― chaki in charge (chaki), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
Back to the album cover,I particularly like the Snoopy doll hanging from the coat rack.
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 30 December 2004 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I fear to ask, but what does the 'plus' mean?
it's like the "32" on every bottle of rolling rock beer!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 30 December 2004 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 30 December 2004 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 30 December 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Charles Dexter (Holey), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
What kind of drunk are you? It's 33
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 December 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 30 December 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
(But quite why I like Jon Lord a lot, say, is a mystery.)-- Ned Raggett (Ned), teisipäev, 16. November 2004 11:50 (3 years ago)
Oi, man. Had we met in, say, '75 or samthung, I woulda been ready & willing to talk away on JonLord-iana for days on end. :)
― t**t, Thursday, 10 January 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
er, lol?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IHVdG3rKqE
― gershy, Monday, 26 May 2008 06:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://home.maine.rr.com/abajoran/img/rw11.jpg
Reminds me of somebody but I can't put my finger on it.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 26 May 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Rick Wakeman, per chance?
― t**t, Monday, 26 May 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Or Gandalf the Grey with a reddish Rick Wakeman mane photoshopped unto 'im?
― t**t, Monday, 26 May 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
('m making them silly jokeses just to alleviate the strain of awaitin' my cd copy of six wiveses, which i orderered on teh cheap, to arrive...)
― t**t, Monday, 26 May 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
there some super funky shit on journey to the centre of the earth and no earthly connection.
― chaki, Monday, 26 May 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
one of my first threads *tear* Taking Sides! Rick Wakemen vs. Keith Emerson!
― chaki, Monday, 26 May 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
All I'll say is he plays an INSANE keyboard. In fact two at the same time. I'm just echoing the sentiments of various youtube viewers but Rick can play, he's adventurous musically but I feel that you really shouldn't ignore the fact that he destroyed Yes because he did it so spectacularly.
― VeronaInTheClub, Monday, 26 May 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
(pace the thread header, i WOULD kinda want to hear mr. wakeman's take on dizzee rascal).
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 05:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Beck?
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Rick creates a riotous pastiche of his extraordinary life and escapades
Eh?
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 11:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Thecaddy.jpg/200px-Thecaddy.jpg
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
What Yes albums does he play on? When were they destroyed?
― filthy dylan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
totally insane that the brilliant No Earthly Connection is STILL unavailable on cd. that needs fucking sorting out.
― mark e, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
but I feel that you really shouldn't ignore the fact that he destroyed Yes because he did it so spectacularly.
Yes, we should. Nonsensical claim. Wakeman's part & parcel with the crew of over-the-top keyboard players working in Britain at the time: Keith Emerson -- ELP sold even more than Yes, Wakeman, and Vincent Crane, who never enjoyed much commercial success.
As for the classic Yes albums with Wakeman on them -- Fragile, Close to the Edge, Yessongs are great. Tales not so much although it's not his fault. Yes with Tony Kaye -- the first two can be passed on although the cover of "Every Little Thing" starts getting into the territory of righteous. The tunes arrive for Yes Album but not because of the keyboard player.
― Gorge, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Going for the One's awesome too. Wakeman was back in the fold for that one after taking the (incredible) Relayer off. Whoever says he destroyed Yes has no idea what he's talking about.
― Bill Magill, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Rick Wakeman is a genius and the main reason why Yes were so great in the 70s.
Solo Wakeman is largely indefensible though.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 08:42 (sixteen years ago) link
"White Rock" though?
IT'S ABOUT SKIING BEFORE ANYONE STARTS!!!
(it's great)...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 08:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"Rick Wakeman is a genius and the main reason why Yes were so great in the 70s."
Wont argue whether he's a genius or not, but the second part of this sentence is wrong.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't have the patience to read this whole thread, but I'm sure hoping someone here already pointed out that he is quite classic on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
rick wakeman does a section of presets on my GForce minimoog vst, and they fuckin rock - they're the first presets i try on pretty much *any* song i make involving synths these days - ironically pretty much every last one of them sounds perfect for todays TranceCrunk(tm) production aesthetic...
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 08:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Six Wives - live !
no chance of me going along, but this is just going to be insanely over the top isn't it ..
