Birdy Tweets

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[Damien Taylor]

I'm actually impressed you've managed to leach images from English and Korean sites. Do you own any records at all?

[birdy]

Yes I have records.
I dont collect ghosts.

Im a careful collector. Selective, Id say.
I dont go over-board.

I dont know. Maybe 3 or 4 thousand lps.


I do not have a digital camera, so , yes, the album covers are for the most part copped.
(Not that anyone here has noticed, but most of the covers I have shown are alternate artwork Canadian press. In my collection I have most of the origionals from origional country of issue.)

[Jorlsafar]

I know almost nothing about prog, but thought I should provide you
foreigners with an update on what Jan Carlsson is up to nowdays, whe he is
not drumming with Bo Hansson. He is a comedy actor:



Carlsson is the man with the moustash, tie and suede jacket, to the right.

Is prog dangerous?

[birdy]

Thats not recent news since Carlsson was a comedian almost right off the bat. I believe he had a solo novelty record as early as late 70s. (Ive never bothered to get it since one would assume its all in Swedish.)
Correct me if Im mis-informed but in the 80s he was rather bigtime on Swedish TV - but NOT as a musician.)


A common misconception about progrock is that its all stuffy/serious.
Not at all. Much is light.
Thats what I like about Hansson's music - its frolicksome. Even one of his compositions is titled something like: "A Happy Prank".

I would say one of the pinnacles of Swede playful (but deadly complex) prog is Samlas.

[Singlemania45]

Thats not recent news since Carlsson was a comedian almost right off the bat. I believe he had a solo novelty record as early as late 70s. (Ive never bothered to get it since one would assume its all in Swedish.)
Correct me if Im mis-informed but in the 80s he was rather bigtime on Swedish TV - but NOT as a musician.)


A common misconception about progrock is that its all stuffy/serious.
Not at all. Much is light.
Thats what I like about Hansson's music - its frolicksome. Even one of his compositions is titled something like: "A Happy Prank".

I would say one of the pinnacles of Swede playful (but deadly complex) prog is Samlas.

Much prefer both Asoka Lps no filler material on those.

[birdy]

There only was one Asoka lp.
Unless your counting Taste of Blues band.

I guess your counting this "36 years later" cd? Is it any good? I read they are straight bluesrock here with this reunion, so that would not interest me.

Whats that unreleased track "Take Off" cd like?

[Singlemania45]

There only was one Asoka lp.
Unless your counting Taste of Blues band.

I guess your counting this "36 years later" cd? Is it any good? I read they are straight bluesrock here with this reunion, so that would not interest me.

Whats that unreleased track "Take Off" cd like?

No not interested in 36 Years later, I was referring to "Take Off" which came out on the Mellotronen label which had their unreleaased material comped between 68 and 77 and as you mention some stuff from when they played as Taste of Blues and Take Off. Good quality recordings on this unlike other comps of outakes and unreleased stuff. It was only a run of 500 copies so tracking one down isn't easy but you can get it all now as the bonus CD with the Album.

[birdy]

Im not talking new bands here.

60's/70's bands which somehow (maybe even back-in-the-day) escaped your radar and you only finally got to hear them - AND ENJOYED THEM - this last year.

[TheArc]

Not really psych but sort of Brit psych folk..
Trees - The Garden of Jane Delawney.
Great pressing on Sunbeam (all their stuff is beautifully done) and a great album too.
Sure the female vocalist is no Sandy Denny but guitar playing's excellent and the version of 'She Moved Through the Fair' is brilliant.

[Stone]

Pink Floyd

[Mark E Smith's Dentist]

Cooley/Munson - In Debt

Gary Higgins - Red Hash

Both reissues from the early '70s.



JT