801 Live (Rare album)

801 Live is a totally Cult album featuring Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno amongst other Genial artists.
801 were an English experimental rock band that were originally formed in 1976 for three live concerts by

• Phil Manzanera (guitars, ex-Roxy Music)
• Brian Eno (keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, and vocals, ex-Roxy Music)
• Bill MacCormick (bass and vocals, ex-Quiet Sun, Matching Mole)
• Francis Monkman (Fender Rhodes piano and clavinet, ex-Curved Air)
• Simon Phillips (drums and rhythm generator)
• Lloyd Watson (slide-guitar and vocals).

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In 1976, while Roxy Music had temporarily disbanded, 801 (also referred to as THE 801) got together as a temporary project and began rehearsing at Island Studios, Hammersmith, about three weeks before their first gig. The name of the band was taken from the Eno song "The True Wheel", which appears on his 1974 solo album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). The refrain of the song -- "We are the 801, we are the central shaft" -- reportedly came to him in a dream (although it has also been noted that "Eight Nought One" acrostically spells his name).

801 performed three critically highly acclaimed concerts: in Norfolk, at the Reading Festival and the final concert on 3 September at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. This last concert was recorded live and released as the album 801 Live. The music consisted of more or less mutated selections from albums by Manzanera, Eno, and Quiet Sun, plus a full-scale rearrangement of Lennon-McCartney's "Tomorrow Never Knows" and an off-the-wall excursion into The Kinks' 1964 hit "You Really Got Me".

Released at the height of the punk rock revolution in the UK, the LP was not a major commercial success, but it sold well throughout the world, particularly because it gained rave reviews from critics, both for the superb performances by the musicians and for its groundbreaking sound quality.

Although live albums were by then becoming increasingly sophisticated in their production -- thanks to the advent of portable multi-track recorders and mobile studios -- most were hampered by relatively poor sound quality. Up until this time, the standard procedure for both front-of-house mixing and live recording was capture the sound of amplified instruments such as guitars by placing microphones in front of the amplifiers. Although many superb performances were captured, the results were still markedly inferior to studio recordings and live recordings often suffered from a range of problems such as distortion, noise, sound "leakage" between instruments, poor separation and intrusive audience sounds.

801 Live set new standards for live recordings because it was one of the first live LPs in which all outputs from the vocal microphones, guitar amps and others instruments (except the drums) were fed directly to the mobile studio mixing desk, rather than being recorded via microphones and/or signals fed out the front-of-house PA mixer. This so-called "Direct Injection" (DI) method had been used for years in the studio but this was one of the first instances of the method being successfully used to record a live album.

801 Live became a significant cult success in many countries, notably in Australia, where it was heavily promoted by the ABC's new 24-hour rock station Double Jay (2JJ), which had opened in January 1975. Although based in Sydney, the station could be heard widely around New South Wales and was relayed nationally after midnight via the ABC's national AM network. It is notable that 801 Live received virtually no commercial radio airplay, it had no music video to promote it, and it was originally not even locally released in Australia. Despite this, the album became the highest-selling import album of the year in Australia in 1976 and demand for it as an import item eventually forced the Australian distributors to release it locally. Australian band Icehouse played 801 songs as well as other Eno covers.[citation needed]

In 1977, hoping to capitalise on the success of 801 Live, the band recorded and released Listen Now, a studio album with additional collaborating musicians including Tim Finn of Split Enz, but without Lloyd Watson.

In late 1977, 801 reformed as another live group around Manzanera and MacCormick for a promotion tour for the album Listen Now. Their concert at Manchester University was finally released as the album 801 Manchester in 2001.

In 2006, the official Phil Manzanera Web site Manzanera.com reported that 801 Live was soon to be reissued as a double CD with "minor tweaks" to the original recordings and restoration of the "proper ending" to the song Third Uncle. On the original album, Third Uncle builds to a crescendo of guitar strokes and cuts abruptly to silence. According to the Web site, new material for the second CD will include the band's last rehearsal on a sound stage at Shepperton Film Studios. An official release date for the new double CD has not been announced.

801 Live Track Listing

(1976)

Side One

1. "Lagrima" (Manzanera) – 2:34
2. "TNK (Tomorrow Never Knows)" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 6:14
3. "East of Asteroid" (Manzanera, MacCormick) – 4:58
4. "Rongwrong" (Charles Hayward) – 5:10
5. "Sombre Reptiles" (Eno) – 3:14

Bonus Tracks added to 1999 Reissue (Collectors Edition)

1. "Golden Hours" (Eno)
2. "Fat Lady of Limburg" (Eno)

Side Two

1. "Baby's on Fire" (Eno) – 5:02
2. "Diamond Head" (Manzanera) – 6:21
3. "Miss Shapiro" (Manzanera, Eno) – 4:20
4. "You Really Got Me" (Ray Davies) – 3:23
5. "Third Uncle" (Eno) – 5:14

Strawbs Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios

Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curios, is a live album by English band Strawbs recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London on July 11, 1970. The album reached number 27 in the UK Album Charts.
The band line-up had changed dramatically from that of the previous album, Dragonfly. Only founder-members Dave Cousins and Tony Hooper remained, double bass player Ron Chesterman and cellist Claire Deniz being replaced by rhythm section John Ford and Richard Hudson. Rick Wakeman also became a full-time member. Thus the band changed from being a folk quartet to a rock quintet.
The concert was instrumental in bringing Rick Wakeman's virtuosity to the attention of the music media, who prophesied super-stardom for the keyboard player.

Although this album was recorded live, none of the tracks on the original vinyl pressing were released on any studio album except for "Where is This Dream of Your Youth", originally released as a track on the studio album Strawbs. (Wikipedia)

Side one
"Martin Luther King's Dream" (Dave Cousins) – 2:53
"The Antique Suite" (Cousins) – 12:12
"The Reaper"
"We Must Cross the River"
"Antiques and Curios"
"Hey It's Been a Long Time"
"Temperament of Mind" (Rick Wakeman) – 4:50
Side two
"Fingertips" (Cousins) – 6:14
"Song of a Sad Little Girl" (Cousins) – 5:28
"Where Is This Dream Of Your Youth" (Cousins) – 9:07
Bonus tracks
The following tracks are offered as bonus tracks on the A&M re-issue CD.
"The Vision Of The Lady Of The Lake" (Cousins) – 10:03
"We'll Meet Again Sometime" (Cousins) – 4:17
"Forever" (Cousins, Tony Hooper) – 3:32
"Forever" is a studio track and was released as a single in 1970. All other tracks were taken from the concert recording.

Personnel

Dave Cousins – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, dulcimer
Tony Hooper – vocals, acoustic guitar, tambourine
Rick Wakeman – piano, organ, harpsichord, celeste
John Ford – vocals, bass guitar
Richard Hudson – vocals, congas, percussion, sitar

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Temperament of a Mind
Martin Luther Kings Dream
The Antique Suite
Song of a sad little girl
Fingertips
Where is the Dream of your Youth?

Vision of the Lady of the Lake
We'll Meet again Sometime
Forever

Strawbs Hero and Heroine

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Hero and Heroine is a studio album by English band Strawbs. After the tour supporting the previous album, Bursting at the Seams, there was an acrimonious split leaving only Dave Cousins and Dave Lambert to rebuild the band. The new line-up gelled very quickly and studio sessions were very productive. The album was released first in the US to a warm reception, and then in the UK where reviews were more negative. The album only reached number 35 on the UK Album Charts[1] and the band increasingly began to look to North America for a successful future.

The album, although still recognisably Strawbs, contains tracks with harsh "straight talking" lyrics, in contrast to the more lyrical approach shown on Bursting at the Seams. The music is more Gothic and doom-laden with washes of mellotron and guitar power chords, especially on the longer tracks.

All band members made writing contributions, notably Chas Cronk with whom Dave Cousins would write many songs on future albums.

Side one
1. "Autumn" – 8:27 - "Heroine's Theme" (John Hawken), "Deep Summer Sleep" (Dave Cousins), "The Winter Long" (Cousins).
2. "Sad Young Man" (Rod Coombes) – 4:09
3. "Just Love" (Dave Lambert) – 3:41
4. "Shine on Silver Sun" (Cousins) – 2:46
Side two
1. "Hero and Heroine" (Cousins) – 3:29
2. "Midnight Sun" (Chas Cronk, Cousins) – 3:06
3. "Out in the Cold" (Cousins) – 3:19
4. "Round and Round" (Cousins) – 4:44
5. "Lay a Little Light on Me" (Cousins) – 3:27
6. "Hero's Theme" (Lambert) – 2:28


Bonus tracks
The following tracks did not feature on the original vinyl release and were included as bonus tracks on the A&M reissue.

