Mighty Baby

Very good British band from late 60s/early 70s... I'm quite uncertain whether classify them as psychedelic/space rock or eclectic prog... just listen and enjoy:
*Their first, eponymous record on sale on Amazon.com;
*Band pic.
*Some interesting information.

Edited by Jack A Lynn - July 07 2010 at 02:25

I've edited my post right now... will I find any song in streaming with band's permission? (...and the crowd yelled: no!)

I have not listened to the music of Mighty Baby. The member of Mighty Baby will develop into "The Habibiyya" later. The Habibiyya is registered in the item of Raga.

However, it cannot know whether the conviction installed on the subgenre even if the history of Mighty Baby and the music character are considered anyway is certain.

Well, actually there are some songs on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvLiGOalsIo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWP6F3H158A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWjd1cRUDgY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z5ldy7KC3g
(Two songs from the first album and other two from the second one, but right now I only own the first and eponymous one).

And, just to give you some brief information about them (taken from the CD booklet)... they were formed in 1968 by three founding members of the mod band The Action: guitarist and vocalist Alan "Bam" King, bassist Mike Evans and drummer Roger Powell. Jazz-based multi-instrumentalist and singer Ian Whiteman, playing keyboards, saxophone and flute (an English Ian Underwood?) and lead guitarists Martin Stone from Savoy Brown completed the band. Their music was largely based on improvisations, especially on the stage, somewhere between Grateful Dead and jazz. They disbanded after their second album, when Whiteman, Evans and Powell accepted Sufi faith and formed a band called Habibiyya (yet listed here under Indo Prog/Raga Rock); Stone formed Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers, before abandoning music in favour of antiquarian books, while King joined pub-rock band Ace.

Many of the samples on PA are posted without artist permission, so let's not complain... 

Interesting stuff (the YouTube samples). Sounds like one of those progressive blues bands that helped the transition towards prog. The first sample even sounded like Colosseum. I'll be curious to read Keishiro's impressions based on the whole album. 

Listened to their "Tasting The Life: Live 1971" again and again, that could remind me some free-jammin' Krautrock outfits surely.

A very great band indeed!

Well, I'd suggest to listen also to their first eponymous album, I think it's a really good one!