Nektar

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Great thread
Love Nektar !!
Difficult to choose a favourite out of Tab In The Ocean or Remember The Future.
The complete Roundhouse performance is killer.
Man In The Moon is quite underrated, it's better than it's made out to be.
Their latest, Time Machine, is excellent. Very much worthy of your time.
I was lucky to catch them in NYC mid-2013, great to witness Roye and the boys having a bash, though I do miss Mo and Taff. The current keyboardist, Klaus Henatsch, is the best choice since Taff's departure ( great bloke, too) but the fill-in bassist at the time, Lux Vibratus (complete with Mohawk), paled to Mo. I was hoping at least Billy Sherwood would've been present.
Recycled is quite a superb album too. Come to think of it, I'm quite the fan-boy, as there isn't an album I dislike from them.

Tom Ozric wrote: Great thread Love Nektar !! Difficult to choose a favourite out of Tab In The Ocean or Remember The Future. The complete Roundhouse performance is killer. Man In The Moon is quite underrated, it's better than it's made out to be. Their latest, Time Machine, is excellent. Very much worthy of your time. I was lucky to catch them in NYC mid-2013, great to witness Roye and the boys having a bash, though I do miss Mo and Taff. The current keyboardist, Klaus Henatsch, is the best choice since Taff's departure ( great bloke, too) but the fill-in bassist at the time, Lux Vibratus (complete with Mohawk), paled to Mo. I was hoping at least Billy Sherwood would've been present. Recycled is quite a superb album too. Come to think of it, I'm quite the fan-boy, as there isn't an album I dislike from them.

One of the members of Nektar posted here on the forums maybe a year ago. No one replied to their post and they never posted again.

Journey to the Center of the Eye is an amazing album to me. I heard it described as a psychedelic album once somewhere, but to me it is the heart and soul (and eye) of Prog. It's one of my all-time favorites.

Remember the Future is nice. A Tab in the Ocean is nice too, but I find some of the base overbearing. Neither of these albums has the rich and creative use of timbre to match their debut.

Recycled is a little too slick for me, built up out of endless gag-me-with-a-spoon style commercial hooks, but there are times when I'm up for it.

I was turned on to Nektar during college - my keyboardist at the time had a bunch of their stuff on vinyl (this is around '89-'90). Remember the Future and A Tab in the Ocean are the two that stuck with me - I picked up the CD remasters of those - was that around 2005? I never liked the live stuff I heard - the studio versions were burned into my brain and to me there was something lacking in the performance, but that could just be me too - for the longest time I didn't like Yessongs either.

Hi,

I stop at "Recycled". Even though, "Down to Earth" has a couple of nice things, I do believe that it was not that good otherwise, and the premise was un-necessary, and I actually thought it took away from the "meaningful" side of things on the earlier album.

I like, a lot, "Recycled" and much more than I do "Remember the Future". "A Tab in the Ocean" was the first thing I heard from this band, and that album is special to my memory. But, folks seem to not like "Sounds Like This", and it pretty much tells you how strong and supreme this band was in concert, which you can see in a couple of albums. They were absolutely magnificent.

I always thought that in their hopes to reach the pinacle of rock music, they burned out ... their light show was almost prohibitive with some of the bands they toured with, and I think that massive tour with Golden Earring, probably ate them up ... aside from that, the original version of the "Marvellous Moses" song was way better than what ended up on the LP later, or any version on the Live albums ... I remember the Santa Monica version as much more ferocious and strong than what showed up later.

I kinda died with "It's all Over, Now" at the end of "Recycled".

On another music site, about 10 members are in a reel to reel tape swap. We mail out a 7.5" reel tape of our favorite music, to share and enjoy our love of reel-reel tapes and music. It's fun to create and make playlists hoping other members will not know the music so you can introduce them.

Also love the band Roye Albrighton formed after splitting from Nektar called Snowball, their debut album "Defroster" is great kind of jazz rock feel, and also features members of Passport.

Edited by presdoug - April 16 2015 at 09:44

presdoug wrote: Also love the band Roye Albrighton formed after splitting from Nektar callled Snoball, their debut album "Defroster" is great kind of jazz rock feel, and also features members of Passport.

Curt Cress does a great job drumming on this !!
........then Roye goes and does the rather commercially oriented Grand Alliance. Not bad in Pop-Rock terms, but not that great either.