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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jan 19, 2017 21:54:06 GMT
Looks like it was a great night. But, perhaps it's really just like the song Kodachrome states, "....makes you think all the world's a sunny day". Maybe, two of them (names withheld to protect the innocent) were quite annoyed at Mr. Anderson, at the time.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jan 19, 2017 22:30:26 GMT
Mr. Anderson should have called this photo and hits album, "M.U. - The Last Supper". Certainly looks like it. I guess Abrahams wasn't invited because I.A. would have had to offer a royalty if he included an Abrahams penned tune.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 20, 2017 8:45:05 GMT
Looks like it was a great night. But, perhaps it's really just like the song Kodachrome states, "....makes you think all the world's a sunny day". Maybe, two of them (names withheld to protect the innocent) were quite annoyed at Mr. Anderson, at the time. "The last supper" photo was taken in Los Angeles on the 1st June 1975. It first appeared with original copies of the MU vinyl album here in the UK (released January 1976) although many sets have been separated over the years. Probably Mick didn't make it because he hates flying, but more likely because no tracks from This Was were on MU.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jan 20, 2017 14:59:36 GMT
Looks like it was a great night. But, perhaps it's really just like the song Kodachrome states, "....makes you think all the world's a sunny day". Maybe, two of them (names withheld to protect the innocent) were quite annoyed at Mr. Anderson, at the time. "The last supper" photo was taken in Los Angeles on the 1st June 1975. It first appeared with original copies of the MU vinyl album here in the UK (released January 1976) although many sets have been separated over the years. Probably Mick didn't make it because he hates flying, but more likely because no tracks from This Was were on MU.
Right, but maybe no This Was tracks were included because Mick wrote three or four of those songs and he would have had to been paid royalties. That was my thought. Might sound a bit daft. But, all the other songs of the era were penned by I.A. except for J.S. Bach and Jennie. AhHa!!! The new boy is onto something. Eh?
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 20, 2017 15:58:55 GMT
"The last supper" photo was taken in Los Angeles on the 1st June 1975. It first appeared with original copies of the MU vinyl album here in the UK (released January 1976) although many sets have been separated over the years. Probably Mick didn't make it because he hates flying, but more likely because no tracks from This Was were on MU.
Right, but maybe no This Was tracks were included because Mick wrote three or four of those songs and he would have had to been paid royalties. That was my thought. Might sound a bit daft. But, all the other songs of the era were penned by I.A. except for J.S. Bach and Jennie. AhHa!!! The new boy is onto something. Eh?
I guess we'll never know the exact reasons why Mick left the band but when you listen to subsequent recordings by Blodwyn Pig and then the Mick Abrahams' Band you can see why Mick's love of the blues did seem at odds with the songs that IA was composing. Mick and Ian have "mended fences" over the last 20 years or so and I suppose that to them it's all in the past. As to why there were no This Was tracks on MU may be because Chrysalis were pushing Ian's songs and didn't want anyone else's input to be represented.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jan 20, 2017 18:41:57 GMT
Right, but maybe no This Was tracks were included because Mick wrote three or four of those songs and he would have had to been paid royalties. That was my thought. Might sound a bit daft. But, all the other songs of the era were penned by I.A. except for J.S. Bach and Jennie. AhHa!!! The new boy is onto something. Eh?
I guess we'll never know the exact reasons why Mick left the band but when you listen to subsequent recordings by Blodwyn Pig and then the Mick Abrahams' Band you can see why Mick's love of the blues did seem at odds with the songs that IA was composing. Mick and Ian have "mended fences" over the last 20 years or so and I suppose that to them it's all in the past. As to why there were no This Was tracks on MU may be because Chrysalis were pushing Ian's songs and didn't want anyone else's input to be represented. That makes a lot of sense. I respect an artist for keeping his/her integrity with regards to their art as oppose to simply staying the course because there is a steady paycheck. Many of the artists I've respected over the years have committed career suicide and lost out on the possibility of making a lot of quids. In the end, their music was not considered "product" as much as it was simply storytelling, reporting and perfecting their sound and art form. It must take a lot of discipline and backbone to Stand Up to the likes of one Ian Anderson; a man who knew what he wanted and had the road map to get there (His own inexorable self).
