any love for Arthur Brown?

and Im thinking more along the lines of Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, while The Crazy World is probably what most people are familiar with due to the infamous song "fire", I think his later band from the early 70s Kingdom Come is a little more up my ally, namely the 3 albums "S/T" "Galactic Zoo Dossier" and "Journey", all fantastic quirkly and adventurous Prog with a great sense of humor, some of this stuff even reminds me of proto-devo-new wavy wackyness, especially the album Journey where they use a drum machine, and I especially love the song "A Scientific Experiment Lower Colonic Irrigation" off the S/T which is pretty much a song in praise of taking a dump! they use fart noises during one part of the song too,

so anyone else like this nutty band who dressed up as traffic lights?

I don't know about love, but The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (such a lame name, though), and Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come are quite a thing to listen. Very strong and wild imagination. Sometimes, it sounds like Tom Jones's progressive relative or something ...

One of my favorite bands ever!!!  And Mr. Brown is one of my heroes. Kingdom Come's "Journey" is one of my favorite albums of all time!! Songs like "Gypsy" and "Time Captives" are still 10 years ahead of their time. If you don't know Kingdom Come, you don't know dick!!

Edited by Forkface - May 13 2006 at 20:53

I like most of his work especially his work with hawkwind, which nobody has mentioned yet

I really wan't his album 'The Crazy World of Arthur Brown'.

He also played with Klaus Schultz.

To the Rock - Sam Brown's Dad is Joe Brown a sort of Rockabilly type pop singer from the sixties - nice chap.

Crazy World.... shouldn't be that hard an album to find, I its available in most the big online CD stores, the Kingdom Come reissues are easy to find as well, they're very cheap too averaging about $10 a piece, they all come with bonus tracks and great liner notes with tons of great pictures of the band, show flyers. magazine clippings, etc.

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (The album, not the band that ried to exploit the name of the album) was an icon of Proto Prog, surely oone of the best side A I ever heard and side B is strong, he goes from frantic Psychedelia as in Fire (He claimed to be "The God of Hell Fire"  to beautiful and interesting arrangements into the classic Screamin' Jay Hawkins Blues hit "I Put a Spell on You".

I ... just know him by his collaboration with Schulze.