1. "Still Small Voice" (Cousins) – 2:28
2. "Lay a Little Light on Me (early version)" (Cousins) – 2:20

  Line Up

* Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

* Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

* John Hawken – organ, piano, electric piano, mellotron, synthesizer

* Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, synthesizer

* Rod Coombes – backing vocals, drums, percussion

* Claire Deniz – cello on "Midnight Sun"

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Just Love

Hero and Heroine

"Autumn" – 8:27 - "Heroine's Theme" (John Hawken), "Deep Summer Sleep" (Dave Cousins), "The Winter Long" l

Shine on Silver Sun

Sad Young Man

Hero and Heroine

Midnight Sun

Lay A Little Light On Me (includes HerosTheme)

Round and Round
 Out in the Sun

The Small Faces - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake

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Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake was a successful concept album by the English rock band Small Faces. Released on 24 May 1968 the LP became a number one hit in the UK Album Charts on 29 June where it remained for a total of six weeks. The album was featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

The title and the design of the distinctive packaging was a parody of Ogdens' Nut-brown Flake, a brand of tobacco which was produced in Liverpool from 1899.

The A-side is a mix of early heavy rock with "Song of a Baker"; psychedelic cockney knees-up songs "Lazy Sunday" and "Rene", the opening instrumental title track (which resembles their second single "I've Got Mine", which was a total bomb in 1965), and the soul influenced ballad "Afterglow (Of Your Love)".
The B-side is based on an original fairy tale about a boy called Happiness Stan, narrated in his unique ‘Unwinese’ gobbledegook by Stanley Unwin, who picked up modern slang from the band and incorporated it into the surreal narrative.

When Stan looks up in the sky and sees only half the moon, he sets out on a quest to search for the missing half. Along the way he saves a fly from starvation, and in gratitude the insect tells him of someone who can answer his question and also tell him the philosophy of life itself. With his magic power Stan intones, "If all the flies were one fly, what a great enormous fly-follolloper that would bold," and the fly grows to gigantic proportions. Seated on the giant fly's back Stan takes a psychedelic journey to the cave of Mad John the hermit, who explains that the moon's disappearance is only temporary, and demonstrates by pointing out that Stan has spent so long on his quest that the moon is now full again. He then sings Stan a cheerful song about the meaning of life.

Due to the album's complexities, Ogdens' was never performed live, however it was performed as a whole once on the BBC's television programme Colour Me Pop on Friday 21 June 1968. Songs featured were "Song of a Baker", "Happiness Stan", "Rollin' Over", "The Hungry Intruder", "The Journey", "Mad John" and "Happydaystoytown". Although the band mimed to the studio recordings, their microphones were left on to capture little ad libs.

In 2000 Q magazine placed Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake at number 59 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

Highest UK album chart position: 1968, Number One (for six weeks), and a total of 19 weeks on chart.

Playbox Theatre Company, UK, have performed the whole album as a theatre piece in November 2008. It was directed by Stewart McGill and performed by a young cast with a Small Faces tribute band, and it was narrated by Stanley Unwin's son, John.

On October 10 2010, the world’s first major concert format production of Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake is to be staged at London's indigO2 venue, featuring an all-star line up of artists. The show will be promoted by Chas Cole of CMP and produced by John Hellier & Mark Cunningham.

Packaging
The album was originally released on vinyl in a circular novelty package of a metal replica of a giant tobacco tin inside which was a poster created with 5 connected paper circles with pictures of the band members. This proved too expensive and was quickly followed by a paper/card replica with a gatefold cover. Two limited-edition CD releases (including a three-disc deluxe edition in 2006 that included the original mono mix of the album on CD for the first time) went even further by packaging the disc(s) in a circular tin (as the original vinyl release had). However, most CD releases use conventional packaging, superimposing the circular artwork on a square booklet. The award-winning artwork for the album cover was done by Mick Swan who was a product of the sixties art school scene. Any other work by him is unknown but he is known to have worked as a fine arts tutor at Lowestoft F.E. College in 1974.

