Saucer Sightings on YouTube!!

Here's "Here Come the Cyborgs" from Hamilton's own Simply Saucer. Taken from the reunion show Dec. 28, 2006 at The Casbah in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Now some classic Saucer for ya. "Bullet Proof Nothing". Awesome vid!!

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Art - Supernatural Fairy Tales 1967

Art: Supernatural Fairy Tales (1967)

My friend Steve found this one for me. What can I say? It's finishing up on the stereo now, and I tell ya...I really dug the shit out of this one. A great combo of pop whimsy, psychedelia and a little early prog.

Guy Stevens produced it. He also has produced Free, Traffic, The Clash and one of my favs - Mott the Hoople. This guy deserves some props baby!!! He's been dead for 25 years but still...what the fuck? Props to Guy!!!

Luther Grosvenor played guitar. He later joined Spooky Tooth and Mott the Hoople - after Guy Stevens had stopped producing them!

Mike Harrison played keys. He also joined Spooky Tooth and in reality became the head tooth.

Greg Ridley played bass. He also joined Spooky Tooth and then the massive Humble Pie.

Mike Kellie was the drummer. Guess who he joined? Yep...he also joined Spooky Tooth (obviously Art was a precursor to the Spooks), and later was a member of the fabulous The Only Ones led by Peter Perrett.

This is a band with a deep, underrated pedigree and are worth checking out if you like great psychedelic pop music. A real treat to hear!

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A Krautrock post - Can and a top 10 list

Can: Tago Mago (1971) ***** 5 FUCKING STARS
years without can = years with
less brilliance
less intensity
less freakishness
less - great fucking music!!

"paperhouse" - one of my fav songs...the feeling approaches...dimly lit nightclub...the band starts and the music flows through the room...disparate notes dance and weave amongst the revellers...damo is dancing maniacally...
"mushroom" - this has an air of eerieness...spookiness...damo spits out his words...because he has to...it is a part of him...feel the band getting into tune with each other...i am mushroom head...you are mushroom head...we are all mushroom head....
"oh yeah" - the end is near...the mushroom blows up...it is time to take stock...
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Guru Guru have become one of my fav krautrock bands. These guys were fucking ON baby!! Got me motivated to do a top 10 list

Top 10 Krautrock bands
[aside: i know it's an obvious list...im a slow starter to krautrock but am devouring and electromagnetizing my brain to the krautrock way!]

1. Can - my favs

2. Ash Ra Tempel - just got a hold of the private tapes and i'm hoping for some major brain cell ping pong

3. Faust - listening to faust always makes an improvement to my day

4. Amon Duul I - better watch out for the gurus

5. Guru Guru - moving up fast

6. Agitation Free - malesch and 2nd flow floatingly flotsam and jetsam spew like chatter...um...excellent! Check them out in Egypt 1972!! Awesome!! drugs are a good thing!


7. Embryo - the more i hear the more i hear and the more i love...steig aus is yet unheard and may move them up...look out agitation!

8. Neu! - excellent shit

9. Brainticket - one of my first krautrock listens and still a fav

10. Amon Duul II - yeh yeh yeh less experimental than I but it aint no britney fucking paris spears either or ron sexsmith!!

10. Cosmic Jokers - i side with mr. cope on these guys! fantastic!
[- tie for 10th
had to get the
motherfucking
jokers on there!]

outside the list
still on the
dissecting table
Popol Vuh - listened to the classics once and ready for another go round...very impressive so far
Dom - gotta hear edge of time one more time
Sergius Golowin - cool cover...freak! thats a good thing
German Oak - got it yesterday and the cover looks cool, dark, foreboding and...well, we shall see.

outside the list
just not there
for me...yet?
Kraftwerk - i like the first best
Cluster - what? its over already? what the hell just happened?
Harmonia - is clusters sister

special mention
Walter Wegmuller - love tarot but gotta have more than one to make the list
Tony Conrad - outside dream syndicate with faust is faustastic!!
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weird but interesting times
which seems to correspond
to the music i listen to...lately
the experimental, the avante-garde
unearthing delights
new sounds to pentrate the ear lobes
yet sometimes...
cranking it up
still does the trick!
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Krautrock links

Krautrock - tons of krautrock links and also band links

Cosmic Dreams at Play - tons of info on tons of bands under the umbrella of "German Progressive and Electronic Rock" from the 60s and 70s...ill be checking this one often!

Krautrockgroup - a database of krautrock bands and albums...looks good.
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Can - Guru Guru youtube videos - mindblowing!

Here's a couple of youtube videos I came across in my *research*. hahahaha...such is life.
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CAN - "I'm Too Liese" from 1971. awesomeness drugginess.

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Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru oxymoron from 1972 Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru Guru

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