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[Billy Underdog]

Billy's wannabe girl friend here?

 

[Billy Underdog]

More Prudence:

[Billy Underdog]

More Norwegian 70's

Met the lead guitarist/flautist before the show when i saw them a couple of years ago, ended up talking to him for half an hour about music in general, guitars (ofcourse), their albums so on, and he brought my vinyl cover backstage so i got it signed by 5 out of 6 original members. Nice evening out

[Zzzptm]

That was some cool, fun stuff, Billy!

Now for some lads on the other side of the world... Argentina's Riff:

They have a NWOBHM sound because the guitarist, Pappo, had spent some time in England, heard those bands, and thought, "Hey! I gotta bring that stuff back home to Argentina!"

The band, Riff, got into trouble with the government for protesting stuff like military dictatorships, which isn't what military dictatorships want their citizens to do.

[Billy Underdog]

Yesterdays Norwegian 70's:

Saft. This band got together as the backing band for the first Norwegian staging of the musical Hair (wonder why), and found their common proggish interest there, but as many others they followed the trail into the connections between North/Western European Folk and American Folk, Country and Rock.

(don't really like Beatles covers..)

Banned in Norwegian radio and BBC because of that one word...

A love song centered around the smell of barnyards.

Them playing with revered folk musician Sigbjørn Osa caused a big uproar. "Mixing Rock with Culture? WYF?!!!"

[Billy Underdog]

Popol Vuh: probably the biggest of the lot, as they were basically a blueprint of Genesis. Which is why the vocalist got invited to audition for them after Gabriel left. But; as good as Genesis are, they're boring. And a boring copy of a boring band... 

I've seen all bands i've posted here live the last years (with more to come), exept these and Prudence. These have done some without me really caring, Prudence just don't wanna do it... (please come out an play for me...)

Anyway, their most atypical tune, the "hit". (Jahn Teigen doing flowers as a mic 12-13 yrs before Morresey on Top Of The Pops)

[Billy Underdog]

More Prudence:

Both good tunes, but the one starts at 2.05

They did a couple of tunes some years ago for a special occation. Notice the original bass player who had to quit before their fourth and last album because he got his fingers chopped off in a sawmill accident, still fully capable to do his shit with the fingers he've got left.
And Vocalist/Flautist Per Erik "Prikken" Wallum having died in 1990, they'brought in his son and daughter to do his respective oarts. It's cinda scary how similar the two looks and sound (son, vocalvize). Stian & Kine Wallum.

[Billy Underdog]

Todays 70's Norwegain is really 60's, as you can hear from the clear Procol Harum wannabe. After having a hit with this in '67 they split in '69 and got back together in '74 to do their first album and got a hit with it again. Was at one time voted Norways alltime top pop-song.

[Billy Underdog]

More Prudence:

[Zzzptm]

I love this! Mashup of "Easy (Like a Sunday Morning)" and "Rock and Roll All Night"

[Sabbabbath]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VEcAXzEERg

[Zzzptm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxRXI0xR6wo

[Billy Underdog]

Vårsøg (searching for springtime) was a poem written by Hans Hyldbakk in april '45, spring being a metaphor for the awaited liberation.
The song was written in the late 60's by renowned all-round keyboard musician Henning Sommerro, then in a progish pop-band named after the poem itself.

The melody is so beautiful itself i want to post a newer, stringbased version first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxaOP1ckjw

The original is a bit corny, esp. the rythm in the chorus, but just listen to the beautiful words... Edit: It's an isolated north-western dialect that migh be a bit difficult to understand. There's some words even i've got problems with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu9t5ii0yJk

[Zzzptm]

The original is a bit corny, esp. the rythm in the chorus, but just listen to the beautiful words... Edit: It's an isolated north-western dialect that migh be a bit difficult to understand. There's even some words i've got problems with.

Edit edit: It's in friggin' Norwegian, so I have no clue what he's saying.

[Zzzptm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVf7SG1-DGg

Love this track...