Henry Cow appreciation society

...but a rose is a rose is a rose........
Just finished LegEnd. Citizen King is a work of art - beautiful organ on this one.
Love that electrical wire sock set in, what looks like plaster (?).

Flight123 wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: Kew. Rhone. is superb. Oh, I spun side 4 of HC Concerts - they sound in top form, and no doubt enjoying themselves a lot. I'm just fascinated with Tim's organ playing.   Actually, the slow fade on 'Udine' annoys me as it sounds like Tim is letting rip at that point!

Yes, yes indeed - I noticed that too And you're so right - definitely a Farfisa Compact Duo - his sound in Groningen (where he plays a brief theme from Heart Of The Beast) is the same 'reedy' sound Rick Wright usually has. Small details like this mean so much to me with HC. Looks like I'm going to spin LegEnd real soon once again.
I may have to (eventually) get a hold of these commemorative box sets. I generally stick with vinyl, but somehow I don't think that these things will get that treatment. The 5 HC albums alone are still so exciting to me, every time.

Tom Ozric wrote: Kew. Rhone. is superb. Oh, I spun side 4 of HC Concerts - they sound in top form, and no doubt enjoying themselves a lot. I'm just fascinated with Tim's organ playing.

Actually, the slow fade on 'Udine' annoys me as it sounds like Tim is letting rip at that point!

ALotOfBottle wrote: It's just three of us really, for about 4 or 5 pages. I bet nobody besides me, you, and Tom Ozric reads the thread.

Kew. Rhone. is superb.
Sheez, just looking at some odd related LP's I have - there's a John Greaves solo from 1982 called 'Accident'. Quite a strange, experimental New-Wave thing with an impressive guest-list.
Then there's French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson's album 'Live, Love, Larf and Loaf'. A very clever and quite fun album - their take on Surfin' U.S.A. is quite a blast.
I was really fortunate to have scored a beauty in Frith's 'Speechless' album. Side 1 is Frith with Etron Fou Leloublan, and side 2 with Massacre. It cost me 2 bucks. All great stuff.
Oh, I spun side 4 of HC Concerts - they sound in top form, and no doubt enjoying themselves a lot. I'm just fascinated with Tim's organ playing.
I've not met anyone yet who digs HC - a friend of mine one bought a copy of LegEnd at my insistance, and liked it for a few months then ditched it.
I guess we're always up for discussing about these phenomenal bands and musicians.
I can go off and listen to Meshuggah for days, and maybe go on a Kajagoogoo bender, but I'll always return to Canterbury

I think Wyatt and Greaves are good friends - BTW have you heard Greaves singing a cover of 'Beautiful as the Moon' on the Alain Blesing album?

Not to worry  I think its great to be in touch with other Henry Cow fans.  Out of all my friends, I only know of one other I would call a fellow fan, and maybe two more that think they are OK/appreciate their music.  Kew. Rhone was one of those albums I didn't buy at the time (buying vinyl was expensive business as a teenager) and so I didn't get to hear it until many years later.

I am not sure I would totally agree with the analysis of Kew. Rhone. although it is a great album and a lost classic.  In terms of musical settings, to me at least, it sounds closer to Slapp Happy unsurprisingly, but more complex and closer to jazz in arrangements (not surprising given Bley/Mantler's involvement - but would agree 'Half Asleep Half Awake' provides an antecedent).  One of my favourite ever songs was the first result of the Greaves/Blegvad partnership: 'Bad Alchemy' off Desperate Straights.  I once put that on a pub juke-box and chuckled as the room started to empty...

Just spun Unrest. Another great album. There's some 'grating' sounds in Ruins that cut right through the soundscape - I think Tim's just about blown his organ up
John Greaves is a fantastic bassist.

LegEnd is a Canterbury sounding album in my books !! The other albums not.
Gosh, I love the debut......