the Velvet Underground - 1970 - Loaded

genre: psych
country: us
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time: 1:02'14"+1:07'58"
size: 817 mb
issue: 1997 2cd

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Disc One (Original album)
"Who Loves the Sun" – 2:45
"Sweet Jane" (full-length version) – 4:06
"Rock & Roll" – 4:43
"Cool It Down" – 3:04
"New Age" (full-length version) – 5:07
"Head Held High" – 2:56
"Lonesome Cowboy Bill" – 2:43
"I Found a Reason" – 4:15
"Train Round the Bend" – 3:21
"Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" – 7:25
"Ride into the Sun (demo)" (Reed, Cale, Morrison, Tucker) – 3:20
"Ocean" (Outtake) – 5:43
"I'm Sticking with You" (Outtake) – 3:06
"I Love You" (Demo) – 2:03
"Rock & Roll" (Alternate mix) – 4:41
"Head Held High" (Alternate mix) – 2:15


Disc Two (Alternate album)
"Who Loves the Sun" (Alternate mix) – 2:59
"Sweet Jane" (Early version) – 5:22
"Rock & Roll" (Demo) – 4:45
"Cool It Down" (Early version) – 4:14
"New Age" (Full-length version) – 5:44
"Head Held High" (Early version) – 2:48
"Lonesome Cowboy Bill" (Early version) – 3:14
"I Found a Reason" (Demo) – 3:16
"Train Round the Bend" (Alternate version) – 4:36
"Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" (Early version) – 4:04
"Ocean" (Demo) – 6:27
"I Love You" (Outtake) – 2:03
"Satellite of Love" (Alternate demo) – 2:51
"Oh Gin" (Demo) – 2:54
"Walk and Talk" (Demo) – 2:47
"Sad Song" (Demo) – 3:43
"Love Makes You Feel Ten Feet Tall" (Demo) – 4.09

Sterling Morrison – guitar
Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, piano
Maureen Tucker – drums (Credited, but does not appear due to maternity leave. She does appear singing on the outtake "I'm Sticking With You," and playing drums on the demo of "I Found a Reason" on the Fully Loaded Edition)
Doug Yule – keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Who Loves the Sun", "New Age", "Lonesome Cowboy Bill", and "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'"


Additional musicians
Adrian Barber – drums on "Who Loves the Sun"
Tommy Castanero – drums on "Cool It Down" and "Head Held High"
Billy Yule – drums on "Lonesome Cowboy Bill" and "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'"
John Cale – organ on "Ocean" demo version


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Roger Waters - 2002 - Flickering Flame

genre: rock
country: uk
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time: 1:10'28"
size: 367 mb
misc.: compil.

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"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" – 4:06 (from the film The Dybbuk of The Holy Apple Field 1998)
"Too Much Rope" – 5:12 (from Amused to Death 1992)
"The Tide Is Turning" – 5:24 (from Radio K.A.O.S 1987)
"Perfect Sense, part I & II" [live] – 7:22 (from In the Flesh - Live 2000)
"Three Wishes" – 6:49 (from Amused to Death 1992)
"5:06 AM (Every Stranger's Eyes)" – 4:47 (from The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking 1984)
"Who Needs Information" – 5:55 (from Radio K.A.O.S 1987)
"Each Small Candle" [live] – 8:34 (from In The Flesh 2000)
"Flickering Flame [new demo]" – 6:45 (2001)
"Towers of Faith" – 6:52 (from When the Wind Blows (soundtrack) 1986)
"Radio Waves" – 4:31 (from Radio K.A.O.S 1987)
"Lost Boys Calling [original demo]" – 4:06 (finished version appears in the film The Legend of 1900 1999)


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Warhorse - 1970 - Warhorse

genre: heavy
country: uk
quality : mpc mqvbr, booklet scans
time: 1:10'15"
size: 108 mb
issue: 1999

