Does anyone remember these British singers?

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6 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

There's a little known band I really like made up the Scottish duo the Sutherland Brothers and the remains of the rock band Quiver. 

Oh that's sounds good and I'll look for them. Debp  just PM'd me and said America's Got Talent is on tonight. If I can get them on our cable, that's something to check tomorrow night. Have you ever heard of the Scottish group, Del Amitri? Look for sort of country blues rock song they did called, Kiss This Thing Goodbye. There's some pretty good dobro guitar and blues harmonica on this tune. 

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Has anyone mentioned Electric Light Orchestra (Jeff Lynne) and Robert Palmer?  Jeff also played with George Harrison in the Travelling Wilburys and numerous others.  

My wife and I really liked Robert Palmer's  body of work.  A great deal of his music, especially his voice, was extremely pleasant to listen to.  What he wrote and what he chose to sing written by others showed a great deal of intelligence and his musical range.  I thought of him as the British version of Harry Nilsson.

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6 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

Has anyone mentioned Electric Light Orchestra (Jeff Lynne) and Robert Palmer?  Jeff also played with George Harrison in the Travelling Wilburys and numerous others.  

My wife and I really liked Robert Palmer's  body of work.  A great deal of his music, especially his voice, was extremely pleasant to listen to.  What he wrote and what he chose to sing written by others showed a great deal of intelligence and his musical range.  I thought of him as the British version of Harry Nilsson.

Oh, yeah! All these guys too! Terrific! They're all great! 

And here's a nice Traveling Wilbury's pic. 

  Dylan  Lynne  Petty  Harrison  Orbison

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I was quite fond of George Harrison and Ringo Starr solo careers after they left the Beetles.  I'm not a Beetles fan.  

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10 minutes ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

I was quite fond of George Harrison and Ringo Starr solo careers after they left the Beetles.  I'm not a Beetles fan.  

Although Paul and John did surround themselves with good musicians to back up their solo LPs, George and Ringo took the top name rockers for the work they released during the solo Beatle years. George started out with countless on his first, All Things Must Pass triple album set. Ringo and his All Starr Band, interchanges every few tours. Todd Rundgren, Joe Walsh, many others have appeared with Ringo Starr. 

P.S. Everyone knows I'm a Beatles fan!

Edited June 10, 2020 by BeauJangles

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13 hours ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

Ringo Starr solo careers after they left the Beetles.

Although each of The Beatles took snipes at one another following the breakup when they released solo LPs and singles, eventually they all managed to reestablish a sense of endearing bond in friendships. Things were still at bit tense in 1973, but lovable Ringo managed to gather up the lads for a solo Starr LP. Simply titled, Ringo. Each of them worked personally with Ringo to compile some songs and a couple of old covers for Richard Starkey's album. George Harrison and John Lennon probably helped worked on the project the most. One by one, they came into the studio and worked separately from each other. One nice thing was they all remained friends with their beloved drummer.

Note* I have this both on vinyl and CD. Nice! 

    

    The RINGO Album (1973)              Ringo Starr

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Following after the breakup of The Beatles, each member already had solo LPs ready for release. Ringo always loved country and western and came to Tennessee to perform with session players while recording there. George had a fully capable sound studio in his monastery mansion Friar Park, outside the suburbs of London. He had countless top guest musicians to assist with the triple LP set he'd been working on.

John invited Ringo and fellow Beatles chum, Klaus Voormann, for help on his, while Paul retreated to his farm in  Scotland with a borrowed 4 track recorder from Abbey Road Studios. This was totally a McCartney project by the same title. No one was invited and Paul did all the vocals and instruments, including drums. A great effort, but Macca was no percussionist by any means. Nice try, Sir Paul. Still a good LP with hits. 

 

  Paul James McCartney

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Among all the solo Beatles firsts, George takes a bow on this masterpiece. This is truly an excellent one filled with fantastic and imaginative songs. Some being backlogged to Harrison's membership with the group. All Things Must Pass, had guest musicians such as, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Klaus Voormann, Gary Wright, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, members of Badfinger, players from Delaney and Bonnie, horn session men, Bobby Keys and Jim Price, etc., a great choral group of backup singers, and the sweet sounds of pedal steel guitarist, Pete (Sneaky) Drake. Phil Spector produced the finished project and added his "Wall of Sound" to it. It was slick and polished but slightly trebley on the high end of the graphic equalizer. In 2001, George remastered it with some assistance and added a few more tracks. Excellent piece of work, George! 

   

 All Things Must Pass (2001)        Harrison ~ Isn't It A Pity?

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How about the great Greg Lake, one of the founding members of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.  Besides excellent vocal range, he also added bass and guitars to his contributions to progressive rock.  He wrote Oh Lucky Man  when he was 12 years old.

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21 hours ago, Saved.One.by.Grace said:

How about the great Greg Lake, one of the founding members of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.  Besides excellent vocal range, he also added bass and guitars to his contributions to progressive rock.  He wrote Oh Lucky Man  when he was 12 years old.

I saw Emerson, Lake & Palmer in concert. What a show! There were two large stacks of Marshall amps built and enclosed on both sides of the stage to resemble huge stereo speakers. On top were two massive cannons. This was a performance to behold and the loudest in decibels I've ever attended. No distortion at all. Just pure power in sound. 

Fog machines flooded the stage and blue back lights illuminated the set up. The guys hit the entrance and a grand piano rose up from a trap door lift in the center of the arrangement. They started with the opening lines to Karn Evil 9, "Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends - we're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside."

And the crowd took to their feet in the entire arena. They had this one and the audience loved it. Keith Emerson had a large synthesizer with patch cord input/outputs and blinking colored LEDs flashing intermittently. He took to it and an explosion from behind the unit raised the panel two feet higher from the keyboard. Truly impressive!  

Carl Palmer's set of percussion instruments were a array of standard and exotic drum kits and cymbals surrounding a semi-circle. Very beautiful set. Behind him was a massage Chinese brass gong. ELP did all their cherished songs. Lucky Man, Fanfare For The Common Man, Tarkus, Still, You Turn Me On, Knife-Edge, From The Beginning, and more. 

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer without a doubt put on the most impressive stage show and performance of the entire decade of Seventies. They were a stupendous power trio not to be reckoned with. 

P.S. Did the cannons fire? Yeah, they did. At the culmination of The Barbarian, each one flashed successively and then in an explosion with plumes of colored smoke. They were pretty loud too!

 

 

1. Karn Evil 9

   Emerson, Lake & Palmer

   Welcome back, my friends
   To the show that never ends
   We're so glad you could attend
   Come inside! Come inside

   There behind a glass
   Stands a real blade of grass
   Be careful as you pass
   Move along! Move along

   Come inside, the show's about to start
   Guaranteed to blow your head apart
   Rest assured you'll get your money's worth
   The greatest show in Heaven, Hell, or Earth

   You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo
   You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll

   Right before your eyes
   We'll pull laughter from the skies
   And he laughs until he cries
   Then he dies, then he dies

   You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo
   You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll

   Soon the Gypsy Queen
   In a glaze of Vaseline
   Will perform on guillotine
   What a scene! What a scene
   Next upon the stand
   Will you please extend a hand
   To Alexander's Ragtime Band
   Dixieland, Dixieland

   Roll up! Roll up! Roll up
   See the show

   Performing on a stool
   We've a sight to make you drool
   Seven virgins and a mule
   Keep it cool. Keep it cool
   We would like it to be known
   The exhibits that were shown
   Were exclusively our own
   All our own. All our own

   Come and see the show
   Come and see the show
   Come and see the show
   See the show

   See the show

   Songwriters: KEITH NOEL EMERSON, GREGORY LAKE

   1. Emerson, Lake & Palmer

      http://www.emersonlakepalmer.com

Edited June 12, 2020 by BeauJangles