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spacedad · Post by **spacedad** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:46 pm

yeah,the nice 'rocked'.dirtier than ELP,pre-moog,keith used to tip his hammond onto it's corner(no mean feat)and rock it to get all those wierd noises.hammond got cross with him 'abusing' there precious and refused to fix it anymore!you don't get that these days with all these well behaved bands.

so come on kids start swingin yer cpu round on stage,that'll get em goin.

just don't expect pc world to be happy about it.

j_T · Post by **j_T** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:13 pm

aMUSEd wrote:I'm thinking of looking out some Jethro Tull next I had some records of theirs but lost them ages ago.

Yes, "Aqualung" ist still one of my favourite records.

I really have to buy a new pickup for my turn table these days ...

Regards,

Tommy

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:18 pm

spacedad wrote:hammond got cross with him 'abusing' there precious and refused to fix it anymore!

Al Goff did a better job of fixing them anyway.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:18 pm

Never heard The Nice play America, but Yes did a version that Simon and Garfunkel would never have recognized. :-D In fact, it's the rendition I knew first. When I heard the S&G version I was sooo surprised...

(This is assuming you don't mean "America the Beautiful.")

j_T · Post by **j_T** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:31 pm

Meffy wrote:Never heard The Nice play America, but Yes did a version that Simon and Garfunkel would never have recognized. In fact, it's the rendition I knew first. When I heard the S&G version I was sooo surprised...

(This is assuming you don't mean "America the Beautiful.")

Actually it's from "West Side Story" (L.Bernstein/S.Sondheim). Trini Lopez did a very successful version, too.

Regards,

Tommy

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:35 pm

Ah, that "America." :-D Gotcha. The proto-Yes version interpolates the theme from that one (on organ) IIRC.

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:47 pm

aMUSEd wrote:I'm thinking of looking out some Jethro Tull next I had some records of theirs but lost them ages ago.

stand-up and benefit
were among my most played albums in my teenage years
and that's not to say, that I don't still love them - I do!

j_T · Post by **j_T** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:03 pm

Meffy wrote:Ah, that "America." Gotcha. The proto-Yes version interpolates the theme from that one (on organ) IIRC.

Yes did record "America"? I'm by no means in expert, in fact I couldn't (can't) stand them. Hmm ... really can't remember them playing that tune

But I remember shelling out some serious money for "Tales Of Topographic Oceans" - yes it was a lot of money for me at that time. I still have the album but I'm pretty sure that I never managed to listen through the complete album

Too much head and too little stomach for me

Wouldn't it be boring if we all shared the same taste?

Regards,

Tommy

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:10 pm

Different tastes: Yah you betcha. I like Yes, even Tales. Don't listen to it very often but when I do it's all in one long stretch.

Yes' version of Simon and Garfunkel's "America" was very VERY early -- might be on their first album?* -- and doesn't sound at all like their later ultra-cosmic work. Much more rock, not as much roll. Tony Kaye really shows off on the organ on some of the early stuff...
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* It's definitely on the "Yesterdays" collection. Might have been recorded around the time of the original album named "Yes" (or even earlier) but not included on it. Not sure about that.

[edit] Yup, a bit of googling shows that "Yesterdays" contains material from before their first album.

SaviorNeeded · Post by **SaviorNeeded** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:18 pm

The Wilson sisters were on "Soundstage" on PBS last night. I wish I could have watched it all--what I saw was excellent.

Tom

VicDiesel · Post by **VicDiesel** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:23 pm

j_T wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:I'm thinking of looking out some Jethro Tull next I had some records of theirs but lost them ages ago.
Yes, "Aqualung" ist still one of my favourite records. I really have to buy a new pickup for my turn table these days ...

"Thick as a brick" is one of my guilty pleasures. Which I play on CD, while reading the newspaper that was part of the LP cover.

CDs are really the death of cover art.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:38 pm

TennesseeVic wrote:CDs are really the death of cover art.

Yeah that's a real pity. One of the great things about those early YES, Greenslade, Tull, King Crimson, E,L & P etc etc albums was the great cover art - real works of art many of them. CD's are too small to make the art interesting - I suppose video's are a way of compensation for some artists though (e.g. Bjork, UNKLE)

j_T · Post by **j_T** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:41 pm

aMUSEd wrote:
TennesseeVic wrote:CDs are really the death of cover art.
Yeah that's a real pity. One of the great things about those early YES, Greenslade, Tull, King Crimson, E,L & P etc etc albums was the great cover art - real works of art many of them. CD's are too small to make the art interesting - I suppose video's are a way of compensation for some artists though (e.g. Bjork, UNKLE)

"Cover by Hypgnosis" - sometimes even more interesting than the record itself.

Regards,

Tommy

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:55 pm

More covers by Roger Dean: Osibisa, Uriah Heep, Greenslade, and various Yes-subsets (such as Steve Howe's albums and Jon Anderson's uber-cosmoidal epic "Olias of Sunhillow").

He did more albums but I didn't get any of those.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:14 pm

I love the Greenslade "Time and Tide" cover by Patrick Woodruffe (one of my favourite albums too and with "More" by Pink Floyd one of the first that converted me to listening to prog rock - before that I was all classical and jazz).

Unfashionable - but who cares?