When BJH hit the scene, they still had a lot of Beatles influences. Very noticeable on their debut LP.
But they were also one of the pioneers of mellotron-driven progrock. Although they were on the soft/romantic side of prog (like Moody Blues) the first 4 lps many consider to be true progrock albums.
The had their epic songs Dark Now My Sky, She Said, Summer Soldier, The Poet/After the Day. They made use of orchestra, wich cost so much, they had huge debts with their label and were eventually dropped from the Harvest-roster.
They had 3 vocalists. In the beginning mostly Woolly Wolstenholme, but later on more and more John Lees and Les Holroyd.
I was wondering wich of the 4 Harvest-lps is considered their best. My vote goes to And Other Short Stories.
Edited by Kingsnake - February 01 2017 at 06:00