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Roj 
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 02 2008 Location: Manchester, UK Status: Offline Points: 3126 |
 Topic: Best Steve Hillage AlbumPosted: July 10 2008 at 11:46 |
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My vote definitely goes to Rainbow Dome Music, the ultimate chillout album. It may be about 30 years old but it is still by far the best IMHO.
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trackstoni
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Joined: February 23 2008 Location: Lebanon Status: Offline Points: 934 |
Posted: June 22 2008 at 17:10 |
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By the way , Tszirmay was right about Shamal , this album was the best achievment of GONG , and the world Shamal is an arabic word , means Left . But still , Fish Rising was the best release since 1970 , as a studio album , and Live Herald as live recording ............................... Tracks Toni |
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trackstoni
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Joined: February 23 2008 Location: Lebanon Status: Offline Points: 934 |
Posted: June 22 2008 at 16:52 |
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I voted for Fishrising , I n fact when i joined Progarchieves activities few months ago , i was trying very hard to follow all proggers opinion , from all around the world . It was really impressing , as an old progger , to find that i was nearly right , since the first beginning of my dream .
Open was & still my favourite album , it contains something valuable from the Middle East ( specially
Arabic countries ) The masterpiece of our Star of Egypt Oum Koulthoum , and Steve Hillage was able to
open new dimensions for this Materpiece ----- IL'ALB YA'SHAK KOUL JAMIL , the meaning is , the heart
loves all beautiful things ........
Then why the hell i voted for Fish Rising , simply as a solo artist , Fish Rising was the most important release of 1975 . I really loved this album since that time , and believe me i still , the hippie from
outerspace , was really amazing in this work . Live Herald was also one of my favourite at the end of the 70's , L was satisfying , and Green is wonderful . With Gong line - up , steve did a good performance in those few albums , but not as a composer , as the solo works brings more challenging ideas , to create a
good music . So , Fish Rising deserves for sure to be the best Hillage album ................
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PinkPangolin
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Joined: May 26 2006 Location: Somerset (UK) Status: Offline Points: 213 |
Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:12 |
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Fish Rising - total hippy freak-out
Personally Live Herald is my favourite (but it isn't listed) as I had a copy when I was so so young (before I even knew Steve Hillage was in Gong!) - so it has a sentimental meaning to me |
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A B Negative
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 11:33 |
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My favourite is Sons and Fascination / Sister Feelings Call by Simple Minds.
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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Dick Heath
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Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12812 |
Posted: June 20 2008 at 10:27 |
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How about favourite albums of which Hillage was the producer but don't feature him as the lead musician of the recording? I would go for Rachid Taha's
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markosherrera
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Posted: June 19 2008 at 22:14 |
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Hi progmaniacs of all the world
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zicIy
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Posted: June 05 2008 at 03:57 |
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LOL LOL LOL
if Mr. Fripp really means that "Hendrix wasnīt a musician", iīm ought to agree with Mr. Hillage!
whoīs next on that Mr. Frippīs list of no-musicians? Allen, probably?
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Hawkwise
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Posted: June 04 2008 at 12:17 |
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I think your Wrong, but hey Different strokes for Different folk's |
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A B Negative
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Posted: June 04 2008 at 05:50 |
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Gong sans Allen is a different band playing different music and I don't think they're very good. The sense of humour is missing and the music seems exactly the same as all the other jazz-rock that fails to interest me.
There's an interview with Steve Hillage in this month's Guitar and Bass Magazine. He calls Fripp a "c**t" for saying that Hendrix wasn't a musician.
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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tszirmay
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Posted: June 04 2008 at 00:31 |
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I remember one idiot referring to everything post Allen as ..... "Diet -Gong" . I told him to keep "Quiet Dung" !
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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Hawkwise
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Posted: June 03 2008 at 11:31 |
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Nothing wrong with Shamel i think its very very good album in fact its one of my Fav Gong Albums
Babbooji and the title track are Top tunes i also saw that Line up Play live they were really really good , I also saw Gong at the Reading festival in 76 with this line up of Pierre Moerlen: Drums Didler Malherbe: Sax & Flute Mireille Bauer: Percussion Benoit Moerlen: Percussion Francis Mose: Bass Allan Holdsworth: Guitar and still to this day is one of the most memorable gigs , its the only time i have ever seen the whole audience at a Big Festival like that when headliners are playing that everyone sat down even right at the front, it created amazing atmosphere , and they played a Blinding set Holdsworth was on fire that night. and some of the Percussion playing was simply amazing , and the Jam they did for encore still sticks in my mind all these years later, I Love all the Stages of the Different GonG from the early years through the Trilogy years and beyond , vive la Gong Edited by Hawkwise - June 03 2008 at 11:37 |
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: June 03 2008 at 10:37 |
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I wouldn't particularly label "Shamal "as a bland album: it showed that there was still a lot of creativity going on in the Gong ranks after Allen's departure and in a very uneven era (in terms of inconsistent line-ups). "Shamal" is a very colorful jazz-prog item, solid and dynamic: the violinist's input is priceless, particularly in track 4 when he brings out all that tango stuff from his own country. Track 5 is just lovely. "Shamal" to me is the ultimate expression of Gong as a proper band with all its members working on a common goal without one single leader.
Kind regards.
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A B Negative
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Posted: June 03 2008 at 06:18 |
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And I'll never understand why some people prefer the bland, generic jazz-rockisms of Allen-less Gong.
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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Kord
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Posted: June 02 2008 at 07:17 |
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i would say L
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zicIy
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Posted: June 02 2008 at 03:29 |
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off the topic-please dont shoot me! btw, i will never understand why "Shamal", one of the best (studio) prog albums ever, is pissing off by 99% of progheads? ok, i understand that, for example, Camembert Eletrique, or Continental Circus, are coming from more, letīs say, "romantic" time (they were recorded these albums in France, very few people in UK were knowing for the band, Camembert Eletrique went issued in UK much later, in 1974, etc), i know how they were great at the stage coz i own "Glastonbury Fayre" (various artists album) - but one great produced, complexity, musicaly perfect studio album as "Shamal" to be so much pissed off - i canīt understand. it looks to me same like if almost all the prog fans are going to say that only great albums from Genesis are "From Genesis To Revelation" and "Trespass" and because of that -"Selling England By The Pound" - sucks!  or "Yes Album" is great, CTTE suck, "This Was" only, f**k TAAB etc...please donīt try to explain to me this phenomena about "Shamal" coz i will never understand that.  Edited by zicIy - June 02 2008 at 03:34 |
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Karyobin
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Joined: May 27 2008 Location: Sunbury Status: Offline Points: 47 |
Posted: June 02 2008 at 02:25 |
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Have to go with 'Fish Rising' but 'Rainbow Dome Music' is my 'Forecast Soundtrack' as it is perfect to do figures to without getting distracted :)
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Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
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tszirmay
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Posted: June 01 2008 at 13:39 |
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Damn hard call, as I have all on that list to ponder. Fish Rising, Green, Khan or L (Live Herald is the live option). Go with L because of the two stupendous Kasim Sulton on bass forays . Brrrr!
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: June 01 2008 at 11:42 |
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Yes, I agree. "Fisg Rising" was not his only good album, but definitely it was his best. Let's remember that most of this album's tracks had originally been conceived as part of the second Khan album, which at the end of the day, never became a reality.
Kind regards.
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A B Negative
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Posted: June 01 2008 at 08:29 |
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I voted for Angel's Egg but Live Herald is my real favourite.
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for me. for his solo output.......not trying to be original.......i am NOT a fan of HILLAGE voice