 

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Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake"	Marriott, Lane, McLagan, Jones	2:26
2.	"Afterglow (Of Your Love)"	Marriott, Lane	3:31
3.	"Long Agos and Worlds Apart"	McLagan	2:35
4.	"Rene"	Marriott, Lane	4:29
5.	"Song of a Baker"	Marriott, Lane	3:15
6.	"Lazy Sunday"	Marriott, Lane	3:05

Side two (titled "Happiness Stan")
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Happiness Stan"	Marriott, Lane	2:35
2.	"Rollin' Over"	Marriott, Lane	2:50
3.	"The Hungry Intruder"	Marriott, Lane, McLagan	2:15
4.	"The Journey"	Marriott, Lane, McLagan, Jones	4:12
5.	"Mad John"	Marriott, Lane	2:48
6.	"Happy Days Toy Town"	Marriott, Lane, McLagan	4:17

Extra Track! - Tin Soldier

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To promote the album Immediate issued an advertisement that parodied The Lord's Prayer. It caused uproar in the British press and outraged readers wrote in and complained.

Small Faces
Which were in the studios
Hallowed by thy name
Thy music come
Thy songs be sung
On this album as they came from your heads
We give you this day our daily bread
Give us thy album in a round cover as we give thee 37/9d.,
Lead us into the record stores.
And deliver us Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
For nice is the music
The sleeve and the story
For ever and ever, Immediate

"We didn't know a thing about the ad. until we saw it in the music papers. And frankly we got the horrors at first. We realise that it could be taken as a serious knock against religion. But on thinking it over, we don't feel it is particularly good or bad. It's just another form of advertising. We're not all that concerned about it. We're more concerned in writing our music and producing our records" - Steve Marriott on the advert for Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake that parodied the Lord's Prayer (Wikipedia)

Download Strawbs album Hero and Heroine

Hero and Heroine is a studio album by English band Strawbs. After the tour supporting the previous album, Bursting at the Seams, there was an acrimonious split leaving only Dave Cousins and Dave Lambert to rebuild the band. The new line-up gelled very quickly and studio sessions were very productive. The album was released first in the US to a warm reception, and then in the UK where reviews were more negative. The album only reached number 35 on the UK Album Charts, and the band increasingly began to look to North America for a successful future.

 

The album, although still recognisably Strawbs, contains tracks with harsh "straight talking" lyrics, in contrast to the more lyrical approach shown on Bursting at the Seams. The music is more Gothic and doom-laden with washes of mellotron and guitar power chords, especially on the longer tracks.

All band members made writing contributions, notably Chas Cronk with whom Dave Cousins would write many songs on future albums. (Wikipedia)

Strawbs - Hero and Heroine - Complete Album download

Band members:
Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
John Hawken – organ, piano, electric piano, mellotron, synthesizer
Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, synthesizer
Rod Coombes – backing vocals, drums, percussion
Claire Deniz – cello on "Midnight Sun"
Produced by Dave Cousins e Tom Allom, Recorded by Rosenberg Studios, Copenhagen.

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Track List:
1."Autumn" – 8:27 including:
"Heroine's Theme" (John Hawken)
"Deep Summer Sleep" (Dave Cousins)
"The Winter Long" (Cousins)
2."Sad Young Man" (Rod Coombes) – 4:09
3."Just Love" (Dave Lambert) – 3:41
4."Shine on Silver Sun" (Cousins) – 2:46
5."Hero and Heroine" (Cousins) – 3:29
6."Midnight Sun" (Chas Cronk, Cousins) – 3:06
7."Out in the Cold" (Cousins) – 3:19
8."Round and Round" (Cousins) – 4:44
9."Lay a Little Light on Me" (Cousins) – 3:27 includes "Hero's Theme" (Lambert) – 2:28

Released 1974
Recorded November 1973, Rosenberg Studios, Copenhagen
Genre Progressive rock, Length 39:36, Label A&M, (UK)
Producer Dave Cousins, Tom Allom

Download Ten Years After - Undead

Complete Album Download - Undead; Ten Years After

Undead is the second album by Ten Years After, recorded live at the small jazz club, Klook's Kleek, in London, May 1968. This album set out to give listeners a real feel to what it was like to hear Ten Years After. Their eponymous first album was bluesy, but less emotional and passionate, and so the band decided to record the album live. The result was a combination of blues, boogie and the sometimes remarkable jazz playing ability of the band members.

 

The approach of the band on this album remains unique in that it is a rock/blues approach to swing. And swing it does! Although the soloing remains almost exclusively in the pentatonic scale and adheres strictly to a basic 1/IV/V 12 bar blues (with no traditional jazz substitutions), the boys manage to pull off a confident and aggressive post bop feel. This album became the introduction that many aspiring musicians used as a learning tool to explore beyond rock and pop boundaries and into more improvised stylings.

