Listening to The Strawbs in the 70's during the college days...the quintessential era of progressive rock music...great musical memories...so many excellent bands at that time...these guys were one of those many bands...ELP, King Crimson, Moody Blues, Yes, Genesis, Renaissance, so many others. The time keeps flying by!! Some things just last!!
I saw the Strawbs’ Ghosts tour in ‘75, second row. I love the Strawbs, and they put on a great show that night, but I was totally blown away by the opening act who I didn’t know of at the time. It was Ambrosia promoting their Somewhere I’ve Never Traveled album, an excellent prog album before they became a soft rock act.
Don't forget the late Sandy Denny sang lead with them before her gig with Fairport Convention. There is an early album with her on it. Strawbs had some lineup through the years.
I've known Strawbs since at least the early 90s, but this is the first time I've actually heard them live. Dave Cousins's vocals are much more aggressive live. I suppose that's not all that surprising. That happens with many rock bands.
They were amazing when I saw them in the early 1970s and A collection of Antiques and Curios is, in my view, the best album ever! I'm so glad you've found them!
I wonder if it was the same concert i saw in London end of 1975 before returning to SA. It was the highlight of my years stay in the UK after doing my masters, that and a concert by a band called Camel who were playing the university tour with their epic Snowgoose. I immeadiately went out and bought the album.
@@egolievents6962 Possibly. I was a cleaner at Drury Lane Theater at the time so I actually cleared up my own drinks glass the following morning from the bar!
"Hero and Heroine" was very underrated, a true concept album for its time, an allegory for the drug war which had already taken so many rock icons (Hendrix, Joplin, Jim Morrison, etc.). Even the title is a play on words (heroine/heroin) and the various songs are full of double entendre ("Heroine\heroin wore fleecy white, she beckoned like some savior bright..."; "While storm clouds gathered high above, the heroine/heroin he grew to love; turned slowly to a snow-white dove..."; "Watch my arm, see it shakes, trembling as my life blood bleeds"...) Bottom line, imho "Hero and Heroine" holds its own with the great concept albums of the past inc. "Tommy", 'The Wall" and even the great "Sgt. Peppers".
A very spirited performance! Thanks for your efforts, Bruno. The Strawbs are one of a very few bands that were a sort of "revolving door" with members leaving and returning and the players aren't listed, but I would guess it's the late '70's lineup of Dave Lambert, David Cousins (of course), Chas Cronk and Rod Coombes. On keyboards? Could it be Robert Kirby?
@@TheRealRedAce I know Dave Lambert & Chas Cronk were absent during the '80's but have been back for many years by now. I believe Brian Willoughby was there in early days, then returned later for a while. John Hawken was gone for decades, but played on at least one 21st century CD.
SRAWBS, here I am, faithfull follower. Did the BBC REALLY ALLOW ALL WHITE BRIT BANDS then? Try uploading this great performance again, see what happens. STRAWBS FOREVER!!!!!!!
Amazing vocal performance by Cuz. But H&H lacked a strong Mellotron, I guess the black keyboard was a M400 but the tapes are not same as the studio, choral, strings, brass - probably they were overdubbing melly in the studio? Not impressed with a CS-80 either, lol.
Hi, Geoff, it depends on each video. This video have lot of problems live clicks, pops, rustles, distortions and other analog issues from a live broadcast. It's also mono. My work was mitigate or eliminate all these problems manually with differents tools on the spectrogram. Then, I work on EQs and other things like custom virtual stereo spread and other tricks to bring the audio more clarity, punch and air. Gentle compressors or limites only in a few cases. Sometimes the video i clean up the digital compression artifacts and analog noise, regrade the colors, apply some sharpeness and other things.
