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It's been a while since body-positivism icon Mrs. Myra Nussbaum hosted a feature, so her many fan will be delighted to join in the fun with her swell new game! As this feature is all-new, take a while to study th' FAQ below before making a damn fool of yerself in th' comments!
FAQ: How do I play this swell new game-type feature in the privacy of my hand-held device or home computer system?
ANS: Why, thanx for axing! It's simplicity itself, which is just as well because most of youse bums ain't been thinkin' too clear since the Carter administration. Study above Foam-O-Graph© [above - Ed.] and using your skill and judgement identify album peeking temptingly from Myra's big ol' furry pink muff! Fun? You bet!
And remember - don't forget - leave a clew in the comments! Don't give answer away to freeloading bums! Demonstrate shrewdness to confreres by hinting obliquely at featured album!
Remember! Leave hint or clew to identity of act snuggling in Myra's Muff©!
ReplyDeleteThe ancient Romans knew it well..............
ReplyDeletePink muff...
ReplyDeleteRed heart (sweet)
"glad-'e-ate-'er"
Messrs. Chang n' Fan both on the money here!
ReplyDeleteIt's a swell album, and may be the first rock album to feature a side-long composition (not just songs stitched together, or jams, or one song stretched out to fill a side).
Think its time for a haircut.
ReplyDeleteHyuk hyuk hyuk! Pmac ain't gots clew one!
DeletePmac, I'm off for a haircut in half an hour. 8/9 months since the last one, I look like a goddamn hippy. Oh, I keep forgetting I am a goddamn hippy. I haven't a clew who's in the muff btw.
DeleteAsk for Floyd.
DeleteBesides seeing Sir John here in Orlando recently (free box tix), the only "rock concert" I ever went to was KISS at the LA Forum when I was in 7th grade. This is on a whole different level though! (I know I shared this same bit of bio before but its in service of winning the prize here)
ReplyDeleteHere be Lions (sometimes).
ReplyDeleteAm I doing this right?
As a perennial loser in Farq's mind games I didn't recognize the cover, I just read the clues of Fan Chang. And who knows, maybe I got it wrong 'cause the cover I looked up on Discogs doesn't look like this.
Then again, the album in question (if I did indeed get it right) is listed as being available in no less than 77 (!) versions, so excuse me for not clicking through those 77 versions to see if the cover matches...
By George, I think he's got it!
DeleteJames Blake's dad was a Bandit.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Peanuts Molloy.
Oh, played, sir!
DeleteAfter Colosseum, James Litherland formed Brotherhood with Mike Rosen from Eclection. Also in the band were Roger Ball & Molly Duncan (later the AWB's Dundee Horns) and the mighty John Wetton on bass. I saw them play at The Knighton Progressive Music Festival (ie. a small field in Wales) on a sunny Sunday in Aug '70 but can remember not one thing about their set. I was there for Shrewsbury's Paper Bubble who shoulda / coulda made it big.
DeleteBandit's story is an interesting one - no success as a group but plenty later for the various band members.
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
There's an infamous CD version of Valentyne Suite (which I actually bought) where Litherland's essential contributions are mixed so far down you can barely hear the guitar. Hiseman said the mix went out "by mistake", but it's hard to see how that happened, unless he's referring to his own error of judgement. Someone called it "Hiseman's Revenge" - apparently the drummer had a falling out. Me, I love Litherland's vox/guitar (but no, not the Bakerloo album).
DeleteUpon shouting in a large empty space
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ReplyDeleteColosseum's Valentyne Suite was released in '69, a year before Atom Heart Mother, Lizard, and Soft Machine's Third, and two years before Meddle, which all featured side-long compositions (as opposed to stretched-out songs or individual songs stitched together in the studio, or jams). It was also the first album on the Vertigo label. The long instrumental suite remains an incredible piece of work, a genuine "rock symphony/whatever" with real dynamics, progressions, themes, movements etc. It works on every level (particularly excitement), and the songs on the other side are no slouches, either, featuring an early use of loops and thankfully minimal blues influence. It's a great album, easily the band's best, and one of the best UK rock albums of the period, period.
If you can think of an album with a side-long *compostion* that predates it - bearing in mind the above exclusions - let us know!
Chrome Syrcus Love Cycle 1968
DeleteThis is a good call, but I'm not quite convinced it was composed as a side-long piece, but a sequence of songs. Like The Moody Blues Days Of Future Passed, from the same year. But let's give them (and you) the benefit of the doubt.
DeleteIf anybody wants - shout!
Well, damn. I wonder if Floyd the barber will give me a better hair cut next time.
ReplyDeleteMake sure you show him which hair you want cut.
DeleteOh, now I recognize it, one of my favorites of that era too, superb record.
ReplyDeleteThe Suite never fails to immerse me. I zone out, from beginning to end. Plus, I get to hear my man a-wailin' sax.
DeleteYou might like this Farq, The Dick Heckstall Smith Band bbc in Concert 1973, only half an hour.
Deletehttps://wetransfer.com/downloads/7dbed4a7b7610d07a78ba4ce2e7d6ef520210611095318/eebbf5
I might indeed! Thank you!
DeleteHmm, there's probably a hard drive around here somewhere with Valentyne Suite on it. And now there's one more. I think I'll schedule a little zone out time this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Nussbaum's muff also inspired me to take the two Tempest CDs off the shelf for a spin this morning. (Jon Hiseman's project chronologically between Colosseum and Colosseum II.) Very nice "minor league supergroup" music, to borrow a description from the first sentence of each release's liner notes.
For fans of disambiguation, the Bay Area Celtic Rock band of the same name is also well worth a listen.