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Simper had earlier been involved with Deep Purple and prior to that, Johnny Kidd and The Pirates. The Warhorse album sounded a lot like Deep Purple at the time but didn't make much impression. Their debut 45, St Louis, a cover of an Easybeats' song sold pretty well though. Their second album, Red Sea, was much more guitar-orientated. There's a notable guitar solo on Back In Time and there's also a cover version of Shirley Bassey's I (Who Have Nothing). The band built up audiences on the Continent but failed to stir many people here and disbanded in 1974.
At the end of the seventies Simper formed Nick Simper's Fandango. Poole was later in Broken Glass and did session work. Wilson made an album with Melvyn Gale in 1980. Holt later worked with Rick Wakeman. Much later in 1980, Parker played with Dirty Looks.

1. Warhorse - Vulture Blood (6:13)
2. No Chance (6:22)
3. Burning (6:17)
4. St. Louis (3:50)
5. Ritual (4:54)
6. Solitude (8:48)
7. Woman Of The Devil (7:16)
8. Ritual (Live) (5:06)
9. Miss Jane (Demo) (3:37)
10. Solitude (Live) (4:52)
11. Woman Of The Devil (Live) (6:45)
12. Burning (Live) (6:06)

- Ashley Holt / vocals
- Ged Peck / guitar
- Mac Poole / drums
- Nick Simper / bass
- J. Frank Wilson / keyboards
- Frank Wilson / organ, piano

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Il Volo - 1974 - Il Volo

genre: prog
country: italy
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time: 33'05"
size: 228 mb
issue: japan


1. Come una zanzara (4:21)
2. La mia rivoluzione (3:58)
3. Il calore umano (4:43)
4. Il canto della preistoria (4:34)
5. I primi respiri (3:52)
6. La canzone del nostro tempo (4:14)
7. Sonno (4:08)
8. Sinfonia delle scarpe da tennis (2:56)


- Vince Tempera / piano, electric piano, clavinet
- Alberto Radius / electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electtric sitar, vocals
- Roberto Callero / bass
- Mario Lavezzi / acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, electric guitar, electric mandolin, vocals
- Gabrile Lorenzi / organ, moog
- Gianni Dall'Aglio / drums, pecussion, vocals


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the Velvet Underground - 1974 - Live with Lou Reed 1969

genre: garage
country: us
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time: 59`04"+1:00'46"
size: 725 mb
issue: 1988 2cd

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Velvet Underground were New York's answer to the California rock renaissance. Their main inspiration came from Lou Reed and John Cale. Reed, born on 12 March 1943 in Freeport, Long Island, New York was an accountant's son, the eldest of two children from a middle class Jewish family. He had dropped out of Syracuse University to write songs. Cale had been born on 5 December 1940 in Crynant, South Wales. He'd studied contemporary music in London prior to winning a scholarship to New York's Eastman Conservatory. The remaining members were Maureen Tucker. who'd been born in New Jersey in 1945; Nico, who entered the world in Cologne, Germany in 1938 (her parents were Polish and later died in a Nazi death camp); and Sterling Morrison, who was born in the same year as Reed in New York and later attended high school with him. Reed and Cale first met each other in New York in 1964, but Cale did not play with Reed until the latter had gone on to assemble his own bands, The Warlocks and later The Primitives, which included Morrison and Tucker. Reed and Cale, also wrote a 45 for The All Night Workers.

When Cale joined in 1966, they changed their name to The Velvet Underground and played in various clubs around Greenwich Village. They soon came to the attention of Andy Warhol, who added the beautiful German model and actress, Nico, to their line-up and featured them in his Exploding Plastic Inevitable Media Show, which was a multi-media psychedelic show, staged in New York in 1966.

