Pysch/Prog/Folk Thread for Anybody Interested
Posted by: Guido Fawkes on 06 August 2006
JWM - asked if I'd considered a compendium of Prog rock. Well I'm probably not up to the task and as I'll probably drift in to Pysch and Folk and Euro and Space Rock without even noticing, I've titled the thread accordingly. So I'm afraid it's a case of Irk The Purists and lets give it a go. See also the Prog thread.
So where do we start - lets go back to 1926. Janáček’s Sinfonietta was written in the spring of 1926. And yes you know it - it was borrowed by ELP on their first album and called Knife Edge and it was also used to introduce the 60s classic court room drama - Crown Court. So if you haven't got this in your collection then you should have and if you are one of those who posts that he (or she) doesn't like classical music then give it a try.
Of course, when we arrive in the 1960s things start to happen. Perhaps most significant are these albums
Shirley Collins - should be Dame Shirley as she has done more for English music than anybody - Shirley Collins is without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures - Billy Bragg
Folk Roots, New Roots - Shirley Collins and Davey Graham: it is simple really: collect some of the best songs from our heritage and bring together a superb singer and a very good guitarist. You have a masterpiece.
1. Nottamun Town
2. Proud Maisrie
3. The Cherry Tree Carol
4. Blue Monk
5. Hares On The Mountain
6. Reynardine
7. Pretty Saro
8. Rif Mountain
9. Jane, Jane
10. Love Is Pleasin'
11. Boll Weevil, Holler
12. Hori Horo
13. Bad Girl
14. Lord Greggory
15. Grooveyard
16. Dearest Dear
Growing up listening in a house where jazz, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley dominated, Folk Roots, New Roots was a breath of fresh air - it made me want to listen to music. I've been an addict ever since.
Of course, we have got to mention the Beatles and the Kinks - it is easy: simply buy all their albums: there are no duff ones. But that is obvious and I think my compendium should focus on the less obvious
So lets kick of with the Incredible String Band - it was they that influenced the Beatles. The two albums that you simply must listen to are
The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion contains alternating Heron and Williamson songs. Every track is sensational and it combines eastern and western music in a unique way.
"Chinese White" (Mike Heron) – 3:40
"No Sleep Blues" (Robin Williamson) – 3:53
"Painting Box" (Heron) – 4:04
"The Mad Hatter's Song" (Williamson) – 5:40
"Little Cloud" (Heron) – 4:05
"The Eyes of Fate" (Williamson) – 4:02
"Blues for the Muse" (Williamson) – 2:49
"The Hedgehog's Song" (Heron) – 3:30
"First Girl I Loved" (Williamson) – 4:55
"You Know What You Could Be" (Heron) – 2:46
"My Name Is Death" (Williamson) – 2:46
"Gently Tender" (Heron) – 4:49
"Way Back in the 1960s" (Williamson) – 3:11
I'm tempted to say The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is more of the same and in many ways it is, but it contains an epic song: 'A Very Cellular Song' which drifts from one musical style to another and yet maintains its coherence.
"Koeeaddi There" (Robin Williamson) - 4:49
"The Minotaur's Song" (Williamson) - 3:22
"Witches Hat" (Williamson) - 2:33
"A Very Cellular Song" (Mike Heron) - 13:09
"Mercy I Cry City" (Heron) - 2:46
"Waltz of the New Moon" (Williamson) - 5:10
"The Water Song" (Williamson) - 2:50
"Three Is a Green Crown" (Williamson) - 7:46
"Swift as the Wind" (Heron) - 4:53
"Nightfall" (Williamson) - 2:33
So these are my first two recommendations for anybody vaguely interested. I don't think these albums would have surfaced had it not been for Shirley Collins and I doubt if we would have had Sgt Pepper had it not been for the Beatles love of ISB (though it was the ISB's first album from '66 that John Lennon and Paul McCartney both acknowledged).
So where do we start - lets go back to 1926. Janáček’s Sinfonietta was written in the spring of 1926. And yes you know it - it was borrowed by ELP on their first album and called Knife Edge and it was also used to introduce the 60s classic court room drama - Crown Court. So if you haven't got this in your collection then you should have and if you are one of those who posts that he (or she) doesn't like classical music then give it a try.
