When prog was not yet split off from the psychedelic underground (1970)
The age of innocence
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
Musings on the byways of popular culture
When prog was not yet split off from the psychedelic underground (1970)
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Louis Greeff was a white South African Afrikaner who is still revered in in his home country as one of the best electric guitarists in the world, ever. But the world didn’t know it.
Some great early Nick Mason-style springy drumming, too.
Springy style! Fabulous description. I love that drum style.
That reminded me of a psychedelicised rock version of Edvard Grieg’s “Morning” from the Peer Gynt Suite, that was on a long-lost album I had in the late ’60s. It was by some American band I can’t recall the name of. Or their album’s title.
Loved it at the time, but eventually grew tired of it and IIRC it was the album’s only redeeming feature really, which is probably why the album is long gone..
Tried to find it just now on YouTube, to no avail, and also found no hits on Discogs.com.
There was a trend for that sort of thing around 1968-69.
Dave Edmunds recorded Kachaturian’s “Sabre Dance”, The Nice recorded Bernstein’s “America” and Sibelius’s “Intermezzo from The Karelia Suite”.
“No hits”, you say? Was it Clash band?
I haven’t found your Grieg cover, @Mike_H, but I did find this;
Bach, Beck, and Bjork Walk into a Bar – Reclassifying Harmonic
Progressions to Accommodate Popular Music Repertoire in the
Traditional Music Theory Class
Nancy Rosenberg
https://digitalcollections.lipscomb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1171&context=jmtp
I’d love to read that but suspect I would understand very little.
I can’t find your American band reboot of Grieg. Shame! Maybe someone else knows it?
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The only reference I can find is this one.
Jay and the Americans recorded a rock and roll cover song known as “Dawning”, in 1962. “Morning” was later used in the 1973 film Soylent Green as part of the music selected by Edward G. Robinson’s character to listen to as he lay dying.
Duke Ellington also recorded a version.
In the Hall of the Mountain King had a few versions as mentioned here:
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/janis_joplins_band_play_a_wild_psychedelic_version_of_in_the_hall_of_t
@Mike_H was it this?
I was going to ask a friend if he knew it before I’d asked he posted this on Facebook.
It was lightly fuzzed, sustained guitar over an organ on the version that I remember. On a US label that did not survive long into the ’70s, if I remember correctly.
The search continues.
I am impressed, Hubert! You are a man with a mission.
I’ve been nosing around here and there and found nothing at all that seems to fit.
Impasse or the wide wall of stoppage.