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Fields - A Friend of Mine
Fields was the almost-supergroup started by Graham Field when he left Rare Bird in order to continue pursuing heavy progressive rock while the rest of that band wanted to become an jazzier rock outfit. In 1971 Field enlisted drummer Andy McCulloch, who’d played for King Crimson and would later play for Greenslade, and Alan Barry, a talented singer and bassist, and the trio released this album before Field called it quits in the music scene.
King Crimson - Cadence And Cascade
Not that Tumblr needs any more King Crimson in its #progressive rock stream, but I whipped a good chunk of my King Crimson mp3 collection into well-tagged order recently, so I thought I might as well throw some up on this blog. It’s pretty.
Family - Love Is A Sleeper
Family was a British 1970s progressive rock band that kept things pretty tight. This album doesn’t feature a lot of freak out sections, but instead layered their hard rock sound with xylophone (effects?) and flute. It makes for a lively and chipper sound compared to other heavy prog acts like Lucifer’s Friend, like they were blending blues based rock with the Canterbury prog of their day. John Wetton, Family’s bassist in 1971, would go on to play in King Crimson’s third line-up.
Suck - 21st Century Schizoid Man
This is a great King Crimson cover, done in 1970, which shows just how fast King Crimson was spreading. On a side note, when I was a shitty metal-head teenager, I completely conflated King Crimson and King Diamond, and was crazy impressed with how versatile the face-painted metal Grammy winner (lol) was.
Suck is a virtually unknown South African hard rock band from the early ’70s. They released one very rare & mind-frying album, ‘Time To Suck’, in 1970. This is heavy 70’s rock with a real attitude, which is always remarkable in and of itself, but Suck deserve special recognition for their rapacious rampage through a conservative South Africa in 1970. Suck enthusiasts will tell you that ‘Time To Suck’ is one of the loudest, most controversial, & most obnoxiously revolutionary fist-in-your-face rock albums of the early ’70s.