The debut album, produced by Andy Warhol, was one of the most innovative and influential in the history of rock. The songs largely concentrated on the decadence of American City life, thereby countering the peace and love trip emanating from America's West Coast. I'm Waiting For The Man and Heroin dealt with the rising phenomena of heroin addiction, while Venus In Furs explored the dark world of sado-masochism. Nico's sexy but death-like voice was a big plus on tracks like Sunday Moming, Femme Fatale and I'll Be Your Mirror. The music on this album was effectively an assault on the listener's senses - comprised of throbbing, often discordant rhythms, riddled with electronic feed-back. Most of it was written by Reed, although Nico's vocals were also important to its appeal. Commercially, however, it was a non-starter as the subject-matter of many of its tracks prevented any radio airplay and it also spawned no hit singles. It peaked atjust No. 171 in the National Album Charts and Reed and Cale were both upset by the indifferent reception it received, feeling it to be rather special.

Nico left the band at this stage to pursue a solo career, and Warhol began to loose interest, withdrawing his financial support. Nico's departure inevitably affected their musical policy and their second album, White Light/White Heat which, lacking the gentle songs written for her on the first LP, was aggressively harsh. It contained two stand-out tracks, Sister Ray, a 17 minute story about a group of sailors who are interrupted by the police while visiting a drag queen, and The Gift based on a short story Reed had composed. In both songs, the lyrics were augmented by a storm of unorthodox electronic music. Commercially, the album represented another failure peaking at only No. 199 in the Album Charts and Cale quit the band to pursue a solo career. He was replaced by Doug Yule (bs, gtr, keyb'ds). From hereon, Reed became the dominant figure in the band.

The third album, The Velvet Underground, again represented a change in musical direction being composed of softer, more harmonious songs. The album was based around a girl's search for significance through nihilism (Candy Says), religion (Jesus), adultery (Pale Blue Eyes) and ended with a jovial song about loneliness (After Hours). However, the band's repeated changes in style had left their audience way behind and this album failed to make a popular impact. Mid-1969 saw them without a record contract, but in 1970 they recorded Loaded, generally regarded as a dynamic rock'n'roll album. Unfortunately, Reed quit a month before its release, when the band, benefiting from a renewed wave of public interest, appeared on the brink of achieving commercial success. The album contained at least three further classics Sweet Jane, the story of a resilient city girl, Sweet Nothing, an account of city kids able to live on next to nothing and Rock and Roll. The remaining members attempted to keep the band going with new recruits, but quit after the inevitably disappointing Squeeze was released in 1970. Posthumously two live albums were released, the poorly recorded Live At Max's Kansas City and 1969, a recording of gigs in Texas and San Francisco that year.

VU, which appeared in February 1985 was their previously unissued fourth Verve/MGM album, the missing masters for which were recently unearthed in the States. 9 of the 10 tracks from circa 1968-69 were previously unreleased. It became their most successfull album commercially, climbing to No. 87 in the U.S. Album Charts.

Cale and Reed later achieved the popular success that eluded them with The Velvets, through a series of solo albums. Nico, who had appeared in Warhol's movie 'Chelsea Girls' prior to joining Velvet Underground, also released three solo albums (Chelsea Girl, The Marble Index and Desertshore) with assistance from Cale before emigrating to Paris in 1971.

In retrospect, The Velvets' first album, with its harsh loud music and its lyrical obsession with decadence, was probably the most significant album of this era in that it previewed the aggressive punk sounds to emerge in the late seventies.

Guitarist Sterling Morrison died at the age of 53 on August 30th, 1995.

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cd1:
"Waiting for My Man" – 7:03
"Lisa Says" – 5:52
"What Goes On" – 8:55
"Sweet Jane" – 4:00
"We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together" – 3:15
"Femme Fatale" – 3:04
"New Age" – 6:36
"Rock and Roll" – 6:06
"Beginning to See the Light" – 5:30
"Heroin" – 8:14


cd2:
"Ocean" – 10:55
"Pale Blue Eyes" – 5:51
"Heroin" – 9:49
"Some Kinda Love" – 4:48
"Over You" – 2:17
Medley: "Sweet Bonnie Brown"/"It's Just Too Much" – 7:55
"White Light/White Heat" – 8:35
"I Can't Stand It" – 7:51
"I'll Be Your Mirror" – 2:21


Sterling Morrison – rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals
Lou Reed – Vocals, rhythm guitar
Maureen Tucker – percussion
Doug Yule – bass guitar, organ, backing vocals, lead vocal on "I'll Be Your Mirror"

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Frankie Valli And The 4 Seasons - 1988 - Anthology

genre: pop
country: us
quality : mp3 256k, scans
time: 1:15'35"
size: 150 mb

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01. Sherry 2:33
02. Big Girls Don't Cry 2:26
03. Walk Like A Man 2:17
04. Candy Girl 2:37
05. Marlena 2:36
06. Dawn (Go Away) 2:48
07. Stay 1:57
08. Ronnie 2:59
09. Rag Doll 3:02
10. Silence Is Golden 3:26
11. Save It For Me 2:38
12. Big Man In Town 2:48
13. Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby Goodbye) 2:33
14. Girl Come Running 3:01
15. Let's Hang On! 3:18
16. Don't Think Twice 3:00
17. Working My Way Back To You 3:05
18. Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me) 2:34
19. I've Got You Under My Skin 3:40
20. Tell It To The Rain 2:37
21. Beggin' 2:49
22. Can't Take My Eyes Off You 3:23
23. C'mon Marianne 2:36
24. Will You Love Me Tomorrow 3:18
25. Who Loves You 4:16
26. December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) 3:17

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Steppenwof - 1971 - For Ladies Only

genre: heavy
country: canada
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time: 45'35"
size: 276 mb

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Steppenwolf evolved out of the Canadian band Jack London and The Sparrows, who made an album (1965) in Canada and backed a female singer on another album - Jerry Edmonton, Dennis (Mars Bonfire) Edmonton, Nick St. Nicholas and Goldie McJohn all come from this band and Nicholas had earlier played in Hardtimes. They subsequently dumped their singer / heart-throb Jack London and drafted John Kay, with whom they made several 45s, which were later compiled on an American album John Kay and The Sparrow (Columbia CS 9758) (1968 or 1969 - has 360º label).

After hitting the road across the U.S.A. (mostly New York and California), they settled in the Bay Area (Mill Valley) and spent their last months as The Sparrow. Dumping Mars Bonfire, the other four went to Los Angeles and drafted Michael Monarch (who was the just 17 years old!) and formed Steppenwolf, taking the name from the Herman Hesse novel. Somewhere along in here Nick St. Nicholas left to form T.I.M.E. with Larry Byrom (who later joined Steppenwolf for their Monster album) and in the interim Rushton Moreve filled in on the first album.

Their music now leaned towards hard rock, and tended to reflect the political and drug influences of the times. Their debut LP contained the rock classic Born To Be Wild. A timeless song, still regularly played at parties, this was a massive U.S. and minor U.K. hit. Later featured in sixties cult film 'Easy Rider' it would also become the bikers' anthem. This film also featured The Pusher, another highly popular song from their first album.

John Morgan was drafted in for their second LP, which contained another massive U.S. hit Magic Carpet Ride (a title with trippy connotations) and now everything the band produced was becoming a best-seller.

The Monster was probably their finest album. Essentially an anti-Vietnam war, anti-US establishment song, it traces America's development from colonisation through to its involvement in Vietnam. Along the way, the spirit of freedom and justice had been sacrificed by the country's leaders who had become corrupted by power and allowed the nation's cities to become jungles, and who were now fighting a war the nation could not afford. In short, its leaders had created a Monster, and the song's chorus was a rallying cry to the nation's youth to fight.

'America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now,
We can't fight alone against the monster'.
(From The Monster)
This theme is apparent throughout the album. Draft Register is another anti-war song, What Would You Do (If I Did That To You) confronts colour prejudice; Power Play and From Here To There Eventually (both incidentally containing fine guitar work) represented a further challenge to authority.

The harshness of the band's heavy sound is well captured on their Live album, released in 1970. But by now Monarch and Morgan had left the band. They were replaced by Nick St Nicholas (bs) and Larry Bryom (gtr) and later George Biondo relieved St Nicholas, whilst Kent Henry replaced Byrom. Henry, had previously played in local Los Angeles band Genesis.

