Curved Air - Propositions (1971)

[@carolwolf9614]

God, we loved this band. Back in the day. We were all in love with Sonja.

[@ronny-2112]

Love Curved Air. Sonja Kristina is a Prog Queen... Love that screams so powerful.

[@R2112-i9c]

Sonja Kristina,Annie Haslam i Maddie Prior!

[@chelseapoet3664]

As.a long time Floyd and Hawkind fan I find I am rather late to this party!

[@perverseosmosis9799]

I am having that same feeling. Only learned about this band today,

[@maraluciaduclosduclos7496]

Curved Air eh magnífica banda e sempre será inesquecível por haver grandes músicas. A cantora canta muito bem.

[@burkhardraum1956]

Sonja is tne best 😍😍😍🇩🇪🎄🎉

[@ozuidema]

Been a fan since the ‘70’s but never saw them live, sadly. Sen-sa-tional.

[@andrecustodio-1]

This is blowing my mind right now. I love it.

[@spartanx5806]

i hear ya!!

[@daveeddy2402]

Right?!?! I never heard this before

[@chrissyhammond9089]

🤯 damn, right?? Wow!

[@Greatricardo5244]

Now that's some great prog rock right there , curved air are up there with king crimson Yes Emerson lake & Palmer and pink Floyd .

[@admiralbenbow5083]

Bullsh-t

[@hardrockertoygraphy]

Never heard about this band before. But thanks to Beat Club, I found them and they are great. Love it.

[@mateogavela6143]

Listen backstreet luv and melinda more or less

[@feski1]

Everdance, Puppets, Hide and Seek...FI, just listen to their first two albums!

[@lestrum]

They came out with something new just a few years ago that was fantastic.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

HERE GERE! THANK YOU BEAT CLUB yet again.

[@anthonykimball7463]

Sonja kristina was, arguably, THE hottest female rock singer of the entire 1970s. A handful of others come close, but sonja was the most extraordinary of them all. Thanks be for videotape!

[@markkennedy4936]

What about suzi quatro

[@anthonykimball7463]

@@markkennedy4936 IMO quatro was nowhere NEAR kristina's level of hotness. I would put ann & nancy wilson (circa 1976-77) and debbie harry (circa 1979-80) ahead of quatro.

[@markkennedy4936]

@@anthonykimball7463 what about nana mousakka..with them big bins on

[@nathanstreilein758]

Annie Haslam

[@anthonykimball7463]

@@nathanstreilein758 Annie haslam, besides not getting nearly enough critical & commercial recognition in the USA for her amazing voice, was also definitely one of the most attractive female singers of the 70s. However, sonja had an erotic allure, an overwhelming sexual charisma, that haslam lacked.

[@templetonparceley8645]

Wow..... mind-blowing.....what a superb musicianship and talent are displayed here!!

[@paullee154]

Now that’s what I call 70’s rock, saw them great live

[@gavinreid2741]

Back on tour in 2022!

[@Krrrimmi]

BEAT CLUB opened the treasure chest on youtube. ✌👑

[@postmortemritual]

why all this bands sounds so fresh and innovative? jesus , maybe we have one or two things to learn from all this treasures. Amazing !!

[@mickrob1]

Saw this band at Newcastle Mayfair 1975 when I was 17, Totally blew my mind.

[@magnusshrugged]

She ROCKS!

[@bryansoutar5018]

Curved Air are my favourite band of the moment

[@photopicker]

Wow. That was seriously entertaining. I have no idea why it took this long to hear a track. I was around in the 70's and in music.

[@ronaldlongendyke3313]

I'm thinking Warner Bros wouldn't let her scream. No screaming at all on their studio albums. Must have been great to see live! Thanks for posting.

[@The_sound_Of_Thunder]

Never heard of them, seriously good, original and trippy

[@Tones-he3cj]

What a Band they were, amazing vocals.

[@edklingon]

Saw them yesterday, with Renaissance, here in Rio de Janeiro. Sonja still sing a lot!

[@danlove4270]

That was so good thanks for posting. ....Sonja Kristina...never heard of her until today....I like it all.

[@steven1822]

take a journey next and listen to ART BEARS and Van Der Graaf Generator. your life will be much happier. promise you.

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

I love a bit of screamy shouty vocals! Kinda punk!I don't know this track, but really like it! Used to love Backstreet Love - big hit here in 70s!

[@silvertube52]

Damn they were great. Saw them in late 70-71. Bought their album, but they just faded away. :( They should have been among the great prog rock bands recognized today!!

[@lestrum]

Actually released something new just a few years ago that is very good.

[@peterwilliamson3423]

7 concert dates in September From Leeds to Southampton

[@paulperkins1615]

They were a very different band after the brilliant but allegedly impossible to work with Francis Monkman (guitar, keyboards) left or was kicked out, whichever it really was, after they made Phantasmagoria.

[@brunovallesmunoz4757]

Look that Progressive headbanging in 71 Great!!

[@whiskeyclone1]

Wow! Out bloody standing, I’m defo on a prog rock and psychedelic tip at the moment.

[@userphlglvc]

this is my favorite song! very nice song! of curvedair I think now!

[@userphlglvc]

and a picture too progle? do you think" an age nothing CG ! this video so colorfully! I surprise! today this is end. see you again next day😊 thank you# I'm happy today! why😊

[@userphlglvc]

I say I like curved air I like Renaissance(exsucuse) and my favorite song propositions.second young mother and ithappen today! I feel live75 very nice and alive 90 too very nice album❤and all member have high tequnic in sonja vocal in monkman guitar .synthesizer in Darryl violin there was I think" great 🎉other member too quited today this end I run away! this is MoriKawa from Japan. you and i somekind goodthing happen every day😊 I believe God😊save us some day# thank you# over/. over

[@userphlglvc]

curved air is live band because live75 and alive 90 both special very nice album. I think so! in the world now! my favorite albums.I be proud my collection of curve albums! this isMoriKawa of Japan! see you again next time! thank you#

[@userphlglvc]

I usual remember Renaissance annie haslam a direction both band the same music nature delicate be different (when I listen curved air) I like live albums example alive 90.andRenaissance live in Japan 2001 both albums represent a work. thisis end! see you again next day#

[@michaelcollins8845]

I heard of curved air, but back in the day was into many others.....this is the first c.a.track ive heard all the way thru......hooked.....this 65 yr old will be learning lots more....shhhhh...ill be playing my tennis racket too in front of the bedroom mirror.....i said....shhhhh

[@jorgeb3709]

Ya no hay grupos así.💟

[@TRobertson-j5y]

I never heard of them 100 times better than the doors love the keyboard synthesis.

[@instaurator19]

Not many musicians can kill it on guitar *and* keyboard in the same performance like Francis does here :-D I love the way the band give him just enough time to do the switch overs each way

[@thomasmcnamara5929]

This rocked! I turned it up to eleven! 🤘

[@evagiagnorio5464]

Amazing voice!

[@evagiagnorio5464]

@Against Liars Sure!

[@sennstrato7281]

This is great! The bass player is kickn ass!

[@Dolores5000]

The live cam effects are fun too!!

[@karlgerber7652]

How important is this song to rock? I hear Frankenstein ('72), psychedelia, progressive rock, Highway Star ('72), the underpinings of metal, and punk.

[@marksoquet8626]

I hear a little from The Runaways

[@susansherlock6934]

I was only 8 in 1971, but I now have 2 of their albums... trying to add to them...

[@malthuswasright]

Saw them last week at the 100 Club in London. They've still got it.

[@attiliobastosguarnieri5416]

Para mim está é a marca registrada do Curved Air. The best.

[@carolwolf9614]

Thank you Beat-Club

[@robertmcdougall3166]

One of the bands I went to see in the early 70s and was blown away with the playing of Darryl Way on violin, bought his solo album shortly after. I think pre covid the band were still touring. A band of massive energy.

[@fernandoperdomomusic]

One of my TOP 5 Fave bands

[@igor18101]

Чудненько.молодцы.

[@neile2001]

Ian Eyre on bass kills this track. Such a severely under-rated bass player

[@sergioruor]

The bass seems to be very good, right? Isn't the drummer Stewart Copeland?

[@neile2001]

@@sergioruor No, it is their original drummer, the late Florian Pilkington-Miksa.

[@vincenthuggett4259]

R.i.p Ian Eyre, Florian Pilkington-Miksa and the great Francis Monkman.

[@paulperkins1615]

This is some seriously balls-to-the-wall progressive psychedelic hard rock. But Sonja and Darryl passing the time by tossing their hair at each other, waiting for Francis to finish the synth solo, foreshadows the end of the original line-up.

[@guyadams5504]

Yep, never heard of or listened to them till today...that keyboard/synth solo would have really worked on the violin...

[@kavimontanaro7976]

A lot of Terry Riley in that keyboard solo, appropriately!

[@beekay5914]

Saw this band open for Jethro Tull on Tull's Aqualung tour, 1971.

[@steven1822]

i was there with my date, Roxanne.

[@TheHermit72]

Explosive bass! awesome

[@davidproctor8630]

Saw them many decades ago at the Albert Hall Nottingham supporting Black Sabbath

[@jasmin_v.]

Long live hippie-music and the '70's !

[@lestrum]

Best musical decade for rock.

[@waynemoseley8590]

They jam and it's as tight as I've heard excellent musician ship and the vocals are so good LOVE curved air

[@jasmin_v.]

@@waynemoseley8590 indeed, very good jam and improvision. For me one of the best of Curved Air. Love this one !

