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    Posted: July 14 2005 at 08:26

Will keep my eyes open for KPM #1.

I thought  'Get your dog of me' was a failure,since they totally moved away from what I liked about BO in the first place.

Is 'Final curtain' a compilation??
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Originally posted by gr8dane gr8dane wrote:

Originally posted by king pin meh king pin meh wrote:

 

    When I was a 13 year old boy, their song "Passacaglia" from album  Act One, took seven times the first place on local radio station. It was in my city Zenica in Bosnia, long time ago. I have, let me see,... four theirs albums. Only "Pathfinder is mising.

Hi King pin meh

(I have their(KPM) 2nd album which is a nice one))

I am curious.If you do not have 'Pathfinder' ,which 4 you have?????

All the best

    Hi, Yes I have: "Act One",

                            "Watters of Change",

                              "The final Curtain", and "Get your dog of me".

        You have second album of band King Pin Meh??  Oooooo man, that,s very nice,. I recommend their first album to you, becouse it has one of the best song of rock@roll all times , named "Fairy tales", with great guitars, organ and drum.One excelent, brilliant, amazing song. Thirty yeas ago, only three- four friend  (In city)  had that album, and becouse that, thay behaved like kings, like dictators, ha,ha,ha.
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Originally posted by king pin meh king pin meh wrote:

 

    When I was a 13 year old boy, their song "Passacaglia" from album  Act One, took seven times the first place on local radio station. It was in my city Zenica in Bosnia, long time ago. I have, let me see,... four theirs albums. Only "Pathfinder is mising.

Hi King pin meh

(I have their(KPM) 2nd album which is a nice one))

I am curious.If you do not have 'Pathfinder' ,which 4 you have?????

All the best
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    When I was a 13 year old boy, their song "Passacaglia" from album  Act One, took seven times the first place on local radio station. It was in my city Zenica in Bosnia, long time ago. I have, let me see,... four theirs albums. Only "Pathfinder is mising.
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I loved the Act One album!The way they deliver classical music through rock culture is superb!!
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 13 2005 at 02:26
i've only heard the mpegs from this site "Time Machine" and "MacArthur Park" and I really like them both. I think they're a mix of Tull and Gentle Giant, going only on those two songs, though.
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I have Act One, superb organ album, can't wait to try the next two
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I like very much track "Witch" on Pathfinder.
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I have act 1 and pathfinder.  I thought I had another but I guess I must have loaned it to someone hehehe.  From what I remember, I actually liked the playing a lot.  Didn't it sound like they were just messing around, I mean in a good way?  Popping in and out of well known classical passages in the middle of regular organ solo bits.  I also remember wishing the singer would stfu.  Anyhow, great band from what I remember.  I guess I'll have to pull that disc out and blow the dust off it too.  I already found the Eno
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First two albums are supurbulous
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Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

They played at my school once, happy days....

They made three good albums, Act one, Waters of Change, and Pathfinder. Waters of change is my favourite, highly melodic, with great mellotron.

After that they lost it, with the exception of a nice cover of Classical Gas on Get your dog off me.

Happy days indeed.

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Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

Originally posted by gr8dane gr8dane wrote:

Any fans of this fine 70es band from Scotland ???


They had some quality classical/folk/mellotron/prog albums like Act one,Waters of change and Pathfinder.These were excellent.After these I lost track of them ,though i know they had 4 or so albums out after.Any of you guys familiar with the latter??



To which band would you compare them?

 

I can't really compare them to anybody.They are one of a kind.
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They played at my school once, happy days....

They made three good albums, Act one, Waters of Change, and Pathfinder. Waters of change is my favourite, highly melodic, with great mellotron.

After that they lost it, with the exception of a nice cover of Classical Gas on Get your dog off me.
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Their first album 'Act One' is very stupid and silly, but I have to say their track 'Time Machine' is one of the very best prog songs by anybody ever, plus 'Pathfinder' is a solidly enjoyable album.

Good band, all in all.
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Hmmm..
Nice and DP have nothing to do with cressida...
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The only one I really like is Pathfinder, which is a little heavier and has
some hilarious Satanic type lyrics. And a cover of Macarthur Park! Act One
is all right too.

I find the band a little twee overall, but it's still fun to listen to. Their last
album, Get Your Dog Off Me, is one of the worst albums I've ever heard,
despite the title!
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Points: 4888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2005 at 08:58

 

Well, I wasn't specifically asked, but I would compare them with The Nice and early Deep Purple (pre-Gillan): some people also mention BO as closel yrelated to Cressida, but I've never heard anaything by the latter so...

 
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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2005 at 08:02
Originally posted by gr8dane gr8dane wrote:

Any fans of this fine 70es band from Scotland ???


They had some quality classical/folk/mellotron/prog albums like Act one,Waters of change and Pathfinder.These were excellent.After these I lost track of them ,though i know they had 4 or so albums out after.Any of you guys familiar with the latter??



To which band would you compare them?
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Points: 19597 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2005 at 08:01
Actually Sigod , Wallace popped in about at the same time you did! how Strange!!!!!
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Sigod,seems puir Wallace bin th'proverbial albatross arund somain's necks fur puckle days now.
(Check oot th'jobby gonnae doon oan th' identerfy th'soundclips threid.)

Ah'm fair chuffed.
Maani be eraserhaidin' me posts one atta toime.
So's ah'm slow-lik disinteragreetin'.

An' aye - ah "AV been behavin' guid.

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Anyhoots, eneugh o' Wallace.
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