The group finally disbanded in 1972, after nine hit albums. Indeed it has been estimated that between 1968-1972 they grossed $50,000,000. Kay made two solo albums and Edmonton and St John returned to Canada and set up their own band, Manbeast. None of these projects were commercially successful and in 1974 the group reformed to release a further string of bestselling albums. After disbanding again in 1977, they later reemerged in 1982 as John Kay And Steppenwolf back in Canada.

Steppenwolf was probably so mercurial due to John Kay's obvious domination of the group. Great groups usually have strong leadership though, and nearly every incarnation of Steppenwolf was excellent. Their artistic pinnacle was undoubtedly Steppenwolf 7, one of the most instrumentally awesome and lyrically majestic albums. On this Jerry Edmonton established himself as one of rock's greatest drummers. Tracks like Renegade (Kay's auto-biography of his escape from East Germany, chillingly told with a stunning instrumental section in the middle) and Foggy Mental Breakdown (so influential in composition that scores of Italian progressive bands used it as a blueprint for years) and made clear that Steppenwolf was one of America's best.

(Vernon Joynson/Clark Faville)


"For Ladies Only" (Edmonton, Henry, Kay, McJohn) – 9:17
"I'm Asking" (Edmonton, McJohn) – 4:28
"Shackles and Chains" (Kay) – 5:00
"Tenderness" (Mars Bonfire) – 4:55
"The Night Time's for You (Bonfire, Cavett) – 2:58
"Jaded Strumpet" (Edmonton) – 4:44
"Sparkle Eyes" (Biondo, Kay) – 4:33
"Black Pit" (Henry, McJohn) – 3:50
"Ride With Me" (Bonfire) – 3:24
"In Hopes of a Garden" (Biondo) – 2:10


Richard Podolor - producer
John Kay - vocals, guitar
Kent Henry - lead guitar
George Biondo - vocals, bass
Goldy McJohn - keyboards
Jerry Edmonton - drums


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Chris Squire - 1975 - Fish Out Of Water

genre: prog
country: uk
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time: 42'43"
size: 282 mb

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Yes bassist Chris Squires' lone solo album was the first to appear after Yes took their sabbatical after the Relayer album to do a major rethink. That each member recorded an album worthy of release on Atlantic Records is of course another matter, but judged on this record alone, it was a great idea! Squire put together a great band, including ex-Yes member Bill Bruford and almost ex-Yes member Patrick Moraz, and noted session players Mel Collins and Jimmy Hastings. In addition to piano duites, Andrew Pryce Jackman also provided the lucisous orchestral arrangements. Jackman was previously in Squire's late sixties psychedelic outfit the Syn. Squire himself took on all guitar duties, his distinctive bass obviously to the fore. He also handled all vocal duties. The album contains the same majesty of Yes, with the added distinction of not sounding like Yes at all! The energetic melody and pipe organ of "Hold Out Your Hand" presage "Parallels" from the next Yes album, while "You by My Side" is similarly melodic. Both feature a huge bass line straight down the middle. Jackman's arrangements meld each piece together, giving the side fluidity not found in even the best Yes efforts. Moraz lends a hand (or two) to the instrumental section of the next track, "Silently Falling". Squire's twelve-string sends the ending section into a hypnotic refrain. "Lucky Seven" has the simplicity of Fragile's best moments. Squire's bass soars over Bruford’s deft rhythm and Jackman's chiming electric piano. "Safe (Canon Song)" again goes for the symphonic, repeating an even longer fade than on the first side. The album was moderately successful, charting on both sides of the Atlantic (as did most of the solo albums). Yes' record-breaking tour in the summer of 1976 would feature live renditions from each members solo albums. But Squire would stick to Yes; this would remain his only solo record.


