THEE Greatest Group Ever...

[Teasing the Korean]

Edited December 29, 2009 by Teasing the Korean

[Jim Alfredson]

Never heard of them before. Cool stuff!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

OH

MY

GOD

[7/4]

Never heard of them before. Cool stuff!

Me too. How did I miss these guys?

[Teasing the Korean]

Whenever I come across stuff like this, I always wonder how I managed to get by all these years without it...

[rostasi]

Late 60's Belgians whose best album is still their first one methinks.

Basically, a couple of members of Sylvester's Team and a couple from

the Belgian Philharmonic. Lots of singles.

Tried to make a comeback album in the early 80's,

but it wasn't very good at all. Find this and enjoy:

[brownie]

They were pretty popular in their days over here...

This old Square never grooved to their music!

Edited December 29, 2009 by brownie

[king ubu]

Fun, thanks for the links!

[BruceH]

Now that's Prog-rock that I can get behind! Never heard of them before but they sure sound great. I'm often amazed at how many excellent bands from that time just fell through the cracks of history.

[rostasi]

There's truly an astounding number of good bands

from that era that fell through the cracks and some

that were more RIO in nature rose a bit above to get

some extra attention. Just in Belgium alone (since

we're talking about this now), you had Esperanto,

Univers Zéro, Bene Gesserit, and Aksak Maboul

who had pretty large followings, but there were a

few other better than decent bands that fell a bit out

of radar range. Other Belgian bands with various degrees

of similarity to the Wallace Collection's use of chamber

music instruments would be Julverne, Finnegans Wake,

and Louise Avenue. If you're looking for a more Canterbury

influence, try Cos or Pazop. Oh! Isopoda was

a very popular band with a big Genesis-like sound.

Anyway, these are just the Belgian bands,

and there's a huge number of near-obscurities from

around the world floating around out there ready to be (re)discovered.

[Dave James]

http://www.wallacecollection.net/

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I remember seeing them on TV.

DEFINITELY A SQUARE

MG

[carnivore]

watched with grim fascination. ou sont-ils maintenant?

[Brad]

Never heard of them but interesting stuff to be sure.

[Van Basten II]

Not bad indeed... thanks for my education.

For those interested found a site about them with links to listen to their music.

http://www.wallacecollection.net/?page_id=36#

Edited December 29, 2009 by Van Basten II

[JSngry]

...some

that were more RIO in nature...

por favor - que significa "RIO"?

[rostasi]

por favor - que significa "RIO"?

It was a progressive rock movement that began in the late 70's.

You can find more here.

[Matthew]

por favor - que significa "RIO"?

It was a progressive rock movement that began in the late 70's.

You can find more here.

Well, I've learned something new today! Thanks Rod.

[7/4]

the simple mention of cow gets me excited!