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Kingsnake 
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Posted: December 12 2016 at 04:38 |
For all things Eloy. Let's dicuss this great band and its offshoots: Detlev Schmidtgen (solo) Ego on the Rocks (Jürgen Rosenthal and Detlef Schmidtchen) Echo Park (Jürgen Rosenthal, Jan Nemec, Klaus Peter Matziol, Hannes Folberth) KPM (Klaus Peter Matziol with Hannes Arkona and Hannes Folberth) Matze (Klaus Peter Matizol with Jan Nemec and Jürgen Rosenthal) Wacholder (krautrock featuring Michael Gerlach) Shade - Faust the Rockballett (Jim McGillivray, Klaus Peter Matziol, Hannes Arkona, Hannes Folberth, Jürgen Rosenthal and Jan Nemec) Let's have some fun!
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Posted: December 12 2016 at 10:10 |
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Can somebody explain to me why Ocean is considered better than Silent Cries... ? Is it the lyrics perhaps? After two listens I still don't get this album. Silent Cries... on the other hand is great.
Also, I've heard there's a new album coming out next year.
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 04:12 |
I've always rated Silent Cries and Dawn higher than Ocean. But that's my personal taste. Of course Ocean is a very special album; almost a blueprint of progressive spacerock.
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 04:17 |
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ask me 25 years ago - Eloy were the perfect accompaniment for any stoner session.........yes, Floating, Ocean, Silent Cries, Planets, Time To Turn..............just perfect..............
.......and to this day, Eloy are amongst my fave Psych/Space band........
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 04:26 |
For the Eloy-albums Planets and Time to Turn, the recordlabels used different artworks. EMI/Harvest used the Winfried Reinbacher-pictures, while Heavy Metal Worldwide used Rodney Matthews-pictures for the UK-release. HM used a lot of stock-pictures for their releases, and for Eloy it worked well. For Metromania they used a Matthews-cover worldwide. As for Planets/Time to Turn both versions (Matthews and Reinbacher) are great, so I cannot really decide, wich one I like best. Here they are: Planets Time to Turn: The LP's were divided in halfs; one half as frontsleeve and one half as backsleeve.
Edited by Kingsnake - December 15 2016 at 04:34
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 04:52 |
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The cover art win me over in both camps.......
But, the Rodney Matthews arts - Time To Turn is clear vinyl. They replaced a Magic Mirrors with a track from. Colours. Order notwithstanding........ Planets was fine.
Covers always determined the 'trip' factor of an album. Or course, that goes back a bit, but it's undeniable, and it still brushes over to this day and age.............
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 04:55 |
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^ Typos suck............especially with a 'bung' eye infection, and whatever.....
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 05:03 |
I don't care fot typos, it's the message that counts.
I grew up liking Eloy with the Winfried-covers. He also design Colours and Silent Cries, so it sorta fits the Eloy music.
Later on, I discovered the Matthews-covers, but I never actually owned any of these lp's.
I did own the Winfried-covers, so they kinda stuck with music. Especially when reading the backstory and the lyrics.
I never knew the screwed up the order and replaced songs. That's new news to me.
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 07:09 |
Amazing band with 6 great albums in a row, from Dawn thru Time to Turn, with a few others outside that period that were great (Inside, Ocean 2). Spacey and symphonic at once. While they at turns sounded like Tull, Floyd, Alan Parsons, Yes, and BJH, they nonetheless had their own imprint on the style. Artwork certainly helped fulfill the fantasy.
My personal favorites are Inside, Dawn, Colours, Planets, and Time to Turn. Maybe 2 inferior tracks on the 4 albums. While I enjoy Ocean and Silent Cries, Ocean is a bit too sprawling and Silent Cries a bit too Floydian
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 07:13 |
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Except Dawn and Performance, I own all their albums from 1973 to 1984
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Kingsnake
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 07:16 |
It's also the musicians that count. Eloy had the a few of the best drummers in prog: Jürgen Rosenthal, Fritz Randow and Jim McGilivray, whereas Jürgen was the most inventive one.
Also Klaus-Peter Matziol is one of the best bassist I have heard in prog. And he was almost on any Eloy album.
As for the keyboardist; Detlev Schmidtgen and Hannes Folberth are amongst the best keyboardist I know. Michael Gerlach is okay, but not as superb as Detlev and Hannes. They really brought that spacey sound to Eloy.
The early years featured organist Manfred Wieczorke, wich I have never seen in any other band. He was okay, really psychedelic, he fit the old sound very well, but I prefer Hannes or Detlev.
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 07:50 |
 Kingsnake wrote:
The early years featured organist Manfred Wieczorke, wich I have never seen in any other band. He was okay, really psychedelic, he fit the old sound very well, but I prefer Hannes or Detlev. |
Manfred joined "Jane" a well known progressive Hardrock band after he left Eloy. He also had a band called Firehorse which made just one Album. He also recorded a lot with Detlef Schmidtchen (also Eloy) and made some solo Albums.
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 07:59 |
I actually know Jane very well. used to listen to them a lot, because they sound like Floating and Inside-era Eloy. Didn't know they shared the same organist. Maybe that's why they have the same sound. Great, now I feel like listening to some Jane again.
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 08:01 |
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I thought Between Heaven and Hell was a great album by Jane
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 08:16 |
Manfred is at least on the "Live at Home" album and some Studio ones (1 or 2) at that time. "Between Heaven and Hell" and "Age of Madness" I think.
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 11:03 |
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^ Correct on all counts, and my favourite Jane period, coz it's reminiscent of Eloy, a harder edged, bluesy Eloy.
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 12:56 |
Somewhat overlooked from the Hannover Germany Rock scene is the Warlock project by English man Jon Symon aka Rasputin (he lived in Hannover). He made a Prog Rock album called "Warlock - Memories Of A White Magician" which featured Matziol, Schmidtchen and McGilivray from Eloy. There is also a live album of that record (with almost the same cover) that features him backed by Jane musicians (the Lady Jane formation). If you like early Eloy you might also like this Swiss band (Magic Spell) Fritz Randow also played in Jane (at a later phase)
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 13:06 |
I love most of Eloy's albums. The only ones I don't like much are Silent Cries and Planets.
Floating and Inside are a couple of my all time favorite albums.
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Posted: December 15 2016 at 22:15 |
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Randow also played on an album by the band SAXON !!
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Kingsnake
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Posted: December 16 2016 at 01:41 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
Randow also played on an album by the band SAXON !! |
Yes I know.
Randow was really a heavy metal drummer. There were already traces of proto-metal drumming on Inside and Floating. He played in more metalbands I believe. And on Metromania het played some double kick bassdrums on Follow the Light.
Also on the Cronicles albums he plays more heavy than before. I prefer the playful style of Jürgen Rosenthal though. And of course Bodo Schöpf.
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