Paul was a lot hipper than his cheery/cheesy thumbs up image of later decades would seem to allow for. He suffers from unfavourable comparisons with John, but unfairly so in my view. It was Paul’s bass playing that made Lucy in the Sky great, for example. Had it been left with just John’s chords it wouldn’t have been half as interesting, harmonically.
never heard of him but i like that....not so keen when he sings though but its nice playing
still sounds pretty sleazy to me, but who am i to judge. i guess thats soho shenanigans in 68 all over
no idea...examples?
thanks will check but i wonder if this doesnt deserve its own thread...not sure what to call it though. perhaps someone who knows the different folk terminology could start it? "untwee folk". im not that fussed what year its from.
There's a few great folk threads already, mostly avoiding the twee - I recommended these two last time it came up:
International Harvester 'formed' in 1969 so a year too late for the thread. By 'formed', I mean changed their name from Pärson Sound (mentioned upthread). Pärson Sound didn't release any music during their lifetime (1966-68) but had a 2CD retrospective about 20 years ago. You mentioned that you'd only recently discovered International Harvester so I'm guessing you haven't heard Pärson Sound yet in which case you're in for a treat. The sound quality is a bit murky but the music itself is heavy duty drone utopia. I've got all the Träd, Gräs & Stenar stuff too (which came after International Harvester) but, again, it's nowhere near as good as Pärson Sound.This is well worth checking out, and way ahead of its time. I came across this bands latter incarnation when they had their first album re-released Recently.
The Swedes were the original Krautrockers
Trees?
I’ve got the Parson Sound self titled album that was released on Subliminal Sounds, great stuff. Did they release anything else that you know of?
Pärson Sound only have the 2CD/3LP effort that you have. If you liked the International Harvester album then you'll probably like the Harvester album 'Hemat' from 1970 which is also good, though not quite as good as International Harvester. Then there's Träd, Gräs & Stenar - I have the triple album thing from a year or two back and I think another album somewhere. For my money, the better more 'out there' stuff was at the beginning of their career. The later stuff is still enjoyable though more commercial, relative to what came before. Despite the four different band names, it's mostly the same people throughout.
Ho Chi Minh is a bit of a foot tapper
enjoying it so far, although it's immediately a much more conventional album than the Parson Sound (I guess that might just be because it's an actual album rather than a cobbled together collection of whatever demos and studio jams they could find, mind)
Let’s have a look...belboid, are these all okay?
Ken Boothe – Mr Rock Steady
On Top The Heptones
Good All Over Delroy Wilson
Intensified Desmond Dekker And The Aces
Action! Desmond Dekker And The Aces
Engine 54 The Ethiopians
Evening Time Jackie Mittoo
Oeiginal JA pressing of Intensified on Beverleys seems to be 68?
*i was more worried about the compilation rule
It's certainly a cobbled together collection but most of it was either recorded for broadcast on Swedish radio or recorded when they played live. From what I can make out from the liner notes (difficult to read even with glasses on), only one of the tracks was from a rehearsal jam.
I’ll double check these now I have decent internet.
