Rabbiting On: Big Ears' Journal

Big Ears · 04-23-2013, 09:42 AM

I've got a few albums by The Doors, Love and The Byrds on CD, although I do not listen to them very often. I remember Country Joe & the Fish and Barry Melton, who seemed quite radical at the time. Jefferson Airplane I came to recently, because I like Jefferson Starship with Mickey Thomas and Craig Chaquico, but I cannot get into them.

I found the first Manfred Mann's Earth Band album the weakest, because he was still evolving from the Chapter Three experiment into the pattern of soloing between himself on mini-Moog and Mick Rogers on guitar. The next album(s) was/were fantastic. Chapter Three, with an experimental brass section, did not work for me, despite Mike Hugg's involvement. Manfred Mann's Earth Band are one of the few groups whose bootlegs I like to collect. One of the reasons is because live versions of tracks from the first album, Like Captain Bobby Stout, are transformed into great performances. They really should have re-recorded them.

I am always open to suggestions, US. If you suggest some psychedelia, I will give it a listen.

Unknown Soldier · 04-24-2013, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Ears

I've got a few albums by The Doors, Love and The Byrds on CD, although I do not listen to them very often. I remember Country Joe & the Fish and Barry Melton, who seemed quite radical at the time. Jefferson Airplane I came to recently, because I like Jefferson Starship with Mickey Thomas and Craig Chaquico, but I cannot get into them.

I found the first Manfred Mann's Earth Band album the weakest, because he was still evolving from the Chapter Three experiment into the pattern of soloing between himself on mini-Moog and Mick Rogers on guitar. The next album(s) was/were fantastic. Chapter Three, with an experimental brass section, did not work for me, despite Mike Hugg's involvement. Manfred Mann's Earth Band are one of the few groups whose bootlegs I like to collect. One of the reasons is because live versions of tracks from the first album, Like Captain Bobby Stout, are transformed into great performances. They really should have re-recorded them.

I am always open to suggestions, US. If you suggest some psychedelia, I will give it a listen.

See I think Jefferson Starship were a great disappointment considering what the band had at their disposal talent wise and far preferred their third incarnation Starship.

Out of interest what are your best Manfred Mann Earth Band's best albums?

Anyway albums you should hear if you haven't already and if you have then you should listen again

: I'm guessing you know both the really big stuff by the Beach Boys and the Velvet Underground (I'm not a big fan of either) but are essential to this list. There's more but this is good to start and finish with. All the albums are from the mid 1960s to around 1970.

Byrds- Fifth Dimension and Younger Than Yesterday
Captain Beefheart- Safe as Milk and Trout Mask Replica
Chocolate Watch Band- The Inner Mystique
Country Joe & the Fish- Electric Music for the Mind and Body and I Think I'm Fixin to Die
Doors- Doors, Strange Days and Waiting for the Sun
Grateful Dead- Live Dead
Jefferson Airplane- Surrealistic Pillow, After Bathing at Baxter's, Crown of Creation and Volunteers
Love- Forever Changes
The Mamas and The Papas- If You Can Believe Your Mind and Ears
Moby Grape- Moby Grape and Wow/Grape Jam
Mothers of Invention- Freak Out! and We're Only in it For the Money.
United States of America- United States of America

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Big Ears Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Hampshire, England Posts: 434	I've got a few albums by The Doors, Love and The Byrds on CD, although I do not listen to them very often. I remember Country Joe & the Fish and Barry Melton, who seemed quite radical at the time. Jefferson Airplane I came to recently, because I like Jefferson Starship with Mickey Thomas and Craig Chaquico, but I cannot get into them. I found the first Manfred Mann's Earth Band album the weakest, because he was still evolving from the Chapter Three experiment into the pattern of soloing between himself on mini-Moog and Mick Rogers on guitar. The next album(s) was/were fantastic. Chapter Three, with an experimental brass section, did not work for me, despite Mike Hugg's involvement. Manfred Mann's Earth Band are one of the few groups whose bootlegs I like to collect. One of the reasons is because live versions of tracks from the first album, Like Captain Bobby Stout, are transformed into great performances. They really should have re-recorded them. I am always open to suggestions, US. If you suggest some psychedelia, I will give it a listen. __________________ My Journal: Rabbiting On