Steve Hillage: The Hippie from Outer Space
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Topic: Steve Hillage: The Hippie from Outer Space
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Steve Hillage: The Hippie from Outer Space
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 08:56
Steve Hillage has been part of the Canterbury Scene since the late 1960's. It all began when he teamed up with keyboard player Dave Stewart for the self-titled Arzachel album in 1969. They went onto even greater things together in 1972 with the acclaimed one-off album by Khan: Space Shanty - voted the best Canterbury Scene debut in a recent poll. Steve Hillage was also a long-standing member of the Jazz Fusion collective, Gong, before making a splash with his debut solo album, Fish Rising in 1975. If you like Canterbury Scene music, this fish-themed album will have you hooked! His follow up album is one L of a good album too.  Steve Hillage Albums  1969: Arzachel - Arzachel - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8a8cutYP7fpyA7hH5C-SYMnEvxUNzdzd" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8a8cutYP7fpyA7hH5C-SYMnEvxUNzdzd  1972: Khan - Space Shanty - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltf73xckKgrTNE0lKD4HqvV" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltf73xckKgrTNE0lKD4HqvV 1975: Fish Rising - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvwFtG5LIkPAy_Fmsks0Lhh" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvwFtG5LIkPAy_Fmsks0Lhh 1976: L - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsJndAzM6fEnwKOGwi4TrsH" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsJndAzM6fEnwKOGwi4TrsH  1977: Motivation Radio - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvI_07tUJxbj0OI-oX1nrwM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvI_07tUJxbj0OI-oX1nrwM 1978: Green - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mGgdsp-PYzUEi3GnoeL6qI2GTwwk38CG4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mGgdsp-PYzUEi3GnoeL6qI2GTwwk38CG4 1979: Live Herald - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtNsSGEXufaEi8dxyJYRufm" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtNsSGEXufaEi8dxyJYRufm  1979: Rainbow Dome Music - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtnlfzyWVYz9gkT8UxRgzqG" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtnlfzyWVYz9gkT8UxRgzqG 1979: Open - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtBrQkKbu8wEuCYBo6EinCZ" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtBrQkKbu8wEuCYBo6EinCZ 1983: For to Next - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtOKxaOL-GbbjyBtCGbKiaE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtOKxaOL-GbbjyBtCGbKiaE |
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 09:46
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he also is a guest on the 3rd Egg album "The Civil Surface"  -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 12:10
| Fish rising!! masterpiece!! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 12:57
Maybe the band Egg poached Steve Hillage from Gong.
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BaldJean wrote:Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 13:02
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Egg is nothing else than Arzachel without Hillage. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 13:05
I've always liked that album cover.  ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 14:07
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Later Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy did some techno (or rather "Ambient Dance", as Wikipedia says) as "System 7". I've got to say that this remix of one of my favourite songs ever is super-stunning, even if I'd be the only one on this site who can appreciate it. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 15:18
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Steve Hillage - Live at Rockpalast, Germany - 1977 Part One Part Two Part Three |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 16:47
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Love Hillage. Khan is beyond words! Anyway, here is Steve's other project... System 7. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 17:04
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Khan's Space Shanty has been one of my very favourite albums. It's not one I have easily been able to listen to since early 2008 because it was a painful time and that was the music I was most listening to for solace. Arzachel is my other favourite. I do like Hillage's Green. Fish Rising was a disappointment for me when I picked it up, but there is very good music on it. I'd heard that it was like a cross between Space Shanty and Gong's You, which were the two albums I was most into at the time, and for me it didn't reach the peaks of either. I have since returned to it and liked it more, but I guess that initial disappointment due to my expectations never totally went away. |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: February 14 2021 at 18:52
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It's "L" for me!
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 15 2021 at 02:01
I love the Arzachel album too. Steve Hillage is just one of the many outstanding artists I've discovered since joining ProgArchives. Until recently, not only did I not realise he was part of the Canterbury Scene, I didn't even know there was such a thing as the Canterbury Scene before arriving here just seventeen months ago.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 15 2021 at 02:03
I picked up "L" in a handbasket of CD's recently.
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Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: February 15 2021 at 02:24
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Like all his stuff but Fish Rising is probably my favorite thanks to the addition of Dave Stewart, who along with Dave Sinclair are my favorite keyboard players. Steve also features heavily on the Clearlight Symphony album which is in a similar vein. |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: February 15 2021 at 08:17
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Aw, Rainbow Dome Musick is a great album! I mean, I suppose I could see why someone would hate with it not really having the drive or the pulse of a conventional rock album while also being too attention-demanding to serve as ambient music, but I think it's a wonderful listening experience personally. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 15 2021 at 08:36
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I've always thought he should have an album titled "Pillage the Village by Hillage. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 15 2021 at 08:37
It's okay if you like that kind of thing, but I found it a bit of a drone. Maybe you have to listen to the musick inside a dome to truly appreciate the album.
