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Points: 282 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 20:54
The band certainly have an interesting history of musicians. On the track 'Feeling Bad' from 'Spooky Two', the unmistakenly voice of one Mr Joe Cocker can be heard singing in the chorous!

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I was a Spooky Tooth fan from way early in their career.  The final album with Gary Wright ("The Mirror") was freakin' awesome.  I never knew that Keith Emerson ever played for them - surprises me because I thought I knew everything in progressive rock's happenings in the 70s.  I just got onto ST's web site's history and here's what it says about Keith's Spooky adventure:

They auditioned Keith Emerson on keyboards and he joined until in Hamburg, Luther put a slimming pill in Keith's bottle of coca-cola. Halfway through the set Emerson could be seen, enthusiastically shaking his hammond organ backwards & forwards, fascinated by the war-like explosion sounds coming out of the amp! thus was born a seed of E.L.P... some months later Emerson left to form The Nice.

Too funny!  Someone then "broke his heart so he busted their jaw!"

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Points: 7028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 19:43
Spooky Tooth are a great band and like Curved Air, Wishbone Ash should be included on this site. Given time I am sure they will be added!!!
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 19:28
Autocorrection: their fantastic second album is called Spooky Two
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 19:27

Spooky Tooth was mentioned a few times on the forum, but not in depth. 

I love their second album Spooky Tooth (1968)! Great organ and drums, two fantastic soulful voices.

I like Curved Air as well, especially Phantasmagoria (1972)
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 19:26
Originally posted by Tommy Tommy wrote:

Phew! I was beginning to think I was the only real prog lover on here!


Nah, there's quite a few of us... our posts get a little swamped at times, though.
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Points: 282 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 19:24
Phew! I was beginning to think I was the only real prog lover on here!

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Points: 231 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 19:21

Around these forums, you will find improper recognition of mediocre bands(Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree), but also absence of notice when it comes to excellent classic prog rockers, like Curved Air.

Air Cut is a great album, intense colorful soundscapes on 'Metamorphosis'. My favourite.
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Points: 5964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 19:21
Never heard of Spooky Tooth but I rather like Curved Air. It amazes me how underrated the album "Phantasmagoria" is. It contains most of my favourite Curved Air material!
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Points: 282 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2005 at 19:08
Just curious why these two bands don't get any recognition on this forum? These two great bands were the forefathers of prog rock, well before King Crimson [always baffles me why some think they were the original prog band] & The Nice came along. In fact Keith Emerson was a member of Spooky Tooth before joining The Nice.

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