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Topic: Mike Batt Posted: March 11 2011 at 11:44
Just joining (about 15 minutes ago) your excellent website, I must say that I´m a little bit surprised not finding any serious article about Mike Batt. Mike Batt is PROG. Period. What´s wrong with you guys!
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Posted: March 11 2011 at 11:56
To be honest, I really don't like Mike Batt or anything he's touched. Nothing personal, just find him tiresome and derivative, including Justin Haywards Classic Blue. I haven't forgiven him for All Around My Hat in 36 years and I'm in no mind to start now.
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Posted: March 11 2011 at 12:22
Thank God. This is a serious site. I hate the guy. Just listened to Marsian chronicles by Solaris (hungarian band). They still sound great. Now I will get drunk. After all it´s friday : )
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Posted: April 20 2011 at 13:27
This posting has just been moved from a different forum to here. I didn't know that there was already a Mike Batt discussion thread when I wrote this post.
I haven't posted for many months now (since the accident) and I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right forum but....in the March issue of Classic Rock Presents Prog, there is a substantial feature on Mike Batt. After reading this article, I bought the albums Schizophonia and The Tarot Suite. The magazine describes these works as, 'prog-ish rock with world music textures and neo-classical ambition.' After listening to both albums several times I am inclined to agree with this summation. I know that Mike Batt is not included in Prog Archives, but that (in my mind) doesn't make him any less prog. I know that Batt has produced an enormous range of music over the years - most of which could never be described as prog (the Wombles, Bright Eyes etc), but there are quite a few artists included here that produced proggish albums even though they are not normally considered to be prog.
On the strength of the two Mike Batt albums listed above, should his position in the world of prog be reappraised. Please don't decide one way or the other until you have had an opportunity to listen to the albums?
Edited by Green Shield Stamp - April 20 2011 at 15:40
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Posted: April 20 2011 at 14:39
Dean wrote:
To be honest, I really don't like Mike Batt or anything he's touched. Nothing personal, just find him tiresome and derivative, including Justin Haywards Classic Blue. I haven't forgiven him for All Around My Hat in 36 years and I'm in no mind to start now.
Puzzled by this. I presume we are talking about Steeleye Spans (other) seasonal hit?
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Posted: April 20 2011 at 14:53
richardh wrote:
Dean wrote:
To be honest, I really don't like Mike Batt or anything he's touched. Nothing personal, just find him tiresome and derivative, including Justin Haywards Classic Blue. I haven't forgiven him for All Around My Hat in 36 years and I'm in no mind to start now.
Puzzled by this. I presume we are talking about Steeleye Spans (other) seasonal hit?
Mike Batt produced both the album and the single by Steeleye Span called 'All Around My Hat' - personnaly I didn't like either, even though I liked their previous albums quite a lot. If you are referring to 'Gaudete', that was from 'Below the Salt' three years earlier and nothing to do with Mr Batt.
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Posted: April 21 2011 at 06:08
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Sorry Dean. My mistake. The other album I was thinking of was Tony McPhee's 1968 pre-Groundhogs album The Devil and Me.
This is interesting stuff
Looking deeper, McPhee also appears on Hapshash & The Coloured Coat's Western Flier album with Batt and on Batt's Tarot Suite album, along with Chris Spedding (who, if I remember correctly, was also a Womble - his famous white Gibson Flying V on TOTP gave the game away a tad).
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Posted: April 22 2011 at 03:05
Dean wrote:
richardh wrote:
Dean wrote:
To be honest, I really don't like Mike Batt or anything he's touched. Nothing personal, just find him tiresome and derivative, including Justin Haywards Classic Blue. I haven't forgiven him for All Around My Hat in 36 years and I'm in no mind to start now.
Puzzled by this. I presume we are talking about Steeleye Spans (other) seasonal hit?
Mike Batt produced both the album and the single by Steeleye Span called 'All Around My Hat' - personnaly I didn't like either, even though I liked their previous albums quite a lot. If you are referring to 'Gaudete', that was from 'Below the Salt' three years earlier and nothing to do with Mr Batt.
Its still a puzzling comment to me though. Steeleye Span wrote the song yet you are blaming Batt for it? Did he produce it badly? For the record I do actually like this song.Use to be one of my favourites as a kid. Love that 'chugging' rhythm and Maddy's voice.
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Posted: April 22 2011 at 03:07
richardh wrote:
Dean wrote:
richardh wrote:
Dean wrote:
To be honest, I really don't like Mike Batt or anything he's touched. Nothing personal, just find him tiresome and derivative, including Justin Haywards Classic Blue. I haven't forgiven him for All Around My Hat in 36 years and I'm in no mind to start now.
Puzzled by this. I presume we are talking about Steeleye Spans (other) seasonal hit?
Mike Batt produced both the album and the single by Steeleye Span called 'All Around My Hat' - personnaly I didn't like either, even though I liked their previous albums quite a lot. If you are referring to 'Gaudete', that was from 'Below the Salt' three years earlier and nothing to do with Mr Batt.
Its still a puzzling comment to me though. Steeleye Span wrote the song yet you are blaming Batt for it? Did he produce it badly? For the record I do actually like this song.Use to be one of my favourites as a kid. Love that 'chugging' rhythm and Maddy's voice.
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