TRAPEZE for inclusion?
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Topic: TRAPEZE for inclusion?
Posted By: Gluonio
Subject: TRAPEZE for inclusion?
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 17:16
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Does anyone know them?If yes should they be included?I've only heard their debut album and i think it is a beautifull proto-prog album!They were on Threshold records and their producer was Lohn Lodge(Moody Blues).Band members:Glenn Hughes,Mel Galley,Dave Holland<Terry Rowley,John Jones. ------------- ...But my dreams are for dreaming and best left that way-and my zero to your power of ten equals nothing at all... |
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 17:37
| I've not heard Trapeze's first album, yet judging by the albums I have heard- 'Medusa' and 'Hold On'- I would not call them prog rock; they are a hard rock band akin to Free. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 18:05
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No chance - because somebody suggested something similar here many months ago, I bought a 2nd hand double CD by Trapeze, On The Highwire (Castle Records), with has their 1979 and 1998 albums respectivley, Hold On and Trapeze Live: Way Back To The Bone. Sorry to say not prog as I know it, closer to being a 2nd class Deep Purple. BTW because a band owns a labels, is no reason to assume the artists they sign will be playing the same music - check out Manticore (e.g. Stray Dog was Texas blues) or Private Music (own by at least one of Tangerine Dream) had Taj Mahal on its books. |
Posted By: Gluonio
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 18:29
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I guess you are right ,but i've only heard their first album(and to be honest i thought it was their only release) which came out in 1970 and for sure it's nothin like Deep Purple,from what i heard they sound more like atomic rooster,but maybe it was just an one album thing!Thanks anyway... ------------- ...But my dreams are for dreaming and best left that way-and my zero to your power of ten equals nothing at all... |
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Posted By: The Ryan
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 19:12
| I don't know why this post was started at all. It's clearly plain hard/classic rock. |
Posted By: The Rock
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 22:52
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I have no trouble at all with Trapeze being included here.Not that they are 100% prog,but if bands like Uriah Heep and Atomic Rooster are in thw archives,why not.And on the same token,why is Deep Purple not in the Archives?Golden Earring is another candidate. |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: July 03 2005 at 23:12
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Medusa is a classic along the lines of Black
Sabbath's Paranoid, dark, hard rock for the early 70's, with intelligent psychedelic lyrics. Medusa should be as famous as Paranoid! BTW Geddy Lee wishes he was Glenn Hughes! 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 05:47
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Never really got into Trapeze!!! not really prog either! There are a few Britsish bands I never really got into past owning one or two albums and getting rid of them since they cluttered my shelf space. Among others: Edgar Broughton Band , Spooky Tooth (way over-rated), Stray (average R'nR), Trapeze , Budgie , Mott The hoople (even after Bowie picked them up) and a few more I cannot even remember.... guess that says it all! Not that I think those bands were bad, just I never got into them! agree with The Rock's point of view about Purple and G Earring if A R and U H .
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Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: July 05 2005 at 07:16
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I really like Medusa but thank god Glenn Hughes doesnt sound like Geddy Lee!! The track 'Seafull' is gorgeous
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