first song in my youtube "pop music" mix, can't complain with a bit of Hatfield. This has always been my highlight of this album along with the Son of Homerton suite.
I saw this tour in '75. When they were playing "Anyway" at the instrumental bombastic break, they got off time, half the band went one way, other half the other, but they quickly got back in sync just showing that even the greats have a wayward moment.
I saw this tour in January of '75 in New Orleans. They played a small city on the outskirts of town. There was a mexican buffet resturant right next door and i've often imagined the 5 of them standing in line to get Pancho's Mexican Buffet! Rice and beans please!
I love the way Rael tries on his false bravado one last time at 2:33 but only a moment later, the best he can manage is a weak little, "Here I go." It's very moving. And then, of course, he ends up saving himself.
In 60 years since I first heard them I've never come across such a combination of musicality and poetry. The dragon, me, with golden toes and golden fire from by flaming nose, my cave was bright with sultry gems that paled the stars like diadems. Who has ever come up with such a fusion since?
I loved the Incredibles for their nonconformity, and some might say, naivete. I must say that this recording has "harmonies" that are quite "interesting", if not incredible. I'm glad it wasn't the first song of theirs that I'd heard.
They're definitely in the running for the best team of composers ever. I can't think of another group of five who all contributed to the writing and which had so much concentrated talent. It's amazing the five-person lineup lasted as long as it did and achieved so much. Those guys were serious.
Banks, Collins, Rutherford just KILLED on these "power trio" tunes (as with Apocalypse in 9/8 and Cinema Show). I have been a fan of early Genesis, and I love the classic lineup with Gabriel and Hackett - but these 3 lads were the foundation.
You know what mate..I heard the Hatfield album somewher in the middle of the 70's when my elder brother picked it out at the import shop and was intrigued...I searched for this album for years without title or any clue...I fetished the album inside gate sleeve...Although I'd heard many jazz fusion type bands east and west coast USA and ECM German productions which had beautiful production values ,your album was unique...I found it about 3 years ago and give the bugger a spin evry now and then...love shaving is boring...i find it tedious...but at my age if I don't shave I am 15 years older......yeah...Australia we are and were when we found the sound.
Great band, lovely people great memories of a never forgotten time Have followed them since their first album ASTONISHING TIMES All love to those who were there❤
Thanks for posting this. I have a number of the God's Holiday volumes, but not this one. I saw them in roughly this format in late 1973 and early 1974, but several of the arrangements here are different, and they weren't doing 1968 or Jack Straw's Wishes when I saw them. I imagine I'll be listening to this quite a few times.
Thanks for posting. I only now found this. Nice to hear a live version of Scree, one of my favorite parts of the Lamb to listen to, and especially play. Feels similar to (but less forceful than) Apocalypse in 9/8 from Supper's Ready. Really cool stuff. I still consider Lamb to be their magnum opus (at least musically--what a strange concept lyrically)! One has to wonder what they would've produced if PG would've stuck around (although I love his solo stuff--saw him 4X in the early days), although Trick and Wind were great albums.
Kudos to Mike Rutherford for holding it together and keeping it steady while all of this madness is going on around him. Tony and Phil? Damn, boys!!!! That was smokin hot!!!
That was considerably faster than the album and certainly challenged Tony. That happened to him on the Seconds Out tour as well where they would play Cinema show too fast.
I'm a big fan of ISB & I like this album, too. Faves Islands & Glancing. Highly eclectic Ithkos I like not so much but it has its moments, e.g. great cello sound.
Depuis qu'il avait été banni, la créature se demandait aveuglément si les brindilles sombres de la forêt, la lumière tachetée du soleil le guidant sur son chemin, il engloutissait chaque coup de soleil dans sa gorge chatoyante comme s'il n'avait jamais goûté ni vu une telle beauté. Car même avec les pieds sales, déchirés par des ronces errantes et un halo de cheveux qui s'est maintenant transformé en crinière, il a trouvé sa croyance dans le soleil couchant. Finalement, cependant, ce voyage a pris fin. Pas distinct, mais d'un seul souffle, l'aveugle sut que le monde immortel qu'il avait connu pendant toutes ses années s'était éloigné de son corps mortel. Les hommes des marais et leurs arbres décorés de pierres précieuses résonnaient dans la brise, les servantes éthérées de la terre chantaient des mélodies séduisantes, chaque chant d'oiseau auquel il était habitué avait cessé. Il était enfin parti dans l'autre monde. Il faisait noir ici, et ça sentait la vallée humide et ombragée 🧙🦹♀🧚♀
there's so many noteworthy sections from this suite but 3:22 and Richard Sinclair's basslines are out of this world!!! he was playing this on a fretless, no? those slides at 3:45 are so divine!!!!
12:00 Pft!!! Facts! Who needs facts?? You can prove anything with facts! Ahh Daevid Allen, pre-empting the Simpsons by a decade - a true misplaced genius!
The expressive power of the sound architecture breaks with any form of transcription of the real to attach itself to the expression of translucent and fairytale universe. Colors and rhythm of these compositions are a language that gives life to exaltation 🤠🦹♀🧙
