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    Posted: July 26 2004 at 09:19

I've mentioned this game elsewhere a couple of weeks ago, but let's see how this flies here. The idea is stolen from Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show on BBC Radio 1 in the late 70's, where a listener got to nominate and then have played 3 tracks on the air, which were connected. In fact, any reasonable connection you could think of, e.g. album title, common band members, relationship in the track titles - Earth, Fire & Wind came up once - etc..

One problem I've got, is that there is no way I can provide three mp3 tracks, so therefore I suggest compilers should list three tune titles, without band names or album titles. For a simple example to start the ball rolling and break my own rulesLOL,  what connects The (Chicago) Climax Blues Band, Arthur Lee and Starcastle?
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Connection: All had albums called "Real To reel" - as did others.......

 

Another?

 

Machine's Third, Who's Who's Next, Curved Air's Live?
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2004 at 15:44

Try these;

What connects 10CC, the Beatles, Underworld, ABBA and Simon and Garfunkel?

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Points: 12818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 03 2004 at 19:57
Toughie in some respects (but Curved Air's name could give it away): Terry Riley. While Townshend and Ratledge were into minimalist music, using Riley-like music to prefaced tunes on those albums, Francis Monkman's keyboard solo on Propositions (found on CA's Live or the Decca compo Legend Of A Mind) takes in several bars from Rainbow In CA.
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2004 at 14:53

Dick,

I did try, but nowhere near.Cry I guess the Who link also could be through "Baba O'Riley!"LOL
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Points: 12818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2004 at 07:34
Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Dick,

I did try, but nowhere near.Cry I guess the Who link also could be through "Baba O'Riley!"LOL



Thats the main one
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Dick,

I did try, but nowhere near.Cry I guess the Who link also could be through "Baba O'Riley!"LOL



Thats the main one

Sorry to be thick (as a brick!) then, was there a "Riley" on Third somewhere?
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Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

Dick,

I did try, but nowhere near.Cry I guess the Who link also could be through "Baba O'Riley!"LOL



Thats the main one

Sorry to be thick (as a brick!) then, was there a "Riley" on Third somewhere?

 

Rather Ratledge doing a Rileyist cyclic opening on one track of Third. I've just discovered in the forthcoming Soft Machine biography, that the Riley/Soft Machine connection goes even further, with Daevid Allen working and recording with Terry Riley when both were based in Paris in the mid-60's. Allen too pulled in Kevin Ayers to work with Riley but I don't think record. And meanwhile Mike Ratledge whilst at Oxford Uni found time to come under the influence of a couple of British minimalist  composers working there. One of these guys was commissioned by the BBC, 2 or 3 years later to pull together the first late night Prom Concert (then called the Pop Prom) at the Albert Hall and he invited the Soft Machine to perform in part two of the show, while part one featured work by minimalist composers including Riley and Tim Souster.
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