Mothers' "Fillmore East 1970"; and
Free had one too with postage stamps on it. The Airplane's "Bark" cover
looked like a brown paper bag. |
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