Top marks to Grant, to Graham - and to the third great G, yourself, George, for finding this fantastical item in Henderson. Amazing!!! All I ever see are LPs by Jack Thompson, the Invercargill smoker and sometime piano player. This is somewhat better.
lol. I finally stopped looking at the vinyl when my appetite for Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams was sated (the most popular 20th C classical music in op shops is those "English" composers, home for the homesick) and moved on to CDs so now I am finally up-to-date on the pop my kids listened to back in the day.
I'll add an addendum here - the shift represented by prog coincided with an increased desire for original songs - prog albums, unlike the psych pop albums the ADIMMM artists made, were expected to be all original compositions. This suited the record companies who got to keep the publishing royalties. The trouble is, not every brilliant musician can write a brilliant song, so live audiences took a while to warm to originals sets. By the time I came on the scene it was split between original bands, often rather inept players with their own fanbases if lucky, and skilled "covers bands" - a concept that hadn't existed in the 60's - who often included survivors of the ADIMMM bands. There was a culture war going on between these 2 competing sects who looked down on each other, which I soon realized was unfair to both of us; now I can see more clearly its historic and economic roots.
Top marks to Grant, to Graham - and to the third great G, yourself, George, for finding this fantastical item in Henderson. Amazing!!! All I ever see are LPs by Jack Thompson, the Invercargill smoker and sometime piano player. This is somewhat better.
lol. I finally stopped looking at the vinyl when my appetite for Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams was sated (the most popular 20th C classical music in op shops is those "English" composers, home for the homesick) and moved on to CDs so now I am finally up-to-date on the pop my kids listened to back in the day.
Doesn't sound unlike me...
I'll add an addendum here - the shift represented by prog coincided with an increased desire for original songs - prog albums, unlike the psych pop albums the ADIMMM artists made, were expected to be all original compositions. This suited the record companies who got to keep the publishing royalties. The trouble is, not every brilliant musician can write a brilliant song, so live audiences took a while to warm to originals sets. By the time I came on the scene it was split between original bands, often rather inept players with their own fanbases if lucky, and skilled "covers bands" - a concept that hadn't existed in the 60's - who often included survivors of the ADIMMM bands. There was a culture war going on between these 2 competing sects who looked down on each other, which I soon realized was unfair to both of us; now I can see more clearly its historic and economic roots.