The usual thing here. 10 album covers from the heyday of loon pants, Afghan coats, joss sticks and all things patchouli flavoured.
All you have to do is put a name to these groovetastic proggie artworks. Band and album please, maaaan!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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5 is Gong, but I can't remember the album title
6 is Hawkwind's "Hall of the Mountain Grill"
8 is Van der Graaf Generator's "Pawn Hearts"
9 is Yes' Rogerdeantastic "Relayer"
Kalyr - naturally - has beaten me to the only two I knew straight off: Daevid Allen's Gong (clue was in the pic, Tim: The Flying Teapot Pt 1, I think) and Roger Dean's Yes sleeves are pretty hard to miss.
I really feel I know the ones immediately before and after Gong too, but I can't place them, and it's DarceysMam's college night, so i've got to get back to the girls ...
My reputation as a prog rock fan is coming under increasing scrutiny - only knew the Gong one here and got one out of ten in Tim's prog-lyrics quiz. Time to sell the afghan and get my hair cut...
My era, if not necessarily my music. From memory:
1 = a German band, I think. Nektar?
2 = Bakerloo Blues Line - eponymous album?
3 = is the only one I own: "Sing Brother Sing" by the defiantly unprog Edgar Broughton Band.
4 = The Man On The Flaming Pie is whispering "Baker-Gurvitz Army" in my ear; dunno why.
7 = Mark/Almond ??? (no relation)
10 = the first ever album on the Vertigo label. I'll let somebody else name it!
Toffeeboy - You're not the guy in the smelly Afgan coat who was next to me at Mostly Autumn last Thursday, are you? :)
I think he must have been a time traveller from 1973 - he was complaining he wasn't allowed to smoke dope at the gig.
10. Colloseum, don't remember the album title, we had to guess that one in a pop quiz covers round a couple of years ago....
1. Nektar - A tab in the ocean
Wouldn't call them a German band, they were a couple of Englishmen, living in Hamburg, signed to a German label, Bellaphon...
(...how's that for useless trivia... ;-) )
We are doing well here, what a load of old hippies we all are!
So far we have;
1 Nektar "A Tab in the Ocean" English band in Germany as TonNl has said
2 Bakerloo "Bakerloo"
3 Edgar Broughton Band "Sing Brother
Sing", yes I know they aren't really prog
4 Baker-Gurvitz Army "Baker-Gurvitz Army"
5 Gong "Flying Teapot"
6 Hawkwind "In the Hall of the Mountain Grill"
7 still to get this one
8 Van der Graaf Generator "Pawn Hearts"
9 Yes "Relayer"
10 Colosseum - just the title now, please
Tim, not sure you need the adjective "smelly" when talking Afghan coats. Don't they all smell? I know that mine did. I doused it in patchouli but I still reeked like a Kirghiz goat herder
The only one I recognised - Colosseum's Valentyne Suite.
7.Gentle Giant in a Glass House. Do you have the overlaid '3D' cover? Did you know the German (Vertigo) cover is a mirror image?
Well done all, 100% completed!
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