What are you listening to?

[Savonarola]

Not to be THAT guy...but...well...their first final album was Islands, released in 1971.

  I thought I was missing one.  Okay, their second final album.   

[mongers]

Not to be THAT guy...but...well...their first final album was Islands, released in 1971.

  I thought I was missing one.  Okay, their second final album.   

I knew a guy who played on that album.

edit:
Oops, it was the two albums previous to that one, my bad.

[Savonarola]

Not to be THAT guy...but...well...their first final album was Islands, released in 1971.

  I thought I was missing one.  Okay, their second final album.   

I knew a guy who played on that album.

edit:
Oops, it was the two albums previous to that one, my bad.

He must have been phenomenally talented; did he play on anything else?

[Savonarola]

Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus (1974)

Contains much of the same band as Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters" although it also includes John Lee Hooker and Motown drummer Fred Waits (Maupin was also from Detroit.)  With that ensemble it is surprising that this is not at all funk; and instead avant-garde jazz.  I liked it, it really works when they all play in ensemble.  There is plenty of weirdness as well, with periods of quiet and a glockenspiel among other things.

[The Minsky Moment]

King Crimson - Red (1974)

The first final King Crimson album 

Listened to that a lot in my later teen years on the tape deck in my 82 Honda Accord hand-me-down.

[Josephus]

Not to be THAT guy...but...well...their first final album was Islands, released in 1971.

  I thought I was missing one.  Okay, their second final album.   

I knew a guy who played on that album.

edit:
Oops, it was the two albums previous to that one, my bad.

Gordon Haskell, right?

[mongers]

Not to be THAT guy...but...well...their first final album was Islands, released in 1971.

  I thought I was missing one.  Okay, their second final album.   

I knew a guy who played on that album.

edit:
Oops, it was the two albums previous to that one, my bad.

Gordon Haskell, right?

Yes, he used to play in my local boozer; odd to only have to walk 400 yard to hear a musician from one of ones favourite bands and for free too.   

He also played in some other pubs/clubs, including the Bricklayer's Arms, a decent music venue in the conurbation.

[mongers]

Not to be THAT guy...but...well...their first final album was Islands, released in 1971.

  I thought I was missing one.  Okay, their second final album.   

I knew a guy who played on that album.

edit:
Oops, it was the two albums previous to that one, my bad.

He must have been phenomenally talented; did he play on anything else?

Just on 'Cirkus' and one or two track on 'Poseidon', apparently had a real big falling out with Robert Fripp*, which wasn't unusual.


* local colour alert - I've never seen him in concert, but used to occasionally see him in the 'Spill the Beans' health food shop in Wimborne minster when I used to live there/visited there.

I think that was around the time him and Toyah own Cecil Beaton's former house up on Cranborne Chase.   

[The Minsky Moment]

Just on 'Cirkus' and one or two track on 'Poseidon', apparently had a real big falling out with Robert Fripp*, which wasn't unusual.

You mean he objected to processing his vocals to sound like a demented Dalek?

[Savonarola]

Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky (1974)

Individually the songs are all good, collectively this is one heck of a mopey album.  He makes The Smiths look downright chipper.  All the songs are melancholy, wistful ballads and, as usual^1.), Browne is an exceptional lyricist ("Fountain of Sorrow" is a real standout, as is "Before the Deluge".)  "Before the Deluge" seems especially timely for today.  (I find myself thinking that a lot when listening to 1974 albums, there was Randy Newman's "Please Mr. President," and "Kingfish" as well as Gil Scott-Heron's "H20Gate Blue.")

Edit:  Also I have to give Browne credit for basing his cover on  René Magritte  L'Empire des Lumieres:



1.) I first wrote "Always", but then I remembered "Lawyers in Love."   

[The Minsky Moment]

Winter in America is one of the best GSH albums.  That one and the South Africa to South Carolina one released a couple years later.