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[Halasían]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Wow, I haven't thought about this band in decades! Thanks!

 

[rollinstoned]

Their first album was great, almost baroque prog rock. Keith Relf was previously the Yardbirds singer wasn't he?

 

[Halasían]

Their first album was great, almost baroque prog rock. Keith Relf was previously the Yardbirds singer wasn't he?

Indeed he was. Here is a recording of the last vestige of The Yardbirds before they disintegrated into their parts. Their take of the Jake Holmes track was quite electric with the influence of Jimmy Page. The later Led Zeppelin had the same guitar arrangement but the lyrics were changed and re-arranged to what we come to know from Led Zeppelin I (side-note: Chris Dreja who was at first rhythm-guitarist then after Jeff Beck quit, took over the bass of the Yardbirds was an avid photographer and took the iconic photos of the members of Led Zeppelin that appear on the back of this first album). The six tracks that were recorded were a sort of a precursor-mix of both the hard blues-rock of Led Zeppelin and the avant-garde prog-rock of Renaissance as the last three minutes of the below track presents.

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The first Renaissance album was quite good in that fusionish prog-rock way. Keith Relf and the drummer Dave McCarty were the remnants of the old Yardbirds in this first Renaissance line-up. Keith's sister Jane Relf added the female vocals. I didn't really care as much for the later more popular 1970's line-up with Annie Haslam. They were ok, just different. I do like the live clips of a brief transitional line-up with Anne 'Binky' Collum and the remnants of another band, 'The Nashville Teens'. They appeared on a German music television show with some recorded European live shows and artistic clips, but the combo only lasted a few months. Here is one of their live performances... the band genuinely looks like they were having fun performing!

A sidenote ... Binky and the drummer Terry Sade got married after leaving the band and gave up music to raise a family.


Here is the clip of 'Mr Pine' which was the only song this line-up contributed to the Renaissance song catalog...

 

[Halasían]

... this was the commercially successful incarnation of Renaissance... It's not that I don't like it, it just isn't what I got used to with the first couple albums ...

 

[rollinstoned]

Pagey and Plant stole quite a few tracks. That Jake Holmes one is most damming and I know they never credited him on the original LP release.

They also stole the arrangement for "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" from Joan Baez. Still love the band though, not my fave but still enjoyable!

 

[Halasían]

Pagey and Plant stole quite a few tracks. That Jake Holmes one is most damming and I know they never credited him on the original LP release.

They also stole the arrangement for "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" from Joan Baez. Still love the band though, not my fave but still enjoyable!

Yeah in 2011 Jake and Page finally settled the legal differences by adding 'inspired by Jake Holmes' I'm Confused' on all future printings and releases and a cash payment. Joan Baez didn' actually write that song but did record it first. The song was written by Anne Bredon.

All Led had to do was give mention to the original writers but except for Willie Dixon, didn't. I read in a book that it was Peter Grant who said not to at the time, but who knows? Page was really good at hearing something and tweaking it and calling it his own.

I'm not all that hard on Jimmy Page. He did unearth a wonderful live recording of the last days of The Yardbirds and restored it...

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

And here's Numa Numa 2:

If that doesn't make you feel happy, you're just a hopeless grouch!

 

[Halasían]

A 1980's Brisbane protest song whose theme seems fitting for so many places in the world today

 

[rollinstoned]

In honour of their upcoming album!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

IU returned to Yu Huiyeol's Sketchbook last month, for a 12th anniversary special, where she performed many songs from her career, but I'm posting this unrecorded one:

Still one of the most calming voices in music; something many of us could use these days.

As a bonus, an encore -- after 14 hours of filming -- of "Lullaby":

Appropriate, as she herself suffers from severe insomnia.

 

[Halasían]

 

[Aldarion]

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Nothing will ever outdo the original but these guys aren't awful...definitely not my favorite though.

 

[Aldarion]

I found this... just perfect.

 

[Halasían]

Enjoying some Haley Reinhart live from 2019...

 

[Halasían]

So I was listening to Faun on YouTube today and knew that longtime member Fiona had quit the band late last year. I thought it would be tough to replace her with all the talent on so many instruments and her singing voice... but finding out that Adaya has joined Faun was delightful news indeed!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Halasían]

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]