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geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:29 pm

Hmm how 'bout Gong, PFM, Eloy, Novalis, Ideal, Fehlfarben,Camel... showing my age here..

Scot Solida · Post by **Scot Solida** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:38 pm

geoffrey wrote:Hmm how 'bout Gong, PFM, Eloy, Novalis, Ideal, Fehlfarben,Camel... showing my age here..

What? You been peeking into my record cabinet? I just lsitened to PFM's "Cook" a couple of days ago. Brilliant.

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:40 pm

I have some live PFM bootlegs that I have been enjoying lately. Lucky enough to see Gong way back when. Do you like them at all Scot? I have Gazeuse presently and really like that one.
Oh yeah another group I really loved that should have been bigger is Gentle Giant...

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:42 pm

Trapeze, Captain Beyond, Fever Tree? My record collection is full of groups like this...

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:43 pm

Does Cheap Trick count?

Scot Solida · Post by **Scot Solida** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:44 pm

geoffrey wrote:I have some live PFM bootlegs that I have been enjoying lately. Lucky enough to see Gong way back when. Do you like them at all Scot? I have Gazeuse presently and really like that one.
Oh yeah another group I really loved that should have been bigger is Gentle Giant...

Gentle Giant may get their due yet. A lot of their stuff has been reissued...I just got a wonderful collection of live performances from Netflix, of all places.

Yeah, I love Gong. Quite a few KVR folks seem to dig Gong. I actually met Daevid Allen when he came backstage during a Legendary Pink Dots show in 1991 (the Dots are old friends of mine, and heavily influenced by Gong)...very funny and engaging fellow. Like a demented imp. I was too dumbstruck to mutter more than a few stammers, though...

Scot Solida · Post by **Scot Solida** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:46 pm

(quickly jotting down a list of bands Geoffrey has mentioned for further exploration)

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:46 pm

Talk Talk. Thomas Dolby. The Blue Nile. The Cult.

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:48 pm

Daevid and company partied with us at our communal cottage in Aptos when they played California in 1997 or something like that. Friends of mine are friends of theirs and they helped arrange the tour. I was a bit intimidated and really really high I must admit.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:50 pm

TristezaOrange quoth XTC should've been legends but somehow they're that band everybody has heard about but no one has actually listened...

I listen.

I reckon the 'real' uknown legends that should have been are the ones who the 'name' bands refer all the time, but who arent well-known themselves.

I'd put folk like Slint, Peter Hammill, Suicide, into that category.

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:53 pm

OK, anyone hear of Zero? They were great.

Derek up North · Post by **Derek up North** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:56 pm

whyterabbyt wrote: I'd put folk like Slint, Peter Hammill, Suicide, into that category.

Would that be Peter Hammill of van der Graaf Generator fame?? I remember seeing them in Leeds when I was about 15 - fantastic live band.

Other neglected geniuses (genii ??):

Half Man Half Biscuit
The Macc Lads (I love "No Sheep Till Buxton" just for the title).

Regards,

Derek.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:56 pm

Man - so many bands I've never so much as heard of that people adore. Reminds me to release something - anything - soon. There's always someone who digs what you're doing!

braj · Post by **braj** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:58 pm

bduffy wrote:There's always someone who digs what you're doing!

Not even my wife digs what I'm doing

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:58 pm

I wonder what would have happened if Hula's Voice would have been their breakthrough to the mainstream[1,2]. It certainly sounded polished enough.
Hula were a great band and are totally underrated, even today.

Groet, Erik

[1] relatively speaking.
[2] unless it was, however briefly. But since it was their last ever album[3] I guess it never really materialised.
[3] except for some compilations.

Bands that could've become true legends, but instead. . ..