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Beckett heavy or electic??

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Topic: Beckett heavy or electic??

Posted By: Sean Trane
Subject: Beckett heavy or electic??
Date Posted: May 11 2017 at 04:05

Beckett (created 1970 in Newcastle)

One s/t album in 74

https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/kenny_mountain" rel="nofollow - Kenny Mountain (guitar), Rob Turner (vocals), Les Tones (guitar), https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/terry_slesser" rel="nofollow - Terry Slesser (vocals), Arthur Ramm (guitar), https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/keith_fisher" rel="nofollow - Keith Fisher (drums, 1973-74), https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/frankie_gibbon" rel="nofollow - Frankie Gibbon (bass, 1973-?), https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/robert_barton" rel="nofollow - Robert Barton (guitar), Ian Murray (bass), Barry Black (drums), https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/jimmy_wiley" rel="nofollow - Jimmy Wiley (bass)

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/beckett/beckett/

Cuurently Iron Maiden is suspected of lifting a few things from this album

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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: May 11 2017 at 08:13

Will check it out and report back; thanks for the suggestion.

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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents

Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: May 11 2017 at 12:28

Having listened to the album, I can't see them getting added to heavy prog, though a case could be made for eclectic with the psychedelic hard rock, folk elements, and the melodramatic string arrangements. However, I think that the band's sound is probably closest to proto-prog, albeit five years late. I'm also not 100% sold that they absolutely belong on the site; all in all the whole album only struck me as being about as "proggy" as an early Wishbone Ash record, and they're only in prog-related.

I'll have to revisit the album before I can commit to a vote. In the meantime, I'd be interested to see what others have to say.

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when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents

Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 12 2017 at 04:12

Well, I could be influenced by the Iron Maiden plagiarism controversy

But I'm sure Beckett belongs here... regardless of the genre

Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 12 2017 at 05:29

Cool sounding hard rock and I am personally a sucker for the raw production that sounds like it was lifted directly from a stone quary.
I'd say proto had it been released 5 years earlier.

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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 20 2017 at 03:46

any other opinion?

Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: May 20 2017 at 04:24

I have serious doubt that this band could be added to Heavy Prog. You should send this to the administrator, it's not fully prog to my ears and it's not my idea of eclectic also.

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