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moshkito 
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Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 17509 |
 Topic: Man a Really Underrated GroupPosted: March 13 2010 at 13:01 |
You want to get the "Be Good To Yourself At Least Once a Day" album, which, yeah ... is closer to that one even in design ... 4 cuts, 2 on each side of the album (now a CD) ... and one of the best right off the bat is their anthem called "C'mon" which gets a doubled up version in the next album "Back Into the Future" and it has one of the prettiest guitar suport/solos that I have ever heard, and you want to listen to that middle section carefully as the little touches here and there by Mickey and the responses and adds by Deke Leonard are awesome and then some.
And if you get bored, you can always get that Male Choir, which supposedly is the crew that was/became Monty Python under the direction of Neil Innes in their college days drunk or otherwise, but I am not sure of the veracity of that. And rumor has it that's the same folks that had fun with Pink Floyd for 5 minutes! And Neil Innes is not talking about rubber dux much more either!
But what do I know? Edited by moshkito - March 13 2010 at 13:04 |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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ExittheLemming
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Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415 |
Posted: March 11 2010 at 13:55 |
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I'm not familiar with much of their work but do own Do You Like It Here Now Are You settling In and love that critter to bits. Is that album typical of large swathes of their output ?
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Alberto Muņoz
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Joined: July 26 2006 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 3577 |
Posted: March 11 2010 at 13:52 |
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The Truth
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 19 2009 Location: Kansas Status: Offline Points: 21795 |
Posted: December 24 2009 at 20:43 |
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They are not underrated on this site, but overall I feel VDGG needed more recognition, Hammill is such an amazing musician and recieves little credit for it.
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moshkito
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Posted: December 24 2009 at 17:49 |
That version of MONA ... is unreal ...
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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moshkito
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Posted: December 24 2009 at 17:47 |
I think there is ... Nektar was actually from England, and I think that some of the names are listed in the album sleeve that had the family trees for all these ... and that list even includes Mick Jagger, Gentle Giant, Dave Edmunds and many others ... Nektar became based in Germany a bit later.
Man being appreciated in Germany is not a surprise since they were/are known for some extended jams and songs, and if there is an audience in the world that loves that ... I would say that the Germans are the best at appreciating improvisations and experiments ... I really don't think they were appreciated enough in their own home land ... and I am not sure that there are enough bands that had tried as hard as they did ... but one guitarist that will be missed ... is definitly Mickey ... almost no one could float all over the place and sound so nice and good as he did ... and make Deke Leonard sound better! Edited by moshkito - December 24 2009 at 17:48 |
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Alberto Muņoz
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Posted: October 27 2009 at 21:24 |
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Bump!!!
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Hogweed57
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Joined: September 16 2009 Location: Durham Status: Offline Points: 59 |
Posted: October 03 2009 at 13:18 |
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yea agreed Man were indeed a great band as has been said they and nektar were true prog twins very similar but different enough so to speak. I always felt Man reminded me of the Greatful Dead in that they were incredible musos and knew how to extend a song live without going off on too much of a tangent Ah memories!!
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Be safe be happy
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Adams Bolero
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Posted: October 03 2009 at 12:17 |
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Man are great; ''We're Only Children'' is one of my favourite songs.
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TODDLER
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Posted: October 03 2009 at 07:51 |
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Man 1999 Party tour in the summer of 1974. Hawkwind and MAN were together on this tour and played in Philadelphia that summer. Man 1999 Party Tour is a worthwhile cd. Man(self titled) originally on the United Artist label and Are You Settling IN? are off the cuff albums for Man. Be Good TO yOURSELF and Back To The Future are my personal favorites. I discovered Man, Hawkwind, and Can all the same time when they were on the United Artist label here in America. All 3 bands were on this domestic label, while Guru, Guru, Lucifer's Friend, Amon DULL II and Neu were on another domestic label Billingsgate records. These bands were actually given the chance to sell their records in the U.S back in the 70's.
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Alberto Muņoz
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Posted: October 03 2009 at 03:17 |
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Listen to Manillo excelent track with a rockin tempo angry lyrics and a sense of deseperation and resignation but with a power feel of i have the best in my innerself
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Rivertree
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Honorary Collaborator / Band Submissions Joined: March 22 2006 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 17627 |
Posted: July 19 2009 at 08:07 |
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7171551
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Posted: July 19 2009 at 07:48 |
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Actually the estimated dates here are incorrect it was 1992...Bassist is/ was the late Ray Williams...Roger Hoodless ( roadie) and yes Tweke is here too....
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Rivertree
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Posted: April 24 2009 at 02:25 |
 This was probably the first time the band performed in Herford, my little hometown in Germany and at that time famous for the 'Jaguar Club' I was a little bit too young for being aware of them in 1970 - but they came back a few times later and I could enjoy their fantastic live presence - once together with NEKTAR for example  |
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el dingo
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Posted: April 23 2009 at 15:05 |
Yes and no, get Deke Leonard from the Humbug/Zebra (whatever you called it); John Weathers on drums def, Micky Jones is self-evident (& having a bit of a bop as he always did); Martin Ace too. I honestly don't recognise the "missing person" 'cos I never saw the band with Tweke Lewis (tho I did with both Phil Ryan and Terry Williams). I really tried but it could be Robert Fripp for all i know
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Rivertree
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Posted: April 23 2009 at 14:11 |
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Feltham Rox, somewhere in the 80's (1983/1984?) - does anybody know who is on the stage here?
I only recognize 'Pugwash' Weathers, Deke Leonard, Mickey Jones ... and Martin Ace later at the end probably one of them is Tweke Lewis? not the best version of Spunk Rock - but an interesting line-up anyhow ... a mixture from some bands which played that venue probably ... Edited by Rivertree - April 23 2009 at 14:13 |
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el dingo
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Joined: October 08 2008 Location: Norwich UK Status: Offline Points: 7053 |
Posted: April 23 2009 at 11:26 |
Yes you're right. I think it was the Patti Pavilion in Swansea and if I'm not wrong it came out as a limited edition 10-inch - or something like that.
An older friend of mine bought it - I think it was a to be paid for "gift" to the ManFans as we were called, but I never owned it 'cos I couldn't afford it at the time.
Je Je that must be a real collectors' item now
Keep on Crintin - or whatever they call it these days.
And, yes, I do remember "Eddie Waring" - Man played it at Dagenham Roundhouse in 1972/3. What a homage to rugby it almost was.
PS I'm so glad other folks on PA appreciate what was always to me a very fine band.
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It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough.
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Alberto Muņoz
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Posted: April 23 2009 at 10:31 |
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Yes man shoudl deserve a really more attention.
Favourites of mine:
2 Oz
Man
Do you Like It
Maximun Darkness
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Rivertree
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Posted: April 23 2009 at 09:52 |
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the MAN and NEKTAR members felt like brothers in arms for some time - they toured and jammed together ...
as for the Welsh Connection ... at least one event took place at Swansea in 1972 where Help Yourself (with Leonard) played the stunning jam 'Eddie Waring' Christmas At The Patti  |
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el dingo
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Posted: April 23 2009 at 09:34 |
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I reckon that Revelation and 2ozs were, OK, psychedelic, but when the lineup changed they got more into the guitar-orientated stuff which I love so much.
No way am I trying to get Brownie Guide points here but I used to work with Ken Whaley's dad (also Ken, a photographer) and I remember when Ken Jr left Help Yourself to join Man Ken Sr was really worried for him 'cos of their "reputation"
 Any father (like me) would be. You're dead right about the incestuous music scene - Help Yourself used to tour with a Welsh band called Slapp Happy but the Nektar connection had nothing to do with geography - Roye D'Albrighton (or however he really spells his name) and the rest of Nektar were based in Germany where Man used to play a lot.
There's not (to my knowledge) a Welsh Connection
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