Music of my youth

[Tourist Tony]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDmhP6YiN6s
This is prog, this is great, this is doublesaxtastic.
This is the music of my teenage years, and I am 50 on Sunday. Listen, watch and weep for what you missed.

[Wowbagger]

Palestrina

[nicknack]

Palestrina! Ha! Bloody kids!

Solage (Smoke, you buggers)

(Thanks TT - wonderful stuff)

[Tourist Tony]

It is, isn't it?

[Basil]

Thanks Tony. 

Talking of "Double Saxtastic", remember Dick Heckstall-Smith ?
I saw him with both John Mayall and earlier with Graham bond at Mother's in birmingham. 

[nicknack]

Saw D H-S a few years ago with the reformed Colosseum. Sadly, won't again.

I did double sax many years ago (copying Jaxonsax and DHS) and keep thinking I ought to again. But I want to do tenor/baritone (like Dana Colley of Morphine/Twinemen). It's a bit of a handful but it's really just a question of plucking up courage (and not minding looking a total tit).

[Tourist Tony]

Here#s a more recent bit
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/eaPTXK94UBA&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/eaPTXK94UBA&rel=1</a>
--just class
But I feel old...

[Martin]

sorry to hijack this thread but..


all the way from 76 (when I first heard it) just putting Ikea wardrobes together to it, is there any other way?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/u2fiSfw4pZ8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/u2fiSfw4pZ8&rel=1</a>

(the album's Happy Trails)

[border-rider]

The music of my youth

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/FQCZotuJi24&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/FQCZotuJi24&rel=1</a>

Truly electrifying when I first ever heard it.  I remember it well - I was in the bath with the radio on, and I sat bolt upright

[nicknack]

S'funny. I was listening to Happy Trails only last week...

This is the bunch that is responsible for really getting me into music (and my current occupation):
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZrcOEoFttWU&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/ZrcOEoFttWU&rel=1</a>

[Basil]

Gosh. Happy Trails.
I remember being surprised that I wasn't alone in that one last time I mentioned it last time on here. (There).

Now, late 70's is perhaps extending my youth somewhat, but someting else that has hung around with me ever since then is Wire's Pink Flag Album.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y96TSCAwCC4&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Y96TSCAwCC4&rel=1</a>

[Martin]

The music of my youth

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/FQCZotuJi24&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/FQCZotuJi24&rel=1</a>

Truly electrifying when I first ever heard it.  I remember it well - I was in the bath with the radio on, and I sat bolt upright

yep; 1.5.80, the Lyceum, supported by DAF and Bauhaus, the best gig ever*; thank you thank you for posting that , more live Mags than you can shake a sick at 




*until Kraftwerk

[Cunobelin]

We were spoilt...

A friend of ours had an elder brother who worked for a small record compant which was promotng a number of new bands.  Among them were.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoctTLnoMmI

and...




We used to get the "white label" promotional copies and tape them...


Having said that the re are a few pieces that really made their mark. The first album that I really "thought about" was the Camel album based on Paul Gallico's wonderful "The Snow Goose"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVJklh5GzGQ

[Really Ancien]

If I'd kept faith with the music of my youth, mine would have been one of the balding heads visible in this performance of 'Facelift' by Hugh Hopper. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/cifNGqyAO6E&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/cifNGqyAO6E&rel=1</a>
That I didn't is probably due to the need to shut yourself away to listen to what is, after all, a most appalling din. Lots of my contemporaries around here were into the polar opposite of this stuff, Northern Soul. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ImCSOFLu1KU&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/ImCSOFLu1KU&rel=1</a> , looking back, I have to admire the amphetemine fuelled athleticism, it certainly looks like it would have been a better way to meet girls, although my dancing was always dismally bad.

Damon.

[Tourist Tony]

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Progtastic stuff indeed. I never got on with T Dream, but was chatting with a couple of Soft Machine's current members a few months ago. Camel, QMS, ......


Point of this thread was twofold: to allow people to post some of their youth, and more importantly to allow the Children of Tomorrow to experience the awe and majesty that was good Prog.
Or something.

[Zoidburg]

Pray tell old codgers of the forum

Was any of this music played on a lute?

[Really Ancien]

Pray tell old codgers of the forum

Was any of this music played on a lute?

Yes, but that would go through a fuzz box, a flanger, wah-wah and then there might be some phasing when it was mixed down from 24 track, Hugh Hopper explains more over 10 minutes.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/iBhXpFfi_pI&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/iBhXpFfi_pI&rel=1</a>

Damon.

[peliroja]

Pray tell old codgers of the forum

Was any of this music played on a lute?