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[dubdobdee]

reading festival line-up 1976

Friday 27th Aug

Stallion <--- unknown to me (tho kat knows em)
Roy St John <---unknown to me
U Roy <--- 1 x toastin reggae great
Supercharge <-- "funky" hard rock w.big fat bald singer, i saw em once (poss at an oxford ball -- they were RUB)
Mighty Diamonds <-- lovely reggae harmony trio
Mallard <-- capt.beefheart'\s magic band AFTER THEY DUMPED B'HEART (think called mallard bcz of some "walks like a duck" concept)
Gong <--- speak no ill my first FAVOURITE BAND, scruffy-hippy space-wail silliness in re pothead pixie/flying teapot/radio gnome concept, GRATE sax/flute player called (oh dear) bloomdido bad de grass (his "flute salad" is sampled for awesome dirtysex raptrack "OOCHIE WALLY")

Saturday 28th Aug

Nick Pickett <--- unknown to me
Eddie & The Hot Rods <--- proto-punkers who i disapprove of, the zutons of their time
Moon <--- reason i arrived on their wbesite in the frirst place
Pat Travers Band journeyman guitar-hero band that i can't remember anything about
Jon Hiseman's Colosseum heavy prog based round hiseman's drum virtuosity (colosseum II proggier and heavier but no singer i think)
Sadista Sisters <--- scissor sisters' mums (i have no idea: thought i remembered em but was thinkin of SADISTIC MIKA BAND)
Manfred Mann well-known pop name on way down judging by bill-placing
Van Der Graaf Generatorpeter hammill is the most emo man in music history, very raw long semi-improv songs feat.elec violin and organ bass pedal throb (j.lydon 1 x big fan)
Phil Manzaneraroxy's guitarist who i love in roxy but always found arid outside
Camelmimsy-folk prog-oid of no memorable account
Rory Gallagherirish blues guitarist famous for endlessly touring and countless live LPs, militantly unpretentious (DENIMS!) and died sadly young, i have a soft spot for RG as my best pal at school admired him terribly

Sunday 29th Aug

Howard Bragen <--- no clue
Aft <--- haha awesome name but no clue
The Enidfolky pomp rockers and festival-hos, punks HATED em bcz they were "right wing" tho what this meant in content terms i dunno (their encore was "land of hope and glory" i think so maybe that) <--- most interested to know the carmodian line
A Band Called 'O' arty hard rock with nasty sexual bent
BackDoorvirtuoso blues trio based round BASS PLAYER HERO colin something (i owned a record by them once)
Sassafras delighted to discover they're WELSH, recall the name but knew nothing about them
Brand Xphil collins's JAZZ ROCK EXTRAVAGANZA, had black player(s) which made em daring/scary for quotidian festival fans
AC/DC <--- surely early in AC/DC's rise; 76 is the year of tipping-point between founder generation (sab, zep, deep and his purps) and second gen (priest!)
Sutherland Bros & Quiver <-- soft rockers, actually a "good news for all our readers" combo of the Brothers with a band called Quiver; not sure i've ever heard a note
Ted Nugent <-- getting into his stride
Black Oak ArkansasBOA were big big big briefly, pioneers of the "southern boogie" wing of big metal

ok i met up with dave q to branestorm his book idea a bit -- BEST ROCK BOOK EVAH! i shall say no more -- and one question he dun arsked = nme's bands-to-watch of 176, who the fak were MOON? well the above is a trace of moon i discovered -- the only clue in fact, but this list sent such a wave of OMG me at 15 thru me that i had to share! i shall annotate it shortly: till then younger respondents can amuse us/selves comments describin the bands listed (w/o googlin) [now updated and annotated]

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Did Mallard make DUCK ROCK?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I am too old to play, I guess - I remember about half of these.

BUT one comment: interesting to see the reggae acts on the Fri night bill. Does this give the lie to the idea* that it was Don Letts & co who were responsible for bringing reggae and rock together?

*I was going to write 'prevailing view' - it probably doesn't prevail but it sure seems to get peddled a lot nowadays

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

actually yes -- younger readers should first of all say WHO THEY'VE HEARD OF from this list

Ones I've Heard Of

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

U Roy, Mighty Diamonds, Gong, Eddie And The Hot Rods, Manfred Mann, Van Der Graaf Generator, Phil Manzanera, Camel, Rory Gallagher, The Enid, Brand X, AC/DC, Ted Nugent, Black Oak Arkansas

Re: Ones I've Heard Of

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

me: all of those (tho Black Oak Arkansas is only ringing very faint bells - surprised to see they closed the Festival) plus: Pat Travers, Colosseum, Suth Bros & Quiver.

The Suth Bros recorded an ACE version of (song-coming-soon-to-Popular) "Sailing" - in fact, theirs may have been the original.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I guess being googleable wasn't an immediate concern for Moon in 1976.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

BANDS I WANT TO HEAR (ONES I KNOW ABOUT NOT INCLUDED)

Asterisks denote presumed level of heaviness.

Stallion ***
Mallard ****
Jon Hiseman's Colosseum ********
Sadista Sisters **
Aft *
A Band Called 'O' **
BackDoor *****
Sassafras ***(but in a bad way)
Sutherland Bros & Quiver *

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

I amg'ed Sassafras (even wikipedia lacked info), they were from WALES and their two albums of 1976 were called Riding High and Wheelin' 'N' Dealin'.

ROCK. Presumably.

