70s Bands Like Illusion, Curved Air, Earth Fire?
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Topic: 70s Bands Like Illusion, Curved Air, Earth Fire?
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Subject: 70s Bands Like Illusion, Curved Air, Earth Fire?
Date Posted: August 01 2020 at 12:57
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I've loved Illusion (I like Renaissance, too) for years, and only this year have really appreciated Curved Air and Earth Fire, and was wondering if you know of other 1970s bands similar. Please post your favorite songs.. I'll do the same once I check out all the YouTube watch-list I have. THANKS!
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 01 2020 at 13:05
I love all three of those bands you mentioned, so we obviously have similar tastes in great music. If you love those three bands, then I think you'll love the music of Mostly Autumn too, even though they're not a 1970's band.  MOSTLY AUTUMN - Porcupine Rain |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 01 2020 at 13:06
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Mellow Candle might interest you: Trees: Not my favourite Brainticket, but this might be of some interest to you: ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 01 2020 at 14:12
I like them, despite only knowing a handful of their stuff.... I especially love "Silver Song" I have a few songs by Trees, too.. You guys might like a Florida band called "Fantasy"
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Logan wrote:Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 01 2020 at 14:20
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If you like Logan's excellent choices of Mellow Candle and Trees, then you may also like the music of Spirogyra - the English Psych-Folk band, not the similarly-named American Jazz Fusion band. SPIROGYRA - Bells, Boots & Shambles (1973) I'm glad you mentioned the American band Fantasy. I like them too and I posted their 1970 album on my "Return to Fantasy" thread.
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 01 2020 at 14:54
I've been a fan of Spirogyra for a while, too.. Lots of fine songs. Maybe you guys would like Sandrose - To Take Him Away ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 01 2020 at 15:19
Thanks for introducing me to the wonderful music of Sandrose. I'd vaguely heard of the bandname before, but this is the first time I've actually heard them in your above video, and I love it!  You might like the English band Fantasy too on my "Return to Fantasy" thread. http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123616" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=123616
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: August 01 2020 at 16:56
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Not a 70's band but you might like White Willow, from the very first one: Also..no female vocals but this is one of my favorite mellow things from 1975,,,,very nice... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 01 2020 at 17:54
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I've posted this on the Renaissance fan thread, but will play it here too. Not really "like Renaissance/Illusion", but something that a Renaissance/Illusion fan might like Back in the lean early 1990s, this group was also recommended to fans of those classic bands. They aren't really very prog (though they are on PA). This one is one of my favourite by them |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 01 2020 at 20:53
^ Four great selections from DrWu23 and KenethLevine. 
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 02 2020 at 08:46
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Hi, (sorry) dupe ------------- 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: moshkito
Date Posted: August 02 2020 at 08:49
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Hi, EARTH AND FIRE ... Their first 5 albums, although the earlier stuff seemed to be more centered towards the hit radio I think ... I have it all the way to GATE TO INFINITY ... TO THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE ... is a magnificent album ... all the way through! I loved CURVED AIR and have everything all the way to AIRBORNE ... and love all of it ... after that I got Darryl Way's Wolf and a couple of Monkman albums ... I have the original RENAISSANCE (all of a sudden the names are changed!) with Keith and Jane. And a lot of the later RENAISSANCE with Annie. ------------- 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: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 07:06
I love Carol Harvest, especially that song.. I have a handful of mp3s, but should probably look for more. On Jane Relf's YouTube page, there's her featuring Stairway... Some good stuff. I went through all of it yesterday. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 07:29
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^ oh yeah good call on Stairway Also, though there is little or no female vocal, have you heard any of Jim McCarty's works? He has 3 solo albums, the first, "Out of the Dark", being wonderful. He also did a Renaissance Illusion album called "Through the Fire which is really nice, and, in addition to Stairway, did several albums in a project called "Pilgrim" that reprised a Yardbirds song called "A Dream within a Dream" that makes you realize how ahead of their time were the Yardbirds
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 13:15
I never heard of his solo stuff when he wasn't working with a band, but I'll check some stuff out. Thanks! ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 03 2020 at 17:56
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how about Lily & Maria? their only album is from 1968, but you might love it. here the track "There'll be no Clowns tonight": -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 07:50
Never heard of them, but I liked it very much. I'll check out some more stuff later. Thanks! ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 08:55
| we added Lily and Maria to prog folk fairly recently thanks to Jean (or maybe it was Friede :)) |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 04 2020 at 11:30
Jean and I discovered the album by chance and loved it. It was I who suggested them. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Boboulo
Date Posted: August 21 2020 at 19:49
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Mother Superior - "Just One Look" (1975) |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: August 23 2020 at 07:58
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Marjana and/or her band iamthemorning maybe? |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: September 29 2020 at 08:19
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Sonja Kristina - Love Child Even the people I know who aren't big music fans seem to love this, and I can't stop listening to it! ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |