Time for rehabilitation?
Posted by Grant on 24 October 2008 - 10:17pm.
When I was young, my Dad used to work out near Saudi, and when he came home he always brought a stack of pirate cassettes home with him. A few were by this group. Isn't it time this lot were reappraised?
Yes, they are musos. Yes they are prog/classical fusion. However, they do have Herbie Flowers who can add a bit of low-end magic to practically anything. I do seem to remember them being very popular and their concert at Canterbury(?) Cathedral being the highlight of one pre-dvd BBC Christmas Scheduling (early 80's?)
Anyone else remember them?
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Wow.. I'd almost forgotten them...
... I was quite into them in my early teens, saw them live a couple of times too. Think it's time I dug the old vinyl out of the loft.
John Williams, Herbie Flowers and Francis Monk man I can remember, but who were the other two?
Without cheating...
...I think it was Kevin Peek (??)
Tristan Fry?
Didn't he play on a Nick Drake track too, along with RT?
Great line up =
Very bad Prog!
Funny you should mention that....
I was recently going through an old list of albums that I have never got around to replacing on CD (or nowadays MP3) and Sky 2 was on that list. When I was getting something else on Amazon, I checked it and as it was only 4.98 or something like that, it was duly added to my basket.
Received a week or so ago and must say that playing a couple of times after not hearing for so long it was very enjoyable - still love their Vivaldi take !
Next off to dig out some Curved Air (which I believe was Francis Monkman's previous group......
Tuba Smarties
Herbie Flowers is a wit. I said wit.
And he gives good advice.
Isn't it
a bit wet and weedy and bland? It makes Mike Oldfield sound like punk rock for goodness sake. Good musicians put together does not necessarily good music make.
Yeah, but...
just sometimes you want something a little tasteful and MOR. After a hard day at work, you don't necessarily feel in the mood for Merzbow or The Mars Volta. Mike Oldfield does also crop up on the in-car CD player in my case for exactly the same reason.
True
I do sometimes want something as you describe, that's just going a bit far for me in the mild direction.