Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 25th February 2015, 9:04 PM GMTSounds like a interesting project. Lucky you.
I'd feel a lot luckier if someone was paying!
It's an idea I've had knocking about for 18 months or so - I've only now finally done some proper research and am trying to knock it into shape.
It's about the Birmingham (UK) rock scene and one particular club.
Talking to some really interesting people who were at some legendary gigs....
This The Deviants from 1968.
Pretty cool IMHO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epYwOfM3oMA
I (just about) recall The Deviants playing a solidarity gig when the students declared a Free University after a sit-in.
Arthur Brown was also there sans his Crazy World and may have sung with them.
End of the 60's early 70's was an amazing time.
The way all those bands formed and split then formed other bands is fascinating.
I'm a little young to have experienced it directly - but through the record collections of mate's older brothers and those brilliant 'Rock Family Trees' I really got into it in my early teens.
Then came Punk.
Year Zero.
I shudder to think how many classic albums I sold to buy those first few punk singles....
Thank God for I-tunes.
Quote: Lazzard @ 26th February 2015, 10:16 AM GMTThis The Deviants from 1968.
Pretty cool IMHO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epYwOfM3oMA
Reminds me of The Stooges.
Keep It Simple - Van Morrison
New Seekers - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
Just been listening to that Rare Bird compilation I got a few weeks ago.
A very "Charisma" record. If you know the label you'll know what I mean by that as a compliment.
Those Were the Days - Cream
This track is my current earworm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNGNLo8K6Fk
The Copper Family - Warlike Seamen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrLfJHWG1lA
This has currency because Bob and Ron Copper's "Traditional Songs From Rottingdean" (1963) has recently been made widely available in this country for the first time in its original album form. To me, Rottingdean is the bit on the end of Brighton - well, four miles to the east of it - with a nice windmill and pitch and putt courses. I know it well. But as any fool knows, there are esoteric connections between the well documented "Copper Family" tradition of Rottingdean and the early folk music collections of Cecil Sharp and many others.
And those connections go further. In the broader context, "Voices of Albion", first screened at the second Portobello Film Festival Annual Film Makers' Convention in 2007, charts the historical origins of many of contemporary and near contemporary left field subcultures such as Spiral Tribe, the Exodus Collective and the Dongas and traces their origins to the Digger and Leveller Movements of the Seventeenth Century.
As is so often the case in life, it is worth mentioning here the dear old de Mandevilles. They were of some relevance being among a number of Templar families who were party to an ancient secret that linked music, landscape and locality together. There was, of course, a direct link between Arthur's Camelot Castle and the de Mandevilles' manor situated in the Barnet Triangle. And those link up via a number of ritual alignments, including Gog and Magog at Totteridge, with Rottingdean. Luckily, not only do some of those alignments form the not insignificant Croydon Triangle but I was Christened on one of its three points in - yes - 1963.
I thank you.
(Beat that Switzerland)
