Spooky Tooth

Rock will do fine

I only have "Ceremony". Very weird stuff... (Bluesy) rock meets experimental electronic music. The avant part courtesy of Pierre Henry.

Originally posted by salmacis We've been here before. I can see why they are considered prog and many years ago I considered Spooky Two to be a prog album. But in all honesty, it's a blues/ heavy rock album (yet is one of my all time favourites- their output gets no better than that album imo), really. 'Ceremony' is the one where they branched out yet that's less their music than the avant garde electronics that goes with it.

But my usual complaint about hindsight being used to label something prog: this that Spooky Two was not labelled progressive music originally. Spooky Tooth were most definitely a Hammond driven blues/underground band - you'll find a track on one of those Island Records samplers - You Can All Join Ii (???) - when the Island  band signings were seen/heard as 'underground' - hey the archetypal Traffic (from whom the sampler title was borrowed), had a cottage in the country (soon a dwelling type to be copied by Led Zep) and indulged in chemical modification of the mind thereby losing whole months of reality. 

Spooky Thooth one of the greatest band i consider them to be protoprog, but Ceremony have one of the most fiery guitar played, only ruined by the electronics of Pierre Henry.

Yep, they were your standard issue heavy blues-rock band.  Spooky Two is a great album, one I enjoy every time I listen to it, and I've been listening to it for nearly 40 years now.  The guitar solo on Evil Woman is worth the price of admission.

Originally posted by zafreth Spooky Thooth one of the greatest band i consider them to be protoprog, but Ceremony have one of the most fiery guitar played, only ruined by the electronics of Pierre Henry.   Also The Last Puff was a great album with a killer version of  I am the Walrus.

Originally posted by febus Originally posted by zafreth Spooky Thooth one of the greatest band i consider them to be protoprog, but Ceremony have one of the most fiery guitar played, only ruined by the electronics of Pierre Henry.   Also The Last Puff was a great album with a killer version of  I am the Walrus.   AGREE!! I am not much into covers, but I AM THE WALRUS by Spooky Tooth is wonderful. SPOOKY TWO is maybe one of the 100 best rock albums ever made...Lost in My dreams (if i am correct) is a wonderful athmospheric song and the 9mn Evil Woman a great hard rock epic. Mike Harrison had a heck of a voice!   Not a prog band, but i have seen even less proggish artists listed here on PA.

The Mirror is probably the closest to the fringe's of prog, with Gary Wrigh't swirling synths leading the way. The whole album is exceptional but the title tune is an outright FM rock classic . Great drumming on the album also. Anyone heard this one, used to play a lot on FM radio back then

Edited by tszirmay - June 21 2008 at 12:35

Originally posted by spookytooth Spookytooth is a great great band, but it is hard to say if they should be included in here. If so, they should be in the "proto prog" or "prog related" section. They're so awesome that I chose their name to be my user name on these forums...

Originally posted by Ghost Rider Originally posted by zafreth Originally posted by spookytooth Spookytooth is a great great band, but it is hard to say if they should be included in here. If so, they should be in the "proto prog" or "prog related" section. They're so awesome that I chose their name to be my user name on these forums...   I Agree with you totally  they should be in the prog related section, and nnow how do we do this?   Suggest them to the Admin Team, and if they are accepted, volunteer to write a bio and add the albums. That is how we go about PP and PR additions. If you write the bio, whoever adds them physically will credit you.