Obscure Prog Facts

^That's interesting......is it a decent song...? And who the heck is Colin Scott...?

Edited by dr wu23 - May 31 2018 at 18:57

seriously though... Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield was the first item in the Virgin Records catalog.


Edited by Lamneth - May 24 2018 at 13:57

ForestFriend wrote: Textbook wrote: Also on the Tull facts, Ian Anderson played a flute for the first time only six months before recording This Was. He had previously been a lead guitarist but dissatisfied with his progress on the instrument, and seeking to create a difference from the many anonymous blues rock bands on the pub circuit, picked up a flute. I don't know if anyone mentioned this in the 7 years and 50 pages since this post, but Martin Barre went the opposite direction; starting on woodwinds and moving to guitar. He even plays flute on a few tracks on Stand Up. You can see him playing a flute duet with Ian on this version of Bourée:

Actually, I read a few years ago, since the break-up between Ian Anderson and Martin Barre, that on the shows Barre had been doing of Jethro Tull songs (yeah, he got to form his band and tour material from the band) he himself had been playing the flute.

For the sake of accuracy, Les Harvey was electrocuted at The Top Rank in Swansea.

Rednight wrote: ^A UK act touring universities around the UK. How rare!

The obscure facts, wise guy, are any details about such an obscure band's live activities.

UK Prog Band Strange Days did a UK University circuit tour with the Andy Fraser Band in support of their album Nine Parts To The Wind.

Edited by presdoug - May 13 2017 at 06:13

Belgian pressings of Procol Harum’s “Home” (LP and cassette) from the 1970s gave the album title as “Whoosh!”, obviously because somebody in Belgium’s division of Cube Records mistook one of the comic-book sound effects on the cover for the title, in spite of the actual title being positioned right under the band’s name.  Go figure.  Discounted copies of those Belgian pressings and those of “Shine on Brightly” turned up in American record shops in the 1980s.

^ That's pretty cool, Friede.
Only seen the Hawks once, got a t-shirt. Saw Hammill twice. I got a VDGG t-shirt.
Other band shirts I have - Chicago, Anekdoten, several Yes, Meshuggah, Anglagard, Ozrics, Zappa, several Floyd, an Ian Gillan one (probs small for me now) and a home-made Can 'Future Days' shirt.

^ Still see them occasionally, mostly on 40+ y.o. women.
I've got a Kajagoogoo t-shirt - has a really cool 'caricature' pic of the band on it. Now they are my fave Pop group from that era. Put it down to the already advanced bass-skills of one Nick Beggs........

^ The dude with the girl's name ?? Doesn't surprise me........
I saw some footage of their 'shock' stage performance and it was quite disturbing - I imagine they look like they belong in some dodgey, underground, homo-bondage cult night-club sausage-fest. I'm not homophobic, but these guys scare me - hey, they're probably the coolest guys in the world, but........