brian auger - proto prog??
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Topic: brian auger - proto prog??
Posted By: PROGMAN
Subject: brian auger - proto prog??
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 06:00
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Keyboard player formed the Trinity band in the late 60s and did psychedelic/proto-prog music, and featured lead singer Julie Driscoll. He then went on to form a different band after the Trinity, Trinity had a hit in 1967/68 called "Wheels on Fire". I think he did Rock, Jazz, Psych and Prog!!
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 07:33
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Trinity is more psych rock with a slight progressive twist The Oblivion Express had a defintely more instrumental side with congas and jazzy twists. Some excellent albums But to have both in the Archives is rather out of context, IMHO I would not oppose their inclusions , though ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 07:35
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Oblivon express is definetly jazzrok IMO. And it's progressive also. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 08:31
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Very true from the jazz rock perspective , I think you might be right about them being included ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
oliverstoned wrote:Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 09:05
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I think both they and Julie Driscoll (especially for her album 1969) could be included!!!
------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 09:06
I agree with you guys.
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 09:43
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Count me in. I've been a fan since "Streetnoise" and Brian did a lot to bring prog elements to the jazz fusion movement from the British angle. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 10:00
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1969 is a great album but you should also check out Glowing Sunsets from 76 that she recorded under Julie Tippetts (released on Disconforme) ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 12:14
Yes, I've heard great things about that album. ------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: June 27 2006 at 21:30
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Just picked up the Trinity's Streetnoise record....a little disappointing as the sound is dated and the Auger is a bit repetetive and unimaginative on his array of keyboards. Much better is the band that followed - Oblivion Express, they ran the gamut from proggy fusion stuff on their first album to Chic-esque disco on their later albums. Each record went into a different style but always maintained a jazzy-rock edge (but Auger never lost his pop sense either). There is an excellent double CD Polydor sampled called The Best of the Oblivion Express that is affordable and shows the different incarnations of the band. BTW, saw Auger and his reunited Express just a year or two ago for a couple of dollars at a small local fair in Pennsylvania. He brought a Hammond B3 and a Fender Rhodes....classic!------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 14:03
| Noted. |
Posted By: S Lang
Date Posted: July 08 2006 at 17:23
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Brian Auger? Definitely!
His passion for jazz-rock is well documented.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 12 2006 at 07:05
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At least prog-related for Oblivion Express and proto-prog for Trinity
Anybody feel up to writing a bio? ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |