Rare Prog Rock Bands

For Two Gun Bob



This is from a live dvd released late last year. They play the entire Moonmadness album and then other tracks from their back catalogue. Absolutely brilliant two hours worth of music
 
OB1 said:
I think I've got an album on vinyl by Riff Raff.
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I think they only made two. As I say, they couldn't make a living. Tommy Eyre, the keyboards man, talked about it. The second, Original Man, is notably weaker than the first. They were already losing momentum by virtue of simply being invisible. The bassist, Roger Sutton, played a fretless, which was kind of rare among rock groups at the time (still is, come to think of it). For me, there are no bad tracks on the first. I had them both on vinyl, way, way back. Those are lost, or left behind with friends, like all my vinyls. But I've got the first on CD, and still listen to it with great pleasure, close on fifty years after I first bought it. An evergreen.
 
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OB1 said:
Famous for their use of the Aphex Aural Exciter.

Put on a Show was clearly "inspired" by a Styx song.

Anyway, I've got all their studio albums on vinyl and the first two on cd.
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Didn't know they had more than one album out. I have Astral projector on blue vinyl which I got from one of the band members. I went to see them when they were supposed to open up for Alice Cooper over here in 1980. I can't remember if they ever actually managed to play their set.

 
While we're on obscure local bands, did anybody else ever get to see Stack Waddy? I saw that at Stockport College of Technology. Not too subtle (their album was called Bugger Off, which gets the message across, I suppose), but an ok night out.
 
Chippy_boy said:
A bit poppy, but on the subject of great guitarists, Francis Dunnery from It Bites was bloody good. "Eat me in St. Louis" is another good, and quite obscure album.

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Eat me .... was a lot more angsty than the previous two albums but still great.
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Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I think they only made two. As I say, they couldn't make a living. Tommy Eyre, the keyboards man, talked about it. The second, Original Man, is notably weaker than the first. They were already losing momentum by virtue of simply being invisible. The bassist, Roger Sutton, played a fretless, which was kind of rare among rock groups at the time (still is, come to think of it). For me, there are no bad tracks on the first. I had them both on vinyl, way, way back. Those are lost, or left behind with friends, like all my vinyls. But I've got the first on CD, and still listen to it with great pleasure, close on fifty years after I first bought it. An evergreen.
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I do have an album by a band called Riff Raff but must be a different one as the names of the musicians are not the same. Apparently there have been multiple bands with that name.
 
Barcon said:
Didn't know they had more than one album out. I have Astral projector on blue vinyl which I got from one of the band members. I went to see them when they were supposed to open up for Alice Cooper over here in 1980. I can't remember if they ever actually managed to play their set.

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Yes I have it on blue vinyl too, it is a Canadian import.

Their second album is just as good but third was disappointing.

Got the first two as a nicely packaged double cd too.
 
flyer said:
For Two Gun Bob



This is from a live dvd released late last year. They play the entire Moonmadness album and then other tracks from their back catalogue. Absolutely brilliant two hours worth of music
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Saw them at the Free Trade Hall in around 1977 IIRC. About then anyway.
 
Can't see any mention of the Hippy Commune that was Gong.

Went to see one of their many offshoot bands "Here and Now" until the Dibble raided the gig and cleared everyone out due to certain smoking materials being used.
 
Two Gun Bob said:
It was just after the heady heights of the amazing 15th Reading Fest that I tuned into Camel and in my estimation a fine set of musicians to a man.The track played tonight is called Lunar and taken from the album Moonmadness affording an excellent insight into the bands musical attributes.A weaving together of fine eclectic proportions as instruments become fused at the five minute forwards mark leaving the listener gravitationaly restrained whilst emotionally floating in a sea of musical soup.Never really propelled into those magical halls of prog rock fame but remained a fine outfit and ever so keen to please :

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I still the the Snowgoose album is one of my all time favourites
 
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