Gong!! Flying Teapot, Angel's Egg, and You!

You guys have mentioned Blood Sweat & Tears for the first time - which presses a button so here goes: for those who don't know, their first album - Child Is The Father To The Man - is one of the great US albums of the 60s. Band founder and visionary Al Kooper was only around for this groundbreaking multi-genre debut album then left, after which began BS&T's slow crawl towards the cabaret act with all those members (and has nothing to do with this album). Child Is The Father brings together soul, rock, jazz, psychedelic rock, Brill Building, folk and more - but in a way that's beautiful and highly listenable. Most of the songs were by Kooper, but it also included soaring covers of Randy Newman, Tim Buckley, Goffin/King and Harry Nilsson songs. This album brought all these strands together and almost invented a new style of American music. And the cover artwork is delightful as well. Plus by the way as BS&T wafted towards the middle of the road, Al Kooper did a series of amazing albums during the 70s which are arguably the true follow-on of Kooper's BS&T vision. Please discuss Al Kooper on your show guys, but don't dwell on Blonde On Blonde, because that's a relatively minor chapter for this musical genius.

Great stuff as usual. 179 members of Blood, Sweat & Tears was 😂 On the album trilogies section, Depeche Mode's 'Berlin Triptych ' of Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward & Black Celebration were all recorded (one in part), & mixed at Hansa Studios by the band, Gareth Jones & Daniel Miller, and they consequently have a similar sonic vein (early organic use of samples, increasing use of reverb), running throughout them.

Face To Face, Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society............a Kinks triple whammy!

Neil Young- Freedom Tour gig 1989 at the Hammy O, Frank Sampedro came on for 'Crime in the City' if I recall correctly, if not that song he certainly played during the gig.

Alice Cooper - "Killer" >> "School's Out" >> "Billion Dollar Babies" ?

''Early is On Time, On Time is Late, Late, is totally inexcusable '' - Roy Keane.

Belle And Sebastian’s trilogy of Tigermilk (1996), If You’re Feeling Sinister (1996) and The Boy With The Arab Strap (1998).

I believe that decades before it became a popular topic Savoy Brown was made noteworthy for having had dozens of musos pass through.

I have found that albums more easily go in pairs... Funnily enough for me this die was cast back to the days of C-90 cassettes, where you'd have pairs of albums back-to-back (quite literally)... So it was always... Rubber Soul - Revolver Sgt Peppers - Magical Mystery Tour (LP version) White Album obviously Abbey Road - Let It Be. With Joni it was: Court & Spark - Hissing Hejira - Don Juans Song For A Seagull - Clouds Ladies Of The Canyon - Blue For The Roses - never seems to fit into this... Other memorable C-90 pairings for me were always... Close To The Edge - Fragile All Mod Cons - Setting Suns Something Else - Village Green Preservation Society After The Goldrush - Harvest A Night At The Opera - A Day At The Races Katy Lied - Royal Scam / Pretzel - Countdown Goodbye And Hello - Happy Sad Innervisions - Talking Book Dark Side - Wish You Were Here But - honest officer - I owned all those albums on CD and vinyl - it was just to listen to them in the car...

@markgadd3150

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Aja and Gaucho..?

@markgadd3150

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Dire Straits and Communique..?

Electric Prunes is another name like that

p.s. "The Fallen: Searching for the Missing Members of The Fall" - by Dave Simpson... a great read!

Great stuff chaps, I also have to agree with David re Dexys......

“The Iron Butterfly Effect”: The music world is deeply interconnected, such that one small occurrence can influence a much larger complex system.

I was at that Neil Young gig at the Hammersmith Odean. Pure talent, amazing repertoire and charisma helped him cary it off. 1989 or 1990 I think. The only other artists I have seen pull off a solo gig with such aplomb were Richard Thompson and Roy Harper.I

Jimi Hendrix Experience! Come on Lads. And they were a trio... whatever that means?! I reckon Mark should go and see Hamlet so David can ask him about it but then David has to go and see it for himself.

It was also said that Led Zeppelin got signed through the help of Dusty Springfield putting in a word to Atlantic Records recommending the talent of Jimmy Page.

@VonL

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That’s quite possibly true for I recall reading parts of the original contract that Atlantic offered Jimmy and it appears that the deal was signing Page seemingly as a solo artist. The contract excerpts may still exist on the internet. Then again I was long ago informed that Page was set to originally release thru Immediate and likely would have had the company not collapsed.

The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes, Black & White.

The first three Clash albums, except the second!!😂

Butterfly Bleu is THE Iron Butterfly track for me; it has the voice tube thingy. I have my own theory that the drummer 'Animal' in the 'Muppets' was partly based on the Iron Butterfly drummer as can be seen on the Butter Fly Bleu video on German TV [KZread; Beat Club].

King crimson.. discipline,beat,3of a perfect pair...Dylan also considered love and theft,modern times and together through life as the trilogy..and time out of mind as stand alone..

Barclay james Harvest split in two- band fission.

Laura Nyro: Eli And The Thirteenth Confession New York Tendaberry Christmas and the Beads Of Sweat. No argument!!!!

Brian Eno's first three perhaps, Roxy Music's first three at a stretch

The first 3 Santana albums are a great trilogy..

Fear Of Music - Remain In Light - Speaking In Tongues.