― mark e, Monday, 27 April 2009 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been on a big prog rock trek for a couple of months, probably started by watching that BBC Prog Rock Brittania on You Tube a couple of times.
Haven't ventured past it yet, but I liked The Six Wives of Henry VIII more than I would have thought and it is one weird ass album to have somehow sold like 15 million copies. People had some patience back in those days, I just don't see any of this kind of weird music being THAT popular.
I liked it enough that I probably am going to try out another Wakeman record.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
The Sex Pistols was the reason Rick left A&M, not the other way round...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
No it has to be the other way around if it's true at all. I'm sceptical that he would have had that much sway at the label, since sales were waning (though his late 70s stuff is good - often preferable to the earlier, better known albums). Wakeman's final album for A&M came out in 1979, two years after the fact. I know that Wakeman showed up in a documentary talking about this and said it was essentially a bullshit story.
― everything, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
xpost to earlnash - try Criminal Record, which is a digestible and enjoyably brief album from '77. It has a fair chunk of solo Rick mixed with Alan White, Chris Squire and Wakeman doing some fairly disciplined and enjoyable proggy bits.
― everything, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
Basically, McLaren had said that the Sex Pistols' signing had upset some of the proggers on the label (He'd read, upside down, a memo on the A&M-A&R's desk to the extent of "hey, do we all have to wear safety pins through our noses now?" and said more or less in passing that it was him wot got them sacked.
At which point lots of A&M staffers were all "yes, yes, that's exactly what happened", which got Rick extremely pissed off. Doubtless, that was not the only factor, but maybe one of them that made him see out his contract then goodnight vienna.
One further album, "Rhapsodies", then off. (his "Criminal Record" presumably well on the way by then..)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 08:43 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks, that rings true. Wakeman was probably nearing the end at A&M anyway. "Criminal Record" did not sell too well I think - I recall stacks of copies marked down in Boots at the start of the 80s, which is where I got it from. Rhapsodies could be looked at as a stereotypical "last album for the label". It feels/sounds cut-price, has a terrible sleeve design (as did Criminal Record) and is all over the place, apparently hoping to appeal to the general public (there's everything from James Last-style orchestal disco to moogy riffs on famous classical/jazz tunes. This from a guy who has no business even considering what what "commercial" might sound like (listen to "Rock'n'Roll Prophet" to see how lamentable is his take on early-80s synthpop. Notwithstanding all that, to me there is some good stuff on these album due to his general creative quirkiness and blokey whimsicality.
― everything, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
People had some patience back in those days, I just don't see any of this kind of weird music being THAT popular.
hypothesis: prog rock fulfilled a cinematic purpose for fantasy/scifi/stoner nerds in the mid seventies, but that purpose was superseded by blockbuster sci-fi movies and the spread of D&D and then FPS videogames. Punk didn't kill prog rock, the triumph of nerdery in other pop culture areas did.
― bendy, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Not wanting to sound negative but no.
― everything, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
I'm totally digging Rock and Roll Prophet at the moment. It's like Wakeman meets the Buggles. And he sings weird duets!
http://open.spotify.com/album/1cOv3eKLgw8Tuas65QvaS6
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
i had no idea, but this was sorted out in 2012 with a US pressing, and the mastering is gorgeous, a lot richer than the cd editions of the other classics.
― mark e, Monday, 3 November 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
Cool. I need to catch up on Wakeman.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
expanded remasters :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Myths-Legends-Arthur-Knights-Round/dp/B00Q5V6QWO/ref=mb_oe_a
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Six-Wives-Henry-VIII/dp/B00Q5V6RYG/ref=pd_bxgy_m_h__img_y
about time.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 January 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
I wonder why Journey To Centre Of Earth got that reissue with new cover so recently when these were going to come out?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:08 (nine years ago) link
those were new recordings .. not reissues of the originals.
― mark e, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh! Good thing I didn't buy it! I don't remember there being any note of that on the cover.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link
its not that obvious at all.i too nearly got the new editions but a nerd wakeman fan warned me.however, these are indeed legit reissues !
― mark e, Friday, 30 January 2015 01:20 (nine years ago) link