OFF: High Tide

[Andrew Dawson]

At 18:52 30/07/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Marshall Wood schrieb:
>> Since I've enjoyed all the Simon House stuff that I've picked up so far,
I'm
>>  thinking about buying some of the High Tide CDs.  There is a single CD
that
>>  contains both _High Tide_ and _Sea Shanties_ - are these good?  Does
the CD
>>  omit any songs from the original albums (I hate that!).  Any other "must
>>  have" Simon House material - I've got all the Hawkwind and Spiral Realms
>>  CDs, plus _Yassasim_ and some of the stuff he did with Nik.  There is
>>  something called "Gulp" from '91, and one or two releases with the
Third Ear
>>  Band - are these any good?  I'm aware of the work House did with David
>>  Bowie, but I'm not much of a Bowie fan...
>>

Andreas replied

>The first two HT are absolutely essential and they are complete versions
on the
>CD. There are more HT albums out there but not all with SH. The better
ones are
>"Precious Cargo" (The "third" album from 1970, but in fact some good
demos) and
>"Interesting times" (a studio album from 1984 - I think - which is similar
to the
>Spiral Realms stuff, only with analogue synths and vocals; the CD version
from
>1990 features 2 extra tracks of SH´s never released first solo album
"House of
>dreams").
>Forget TEB´s "Macbeth" album, it´s just boring. But there are some excellent
>Magic Muscle albums: "Laughs & thrills" (Live & raw 1972 stuff, recorded
on HW´s
>Space ritual tour- MM were support act; feat. Adrian Shaw, but not SH), "The
>pipe, the roar & the grid" (studio demos from 1970 to 1973, again with AS
& with
>SH on 3 tracks), "Living weeds from ancient seeds" (a live jam in a studio
album
>from 1971, cassette only, with AS, no SH), "100 miles below" (Live album from
>1989, very recommended, feat. SH on all tracks as well AS & Twink of the Pink
>Fairies" and "Gulp!"(mega-recommended live in the studio album from 1991,
>recorded exactly 20 years after "Living weeds...", it´s an absolutely
freak-out
>stoned LP-or CD- featuring - hold your breath - SH, AS, Nick "Bevis Frond"
>Saloman, Steve Broughton of Edgar Broughton Band fame & original singer Rod
>Goodway).
>As we all know SH played with HW from 1974 to 1978, then left to join David
>Bowie´s band. There is the live double album "Stage" recorded in 1978, but I
>don´t like it that much; SH is very low in the mix.
>In 1981 SH is featured on one song -Talking drum- on Japan´s album "Tin drum"
>(Japan´s keyboarder Richard Barbieri is now with Porcupine Tree by the way).
>There must be more records, especially from the 1980´s, with SH as guest
>musician, for example on an Associates album.
>That´s all I know if my memory serves me right. Or is there anyone who can
add
>something to this list ?
>
>Andreas
>
>

SH also features on these albums & tapes

Denny Gerard - Sinister Morning - Deram/Nova (1969) with High Tide
Jelly Monsters - Two True Believers - Acid Tapes cassette only (1987)
Magic Muscle - The Pipe The Roar The Grid - 5 Hours Back (1988) with A.Shaw
Rustic Hinge - Replicas - Reckless (1988)
Third Ear Band - Experiences - Harvest (1976), comp with tracks from MacBeth
The Tryp - My Brain Collapsed - Acid Tapes cassette only (1986)

He has also played on most (if not all) of the Anubian Lights releases with
Nik Turner, Alan Powell and Del Dettmar.

Andy






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