15-10-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1968-1974

Spirit

15-10-2020  FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1968-1974  >>Spirit, King Crimson, The Moody Blues, Ten Years After, Frank Zappa, Gil Scott-Heron, Nucleus, Jethro Tull, Chick Corea, King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Gentle Giant<<

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1968-1974

Ambitious and acclaimed West Coast psychedelic band that fused hard rock to jazz, blues, country, and folk.
Spirit
It's All the Same  (Randy California / Ed Cassidy / Joe Walsh)

I Got a Line on You  (Randy California)
from The Family That Plays Together 1968
On this, the second Spirit album, the group put all of the elements together that made them the legendary (and underrated) band that they were. Jazz, rock & roll, and even classical elements combined to create one of the cleanest, most tasteful syntheses of its day. The group had also improved measurably from their fine debut album, especially in the area of vocals. The album's hit single, "I Got a Line on You," boasts especially strong harmonies as well as one of the greatest rock riffs of the period. The first side of this record is a wonderful and seamless suite, and taken in its entirety, one of the greatest sides on Los Angeles rock...

If there is one group that embodies progressive rock, it is King Crimson. Led by guitar/Mellotron virtuoso Robert Fripp, during its first five years of existence the band stretched both the language and structure of rock into realms of jazz and classical music, all the while avoiding pop and psychedelic sensibilities. The absence of mainstream compromises and the lack of an overt sense of humor ultimately doomed the group to nothing more than a large cult following, but made their albums among the most enduring and respectable of the prog rock era...
King Crimson
21st Century Schizoid Man (Robert Fripp / Michael Giles / Greg Lake / Ian McDonald / Peter Sinfield)
Epitaph  (Robert Fripp / Michael Giles / Greg Lake / Ian McDonald / Peter Sinfield)
The Court of the Crimson King (Ian McDonald / Peter Sinfield)
from Epitaph (Live, 1969)
This two-disc archival set includes live performances from the short-lived incipient 1969 incarnation of King Crimson. After months of arduous sonic restoration -- or what Robert Fripp (guitar) refers to as "necromancy" -- the results are well worth the painstaking processes involved... Joining Fripp are Ian McDonald (flute/sax/mellotron/vocals), Greg Lake (bass/vocals), Michael Giles (drums/percussion/vocals), and the only non-performing member, Peter Sinfield (words/illuminations). They single-handedly fused electric rock music with jazz in a way that no one else has done before or, arguably, since...

Pop mystics of the rock era whose impeccably produced albums exuded pseudo-classical glory, driven by lush Mellotron orchestrations.
The Moody Blues
Floating (Ray Thomas)
Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time) (ustin Hayward)
Watching and Waiting (Justin Hayward / Ray Thomas)
from To Our Children's Children's Children 1969
...The material dwells mostly on time and what its passage means, and there is a peculiar feeling of loneliness and isolation to many of the songs. This was also the last of the group's big "studio" sound productions, built up in layer upon layer of overdubbed instruments -- the sound is very lush and rich, but proved impossible to re-create properly on-stage, and after this they would restrict themselves to recording songs that the five of them could play in concert...

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The Who

23-07-2020 FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 1965-1969  >>The Who, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Love, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Donovan, THE BEATLES, Spirit, King Crimson, The Moody Blues<<

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1965-1969

An explosive combo that pioneered progressive and arena rock, each new sound increasing their influence and legacy.
The Who
Out In the Street (Pete Townshend)
I Don't Mind (James Brown)
from My Generation 1965

An explosive debut, and the hardest mod pop recorded by anyone. At the time of its release, it also had the most ferociously powerful guitars and drums yet captured on a rock record... While the execution was sometimes crude, and the songwriting not as sophisticated as it would shortly become, the Who never surpassed the pure energy level of this record.

With a style honed in the gritty blues bars of Chicago's south side, the Butterfield Blues Band was instrumental in bringing the sound of authentic Chicago blues to a young white audience in the mid-'60s, and although the band wasn't a particularly huge commercial success, its influence has been enduring and pervasive.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Born in Chicago (Nick Gravenites)
Screamin' (Michael Bloomfield)
from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band 1965
Even after his death, Paul Butterfield's music didn't receive the accolades that were so deserved. Outputting styles adopted from Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters among other blues greats, Butterfield became one of the first white singers to rekindle blues music through the course of the mid-'60s. His debut album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, saw him teaming up with guitarists Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield, with Jerome Arnold on bass, Sam Lay on drums, and Mark Naftalin playing organ. The result was a wonderfully messy and boisterous display of American-styled blues, with intensity and pure passion derived from every bent note. In front of all these instruments is Butterfield's harmonica, beautifully dictating a mood and a genuine feel that is no longer existent, even in today's blues music....

One of the best L.A. folk/psych bands, and producers of the seminal Forever Changes, a symphonic masterpiece of lush textures and surreal lyrics.
Love
Stephanie Knows Who  (Arthur Lee)
Orange Skies (Arthur Lee / Bryan MacLean)
Seven & Seven Is  (Arthur Lee)
She Comes in Colors (Arthur Lee)
from Da Capo 1966
Love broadened their scope into psychedelia on their sophomore effort, Arthur Lee's achingly melodic songwriting gifts reaching full flower. The six songs that comprised the first side of this album when it was first issued are a truly classic body of work, highlighted by the atomic blast of pre-punk rock "Seven & Seven Is" (their only hit single), the manic jazz tempos of "Stephanie Knows Who," and the enchanting "She Comes in Colors," perhaps Lee's best composition (and reportedly the inspiration for the Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow")...