Outstanding late Psychedelia from the late Peter Green. The single was released in May, 1970, and Alice Cooper began recording one of my favorite albums, Love It To Death, six months later. I don’t know if one influenced the other, but it sounds likely.
Category: Music
Prog Rock Meets Jazz Fusion
Your favorite early 70’s FM radio sounds, all heard in a single track — Santana, Yes, and Return to Forever, with a dash of Pink Floyd!
Roll With Beethoven
Boston’s own Handel & Haydn Society is continuing its Summer of Beethoven series, with selections of past concerts.
Whatever Happened to Freedom Fries?
And we thought things were bad with 9/11, the Iraq invasion, and the Great Recession.
A Progressive Meal
After my freshman year of high school, until I left for college in Western Massachusetts, I mostly listened to WBCN, the legendary alternative radio station in Boston at 104.1 FM. ‘BCN was where I first heard David Bowie, Ten Years After and Captain Beefheart, along with the comedy troupes Firesign Theatre and Monty Python. Progressive music was well-represented on WBCN, and I remember enjoying this King Crimson record in particular.
I Remember…
… Iron Butterfly, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. But do you remember BLOODROCK?? “We were flying low, and hit something in the air.”
There’s a really obvious splice in there from where the album version was cut down for the single. If four-and-a-half minutes of somebody being “self-aware” they’re dying isn’t enough for you, here is the classic “D.O.A.”