Three from a masterful album. Thank you forever, Steve Hillage! Enjoy the full "Green" album on my channel here: • Steve Hillage ~ Green ... To look into or buy his music, click here: www.stevehillag...
Ok, I am 60 and suggested to listen to this to my partner and our 18 year old daughter whilst away on an interstate trip and the two of them decided to drop acid at home. You perhaps may not be surprised that I got a phone calll a few hours later and they told me they had been listening to selected Hillage back catalog all through the intense part of their experience and were utterly grateful and kinda upset I hadn't introduced this earlier to them... Anyway, Steve and the musicians supporting him were the most forward and avant garde in the field looking back and then reflecting on where music is today - I can see his legacy in many beautiful people and places and that is more than anyone could ask from the Mother of all life.
We were having a shroom session one night about 25 years ago, suitably spaced when an old pal pulled a tape from his pocket. One side had Libest Spacement Monitor (Pink Floyd) and the other side was this absolute masterpiece of an album. Can't remember a single other thing from that night other than being completely blown away by both sides of that tape.
I took pictures of the moon and stars 43 years ago. Projected them and listened to this and Jean Michel Jarre while smoking with a friend. I only had about 15 slides but I think we looked at them for about an hour. Fun times until we had to have our regular game of sterilised milk chess.
Unidentified is an absolutely fantastic and unique mix of psychedelia and funk, and that's gotta be one the best psychedelic guitar solos of all time!🎉🎉🎉
I couldn't agree more. He's such a cult figure due to his New Age lyrics, etc. I'm sure he's perfectly pleased with just that. Steve Hillage just never was a fame seeker. But his music has always been top notch. Just the bass intro to Unidentified is enough to get you into the song. The bass on that song is so funky/cool. And the drumming! Well, everything is perfect. Miquette is always essential. She always right their having a classy dialogue with his guitar parts. Green is in a world of it's own really. I love the Motivation album as well, but Green just took that one to new heights. Take care 🎸🙂
First time I heard Steve was with Khan, the man plays an incredibly clean guitar.. to the point of excellent journeys, smooth and True, Very High Stuff!!! I will always Love this guitarist... and I saw Jimi twice, Cream, Tons of other Great Bands..and more than a hundred shows full of Love, i'm a deadhead
Hillage is a very talented creative artist,an incredible musician,singer,composer,performer and great soul... always a pleasure to hear amazing high quality material and mastery of guitar and other instruments... thanks for posting this excellent artist,musician that is so cool..cheers and...stay positive,strong,self-controlled,honest calm,caring,loving,giving,sharing,patient and understanding at all times,as best you can and keep improving...and stay away from those who are not and are lacking the above qualities
@@BucketHeadianHagg Well thank you,glad you liked it..I added a few things to the comment that you may also like...and you are right up there with the best artists and musicians as well..
I was in a record shop in Wrexham in the mid-80's I asked the guys behind the counter to play Steve's album " Motivation Radio", the place was packed. After a couple of minutes of " Hello Dawn" people started to drift over to ask what this was, I bought the album and so did a few others, great stuff, great times.
superb drumming and top notch musicality all around...a shame ppl in the states (well not too many anyways) did'nt "get it". i dropped acid to this lp many times and i most definatly "got it". :)
We stand at the doorways To the higher worlds But they won't open 'til we open ourselves And strip away our thinking minds To unlock the love that's deep inside And destroy all these clumsy words To feel the energy they hide 'Cause we don't need names for what we are I am, you are, and we remain Unidentified Don't put no labels on me Unidentified Don't try to block my energy Unidentified May I remain a mystery Unidentified So my spirit can be free Unidentified Like the saucers in the sky Unidentified
Ah wonderful memories of seeing this played live in my hometown of Swindon in a glorified discotheque (would you believe) hardly a hot bed of psychedelic space rock... but I distinctly recall looking around me in amazement during the ‘blissed out’ section of leylines to glassdom and seeing the whole audience, token hippies (me & a few of my mates) plus the regular baggie trousered disco nutters all with their eyes closed totally lost in the music... wonderful stuff...
That is one of my most favoured albums of the 70s...Discovered it, when I begun to collect albums of/from the Canterbury scene...I think Miquette Giraudy is equally responsible for that special mood here...She deserves much more attention as a keyboardist ! btw.: Ufos exsist...open your eyes, observe the clear night sky !
In 2002 I bought an original green vinyl copy of this complete with insert and poster. Years later I bought Two Sides of Peter Banks (solo album from original Yes guitarist) and was surprised to see that "The White House Vale" bore more than a passing resemblance to "Leylines to Glassdom" even though the album dates from 1973, five years before Green. So I bet you Hillage owned the Peter Banks album in question and the inspiration for the song in question.
Yeah.... many people talk about Beck (Jeff), but not many about him , and i think he is one of the better guitarist around the Milkyway !.. that's it !!
Only heard of this guy a week ago. It honestly fills a void I had in the quest for decent psychedelic music. Great sound judgment of music by Steve Hillage
WHEN I WAS STANDING IN OUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR'S BACK YARD IN THE 1960'S I WAS VOICED TO SKULL LISTENING TO TODD RUNDGREN'S A WIZARD A TRUE STAR. BACK THEN AT WILL I FREQUENTLY ASTRAL PROJECTED.
I can still see your Aura Steve. My mentor ,my personal big brother and guru .Guitar just got that interesting to me .Every lyric too. Props goes to the best I honor our friendship and vibration.Peace and love . Metatron as Enoch ascended.. I am ,that I am.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful song. This is my favorite album from Hillage. An asshole stole me this vinyl, and tomorrow it's my birthday please think about me ! Peace ✌️
Had this one in green vinyl -- got nicked. Saw him play this at a little place near Victoria Stn -- The Venue (?) and also one memorable gig at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park. That solo break at the end of 'Unidentified' is pure joy...
best stoner music ever . makes the floyd seem boring depressing and uninteresting . This album was produced by Nick Mason ironically ,but what a great drum sound.
True this .I grew up on Hillage and floydd .but careful with that axe .Is not Steve I love life message. Get it ? He always stayedv"Positive" in vibration I know.I live everyday in thanks to seeing Hillage at Ten years old with ELO Electric Light Orchestra.I was Blue Cheer at 16 guitarist Ed Fontaine. Limoseens and Gibson guitars Here as Satya given to me by Carlos Santana . I owe graditude for the inspiration these guys are . Steve is still the most psycheidelic thing in my life.,and with the brightest Aura .Pure Love .
I REMEMBER BEING SENT TO THIS PLANET. I REMEMBER ENTERING THIS BODY WHEN IT WAS ABOUT THREE MONTHS OLD FETUS. I REMEMBER GOING THROUGH THE BIRTH CANAL AND MY CIRCUMCISION.
I lived in Hastings & everyone I knew had his albums. And the mushrooms were legal to pick. Those were some nice times. I remember everyone would play "Small Hours" by John Martyn at the very end of the night as the dawn set in. 🙂
Same here. A friend and I used to pick magic mushrooms every year, dry them, grind them up and store them. We would go to second-hand record stalls and buy Hillage LPs and not listen to them until later that evening when we'd had a few beers, a few smokes and some mushrooms. We always had the most amazing times on those tripped-out musical discoveries. That was almost 40 years ago now and sadly my friend is no longer with us but the memories of him, and of Hillage and our times together are forever imprinted on my brain. Happy days 🙃🍄
Cheers for uploading all 3 ...Blissful ...I was listening to GONG " You" and found earlier motifs that Hillage used on Green and Motivation.......An important contributor to that band and continued as a Gong child! His System 7 club sounds with Giraudy also a fun listen and dance for the youth unfamiliar with his early trippy rock....Thank you,steelyman08 :)
... btw, he might be the inventor of this kind of long guitar echo filtered arpeggio wave use, as far as I remember he was the first one I heard in this spheres. At least the one whose playing inspired me buying a Space Echo after experimenting with a copy cat chiroplastically changed for long echoes :D ... still nice to hear and full of magic .... and I love to listen to his more recent stuff, he is an artist and not a legend fortunately.
@@uv77mc85 ..you can take him as legend ... I guess your way saying thank you? for me a legend is someone who's story has ended. It seems to me, there is still coming one or the other word to be added in this case ... :)
Made films today on my story, fb dexter smith lives in Leeds- played my manager-enablur- muse icky ragga muffin, sonny green, eminem & rianon, animals, half man half biscult, streets, jazz-dub, genisis p, danse society, everything but mindswept nostalgia of less to worry aboit, back to Steve...really rate his early wave psychedelia pleasantrees. Multi-dimensional audio suggested listening...so layed back cool on the beach type of aumbience to appendage.
I grew up listening to Steve Hillage, esp this album 'green'' (either being my favourite 👌) I now know what this album sleeve symbol represents + the lyrics. Cern = the opening of the demons portals = Anti "Jesus Christ" 💖