Of course, when we arrive in the 1960s things start to happen. Perhaps most significant are these albums
Shirley Collins - should be Dame Shirley as she has done more for English music than anybody - Shirley Collins is without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures - Billy Bragg
Folk Roots, New Roots - Shirley Collins and Davey Graham: it is simple really: collect some of the best songs from our heritage and bring together a superb singer and a very good guitarist. You have a masterpiece.
1. Nottamun Town
2. Proud Maisrie
3. The Cherry Tree Carol
4. Blue Monk
5. Hares On The Mountain
6. Reynardine
7. Pretty Saro
8. Rif Mountain
9. Jane, Jane
10. Love Is Pleasin'
11. Boll Weevil, Holler
12. Hori Horo
13. Bad Girl
14. Lord Greggory
15. Grooveyard
16. Dearest Dear
Growing up listening in a house where jazz, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley dominated, Folk Roots, New Roots was a breath of fresh air - it made me want to listen to music. I've been an addict ever since.
Of course, we have got to mention the Beatles and the Kinks - it is easy: simply buy all their albums: there are no duff ones. But that is obvious and I think my compendium should focus on the less obvious
So lets kick of with the Incredible String Band - it was they that influenced the Beatles. The two albums that you simply must listen to are
The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion contains alternating Heron and Williamson songs. Every track is sensational and it combines eastern and western music in a unique way.
"Chinese White" (Mike Heron) – 3:40
"No Sleep Blues" (Robin Williamson) – 3:53
"Painting Box" (Heron) – 4:04
"The Mad Hatter's Song" (Williamson) – 5:40
"Little Cloud" (Heron) – 4:05
"The Eyes of Fate" (Williamson) – 4:02
"Blues for the Muse" (Williamson) – 2:49
"The Hedgehog's Song" (Heron) – 3:30
"First Girl I Loved" (Williamson) – 4:55
"You Know What You Could Be" (Heron) – 2:46
"My Name Is Death" (Williamson) – 2:46
"Gently Tender" (Heron) – 4:49
"Way Back in the 1960s" (Williamson) – 3:11
I'm tempted to say The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is more of the same and in many ways it is, but it contains an epic song: 'A Very Cellular Song' which drifts from one musical style to another and yet maintains its coherence.
"Koeeaddi There" (Robin Williamson) - 4:49
"The Minotaur's Song" (Williamson) - 3:22
"Witches Hat" (Williamson) - 2:33
"A Very Cellular Song" (Mike Heron) - 13:09
"Mercy I Cry City" (Heron) - 2:46
"Waltz of the New Moon" (Williamson) - 5:10
"The Water Song" (Williamson) - 2:50
"Three Is a Green Crown" (Williamson) - 7:46
"Swift as the Wind" (Heron) - 4:53
"Nightfall" (Williamson) - 2:33
So these are my first two recommendations for anybody vaguely interested. I don't think these albums would have surfaced had it not been for Shirley Collins and I doubt if we would have had Sgt Pepper had it not been for the Beatles love of ISB (though it was the ISB's first album from '66 that John Lennon and Paul McCartney both acknowledged).
Spirit were a great group, I'd thoroughly recommend Spirit, Family That Plays Together and Clear Spirit, but avove all, I'd recommend this masterpiece from 1970 Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
It has 12 tracks each representing a dream and the guy must have had great dreams - Jay Ferguson and Randy California are at their brilliant best.
Side 1
Prelude - Nothin' to Hide
Nature's Way
Animal Zoo
Love Has Found a Way
Why Can't I Be Free
Mr. Skin
Side 2
Space Child
When I Touch You
Street Worm
Life Has Just Begun
Morning Will Come
Soldier
Jay Ferguson: vocals and keyboards
Randy California: guitar and vocals
Mark Andes: bass and vocals
John Locke: keyboards
Ed Cassidy: drums
David Blumberg: horn arrangements
Possibly the best west coast album in my collection - although there are other contenders like Forever Changes and Green River, of course - but Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus is an imense record that brings together the best of rock, pop, folk, blues and classical with jazz backgrounds. Spirit forgot about what category they were supposed to be in and just wrote whatever songs they felt like and played them really well - production qualities are of the highest order. The CD version has four bonus tracks - two mono versions of tracks already on the main album and the 1970 single Red Light Roll On/Rougher Road, which wasn't good enough to feature among the original 12 dreams though it's OK.