Moon (googled)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.noelmccalla.com/cdcomfort.htm

Re: Moon (googled)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

wow i only just clicked through on this! moon's singer noel mcalla did vocal's on mike rutherford's moomin-tribute* LP "smallcreep's day"!! <-- if this is not the source of a loll-track THE WORLD IS NOT SHAPE I UNDERSTOOD IT TO BE

*disclaimer: may not be moomin-related :(

Re: Moon (googled)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Also grebt logo!

Who/what/when were SKY? On holidays in the late 70s we would sometimes go to friends of my parents who had very many records by this group.

Re: Moon (googled)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

SKY were a muso "classical rock" supergroup who included classical guitarist JOHN WILLIAMS* -- i very nearly mentioned them on yr quo post cz the most fanatical quo fan i ever met was ALSO a fanatical sky fan! (and an accomplished classical guitarist) (and a bit of a dimwit iirc but this is not germane)

*also the legendary HERBIE FLOWERS i think -- deintiely marcello territory!! (if memory serves they were PLUPERFECTLY AWFUL, not so far from the Panpipes of Zamfir play yr favourite but film themes of the 60s except with loads of fiddly bits)

Re: SKY

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

DDD's memory = on crack. They were nothing like Panpipes plays film muzak!!! OK, maybe they were later on, but Sky 2 (1980) is pretty good Rennaissance/Bach-goes-prog for the most part. Not in the same league as ALW's "Variations", but in that same vein.

The full line up in those days was Williams, Flowers, Kevin Peek (elec guitar), Francis Monkman (keys, ex-Curved Air?) and - to me, the even more legendary than Herbie - TRISTAN FRY on drums and percussion

I just realised I should have posted a pic of my hero in action

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Rock on Tristan!

I have heard of:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Stallion
Gong
Eddie & The Hot Rods
Manfred Mann
Van Der Graaf Generator
AC/DC
Ted Nugent

I would quite like to hear A Band Called 'O'!

Important Q

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Are the Sadista Sisters actually ladies?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

stallion bein bottom of the bill on the first day i *suspect* you have
a. heard of a difft stallion, or
b. r thinkin of (alien and predator) and bill and ted and wyld stallyns too

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

My subconscious is probably merging Marillion and Scorpions.

^^^THIS IS CAN ONLY BE AWESOME

ABOMINOG!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

SILMORGOTHIAN moar laik

have heard of

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

U Roy
Gong
Eddie & The Hot Rods
Pat Travers Band
Jon Hiseman's Colosseum
Manfred Mann
Van Der Graaf Generator*
Phil Manzanera*
Camel
Rory Gallagher
Brand X
AC/DC*
Sutherland Bros & Quiver
Ted Nugent*
Black Oak Arkansas

...but only the starred ones have I actually heard a song by. But WTF Sutherland Bros. & Quiver over AC/DC?! Black Oak Arkansas headlining?!

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I have heard of most of them, and even heard quite a lot of those.

Reggae was kind of becoming established in a modest way with rock fans by this point, I think - the Wailers' Natty Dread came out in 1974 and got some crossover publicity, and the Live album (1975) got loads.

DREAD

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes reggae had started to have a following long before don "don't" letts -- there'd been big pop-reggae chart hits and the wailers were getting play, the harder end was getting a degree of cult respect, also the harder they come is 72 i think -- the report on the reading website is very embarrassed abt the unwelcoming response they got (sly dunbar hit by can); quite a bold experiment it seems to have them on, but rock culture was still wide open and didn't know where it was moving from here; the idea that it was about to be cleaved in half ideologically -- year zero 77 squelching the broader pop futures of almost everyone here -- was apparent to no one

Re: DREAD

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Inspired by downloading a huge load of Festive Fifties and then repeat-playing Roy Harper's "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease", I think a kewl thing would be to compile an 'eve of punk' compilation - not the usual "precursors of" lists which tend to be the same old same old but a snapshot (like this) of a culture about to be extinctified.

Re: DREAD

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yeah DQ has obv been wasting his life researching old nmes before the "turn" and was totally "OMG it is an lost world!" -- this even tho he really knows his way round old-skool metal in a way i don't

Re: DREAD

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

There's a brilliant ILM thread where dave q and others were bigging up all the great rock records that were released after "the turn" (esp. c.79-80) and which don't fit the authorised History Of Rock.

Re: DREAD

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha there was of course discussion of TORMATO last night!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

'O' in Band Called O as in "Story Of", then?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes (later they became the "o-band")

that is all i know about them: i am SURE i have never heard a note

Sadista Sisters Googled

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

!!!

They were an all-girl rock band put together with Stephen Berkoff as Svengali - http://www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk/reviews.cfm?id=1729132005&sid=10696&genre=Theatre

http://www.bazboothzone.co.uk/sadista.html contains samples

There's a Slits connection too (shared a sometime bassist)

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

Excellent! I remember Dave q's posting enthusiastically about prog on ilx, I know that list has all sorts of stuff, but since those posts I always got an idea there would be a ton of stuff that could redeem that period of the 70s from being the 'dark ages' of rock thing prior to punk but I never got enough names and willpower to chase this up in bargain bins.

[koganbot]

I am certain that I have heard the Sutherland Brothers And Quiver, though I am also certain that I cannot remember what they sound like other than that it is not like Cornelius Brothers And Sister Rose.

I quite like the two Eddie And The Hot Rods songs I've heard. Pub rock trying to latch onto punk, I'd say.

(Also have heard of and sometimes heard many of the others, but being an old man I was not invited to make a list.)

One whose new album I listened to in the last month

[koganbot]

Ted Nugent