Chris Squire (4 de marzo de 1948 - 28 de junio de 2015)
El único miembro de Yes que ha participado en todas sus formaciones, y presente en toda su discografía, ha fallecido.
El incomparable bajista y compositor, importante motor de la banda en todas sus diferentes etapas de vida, padecía un tipo de leucemia que en el pasado mes de mayo le hizo retirarse de la banda.
Un día de duelo para la música y en particular para el rock progresivo.
Lo recordamos con su música.
YES - INTO THE LENS
YES - OWNER OF A LONELY HEART
YES - YOURS IS NO DISGRACE
SQUACKETT (CHRIS SQUIRE Y STEVE HACKETT) - DIVIDED SELF
40 Years Ago: Syd Barrett Visits Pink Floyd During ‘Wish You Were Here’ Sessions
Syd Barrett‘s tortured spirit was already hovering over Pink Floyd‘s ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here – even before he unexpectedly crashed the studio sessions on June 5, 1975.
Both the emotive title track and shimmering, psychedelic epic “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” were inspired by Barrett, the band’s fledgling former frontman, with chief writer Roger Waters meditating on themes of isolation and inward escape. So when the long-absent musician – portly, with distant gaze, shaved head and eyebrows – randomly arrived during a mixing session for “Diamond” on June 5, the coincidence reduced the band to a mixture of shock and depression.
It’s not as if Barrett, Floyd’s co-founder and the driving creative force behind their debut LP, 1967′s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, left the band on good terms. His mental instability, erratic stage behavior and addiction to LSD made him a liability, and guitarist-singer David Gilmour was brought in as a temporary – then permanent – replacement.
Barrett made minimal contributions to 1968′s A Saucerful of Secrets, but his warped mysticism ultimately vanished: He released two studio albums – 1970′s The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, both co-produced by Gilmour and featuring Waters and keyboardist Richard Wright, respectively – but the troubled musician rarely worked after that point, eventually retreating from the spotlight.
Barrett’s fortunes seemed to be changing in 1974, when the rejuvenated songwriter made some formative – but ultimately fruitless – recordings at Abbey Road. But when he crashed the same studio during Floyd’s session less than a year later, he was bloated and mentally foggy – a sad shell of the psychedelic warrior whose warped vision guided Floyd to stardom.
The band was confused by his presence, assuming he had to be a crew member. But when Gilmour eventually identified their former bandmate, Waters broke down in tears. That June day also happened to be Gilmour’s wedding day, so Barrett wandered into the guitarist’s wedding reception at EMI. He left without telling anyone, disappearing as strangely as he’d arrived.
The experience had a profound impact on the band, particularly Waters, who even incorporated a lyrical reference to the Barrett-penned single “See Emily Play” on the LP.
“I’m very sad about Syd, [though] I wasn’t for years,” Waters commented in 1975. “For years I suppose he was a threat because of all that bollocks written about him and us. Of course, he was very important and the band would never have f—ing started without him because he was writing all the material. It couldn’t have happened without him, but on the other hand, it couldn’t have gone on with him. He may or may not be important in rock ‘n’ roll anthology terms, but he’s certainly not nearly as important as people say in terms of Pink Floyd. So I think I was threatened by him.”
Gilmour, who co-wrote the music to both the title track and “Shine On,” has trouble separating these classic songs from his memories of the former Floyd icon.
“Although ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ is specifically about Syd and ‘Wish You Were Here’ has a broader remit,” Gilmour said in the 2012 documentary Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here, ”I can’t sing it without thinking about Syd.”
"Brain Salad Surgery" es el cuarto álbum de estudio de la banda de Keith, Greg y Carl; álbum que algunos consideran su mejor trabajo.Junto al anterior "Trilogy" ocupa un lugar más que destacado en mi discoteca personal desde siempre.
BRAIN SALAD SURGERY (FULL ALBUM)
El artista suizo H.R.Giger, que años después haría el diseño de "Alien", fue el responsable del memorable arte de tapa del "Brain Salad..."
El álbum arranca con "Jerusalem", un himno religioso popular en Inglaterra que posteriormente adoptaran también los laboristas.La música pertenece a Hubert Parry y la letra al poeta William Blake.
JERUSALEM
El disco continúa con la "Toccata", constituída por pasajes extraídos del cuarto movimiento del "Concierto para piano Nº 1" del argentino Alberto Ginastera. La excelente adaptación contó con el beneplácito del compositor original.
TOCCATA
En la mayoría de los temas, las letras fueron escritas por Peter Sinfield, con quien Greg Lake coincidiera en King Crimson. Pero, como en anteriores trabajos, es una balada compuesta en letra y música por Lake la encargada de dar un toque de dulzura ante las fanfarrias dominadas por los teclados de Emerson y la furiosa percusión de Palmer. Una de mis canciones absoultamente "top" es la impresionante...