After Spirit Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes form Jo Jo Gunne and realised a couple of fine albums: the first self-titled one and Bite Down Hard, but neither reached the heights of Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus.
I am not overly familiar with Randy California's subsequent work. However, it was very sad that Randy died in January of 1997, when he was gripped by an undertow when swimming near Hawaiia to save his 12 year-old son from drowning.
I forgot the Captain -- anybody like to recommend albums by the great Don Van Vliet
So what's the best band from Detroit?
Well - for me there is only one answer - the greatest music ever to come out of the Motor City came from the one and only Alice Cooper Group.
It is not fashionable and, of course, I was supposed to say MC5 - but I bought Love It To Death when I was at school and drove my friends mad with it.
Pretties For You (1969 on Frabk Zappa's Straight Records though FZ did not help very much
Titanic Overture
10 Minutes Before the Worm
Sing Low, Sweet Cheerio
Today Mueller
Living
Fields Of Regret
No Longer Umpire
Levity Ball (Live At the Cheetah)
B. B. On Mars
Reflected
Apple Bush
Earwigs To Eternity
Changing Arranging
Why was Levity Ball (Live At the Cheetah) put on this album when the studio version released only as a single was a 1,000 times better. This is a pychedelic Alice Cooper Group and it is an excellent debut album.
Easy Action (1970)
Mr. & Misdemeanor
Shoe Salesman
Still No Air
Below Your Means
Return of the Spiders
Laughing At Me
Refrigerator Heaven
Beautiful Flyaway
Lay Down and Die, Goodbye
Another great pychedelic Alice Cooper Group
and then ....
Love It To Death (1971)
Caught In A Dream
I'm Eighteen
Long Way To Go
Black JuJu
Is It My Body
Hallowed Be My Name
Second Coming
Ballad Of Dwight Fry
Sun Arise
Love It To Death is a fantastic album, every track is great even the rendition of Rolf Harris's Sun Arise. The first three tracks are as good an opening as any rock album ever had. Caught In a Dream was the first Alice Cooper Group record that I ever heard and just couldn't stop singing it. Those lyrics
Well I'm runnin through the world with a gun in my back
tryin' to catch a ride in a Cadillac
Thought that I was livin', but you can't really tell
been tryin' to get away from that success smell
I need a houseboat and I need a plane
I need a butler and a trip to Spain
I need everything the world owes me
I tell that to myself and I agree
I'm caught in a dream So What!
Then you follow this with Eighteen - a song about being eighteen when you don't know what you want to do, but you do know that whatever you're doing now isn't it.
Then one of the great rock songs We've Still Got A Long Way To Go
The drums and build up of Black Juju - the centre piece of the album with its hypnotic charm. Then three more pretty solid tracks before we go in to the album's masterpiece Ballad Of Dwight Fry. The title is a salute to actor Dwight Frye, who played maniacal characters in many early Universal horror films including Renfield in the original Dracula. Vincent (Alice) dropped the "E" from the name as a way to avoid a lawsuit. Vincent sings "I wanna get out of here" which portrayed the plight of the asylum-committed Renfield (Frye) in Dracula. Frye was also in the original "Frankenstein" as the doctor's demented assistant, and was a gravedigger in "Bride of Frankenstein" and a reporter in "The Invisible Man." He died of a heart attack while riding a bus with his family when he was in his 40s. The song is superb - if you've never heard it then you're missing out.
Of course Killer and Billion Dollar Babies were further great albums for the Alice Cooper Group. Not so keen on Schools Out - although I like the single.
When Vincent broke with the group and changed his name to Alice Cooper, he released a wonderful solo effort called Welcome To My Nightmare
This contains some great songs like the title track, Only Women Bleed and the curious Cold Ethyl. The rest of album is fairly haunting too.
As Alice Cooper, Vincent went on to make some more great tracks, but I don't think he has produced any further great albums - and certainly nothing as good as Love It To Death, but then few groups have.
Rotf
Well - for me there is only one answer - the greatest music ever to come out of the Motor City came from the one and only Alice Cooper Group.
It is not fashionable and, of course, I was supposed to say MC5 - but I bought Love It To Death when I was at school and drove my friends mad with it.
