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    Posted: September 29 2005 at 09:17

Anyone ever heard this early '70s prog band?  Lee Jackson (bass and vocals with the Nice) and Mike Giles were members early on.....a prog pal recommended them and I saw a copy of their 5th Street Bus album at a reasonable price in a used record shop today.  My pal describes them as a cross between Kevin Ayers and Jethro Tull....sort of like Spyrogyra with a little more "oooomph".  Would love to hear some reviews or find links to get more info (there ain't much on the web on 'em).

 

 
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Try these links:

http://www.rockinworld.com/psyche/j/855.htm

http://www.davesrecords.com/rock.htm


http://www.musicstack.com/   then search


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Points: 20412 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2005 at 09:29
Originally posted by Intruder Intruder wrote:

Anyone ever heard this early '70s prog band?  Lee Jackson (bass and vocals with the Nice) and Mike Giles were members early on.....a prog pal recommended them and I saw a copy of their 5th Street Bus album at a reasonable price in a used record shop today.  My pal describes them as a cross between Kevin Ayers and Jethro Tull....sort of like Spyrogyra with a little more "oooomph".  Would love to hear some reviews or find links to get more info (there ain't much on the web on 'em).

 

 

That very album you speak of is the only one I heard! Barely prog if you ask me and awful vocals (i think Jackson found somebody as bad as he was to help him out for the vocals) . Comparison to Ayers and the rockier side of Tull are apt! 

But nothing like Spirogyra> those guys (and one doll) were full acid folk-prog !!

But if you have links to help us out to find more...... please feel free!!!

\As far as I know this Fifth Avenue Bus is the only one to have been released on Cd : in the early 90's on the German Repertoire label!



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Points: 166 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2005 at 09:34
Bump'n'Grind was a nice album but not really prog. I seem to recall buying it in a bargain bin donkey's years ago. The title track is a real beauty and the cover was the stuff of teenage fantasy!
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Points: 463 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2005 at 10:42

I have a copy of 5th Street Bus and thatīs only late 60īs/early 70īs pop rock, nothing really prog!

In this album (Iīm not sure if also in the other 3 of thew band) is featured Brian Chatton on keyboards, who was the Flaming Youth (Phil Collins band before Genesis) keys man.
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Points: 376 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2005 at 11:47
I used to have a copy of their King Progress LP on vinyl.

Not really prog but I was very fond of quite a few tracks on the album. I particularly liked the title song (with typical hippie 'ecological' lyrics), Since I Last Saw You (a moody acoustic ballad) and Sunshine Freak (as the title suggests a very upbeat summery pop song with a great bass line).

They used to have a Mexican acoustic guitarist who was pretty good from what I remember.
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Points: 3928 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 29 2005 at 13:15
I had one of their albums a while back on MGM- it was an American copy. I can't remember what the album was called, but it had a song called 'To Catch A Thief', which was really good, but the rest was standard 70s rock.
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Sounds like they're musicians with prog backgrounds who've taken off into the pop-rock field.  Nothing wrong with that....but I think I'll pass on picking up the album.  Sounds like a real find for a collector though (the CD is on Japanese independent label....the record shop is in Seoul, where I live).
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Points: 20412 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2005 at 03:23

I had a re-listen to theonly record I have at disposal: Fifth Avenue

 

It has Mike Giles as guest on drums (you can really hear his typical style too) > but McBurnie is the main songwriter and main singer (at least on that album).

There are some really good tracks (but never excellent) of which Sweet Hill Tunnel clocks in at close to 9 mins.  Tramp and Autumn Brigade are also clever.

 

Actually on the strenght of this album (since I have never even seen the others, let alone heard them) , they could have a space allocated on the Archives.
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Points: 20412 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 19 2005 at 03:29

As an aside , I was at a record fair last sunday, saw this album (5th ave) on vinyl , but also saw Brian Davidson's Every Which Way  - his band after the Nice broke up and before Refugee. It looked progressive enough with two tracks above the 9 min mark , and a cool artwork sleeve (I think they made 2 albums), but was priced way too expensive (around € 40 ) for me to buy it blindly!

Does anyone know what this album sounds like?
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