The Barclay James Harvest Symphony Orchestra, Leader Gavin Wright. Conductor and Musical Director, Robert Godfrey.
Alan Parsons plays Jews Harp on 'Lady Loves'.
Equipment by Jim and Adrian, Design by Latimer Reeves.
7102 TPS Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
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leonard 25th Jun 2018
| | Added complete cover images and early label images without the EMI logo |
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TheDroid 12th Jun 2017
| | After revisiting this LP and doing a little more investigating I have found that my copy (referred to many moons ago) is actually a quad pressing after all. I have now entered it here Q4 SHVL 788 with a little explanation. |
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Magic Marmalade 10th Apr 2016
| | And you mention Iron Butterfly Droid...
... and there's a Butterfly on the cover of this.... coincidence... or government cover up?!!!!
:)
"These are not the Butteflies you're looking for" |
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Magic Marmalade 10th Apr 2016
| | Look, I'm as pro-Jerry as the next man,
...but I'm not sure that a single piece of music need occupy an entire side of vinyl to be considered as Jerry.
After all, by that definition, over 95% of the output by bands that are considered generally Jerry are not at all! Genesis even had a little track on the same side as Supper's Ready (Jerry)... and Pink Floyd only did Echoes (a la Jerry).
In which case, the protestations of the Punks against that was thought early properly progggggerrrry were entirely unfounded...whining gits :)
(No ambition those kids... no wonder most punk stuff sucks - ooh, what a trouble maker I am!)
But it also bears remembering that at the time of this album, the term of being proberbly proggerry hadn't even been coined (let alone cashed in, marketed, exploited, milked... killed).
But you can hear Floyd in this, and a lot of other stuff as yet undefined, which is probably why a lot of the music from the start of the seventies is so highly regarded now, as they didn't have to stick to later defined product descriptions, and could reach into many other areas... are Deep Purple Metal, Progggggggg, or what?
I'd simply assert they were just free (except for Free, who were blues/rock, and so not free... All Right Now, enough of that!).
But to me, Prog refers to any of their pieces of music, or body of work as a whole (over the course of an album) that progresses and changes as it goes from being one thing to another outside the standard pop, or other single standard music template as it goes.
... and by any other name, would smell as sweet. |
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TheDroid 10th Apr 2016
| | So does this mean that we should now consider In-A-Gada-Da-Vida as progressive? To think: Iron Butterfly as prodigies of proggerry! |
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Lee Wrecker 10th Apr 2016
| | Nice review Magic but I do have a concern about the use of the word, if it is indeed a word "progery" in your review. "Progery" as you have written it would be pronounced "pro jerry" and not "prog ah ree " which is what I think you intended. "Proggery" is most certainly a word according to Prof. Anderson from the Say Yes Institute and according to her means full on progressive rock. An example of "proggerry" is if a song takes up the whole side of an album or an entire live performance. If the "proggery" exceeds these limits it is customary to add an extra "g". For instance if a song takes up a whole album or a performance lasts longer than 24 hours. This means the word can be correctly spelled as above with two G's or with three G's depending on the magnitude of the "progg(g)ery".
Incidentally, three G's is what I intend to harvest from you for contributing to this entry. Could you please send G's, marked not negotiable, to my Barclays' account. |
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Magic Marmalade 9th Apr 2016
| | ReviewAshamed to say I'd never (knowingly) heard this before I bought it, but there were many moments in it where I realise I have heard a lot of this before (It's one of those)...
... Great album though, that I've been listening to a lot since.
A good bridge between the dead/dying sixties psych/folk/blues/rock (residual hippie-dom (?)), and the early seventies progery.
Very accessible, melodic tunes that could be the missing link between The Moody Blues and Pink Floyd (Probably a lot of other stuff too).
Thumbs upward!
(If this riff has never been sampled before for a hip-hop tune.... why the hell not?!!!):
2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review? |
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Magic Marmalade 4th Apr 2016
| | I got a copy of this yesterday which has a Stereo outer sleeve (all outer details as per stereo), but with a Quadrophonic sleeve inside gate-fold attached, with the quadrophonic EMI box details inside left.
Record is just stereo though.
Seems, what with TheDroid's comment, this may be an album where many hotch-potch assembled copies are about. |
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TheDroid 11th Mar 2015
| | I have this LP but it is housed in a "Quadraphonic SQ System" jacket with the catalog number of Q4 SHVL 788 on the spine. The LP label itself just says stereo and is exactly like the labels shown here. |
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