1. Hold Out Your Hand (4:13)
2. You By My Side (4:59)
3. Silently Falling (11:26)
4. Lucky Seven (6:54)
5. Safe (Canon Song) (14:56)


Chris Squire – bass, vocals, twelve string guitar
Andrew Jackman – piano, electric piano (4), conductor, orchestration
Bill Bruford – drums, percussion
Patrick Moraz – synthesizer, organ (3)
Jimmy Hastings – flute (2,3,5)
Mel Collins – soprano saxophone (4)
Barry Rose – pipe organ (1)
Adrian Bett – woodwind, leader
Jim Buck – horn
Julian Gaillard – strings
David Snell – harp, leader
John Wilbraham – brass, leader
Nikki Squire - backing vocals (1)


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Solid Gold Cadillac - 1972 - Solid Gold Cadillac + 1973 - Brain Damage

genre: jazz, psych
country: uk
quality : lossless (flac, cue, log, scans embedded)
time: 40'39" + 43'35"
size: 496 mb
issue: 1999 2cd

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Solid Gold Cadillac was a British jazz-rock group set up in the early 1970s. The band featured, variously, Roy Babbington (bass), Mike Westbrook (electric piano), Fi Trench (piano, organ), Chris Spedding (guitar), Brian Godding (guitar), Dick Morecombe (guitars), Malcolm Griffiths (trombone), Phil Minton (lead vocals, trumpet), George Khan (sax, flute), Butch Potter (bass) and Alan Jackson (drums).

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Mike Westbrook also made several solo albums, whilst Chris Spedding played in several bands including Pete Brown's Battered Ornaments, Sounds Nice, The Jack Bruce Band, Nucleus and Sharks, as well as doing session guitar work and launching a solo career in the seventies.
Roy Babbington was later in Soft Machine, George Khan (earlier in Khan) and Brian Godding (ex-Blossom Toes) later teamed up in Mirage (1977), producing just one album, Now You See It...

1972:

01. technology 4:52
02. let it shine 4:41
03. march 1:05
04. there was a man 2:45
05. morning song 6:43
06. we do it 2:30
07. the island 4:35
08. greek music I 1:50
09. greek music II 2:04
10. pleasure city 5:01
11. solid gold cadillac 4:33


Mike Westbrook (piano, vocals)
Phil Minton (vocals)
Dick Morecombe (guitars)
Chris Spedding (guitars)
Roy Babbington (bass)
Alan Jackson (drums)
Geroge Khan (tenor sax, flute)
Malcolm Griffiths (trumpet)
Fiachra Trench (piano, organ)

1973:

01. overt'yer 4:12
02. lady howerd 4:38
03. tacuarembo 2:34
04. elephants' tales 7:02
05. i believe 3:00
06. fortune song 1:11
07. the sun 5:35
08. mermaid song 9:11
09. anna marie 5:15
10. bilbo 0:58


Mike Westbrook (electric piano)
Phil Minton (vocals, trumpet)
Brian Godding (electric guitar)
Malcolm Griffiths (trombone)
George Nisar Ahmad Kahan (saxes, flute, piano)
Alan Jackson (drums, percussion)
Butch Potter (guitars, banjo, piano)



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Soft Machine - 1975 - Bundles

genre: jazz, prog
country: uk
quality : lossless (ape, cue, log, booklet scans)
time: 41'56"
size: 235 mb


Side one
"Hazard Profile Part One" – 9:18
"Part Two (Toccatina)" – 2:21
"Part Three" – 1:05
"Part Four" – 0:46
"Part Five" – 5:29
"Gone Sailing" (Allan Holdsworth) – 0:59
Side two
"Bundles" – 3:14
"Land of the Bag Snake" (Holdsworth) – 3:35
"The Man Who Waved at Trains" (Mike Ratledge) – 1:50
"Peff" (Ratledge) – 1:57
"Four Gongs Two Drums" (John Marshall) – 4:09
"The Floating World" – 7:12


Roy Babbington – bass guitar
Allan Holdsworth – electric, acoustic, and 12-string guitars
Karl Jenkins - oboe, piano, electric piano, soprano saxophone
John Marshall – drums, percussion
Mike Ratledge – (Lowrey Holiday Deluxe) organ, (Fender Rhodes) electric piano, (AKS) synthesizer
with
Ray Warleigh – alto flute and bass flute on "The Floating World"