STILL...YOU TURN ME ON
STILL...YOU TURN ME ON
Do you want to be an angel?
Do you want to be a star?
Do you want to play some magic on my guitar?
Do you want to be a poet?
Do you want to be my string?
You could be anything.
Do you want to be the lover of another,
Undercover?
You could even be the man on the moon.
Do you want to be the singer?
Do you want to be the song?
Let me tell you something,
You just couldn't be more wrong.
You see I really have to tell you,
When you're buried in disguise,
By the dark glass on your eyes.
Though your flesh has crystalized,
Still...you turn me on.
Still...you turn me on.
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Mmm-mmmm-mm, you turn me on.
Do you want to be the pillow where I lay my head?
Do you want to be the feathers lying in my bed?
Do you want to be a color cover magazine;
Create a scene?
Every day a little sadder, a little madder,
Someone get me a ladder.
Do you want to be the player?
Do you want to be the string?
Let me just tell you something,
It just don't mean a thing.
You see I really have to tell you,
That it all gets so intense.
From my experience,
It just doesn't seem to make sense.
(but) Still...you turn me on.
Mmm-mmmm-mm, you turn me on, yeah.
Mmm-mmmm-mm, you turn me on.
Le sigue "Benny the Bouncer", una canción inspirada en los "western".
BENNY THE BOUNCER
El disco se cierra con una obra aplastante,"Karn Evil 9", dividida en tres secciones, llamadas aquí "impresiones": La primera y más popular , es la que comienza con la frase "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends..." y es una alegoría sobre la guerra. La segunda es un instrumental en el que Keith Emerson interpola partes del calipso "St. Thomas", de Sonny Rollins y el primero de los "Mephisto-Walzer", del compositor Liszt: "El baile en la taberna de la aldea" ("Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke").La tercera, en la que Keith Emerson distorsiona electrónicamente su voz, narra una historia fantástica sobre la pelea entre máquina y el hombre.
KARN EVIL 9
PERSONAL: Keith Emerson: Órganos, piano, clavecín, acordeón, sintetizadores Moog construidos expresamente, Moog Polyphonic ensemble, voz de computadora en "Karn Evil 9. 3rd Impression". Greg Lake – voz, guitarras, bajo eléctrico. Carl Palmer – Batería, timbales, campanas de tubo, marimba, temple blocks, flexotono (flexatone en inglés), sintetizadores de percusión.
PROGRAMA (1973): "Jerusalem" (Parry,Blake) - 2:44 "Toccata" (Ginastera) - 7:21 "Still...You Turn me On" (Lake) - 2:53 "Benny the Bouncer" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) - 2:21 "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part. 1" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) - 8:36 "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part. 2" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) - 4:46 "Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression" (Emerson, Liszt {el primero de los "Valses de Mefisto"} , Sonny Rollins {"St. Thomas"}) - 7:07 "Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) - 9:23
En 2014 sale una edición especial de dos cds y un dvd, en el marco de una serie de reediciones de Legacy/Sony music de los títulos de E.L.P. que originalmente conocimos bajo el sello Atlantic.
Otra joya en nuestra humilde colección :)
EDICION ESPECIAL 40 ANIVERSARIO DELUXE EDITION (2014): *DISCO UNO: CD - The original album 2013 remastered Jerusalem Toccata Still…You Turn Me On Benny The Bouncer Karn Evil 9 - First Impression (part one) Karn Evil 9 - First Impression (part two) Karn Evil 9 - Second Impression Karn Evil 9 - Third Impression *DISCO DOS: CD - The alternate Brain Salad Surgery Karn Evil 9 - Third Impression Original Backing Track Jerusalem First Mix Still …You Turn Me On First Mix Toccata *Previously Unreleased Karn Evil 9 - First Impression (part one) *Previously Unreleased Karn Evil 9 - First Impression (part two) *Previously Unreleased Karn Evil 9 - Second Impression *Previously Unreleased Karn Evil 9 - Third Impression *Previously Unreleased Excerpts From Brain Salad Surgery NME Flexi Disc When The Apple Blossoms Bloom In The Windmills Of Your Mind I'll Be Your Valentine B-Side Single (K13503) Brain Salad Surgery B-Side Single (K10946) Brain Salad Surgery Instrumental Karn Evil 9 (3rd Impression) Diff Version Karn Evil 9 (3rd Impression) Instrumental *DISCO TRES: DVD-A - SUPER STEREO BRAIN SALAD SURGERY Super Sonic Brain Salad Surgery DVD-A Featuring the original mix remastered & new 2014 stereo mix Both in MLB Lossless 24/96 & LPCM 24/96 Flac Files are also included Jerusalem Toccata Still… You Turn Me On Benny The Bouncer Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 1 Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 2 Karn Evil 9 2nd Impression Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression
