Great Prog albums that weren't released on CD

I bought a Japanese No Earthly Connection CD for 80 bucks and a few months later Rick released a UK version for 15 pounds after the rights of A&M expired

Now you can find this one new very cheap

 

Live 1974 was released about 5 times on CD (latest on Esoteric Records)

 

Solar Music was released this Year as a 2CD!

(http://www.discogs.com/Grobschnitt-Solar-Music-Live/release/7026856)

 

All of them easy to find and rather cheap!

 

 

Been heck getting Grobschnitt's album. BJH's  is available and Rick, I'm not really interested in. The Tim Blake stuff I'm not sure about. I'm betting he doesn't own much of it. or something similar. That's a pretty darn good album, though calling it progressive is pushing it.

 

(A couple of extra details here ... CD or otherwise is the same nowadays)

 

If I go through the rest of my collection, I will easily add 24 albums here.

 

Most wanted right now ... things like M. Frogg (Jean Yves Labat) and his first album. A fabulously fun album .... but not sure everyone wants to hear Sodd Rungoon scream out FU through various effects and such. Still fun album!

 

Lothar Meid - 18 karat Gold - All bums --  Excellent album of fun songs and stuff ... needs to get out, but probably won't now.

 

Daevid Allen's History of Gong and stuff, is locked up and for some reason not being distributed, and not available and of all the stuff he has, these are probably the things that are most interesting ... as his views and work was as important, if not more so, than a lot of his own musical work. Too much still buried and no one knows what to do with it, or what to think of it at all!

 

Grateful Dead's long jams, were massive in the early psychedelic days, and none are on record. It was one of the great things of their bootlegs. These were massive inspirations for European stuff, and I think they might have had more influence on Pink Floyd than otherwise. But the history of American Record Companies, never believed in music ... just songs and hits, and killed the long jams which became a famous part and experience of the Grateful Dead shows. I have never heard, in 45 years, a single complaint about those jams! (Except in this board, of course!)

 

Edgar Froese's book. Got delayed by his untimely passing, but in essence, it is a document that is very needed and we know that there were a lot of intelligent comments and ideas on various interviews and shows that he said, and no one has ever tried to put those all together. Probably one of the most incisive and intelligent sense of timing and history of anyone in music, that I have ever heard. His comments on the Krautrock special are a perfect example ... sociological, philosophical and personal ... all in one. Superb comments, that everyone, including many of the folks here, have totally ignored about the discovery of "progressive" or the horribly named "krautrock". I just hope the term last 1000 years past progressive, because it is "incluside and detailed' as opposed to the term "progressive" that does not even fit the very idea and mold they are trying to describe. Close, but no cigar!

 

Peter Hammill. His music these days is not as vital and alive as it used to be. No excuse there, and it's OK as one is not, obviously, as energetic as one once was at 25, or 35 or 45, but it tells you that if anyone has a massive history to tell us, and stories, this man would be one of them. From personal to artistic, to expression and to how the songs came about ... how does one come up with a St Bernina, or a house is not a home, kind of thing, or create a Gog and Magog? This would make for a fascinating read and introduction into the "progressive" thoughts that help create music.

 

More than likely, it won't be books these days, but CD's anyway!!! For all of these!

 

And finally ... a slight history of Progressive Music in the West Coast, with the likes of Archie Patterson, Guy Guden, what's his name from LA on Roger's albums and the like ... these folks know too much, and have seen too much, and they are being shut out by a bunch of ninnies and top of the pop bubblegummer fans of progressive music, and they are going to lose the very history of the music because of it. And they were not the only ones ... and putting this together won't be easy, but it will have a massive influence on what we think is the development and history of the music!

Come post on the Vinyl thread what you find...We would be very interested in your finds.