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Soft Machine - 1976 - Softs

genre: jazz, prog
country: uk
quality : lossless (ape, cue, log, booklet scans)
time: 45'25"
size: 234 mb


Side one
"Aubade" – 1:49
"The Tale of Taliesin" – 7:15
"Ban-Ban Caliban" – 9:19
"Song of Aeolus" – 4:29
Side two
"Out of Season" – 5:30
"Second Bundle" – 2:35
"Kayoo" (John Marshall) – 3:25
"The Camden Tandem" (John Etheridge / Marshall) – 1:50
"Nexus" – 0:47
"One Over the Eight" (Jenkins / Marshall / Etheridge / Alan Wakeman / Roy Babbington) – 5:26
"Etka" – 2:21 (Etheridge) §
§ in the album "The Untouchable" (1990, Castle) which is compilation of tracks from "Bundles", "Softs" and "Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris" this track is named "Etika".


Roy Babbington – bass guitar
John Etheridge – acoustic and electric guitars
John Marshall – drums, percussion
Alan Wakeman – soprano and tenor saxophones
Karl Jenkins – piano, electric piano, pianette, string and Mini-Moog synthesizers, orchestrations
with
Mike Ratledge – synthesizer on (3, 4)


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Smile - 1997 - Ghost Of A Smile

genre: psych
country: uk
quality : mp3 mqvbr, covers
time: 29'25"
size: 50 mb
issue: rec. '69

Tapestry of Delights:
From London, this band were formed in summer 1968 by Brian May and Tim Staffell, who had previously been in a band called 1984 (not the same act who issued three singles) and Roger Taylor from The Reaction. Smile opened for a lot of acts, especially in London's Imperial College, as support to Pink Floyd, Family, Yes, Tyrannosaurus Rex and in a Benefit concert Festival at the Royal Albert Hall with Free, Spooky Tooth etc...
In April 1969, they were approched and signed for a one-off 45 by Lou Reizner, a talent scout for Mercury Records. The session took place at Trident Studios with producer John Anthony (Van Der Graaf Generator / Rare Bird). Three originals songs were recorded with Doing Alright, Earth and Step On Me, but the 45 was only released in the U.S.A. and inevitably flopped. Earth is a ballad with nice harmonies, and Step On Me a good uptempo number. The sound of the guitar is very strange and later became a trademark for Brian May.
Following the 45, Mercury booked another session at De Lane Lea Studios in Kingsway with producer Fritz Fryer, ex guitarist of the Four Pennies. Three further tracks were recorded: the hard Blag, a gentle ballad Polar Bear and a obscure cover titled April Lady in a Beatles' style. All these tracks were included in the Japan only LP Gettin' Smile in 1982. Doing Alriqht was later re-recorded by Queen and featured on their first album.
Disillusionned by their lack of success (in spite of some good concerts as support-act for Kippington Lodge and Mighty Baby) Smile split at the beginning of 1970. After that, Tim Staffell joined Humpy Bong, Morgan, Jonathan Kelly's Outside and Tailfeather while Roger Taylor and Brian May formed Queen with a friend of Tim called Freddie Mercury.
(Christophe Simplex)


1. Earth (T. Staffell) (4:00)
2. Step On Me (T. Staffell/B. May) (3:10)
3. Doin' Alright (Stereo) (T. Staffell/B. May) (3:48)
4. April Lady (S. Lucas) (2:43)
5. Blag (R. Taylor) (3:12)
6. Polar Bear (B. May) (3:56)
Bonus Tracks performed by Eddie Howell (featuring Brian May and Freddie Mercury):
7. The Man From Manhattan (E. Howell) (original) (Stereo) (3:20)
8. The Man From Manhattan (E.Howell) (back again) (Stereo) (4:56)

- Brian May / guitars, lead vocal (6), piano (2), backing vocals
- Tim Staffell / bass, vocals
- Roger Taylor / drums, backing vocals


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