Mark Volman RIP

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19 hours ago, medjuck said:

I once drove from Toronto to Montreal to see Tim Hardin, maybe with this group.  He was great but on this record the backing musicians almost upstage him with their power.  I better listen to that Richie Havens record. 

The British Prog band Yes did a cover of  "No Opportunity Necessary..."in their early days, and neither the OP of it nor any of the site's 200,000 members who listened to it had any idea it was originally written and recorded by Richie Havens. When I pointed it out and posted RH's version, only one friend of mine on the site posted that he thought they were equally good. The other posts were, "Golly, that was before Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman!"

 

21 hours ago, JSngry said:

But those guys were just too damn "serious". 

Richie Havens had a disco period, you call that "serious"?j That album by Jeremy and the Satyrs with that joke of a vocalist, was that laughfest serious, too?

[JSngry]

Unintentionally silly is not the same as actually humorous.

[T.D.]

13 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Unintentionally silly is not the same as actually humorous.

True, that.

And the former is way, way more common. 😁

[JSngry]

I laugh at most all of it, but I know the difference and laugh accordingly!

[Steve Gray]

On 9/12/2025 at 2:02 AM, medjuck said:

I once drove from Toronto to Montreal to see Tim Hardin, maybe with this group.  He was great but on this record the backing musicians almost upstage him with their power.  I better listen to that Richie Havens record. 

 

It's a great record, you won't be disappointed

The song 'Sugarplums' is the same as 'Sugar Plum', written by John Court and recorded by Bill Evans on several occasions

I presume Bill picked up on it via Eddie Gómez although I have seen it credited to Bill and John Court