Cavynaut said:
At the moment I'm listening to anything by Pink Fairies, The Pretty Things and early Hawkwind.
Seems like that entire hippy/early punk crossover is about the only genre that hasn't been mined to buggery in the last few years by spotty media students.
Ah, you're a man after my own heart, Cavy! In fact, at this precise moment I've got
Space Ritual playing at extreme volume (sometimes, living in a shed on a hill can have its advantages - no neighbours to annoy!) Bone-crunching riffs, mad electronic burbling and bonkers space poems from yer man Calvert - bliss! It's funny how they were much-slagged off by "serious" music fans at the time for like, not being able to play their instruments
really well, man, but nowadays they sound a lot less dated than the likes of Yes and ELP!
I'm a big fan of the Pretties too, just about anything which broadly comes under the 'Freakbeat' umbrella.
SF Sorrow is one of the most underrated and unsung albums of all time, IMO - it's got more than a few things in common with the Who's later
Tommy, but don't suggest as such to Pete Townshend (still touchy about that, if Phil May is to be believed.) It's also got the advantage of having to tell its story in half the time, so there's no filler and throwaway linking tracks. I love the Who too (in fact, they're probabably my favourite band) but I still think that
Sorrow outdoes
Tommy, musically and conceptually!