Pretties For You (1969 on Frabk Zappa's Straight Records though FZ did not help very much
Titanic Overture
10 Minutes Before the Worm
Sing Low, Sweet Cheerio
Today Mueller
Living
Fields Of Regret
No Longer Umpire
Levity Ball (Live At the Cheetah)
B. B. On Mars
Reflected
Apple Bush
Earwigs To Eternity
Changing Arranging
Why was Levity Ball (Live At the Cheetah) put on this album when the studio version released only as a single was a 1,000 times better. This is a pychedelic Alice Cooper Group and it is an excellent debut album.
Easy Action (1970)
Mr. & Misdemeanor
Shoe Salesman
Still No Air
Below Your Means
Return of the Spiders
Laughing At Me
Refrigerator Heaven
Beautiful Flyaway
Lay Down and Die, Goodbye
Another great pychedelic Alice Cooper Group
and then ....
Love It To Death (1971)
Caught In A Dream
I'm Eighteen
Long Way To Go
Black JuJu
Is It My Body
Hallowed Be My Name
Second Coming
Ballad Of Dwight Fry
Sun Arise
Love It To Death is a fantastic album, every track is great even the rendition of Rolf Harris's Sun Arise. The first three tracks are as good an opening as any rock album ever had. Caught In a Dream was the first Alice Cooper Group record that I ever heard and just couldn't stop singing it. Those lyrics
Well I'm runnin through the world with a gun in my back
tryin' to catch a ride in a Cadillac
Thought that I was livin', but you can't really tell
been tryin' to get away from that success smell
I need a houseboat and I need a plane
I need a butler and a trip to Spain
I need everything the world owes me
I tell that to myself and I agree
I'm caught in a dream So What!
Then you follow this with Eighteen - a song about being eighteen when you don't know what you want to do, but you do know that whatever you're doing now isn't it.
Then one of the great rock songs We've Still Got A Long Way To Go
The drums and build up of Black Juju - the centre piece of the album with its hypnotic charm. Then three more pretty solid tracks before we go in to the album's masterpiece Ballad Of Dwight Fry. The title is a salute to actor Dwight Frye, who played maniacal characters in many early Universal horror films including Renfield in the original Dracula. Vincent (Alice) dropped the "E" from the name as a way to avoid a lawsuit. Vincent sings "I wanna get out of here" which portrayed the plight of the asylum-committed Renfield (Frye) in Dracula. Frye was also in the original "Frankenstein" as the doctor's demented assistant, and was a gravedigger in "Bride of Frankenstein" and a reporter in "The Invisible Man." He died of a heart attack while riding a bus with his family when he was in his 40s. The song is superb - if you've never heard it then you're missing out.
Of course Killer and Billion Dollar Babies were further great albums for the Alice Cooper Group. Not so keen on Schools Out - although I like the single.
When Vincent broke with the group and changed his name to Alice Cooper, he released a wonderful solo effort called Welcome To My Nightmare
This contains some great songs like the title track, Only Women Bleed and the curious Cold Ethyl. The rest of album is fairly haunting too.
As Alice Cooper, Vincent went on to make some more great tracks, but I don't think he has produced any further great albums - and certainly nothing as good as Love It To Death, but then few groups have.
Rotf
Ian Mathews Macdonald was om Fairport Conventions first two two albums and so he had a great start. He also made two superb solo album as Ian Mathews as he didn't want to be confused with Ian Macdonald of King Crimson. The two great Ian Mathews albums were If You Saw Thro' My Eyes (January 1971) and Tigers Will Survive (November 1971). Of course, before that he had a hit with Joni Mitchell's Woodstock as the leader of Mathews Southern Comfort.
But his greatest work was with Plainsong, with Dave Richards, Andy Roberts, and Bob Ronga. Andy and Bod were on Tigers Will Survive and the rather disaapointing Journeys From Gospel Oak with Ian. However there was nothing disappointing about the first Plainsong album: In Search of Amelia Earhart. Made in 1972, Ian still claims it wasn't a concept album, it just had some songs about Amelia Earhart on the record.
In Search of Amelia Earhart is not an Ian Mathews solo album, it is an album by a group and all the players contribute.
1. For the Second Time (Matthews)
2. Yo Yo Man (Cooper, Cunha)
3. Louise (Siebel)
4. Call the Tune (Matthews)
5. Diesel on My Tail (Fagan)
6. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight (McEnery)
7. I'll Fly Away (Brumley)
8. True Story of Amelia Earhart (Matthews)
9. Even the Guiding Light (Matthews)
10. Side Roads (Matthews)
11. Raider (Henske, Yester)
It is a folk music with a country and blues tinge and an English accent and it works surprisingly well. The album came with reporter Charles Goerner's notes on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Frederick Noonan, The album is full of great songs and the performances are excellent throughout. This album is well worth hearing if you get the chance.
Rotf
But his greatest work was with Plainsong, with Dave Richards, Andy Roberts, and Bob Ronga. Andy and Bod were on Tigers Will Survive and the rather disaapointing Journeys From Gospel Oak with Ian. However there was nothing disappointing about the first Plainsong album: In Search of Amelia Earhart. Made in 1972, Ian still claims it wasn't a concept album, it just had some songs about Amelia Earhart on the record.
In Search of Amelia Earhart is not an Ian Mathews solo album, it is an album by a group and all the players contribute.
1. For the Second Time (Matthews)
2. Yo Yo Man (Cooper, Cunha)
3. Louise (Siebel)
4. Call the Tune (Matthews)
5. Diesel on My Tail (Fagan)
6. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight (McEnery)
7. I'll Fly Away (Brumley)
8. True Story of Amelia Earhart (Matthews)
9. Even the Guiding Light (Matthews)
10. Side Roads (Matthews)
11. Raider (Henske, Yester)
It is a folk music with a country and blues tinge and an English accent and it works surprisingly well. The album came with reporter Charles Goerner's notes on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Frederick Noonan, The album is full of great songs and the performances are excellent throughout. This album is well worth hearing if you get the chance.
Rotf
It's the end of soul, soul is dead, bury it in the hole, it's the end of soul - well I'm not in total agreement, but those were the sentiments of German band, Embryo, on their excellent debut album Opal - not to be confused with the Syd Barrett elpee of the same name.
Ironically Opal has some jazz and soul undertones, but is essentially a progressive blues album - with a bit of the avante garde. It is Gong like in places. This is the only Embryo record I'm familiar with, but I should like to hear more.
Christian Burchard - Drums
John Kelly - Guitar, Vocals
Edgar Hoffman - Sax, Electric Violin
Ralph Fischer - Bass
Bettsy Alleh - Vocals
Roberto Detree - Motocelle
Holger Trulsch - Bongo
Staying with German bands, my next choice is hard work unless you have a German friend who can translate (or of course you are lucky enough to speak German). The reason is that Floh De Cologne use German texts and knowing the meaning of these texts helps. I wish there were English translations on the sleeves for linguistically challenged people like me.
Nonetheless. I recommend Fließbandbabys Beat-Show without reservation.
Floh De Cologne were as outrageous as they were innovative. They began in 1966 as a student cabaret band. Floh De Cologne surprised, puzzled and broke convention. I have never seen their elaborate stage show, but the socio-political albums and musical innovation make you think of German Mothers of Invention. However there was no Frank Zappa figure, Floh de Cologne were a creative unit with all members contributing.
Whilst I think the aforementioned Fließbandbabys Beat-Show is their best, I also think Geyer Symphonie is quite stunning.
Which brings me to my third German band choice - Wallenstein. The album I own and recommend is called Cosmic Century
1. The Symphonic Rock Orchestra - Rory Blanchford (9:25)
2. Grand Piano (2:11)
3. Silver arms (9:40)
4. The marvellous child (6:10)
5. Song of wire (7:46)
6. The Cosmic Couriers meet South Philly Willy (7:24)
Bill Barone - electric guitar
Jürgen Dollase - piano, mellotron, vibes and vocals
Joachim Reiser - violin
Dieter Meier - bass
Harald Großkopf - drums
I guess Space Rock is one loose description, but it is more Camel than Amon Dull II. It is a very good album.
I'd also like to mention some other German bands I know and enjoy:
and lots more albums by those groups.
And if you want some nicely progressive German music then please try Eloy
Three concept albums to annoy those who think this type of music should have had the fate that Embryo suggested for soul, but if you like Pink Floyd then you may well enjoy these.
