tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380084716739328494.post3895058835028116691..comments2024-03-28T21:05:03.743+02:00Comments on Plain and Fancy: The Koobas - Koobas (1969 uk, fuzzy mod beat with psych blend, BGO remaster)Marioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521078254326011558noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380084716739328494.post-44446549498840228282021-08-31T21:09:53.371+03:002021-08-31T21:09:53.371+03:00Definitely interested in hearing this. Thank you f...Definitely interested in hearing this. Thank you for sharing it here. A-Mfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02394610280544769306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380084716739328494.post-1608690880453590932015-07-12T09:50:00.573+03:002015-07-12T09:50:00.573+03:00.....Koobas...Up.........Koobas...Up....Marioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11521078254326011558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380084716739328494.post-91243738461921292072015-07-11T22:41:02.203+03:002015-07-11T22:41:02.203+03:00Any chance of a re-up of this one please Marios, t...Any chance of a re-up of this one please Marios, the links no longer work.Reohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999102060850104298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380084716739328494.post-28490229504086478162013-01-03T02:00:07.957+02:002013-01-03T02:00:07.957+02:00Thanks a bunch, Marios! very nice album. Cheers!Thanks a bunch, Marios! very nice album. Cheers!CrunchyFroghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00772615785353474098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380084716739328494.post-22027531745460063012013-01-01T22:16:07.049+02:002013-01-01T22:16:07.049+02:00Great album. A true 'marriage' of great, ...Great album. A true 'marriage' of great, ambitious pop songs the nascent at the time birth progressive rock. The band he can cleverly balanced proportions, youthful energy and fresh formal solutions in the moment creation LP. What a shame that the album is not released in the year in which it was recorded,perhaps then arouse as such resonance among the audience. In those time, few months of 'delay' on market meant death.<br /><br />After the first hearing of I got the impression that the album offers an unfashionable, boring climates. The compositions seemed przegadanych and neuter. Meanwhile, on closer examination turned out to be untrue.<br /><br />Plate refers to such pop-psychedelic masterpieces like 'The Who Sell Out' THE WHO. 'Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake' SMALL FACES. 'We Are Ever So Clean' BLOSSOM TOES. and 'With Their New Face On' SPENCER DAVIS GROP. Thus graceful songs neighboring, on plate, with a slightly more the serious inserts,dominant in most recordings. Therefore, in contrast to these titles, the only album Koobas is a big step towards a new progressive rock.<br /><br />Since the album was recorded in 1968, you can find here both the influence of psychedelic freakbeatu and reminiscences. There are a whole bunch of great rock music with distorted guitars and sometimes appearing Hammond organ and mellotron. <br /><br />The whole was leavened various musical tours and contrasts in nature and having a humorous interludes. But as for me, every song boasts a wonderful performance and original tunes. A true musical kaleidoscope. I see here the impact of the Beatles and Procol Harum and the Moody Blues relationship with groups such as July or Fox.<br /><br />But to not to be groundless I will cite a few moments I loved this underrated album. I put in the first place without a second thought dramatic 'Where Are The Friends?'. Preceded by a brief vaudeville pastiche of music, a song sung in the introduction to the accompaniment of classical guitar turns into a wonderful marching song arranged for voices and emphasized bass line and rhythm that gives snare drum.<br /><br />Then the dark 'Constantly Changing' with an interesting counterpoint in the form of background vocalizations on almost ecclesiastical sound of the Hammond. A special feature of this board are these intricate vocal arrangements.<br /><br />You can hear it even in a diversified 'Gold Leaf Tree', which was the basis for a soft ballad sung with the accompaniment of piano, and bass guitar to in the chorus for the moment escalate into monumental march. As an ornament introduced a short accompaniment transverse flute.<br /><br />As for me, almost a perfect album.<br /><br />Group had no luck. Decorated very impressive album cover, despite the fact that EMI released by Columbia students did not get the recognition. I think that a group of a few years earlier on concerts preceded the Beatles during their last tour in Britain. Incidentally Koobas also came from Liverpool. Unfortunately, nothing helped. The band disintegrated before the LP saw the light of day. It is worth mentioning that one of the main creators of the repertoire was bassist Keith Ellis, who just then appeared in a Van Der Graaf Generator and recorded with the band's debut album 'Aerosol Grey Machine'<br /><br />'Barricades' adorned with in 'brilliant' sound effects recording as one of the composers signed to Tony Stratton-Smith, later founder of Charisma Records label, which under its wings focused groups such as Rare Bird, Van Der Graaf Generator, The Nice and Genesis.<br /><br />A already so definitively at the end - on the cover of the original LP, you can find two catalog numbers SX 6271 and SCX 6271.<br />The first number suggests that the album had its own version of mono. I suspect, however, that this is a typical mistake company-print envelopes the plates. Yep same incorrect information appear on the cover of Procol Harum's debut and Human Beast. So the only existing stereo version is horribly rare and in a state of near perfection is a cosmos price even of up to $ 2,000.adamus67https://www.blogger.com/profile/07035959023698485029noreply@blogger.com