EARTH & FIRE

Yes, imagine what a thrilling experience it was to hear on your answering machine the voice of a woman who was such a wonderful, sexy and famous lady, who was so much on the television, who did such a beautiful job on the vocals in early Earth & Fire... unforgettable for a journalist from a small progrock magazine!

valravennz wrote: I know they had two female lead singers over their period of existence. I can not remember their names off hand, but they were really good and certainly added to the appeal of the group and it's music.

Their first singer was Manuela Berloth. But she didn't appear on an E&F album (she did record a demo with them however).

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In one of the Dutch progrock magazines I write for, a friend had interviewed Jerney Kaagman and in the same issue I had written a column about Jerney and her sexy looks  (by the way, she was the first female musician that appeared in the Dutch Playboy!). Jerney used to visit the same youth center (De Sater in Voorburg, near The Hague) as me and my friends did so I had seen gorgeous Jerney often and written a funny story with a bit cynical undertone because of her very sexy outfits. A few days after that magazine was published, I noticed a message on my answering machine, it turned out to be Jerney Kaagman! She had read my column about her and was not amused , especially not with my remarks about her face-lift, she claimed that everything on her body was real. I still have my doubts because Jerney her studio voice was totally different from her 'live' voice, far less powerful and sometimes really out of tune ....

Nonetheless, she did a great job and the early studio albums, I also recommend the compliation DVD featuring rare live footage from Song Of The Marching Children  !

I really like Song Of The Marching Children and Atlantis. For me they are the true Earth & Fire classic albums. Personally I prefer Atlantis though. One of the best prog albums I ever heard.

outside the somewhat naive(not BAD at all) lyrics
Jerney had a GREAT voice, maybe the best in all of
progdom!

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any fans of Renaissance, Frumpy or Jefferson
Starship ever tried their Dutch equals classic, Song
of the Marching Children?

you British definitely miss the point and go for the
technicality, relax I have a job to do!   

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visit the southwestern USA someday!

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DallasBryan wrote: Is this the best female led progressive rock album made?

Don't know about that one, since I haven't heard it, but for great female led prog rock, you should try the Japanese trio, Ars Nova, quite in the vein of ELP and other symphonic prog bands, but the emphasis is on the wonderful keyboard work.

DallasBryan wrote: Which Thorens bryan? the model is the Prestige, I only have one tonearm on it. It got dropped when moving and one got damaged, so I removed it. It is about 20 years old and a collectors item I would think.

 

So how did you manage to buy that Bryan?

http://www.vinylengine.com/phpBB2/album_page.php?pic_id=1352

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DallasBryan wrote: any comments from the Earth and Fire groupies, i saw them in 1973-74 in Rotterdam and they were excellent! I think the back up band was Pantheon.

 

 The Debut is great,love the mellotron in places.

 

 

http://ftp.castel.nl/~wemmg01/ef-disco.htm

 

 

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PS: As much as I think they were great vocalists, the Earth & Fire girls come just below Grace Slick. GS was the best during that period....