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 21, 2017 9:36:16 GMT
I guess we'll never know the exact reasons why Mick left the band but when you listen to subsequent recordings by Blodwyn Pig and then the Mick Abrahams' Band you can see why Mick's love of the blues did seem at odds with the songs that IA was composing. Mick and Ian have "mended fences" over the last 20 years or so and I suppose that to them it's all in the past. As to why there were no This Was tracks on MU may be because Chrysalis were pushing Ian's songs and didn't want anyone else's input to be represented. That makes a lot of sense. I respect an artist for keeping his/her integrity with regards to their art as oppose to simply staying the course because there is a steady paycheck. Many of the artists I've respected over the years have committed career suicide and lost out on the possibility of making a lot of quids. In the end, their music was not considered "product" as much as it was simply storytelling, reporting and perfecting their sound and art form. It must take a lot of discipline and backbone to Stand Up to the likes of one Ian Anderson; a man who knew what he wanted and had the road map to get there (His own inexorable self). I've always found Mick Abrahams' relationship with Chrysalis Records a bit on the strange side. An insider once told me many moons ago that they held him in very high regard but to my knowledge, and I stand to be corrected, I don't think any of Mick's songs ever featured on any of the "in house" albums issued by Chrysalis back in the early seventies. Sure they were on the Chrysalis compilations available to the general public such as "El Pea" etc. but no one ever saw fit to really push his compositions within the industry.
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Post by Budding Stately Hero on Jan 23, 2017 17:29:37 GMT
That makes a lot of sense. I respect an artist for keeping his/her integrity with regards to their art as oppose to simply staying the course because there is a steady paycheck. Many of the artists I've respected over the years have committed career suicide and lost out on the possibility of making a lot of quids. In the end, their music was not considered "product" as much as it was simply storytelling, reporting and perfecting their sound and art form. It must take a lot of discipline and backbone to Stand Up to the likes of one Ian Anderson; a man who knew what he wanted and had the road map to get there (His own inexorable self). I've always found Mick Abrahams' relationship with Chrysalis Records a bit on the strange side. An insider once told me many moons ago that they held him in very high regard but to my knowledge, and I stand to be corrected, I don't think any of Mick's songs ever featured on any of the "in house" albums issued by Chrysalis back in the early seventies. Sure they were on the Chrysalis compilations available to the general public such as "El Pea" etc. but no one ever saw fit to really push his compositions within the industry. IMHO, Mick can play like nobody's business. Many of the most "respected-in-the-industry for their musicianship" artists were ones that either didn't get the breaks or they committed artistic suicide by leaving bands whose weather was on the change. I don't know this for sure. But, I doubt that it affected him in the way it affected people like Pete Best and Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez, who were cut short of the dream.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 24, 2017 8:59:09 GMT
I've always found Mick Abrahams' relationship with Chrysalis Records a bit on the strange side. An insider once told me many moons ago that they held him in very high regard but to my knowledge, and I stand to be corrected, I don't think any of Mick's songs ever featured on any of the "in house" albums issued by Chrysalis back in the early seventies. Sure they were on the Chrysalis compilations available to the general public such as "El Pea" etc. but no one ever saw fit to really push his compositions within the industry. IMHO, Mick can play like nobody's business. Many of the most "respected-in-the-industry for their musicianship" artists were ones that either didn't get the breaks or they committed artistic suicide by leaving bands whose weather was on the change. I don't know this for sure. But, I doubt that it affected him in the way it affected people like Pete Best and Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez, who were cut short of the dream. Mick will sometimes admit that he has in the past been his own worst enemy but all credit to him, up until his recent major illness, he just got on and played the music he loves.
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