1981 Earth and Fire | Tell me Why 

What a shame. Even the lead singer looks like a different person.

@@GuilhermeBrancaleone she isn't but she was part of the problem. They started as a bloody good prog rock band and ended up as a failed Top 40 combo. terrible shame.

@@marks.6480 What's the reason?

@@user-vk6wn1my3k they had an unexpected huge hit with a very commercial song and after that, they tried to repeat the success with very weak songs. eventually the original founding brothers were fired and replaced and that was really the end of it.

@@marks.6480 You might find me strange, but i kinda liked "Andromeda girl" album. And when i firstly heard "Weekend", i was absolutely stunned about the band and Jerney especially. Sad

Well, yes and no. In this setting, the twin brothers Chris and Gerard Koerts are missing, because they'd already left the band some years before. Without them Earth and Fire wasn't the same band anymore.

They kind of went into space while the Koerts twins were still in the band right? I mean in '75 with that synthesizer laden space funk.

Casey Van They used - in the sixties and early seventies - the Mellatron, a music device that preceeded synthesizers. Its an analog device that used 'endless' tapes, on which you could put a noise/sound/sample and then play it.

Yes on Marching Children, Atlantis, and earlier they heavily used Mellotron which is not a endless tape, it's actually a 8 second strip of tape that is re-set every time the note is played, and was originally intended for lounge music. But in '75 the sound started to change. It was still prog rock, but it started to get more funky, and not quite as good. Then after that it was more pop sounding, and although it was pop played well it was obviously very commercial, not underground pop. They went from sounding like Jefferson Airplane to sounding like Abba or something.

In Netherlands.

;-)

Ja, ik denk opvulling anders zat er niemand achter het orgel

+P. Bakker Why not?!

Speak for yourself!

+borgduck Why do you like Holland?

masterton Are you Dutch?

borgduck I think you are, but you just dont know it yet, the Truth is in the Love you carry in your heart and soul and your all over Earth and Fire (all their songs I see your comments) so you love all the greatness these Dutch Visionary Symphonic Rock Gods did put forward, and so they became fast ie close too being externalised, and I am Dutch so I can tell, no kidding, love you honey, and I always loved Earth and Fire and you love that love A too/two !!