New album from Nucleus

[Roger Farbey]

A new double CD by Ian Carr's Nucleus of a 1976 live concert entitled "UK Tour '76" is out now on MLP

and very good it is too, perhaps the best live Nucleus album I've heard and of a very under-documented period in the band's history. MLP website is here:

http://www.mlplive.com/

[Guest the mommy]

hey roger-i am listening to this one now. i like it but am not sure if i love it.

compared to your avatar-i think this is a better set (obviously much longer) but at some point past "roots" i feel like the band became too much carr and smith/bertles and rhythm section. more of a typical fusion group.

i still love my favorite nucleus albums ("labyrinth" most of all) but i have been souring on some of their work lately.

i also recently got the "hemispheres" disc. i really like the second half but the first half doesn't do it for me. strangely enough i think i have the same issue with eary nucelus as i do with late nucleus-sort of boring repetive riffs.

but speaking of MLP-i really like the soft machine live 1975 or 1976 release from last year. so much better than the "floating world live" reissue which came out right after. even with etheridge in on guitar. he smokes it.

[Roger Farbey]

hey roger-i am listening to this one now. i like it but am not sure if i love it.

compared to your avatar-i think this is a better set (obviously much longer) but at some point past "roots" i feel like the band became too much carr and smith/bertles and rhythm section. more of a typical fusion group.

i still love my favorite nucleus albums ("labyrinth" most of all) but i have been souring on some of their work lately.

i also recently got the "hemispheres" disc. i really like the second half but the first half doesn't do it for me. strangely enough i think i have the same issue with eary nucelus as i do with late nucleus-sort of boring repetive riffs.

but speaking of MLP-i really like the soft machine live 1975 or 1976 release from last year. so much better than the "floating world live" reissue which came out right after. even with etheridge in on guitar. he smokes it.

Yeh I can understand your POV, my favourite Nucleus album is actually Solar Plexus but the new UK Tour '76 has a much more human feel to it than the one on my Avatar which I like but is a bit 'cold' compared to the new one. It's also good to hear more of Kenny Shaw who I have not previously heard enough of in the Nucleus studio albums.

[Guest the mommy]

actually after repeated listening, i like your avatar better than this new release! don't know why...

i thought it was interesting reading the liner notes, especially by geoff castle. castle mentions that the band as a whole had been influenced by the miles davis albums of the time. i had always thought that nucleus claimed to be forming their musical conception simultaneously to what was going on across the atlantic with no direct influence, but castle's comments make it seem like this wasn't the case.