Hatfield and the North appreciation!

tszirmay wrote: NaturalScience wrote: zafreth wrote: NaturalScience wrote: There's an old Canterbury appreciation thread hanging around if you're inclined to post in it, has some pretty good information in there.  Everyone's already given their recommendations with which I wholeheartedly agree, and would only add that I place National Health as #1 on the list, and that you should acquire their first two albums before getting anything else. Natural, is obvious your love to Hatfield Really a love for all things Dave Stewart (well, maybe not so much "It's my party") and yes, I do little to hide it.    Even Spin and the Big Idea , his 2 collabs with Barbara Gaskin?   Just curious, coz I have them in tape form  (remember those)

I haven't heard much Stewart/Gaskin, but descriptions of the music indicate that I probably wouldn't care for it too much.  My love for his work is restricted to what he did before he gave up on prog.

Hatfield's self-titled is quite nice indeed.  I especially like how the lyrics are all "hello, this is our record, hope you like it, if not that's ok too...." 

National Health were even better. I see many have recommended them already. First album in particular is definitely one of my favourites of the 70s.

^no prob. Anyways, in another thread I commented, but dunno if you read it, that in your avatar, if you blink fastly it really dizzes you, seems like a optical illusion...hmmm, Magma fans are brain-washers with their wicked avatars/signatures....MAGMA IS THE BEST!

James wrote: avalanchemaster wrote: febus wrote: avalanchemaster wrote: would anybody know where to find Soft Machine's "bundles" for a reasonable price? I love Holdsworth and that is one of the albums he played on that I want.... This album hasn't been re-edited in America and Europe for more a decade. I got mine in a nice Japanese mini-lp somewhere on Ebay...paid something like $20/22 the best i can remember. I still prefer SOFTS, their following album with Etheridge on guitar well I have not heard either, so cannot comment. Get Floating World Live and BBC 1971-1973 (or whatever volume 2 is called) by Soft Machine.Both feature material from Holdsworth and Etheridge era.Bundles and Softs are very hard to find on CD.

I would say to get Soft Machine British Tour '75. It has the best songs from Bundles, as well as 2 songs from Softs. It also has some amazing jamming/solos. Highly recommendable if you don't have Bundles and Softs.

avalanchemaster wrote: febus wrote: avalanchemaster wrote: would anybody know where to find Soft Machine's "bundles" for a reasonable price?  I love Holdsworth and that is one of the albums he played on that I want....   This album hasn't been re-edited in America and Europe for more a decade. I got mine in a nice Japanese mini-lp somewhere on Ebay...paid something like $20/22  the best i can remember.   I still prefer SOFTS, their following album with Etheridge on guitar well I have not heard either, so cannot comment.

Get Floating World Live and BBC 1971-1973 (or whatever volume 2 is called) by Soft Machine.

Both feature material from Holdsworth and Etheridge era.

Bundles and Softs are very hard to find on CD.

Ghost Rider wrote: As a natural continuation of the Hatfields, though minus Richard Sinclair's inimitable vocals, you should really check out National Health. Their first, self-titled album contains one of the very best Canterbury 'epics' in "Tenemos Roads", and is on the whole somewhat more accessible than their second, Of Queues and Cures. Both are highly recommended. As for Caravan, my personal favourite is their second, If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - though In the Land of Grey and Pink is wonderful as well.

As a natural continuation of the Hatfields, though minus Richard Sinclair's inimitable vocals, you should really check out National Health. Their first, self-titled album contains one of the very best Canterbury 'epics' in "Tenemos Roads", and is on the whole somewhat more accessible than their second, Of Queues and Cures. Both are highly recommended. As for Caravan, my personal favourite is their second, If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - though In the Land of Grey and Pink is wonderful as well.

febus wrote: avalanchemaster wrote: would anybody know where to find Soft Machine's "bundles" for a reasonable price?  I love Holdsworth and that is one of the albums he played on that I want....   This album hasn't been re-edited in America and Europe for more a decade. I got mine in a nice Japanese mini-lp somewhere on Ebay...paid something like $20/22  the best i can remember.   I still prefer SOFTS, their following album with Etheridge on guitar

well I have not heard either, so cannot comment.

would anybody know where to find Soft Machine's "bundles" for a reasonable price?  I love Holdsworth and that is one of the albums he played on that I want....