Eloy were
Frank Bornemann (Lead Vocals, All Electric, Acoustic, and Effect Guitars)
Klaus-Peter Matziol (Vocals, Thunderbird and Fender Fretless Bass Guitars)
Detlev Schmidtchen (Hammond Organ, Mini-Moog and ARP Synthesizers, Mellotron, RMI Keyboard Computer, Xylophone, Angelic Voices)
Jürgen Rosenthal (Sonor Genuine Rosewood Drums, Paiste Cymbals, Timbales, Roto-Toms, Temple Blocks, Kettle-Drums, Tubular Bells, Morse Key, Voice, Triangles, Paper and Flute)
It's great IMO.
Rotf
Ironically Opal has some jazz and soul undertones, but is essentially a progressive blues album - with a bit of the avante garde. It is Gong like in places. This is the only Embryo record I'm familiar with, but I should like to hear more.
Christian Burchard - Drums
John Kelly - Guitar, Vocals
Edgar Hoffman - Sax, Electric Violin
Ralph Fischer - Bass
Bettsy Alleh - Vocals
Roberto Detree - Motocelle
Holger Trulsch - Bongo
Staying with German bands, my next choice is hard work unless you have a German friend who can translate (or of course you are lucky enough to speak German). The reason is that Floh De Cologne use German texts and knowing the meaning of these texts helps. I wish there were English translations on the sleeves for linguistically challenged people like me.
Nonetheless. I recommend Fließbandbabys Beat-Show without reservation.
Floh De Cologne were as outrageous as they were innovative. They began in 1966 as a student cabaret band. Floh De Cologne surprised, puzzled and broke convention. I have never seen their elaborate stage show, but the socio-political albums and musical innovation make you think of German Mothers of Invention. However there was no Frank Zappa figure, Floh de Cologne were a creative unit with all members contributing.
Whilst I think the aforementioned Fließbandbabys Beat-Show is their best, I also think Geyer Symphonie is quite stunning.
Which brings me to my third German band choice - Wallenstein. The album I own and recommend is called Cosmic Century
1. The Symphonic Rock Orchestra - Rory Blanchford (9:25)
2. Grand Piano (2:11)
3. Silver arms (9:40)
4. The marvellous child (6:10)
5. Song of wire (7:46)
6. The Cosmic Couriers meet South Philly Willy (7:24)
Bill Barone - electric guitar
Jürgen Dollase - piano, mellotron, vibes and vocals
Joachim Reiser - violin
Dieter Meier - bass
Harald Großkopf - drums
I guess Space Rock is one loose description, but it is more Camel than Amon Dull II. It is a very good album.
I'd also like to mention some other German bands I know and enjoy:
- Anyone's Daughter - Piktors Verwandlungen 1981
- Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel 1971
- Birth Control - Operation 1971
- Can - Monster Movie 1969
- Cosmic Jokers - Cosmic Jokers 1974
- Faust - Faust 1971 and just about anything else by them
- Grobschnitt - Grobschnitt 1972
- Guru Guru - Kanguru 1972
- Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk 1 & 2 (1971/2) and Ralf unt Florian 1973
- Klaus Schulze - Blackdance 1974
- Neu! - Neu! and Neu2
- Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation 1970 and Alpha Centauri 1971
and lots more albums by those groups.
And if you want some nicely progressive German music then please try Eloy
Three concept albums to annoy those who think this type of music should have had the fate that Embryo suggested for soul, but if you like Pink Floyd then you may well enjoy these.
- Power and the Passion 1976
- Dawn 1977
- Ocean 1978
Eloy were
Frank Bornemann (Lead Vocals, All Electric, Acoustic, and Effect Guitars)
Klaus-Peter Matziol (Vocals, Thunderbird and Fender Fretless Bass Guitars)
Detlev Schmidtchen (Hammond Organ, Mini-Moog and ARP Synthesizers, Mellotron, RMI Keyboard Computer, Xylophone, Angelic Voices)
Jürgen Rosenthal (Sonor Genuine Rosewood Drums, Paiste Cymbals, Timbales, Roto-Toms, Temple Blocks, Kettle-Drums, Tubular Bells, Morse Key, Voice, Triangles, Paper and Flute)
It's great IMO.
Rotf
Dr. Strangely Strange were Ireland's answer to the Incredible String Band, who were from Scotland.
I always found them strangely strange, but oddly normal.
I always found them strangely strange, but oddly normal.