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Mike Keneally obviously doesn’t prefer to be labeled — he’s a bandleader and bandmember, a rock and roll and jazz fusion participant, and also a superb guitarist, vocalist, keyboardist, and percussionist. Taking on keyboards at age group five, Keneally’s existence transformed when he relocated from NY to California in 1970 …

Almost completely instrumental, the Muffins’ music was a distinctive mixture of Canterbury progressive, fusion, improvisation plus much more. The group was shaped within the Washington, DC region in the first ’70s by Dave Newhouse (keyboards), Billy Swan (vocals, bass and electric guitar), Tom Scott (woodwinds) and Michael Zentner (electric guitar …

For most from the ’70s, it appeared like every sax, clarinet, or flute that resulted in with an art-rock album was played by Mel Collins. He virtually possessed the franchise on reed and flute noises on every Ruler Crimson-related session for two years, and added his sax to Camel’s audio …

Although they’re most widely known today for his or her lush, lyrically and musically profound (some would say bombastic) psychedelic-era albums, the Moody Blues began among the better R&B-based combos from the British Invasion. The group’s background started in Birmingham, Britain with Ray Thomas (harmonica, vocals) and Mike Pinder (keyboards, …

The four Englishmen who formed the original incarnation of Nektar met in Germany and formed the band there in 1969. For a time in the first to mid-’70s, it appeared like they might consider American rock and roll by surprise, but which was mainly buzz, and by 1975 their big …

Built within the flamboyant key pad function of Paddy Coulter as well as the soaring vocals of Dave Skillin, the guitarless Aardvark had a brief run within the U.K., with just an individual self-titled recording to its name. The record can be an interesting test, though some from the cuts …

Czechoslavakian post-punk group Pulnoc emerged through the ashes from the Plastic material Folks of the World, the renowned underground art rock and roll unit shaped by bassist Milan Hlavsa only weeks following the country’s 1968 Communist takeover. Called honoring the Frank Zappa structure “Plastic material People” — the Velvet Underground, …

The storyplot goes that Nicolai Dunger was discovered singing and playing guitar on his balcony in Piteå, Sweden. However the representative for Telegram who agreed upon him was most likely not very happy using the experimental music that surfaced from the expected singer/songwriter as well as the record Music Wearing …

Peter Sinfield is most beneficial referred to as the lyricist along with a founding person in the original Ruler Crimson and its own instant offshoots, up with the version from the music group that recorded Islands in later 1971. He afterwards took on an identical function, as lyricist for Emerson, …

Swedish band Änglagård is normally part of an entire breed of youthful progressive rockers who’ve trim their teeth in King Crimson’s Crimson. Like the various other Crimson Swedes, Anekdoten, Änglagård crams angular hooks and begin/end tempos into every minute they can extra. Writing extended symphonic parts, the band appear to …