 

Ten Years After; Undead (1968)
Line-up:
Chick Churchill - keyboards
Alvin Lee - guitar, vocals
Leo Lyons - bass
Ric Lee - drums
Joe Gooch - guitar, vocals

Additional Album Info; Original LP on DERAM 1023
Download Tracks;
1. I May Be Wrong But I Won't Be Wrong Always (Alvin Lee)- 9:49
2. At The Woodchopper's Ball (Woody Herman/Joe Bishop)- 7:38
3. Spider In My Web (Alvin Lee)- 7:42
4. Summertime (George Gershwin)/ Shantung Cabbage (Ric Lee)- 5:44
5. I'm Going Home (Alvin Lee)- 6:24


2002 CD Re-release
1. Rock Your Mama - 3:46
2. Spoonful - 6:23
3. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always - 9:49
4. Summertime / Shantung Cabbage - 5:44
5. Spider In My Web - 7:43
6. (At the) Woodchopper's Ball - 7:38
7. Standing At The Crossroads - 4:10
8. I Can't Keep From Crying, Sometimes / Extension On One Chord / I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes - 17:04
9. I'm Going Home - 6:24
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Texas International Pop Festival 1969 - Spoonful - Alvin Lee/Ten Years After

Ten Years After is an English blues-rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition they have had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200, and are best known for their tracks "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", "I'd Love To Change the World" and "Love Like a Man".

Woodchoppers Ball

After several years of local success in the Nottingham/Mansfield area as a band known since 1962 as The Jaybirds (its core was formed in late 1960 as Ivan Jay and the Jaycats), and later as Ivan Jay and the Jaymen, Ten Years After was founded by Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons. Ivan Jay sang lead vocals from late 1960 to 1962 and was joined by Ric Lee in August 1965, replacing drummer Dave Quickmire, who had replaced Pete Evans in 1962. In 1966 The Jaybirds moved to London, where Chick Churchill joined the group. That November the quartet signed a manager, Chris Wright, and decided to change its name to Blues Trip, Blues Yard (under which they played a show at the Marquee Club supporting the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band), and finally in November 1966, to Ten Years After, (in honor of Elvis Presley, an idol of Lee's whose momentous year in rock, 1956, helps to better explain the band's title).

The group became the first act booked by the soon-to-be Chrysalis Agency. It secured a residency at the Marquee, and received an invitation to play at the Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967. That performance led to a contract with Deram, a subsidiary of Decca – the first band so signed without a hit single. In October, its 1967 self-titled debut album was released.

In 1968, after touring Scandinavia and the United States, Ten Years After released its second album, live Undead, which brought the noteworthy song "I'm Going Home". This was followed in February 1969 by the studio issue Stonedhenge, a British hit, that included another well known track, "Hear Me Calling" (it was released also as a single, and covered in 1972 by the British glam rock rising stars, Slade). In July 1969 the group appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival, in the first event to which rock bands were invited. In August, the band performed a breakthrough American appearance at Woodstock; their rendition of "I'm Going Home" featuring Alvin Lee as lead singer, was featured in both the subsequent film and soundtrack album and catapulted them to star status.

Ten Years After- Spider in my Web (live audio)

During 1970, Ten Years After released "Love Like a Man", the group's only hit in the UK Singles Chart. This song was on the band's fifth album, Cricklewood Green.The name of the album comes from a friend of the group who lived in Cricklewood, London. He grew a sort of plant which was said to have hallucinogenic effects. The band did not know the name of this plant, so the members called their album Cricklewood Green. It was the first record to be issued with a different playing speed on each side – one a three-minute edit at 45rpm, the other, a nine-minute live version at 33rpm. In August 1970, Ten Years After played the Strawberry Fields Festival near Toronto, and the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.

In 1971, the band released the album A Space in Time, which marked a move toward more commercial material. It featured the group's biggest hit, "I'd Love To Change The World". But the band broke up after the 1974 album Positive Vibrations. The members re-united in 1983 to play the Reading Festival,and this performance was later released on CD as The Friday Rock Show Sessions - Live At Reading '83' . In 1988, the members re-united for a few concerts and recorded the album About Time (1989). In 1994, they participated in the Eurowoodstock festival in Budapest.

Alvin Lee has since then mostly played and recorded under his own name. In 2004, the other band members replaced him with Joe Gooch, and recorded the album, Now.Material from the following tour was used for the 2005 double album, Roadworks.[4] Ric Lee is currently in a band called The Breakers, along with Ian Ellis (ex-Clouds). (Wikipedia)

London 1970 - Spider In My Web