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Points: 1210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2007 at 16:53
Originally posted by annexusquam annexusquam wrote:

i really like barclay james harvest but i have to say that i saw the m live some months ago and it was a big diassapoinment. i believe when u age u cant be really progressive or write inspired songs


Yeah, I saw the Moody Blues awhile ago in concert, and I was disappointed (the songs were rawer versions of the studio recordings, except that Nights in White Satin was the most amazing rendition I've ever heard!).

I've wanted to get into BJH for awhile, but I haven't.   What album would you guys recommend starting with?
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i really like barclay james harvest but i have to say that i saw the m live some months ago and it was a big diassapoinment. i believe when u age u cant be really progressive or write inspired songs
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Points: 7659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2007 at 17:23
Live=Mellotrons Approve
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Points: 976 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2007 at 17:20
Great prog band. From 1970 to 1978 all their albums are superb. My favorites are the first, Baby James Harvest and Octoberon.
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2007 at 16:29
A new restyling for the BJH's website using a new theme based on the artwork for the classic Gone To Earth album.
 
 


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Points: 7659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2007 at 12:55
OK, Marco, I will try it again!
 
By the way, I have some very nice pictures from the Turn Of The Tide tour in The Hague in 1981!


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Dear Erik and others

Sorry to abuse this space for one-to-one communication.

Erik, I am sorry to say that the message you announced here never arrived in my mailbox. I sent you a private message, but it looks like that one didn't reach you, or if it did, your response never reached me again. Could you please mail me again on the e-mailaddress that you find on my personal website: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/neasden/.

The others may find it worthwhile to go there as well, as you will find there pictures I took at BJH concerts between 1981 and 2006.

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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

 
                            Good taste, DarioIndjic Wink
 
 
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Thanks Eric,wonderful picture of a wonderful instrument Clap.
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Points: 5871 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2007 at 07:55
These days I listened to Octoberon, Once again and Baby James Harvest.I must admit this is a solid band and I wonder where the hell I've been? Some tracks are brilliant - like She Said, Crazy over You, The Iron Maiden, Mocking Bird, Ra, Suicide, Ball and Chain, Summer Soldier...Very good, 3,51 stars in my book! Not much prog here (especially these long orchestrated tracks are a bit boring...BJH are better in shorter ones IMHO), but very good Prog-Related (in my book again) band.Gonna check further - as long as moustached friend of my father will go on sharing his CDs with me (4 years ago he introduced me to CAMEL and PINK FLOYD, btw)
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Hello Marco, very good news for all BJh's fans Thumbs Up
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I have purshased Live 1974 by BJH a few days ago and it is becoming one of my favorites mellotron album,every track is full of mellotron!Even perhaps my favorite live album.Beautiful musicHug
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I just mailed fellow Dutchman Marco De Niet, I hope he will succeed to release a very special BJH collector's item DVD Thumbs Up 
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 01 2007 at 17:49
Welcome Marco, thanks for posting!
 
Why not add a new thread to our "Get the word out" section on this too.
 
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Dear all

I have not published on this list before, mainly because I already participate in the Yahoo list about BJH.

The reason why I write to you all here, is that, with the consent of Keith & Monika Domone, I am working on a compilation of all TV-recordings of BJH. This is not going to be an official release, but a DVD-set to be distributed without any commercial intentions among BJH fans (similar to the Love Hounds groups has done with Kate Bush recordings).

There is an excellent list of TV-performances of BJH on the main BJH site, http://www.bjharvest.co.uk/tv.htm, and with this list in hand I try to get as many first generation copies of these performances as possible. The reason why I have taken this up, is that I have digitised my entire BJH video collection (mostly German, British and Dutch TV), and instead of swapping with individuals, it seemed best to me to try and make this a collective effort.

The first step is to make a full inventory of all that we have in our collections, and to get good DVD-versions of all the recordings. My request to you all is to let me know, on or off this list, if you are willing to contribute your recordings to this DVD-set, and if so, what they are. Please also give the recordings a grading (e.g. original recording, 1st generation copy etc.)

Once this first stage of compiling and digitising has been finished, we make the second step: to distribute this DVD-set among as many fans as possible. It is my intention to set up a vine, in which each one involved will be sent the DVD's by post in order to make a copy for his or her own use and
then forward it to the next person on the list. There will be no other costs involved than postage.

As a P.S., please allow me to indulge in a short anecdote. As Erik Neuteboom mentioned, we recently acquired a great new recording of early BJH, the playback performance to Titles from the Dutch pop show Toppop. Here is the story behind it. Earlier this year, I read in an interview with Leo Blokhuis, the main person behind the Top2000 TV show that aired the Titles clip last week. From the interview (published in IO Pages), I learned that Leo Blokhuis was a big BJH fan in his younger years because of Titles, and that he still regards Octoberon as one of this favourite albums. After I had read this interview, I send him an e-mail, asking if he knew whether the TV performance of BJH in Toppop was still somewhere in the TV vaults he has access to. He said he didn't know if it did, but next time he had access to these vaults, he would look for it. And the result is known: he not only found it, but also decided to use it for one of the Top2000 shows. Obviously, Leo is not only our national pop professor who looks beyond what's hot and hip, but also an extremely kind person to take such a request seriously. Hero of the year, as far as I am concerned!

All the best,

Marco de Niet
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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

In the Eighties I was drafted and bought all BJH Seventies studio albums in Germany for bargain prices. I had already purchased the two live albums Live and Live Tapes and I have to say that I was rather disappointed about the difference between BJH in the studio (beautiful but very mellow) and on stage (more powerful and a more lush sound). That's the reason why I have only bought their first studio album on CD (remastered) eaturing the great epic Dark Now My Sky and many bonustracks with strong hints from ... The Moody Blues and other Sixties bands.
 


I agree about the difference between BJH in the studio and live, I heard their studio work first so the  difference was interesting for me especially since the first time I heard them live was at a gig earlier this year. I do hope that the planned DVD is released ASAP. Big smile
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Points: 5871 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2006 at 13:57

^ just listened to it(I mean DEBUT)...only first 3 tracks.Good ballads - the second one with mighty Tron and the next one...Gonna continue listening in the next year!
    

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In the Eighties I was drafted and bought all BJH Seventies studio albums in Germany for bargain prices. I had already purchased the two live albums Live and Live Tapes and I have to say that I was rather disappointed about the difference between BJH in the studio (beautiful but very mellow) and on stage (more powerful and a more lush sound). That's the reason why I have only bought their first studio album on CD (remastered) eaturing the great epic Dark Now My Sky and many bonustracks with strong hints from ... The Moody Blues and other Sixties bands.
 
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Points: 1324 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2006 at 12:57
Live is definitely a good introduction to early BJH Clap

I'm the proud owner of a copy signed by John and Woolly (I've also got signed copies of Once Again and Time Honoured Ghosts) Big smile
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