| IQ - Marquee Club, London, UK (LDB Vintage Series #079) |
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| LDB Vintage Series #079 Hi there! After closing both my Master and Special series I took a break from seeding, enjoying life and most of all preparing for a new series! This is not going to be as frequent as my previous ones, I'll be seeding shows from time to time so don't expect massive volumes here. Why a 'vintage' series? Because music in the 70's and 80's was really something...so different, so special with 'that' kind of sound which you don't find anymore. That was the era of real music without the internet, of long tours and enjoyable live shows spanning from metal to new wave, progressive, jazz, fusion, pop. So many bands were born and disappeared during those two decades. I am then celebrating the 70's and the 80's and their unmistakeable sound in this LDB Vintage Series. You will find many bands I have never seeded in the past but that I still enjoy listening to. Most of these come from low generation tapes that were traded IQ London, Marquee April 18, 1985 01.Outer Limits 02.It All Stops Here 03.Wiggle 04.The Wake 05.The Magic Roundabout 06.Just Changing Hands 07.The Last Human Getaway 08.The 1,000 Days 09.Widow´s Peak 10.Corners 11.Barbell is In 12.Stomach Of Animals TT 91:46 Lineage: Unknown recording device > n generation tape > Teac Tape Deck AD-RW900 > Creative Sound Blaster Audigy > HD > SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6) Mike Holmes - guitar Tim Esau - bass Martin Orford - keyboards, vocals Paul Cook - drums Peter Nicholls - vocals This will be a mini-series of shows from some famous and more obscure bands from the 'new wave of progressive rock', also called 'new prog'. This came from the early 80's from bands that took as a model the progressive rock movement of the 1970's in the likes of Genesis, Jethro Tull, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, VDGG and many more. These bands had a complete rejection towards punk rock but were somehow influenced by the upcoming new wave movement with the advent of new technologies and visual look which seemed to come together very well with 'art rock' movement of the 70's. For many of them, symphonic rock was the reference (Genesis) with lots of keyboards and mellotrons, but others were more influenced by New Wave, others were more metal-oriented. You will hear some of them in this series: Marillion IQ Pendragon Pallas Twelfth Night Solstice Quasar and a few others Volume 2 from this mini-series on the main bands from New Prog movement. IQ started around the very early 80's as The Lens with the core of the band being Mike Holmes and Martin Orford. In mid-1982 the band changed name and brought in singer Peter Nicholls. Their early albums were very reminiscent of the Genesis/Yes music but yet very nice and powerful. Their peak was on the release of The Wake album in 1985 with the Marquee in London being their home where they played very often back then. This show is during The Wake tour. A mere three months later, frontman Nicholls would leave the band to rejoin 5 years later. Since then, tha band is still alive and kicking and releasing fine records. Excellent music and performance! ldb |