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Posted By: yogev
Date Posted: February 15 2021 at 11:51
| Love his guitar playing especially on Fish Rising. Great melodies and great solos too. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: February 15 2021 at 12:26
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I have the four albums: "Fish Rising", "L", "Motivation Radio", and "Green". My favourite track is "Lunar Musick Suite" (which I distinctly prefer to "Solar Musick Suite"), as well as "The Glorious Om Riff", which I have since discovered is based on a Gong track. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 15 2021 at 12:33
I have those same four Steve Hillage albums too.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 15 2021 at 13:13
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I have the first 4 listed above.....first 2 on cd..next 2 on old vinyl. Would love to have Arzachel on orig. vinyl but they go for a pretty penny. Khan is the best work Hillage ever did..imho though his work on Fish Rising and the Gong lps is excellent also. I was disappointed in Green and M Radio. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 16 2021 at 03:18
 Arzachel - Arzachel (1969) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8a8cutYP7fpyA7hH5C-SYMnEvxUNzdzd" rel="nofollow -
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 18 2021 at 09:41
 Khan - Space Shanty (1972) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltf73xckKgrTNE0lKD4HqvV" rel="nofollow -
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: February 18 2021 at 14:19
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Anybody else turned off by Todd Rundgren's production on "L"? It's still an album I dig but would like a lot more if not for the booming, echoey drum and bass.....almost kills the buzz on the George number. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: February 18 2021 at 16:17
Steve Hillage... that guy gets it  ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 18 2021 at 17:30
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How about System 7? -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: February 18 2021 at 17:35
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 18 2021 at 17:40
A good guessing game for people who don't know the "Clearlight Symphony" album is playing them both sides and then asking "which side did Steve Hillage play on"? ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 01 2021 at 01:22
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1975: Fish Rising - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvwFtG5LIkPAy_Fmsks0Lhh" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvwFtG5LIkPAy_Fmsks0Lhh The Solar Music Suite - the video acid trip is even more psychedelic than the music, so it's best avoided if you suffer from migraines.  |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 02 2021 at 02:35
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1976: L - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsJndAzM6fEnwKOGwi4TrsH" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsJndAzM6fEnwKOGwi4TrsH Lunar Musick Suite |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: March 02 2021 at 06:55
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An absolute incredible genius. Steve Hillage Supersonic guitarist ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 03 2021 at 02:31
 1977: Motivation Radio - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvI_07tUJxbj0OI-oX1nrwM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvI_07tUJxbj0OI-oX1nrwM Light in the Sky |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: March 03 2021 at 15:05
Yep, i'm a big Todd fan but his production on 'L' stinks.. Having Utopia as a backing band promises so much but the drum sound is appalling.. and Willie Wilcox is a great drummer.. Electric Gypsy and All too much are soooo much better on any live recording! ------------- |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: March 04 2021 at 01:55
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For those who like Steve Hillage I recommend the French guitar player Christian Boulé. He sounds a lot like Steve Hillage and made two solo albums in the late 70s, "Photo Music" and "Non-Fiction". Here a track from his first album: And here a track from his second album: He is the reason why I mentioned the trick question about "Clearlight Symphony", because on one side of the album Steve Hillage plays, on the other Christian Boulé.
------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: March 04 2021 at 02:06
Thank you I shall check him out ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: March 04 2021 at 15:37
And Christian Boulé was also part of Steve Hillage's touring band during 1977 and caught on the 'Live Herald' album playing glissando and rhythm guitar ------------- |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 06 2021 at 02:00
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1978: Green - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lvo3YXX04HjNszPq4lV" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lvo3YXX04HjNszPq4lV __-_ Sea Nature |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 10 2021 at 04:12
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1979: Live Herald - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtNsSGEXufaEi8dxyJYRufm" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtNsSGEXufaEi8dxyJYRufm Searching for the Spark - a high-powered song that fires along on all four cylinders |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: March 10 2021 at 06:56
It most definitely does!!!! ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 10 2021 at 08:06
Hi, I did not like what he did with XTC either, even if they had a "hit" which sold a few more copies. All in all, I would prefer that Sodd Gundren would stick to his own material. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 13 2021 at 08:08
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1979: Open - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtBrQkKbu8wEuCYBo6EinCZ" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtBrQkKbu8wEuCYBo6EinCZ Earthrise (Turkish Delight! ) |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 13 2021 at 11:16
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1983: For to Next - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtOKxaOL-GbbjyBtCGbKiaE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtOKxaOL-GbbjyBtCGbKiaE ) |