[@andrewjohnstone963]

Hippy origins in the beat generation of the 1950s nothing to do with the 1970s the corporations had moved in by the 1970s and hijacked and manipulated the Hippy myth after the late 60s

[@feski1]

My favourite song from Air Conditioning and if it wasn’t for Young Mother, it would be my favourite Curved Air song.

[@blackzeppelin6028]

Lo que sería sin duda un santo grial para aquellos que amamos el rock: un compilatorio de música y vídeo de las actuaciones legendarias de quienes pasaron por aquí.

[@rubenricardojaime3818]

Comparto en un todo tu idea

[@mahjoubtannani9532]

Beautiful music good luck

[@djrobotcitizen]

[@CoolFreeHardBop]

What an awesome band! And Sonja is hot as hell with a great voice..enjoy!

[@coolcatsguitars]

she is awesome. OMG

[@MrEze0009]

Con este tipo de grupos ( eso sin nombrar a otros grupos del genero) el rock progressivo tiene niveles insospechados de genialidad.

[@thetruemusichead]

Some of the first true headbanging ever caught on video

[@chelseapoet3664]

Groovy.😎✌️

[@geoffwaiting989]

Still touring .Going to see them Sat .Drunk as a skunk in 1971 at Middlesbrough Town hall will doing the same 42 years on ! should be fun.

[@allhandsondeck7015]

Guitarist sounds a bit like Steve Hillage. Love it.

[@pauldaniels9624]

Thought I was the only one noticing

[@jcmfer1]

a lady doing hardcore vocals?!...in 1971?! ......Damn!!!

[@richardcampbell2261]

Never heard of Gracie Slick? Check out The Jefferson Airplane.

[@smythharris2635]

Maggie Bell; Stone the Crows.

[@mightyV444]

A bit like Janis Joplin :-)

[@silvertube52]

Really! One of the few other examples is Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, but your point is so true. It is a crime that Curved Air is not as well honored today as Camel, King Crimson, or Genesis.

[@ronniewall1481]

This is cut to shit. Most of song is missing

[@jonbilbao2207]

Just hypnotic

[@richardhowlett9424]

Sonja was my first pop star crush

[@olikane530]

Surprised how few know, or knew about Curved Air ...mind you i'm 60 now so i heard a lot of moozic over those decades

[@steven1822]

i am a lifer Curved Air fan. we fans enjoyed that they never became a huge band. it was much easier and cheaper getting front row tickets to there concerts almost fifty years ago. i saw them for $3 many times.

[@stenbjorklund461]

Yea, my sis bought this album and another one back in early 70s but I was the one wearing them down on our record player. No wonder I turn out a big prog geek. Still is lol.

[@StarfieldRailway]

This is so awesome.

[@fuzzcityrecords432]

Curved Air!!!!!

[@malekmo64]

This version also includes What Happens When You Blow Yourself Up an extra song they included as a bonus track on Air Conditioning when it was remastered recently in 2018!!!

[@creamfiend84]

2:50 Godamn! 🔥🔥🔥

[@BaronSaturday66]

Imagine going to a concert with Curved Air opening up for Black Sabbath...

[@Тындыр-Мындыр]

И Оззи говорит перед выходом -я не выйду на сцену -они играют лучше нас 👏😂🔥👍🤘💯🤘

[@Greatricardo5244]

I'd pay to see that 👍

[@Mute_Nostril_Agony]

The 70s were like that- often unlikely pairings of hard rock and prog. I remember seeing Dr Feelgood support Hawkwind for example. I think we were just more open to different varieties of music in ancient times times

[@BaconTomatoCheese]

DAMN😁👍🎸👍🎶☮️🥁

[@the9-2-5outlawgamer]

I heard Gentle Giant opened up for Black Sabbath in LA, and they were not well received originally that someone in the front row through a lit cherry bomb on the stage and it went off, and the band decided to wrap up their set and break down their equipment and leave the stage and Philip Shulman called the crowd the c word after leaving the stage.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

Ah, 1971! I was such a happy little hippie kid. 10 years old,a voracious reader trapped in a Catholic school outside Chicago run by an order of nuns ("vicious penguins," we called them, and they were, having been kicked out of Poland after the war for aiding & abetting the Nazis), my older brother in an "acid-rock" band, our dad--a seemingly straight, Republican-voting IBM worker drone--was actually very sympathetic, having been a Depression era kid who put himself through college by playing saxophone and stand-up bass in jazz bands in the 50s...the world was my fookin' oyster in 1971--anything was possible. And the music and the beautiful drugs I fell into. Atomic Rooster, Steppenwolf and black Afghani hash... I remember very clearly reading both Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book and the infamous drug war propaganda manifesto Go Ask Alice in quick succession and being inspired by the former and not being able to stop laughing while reading the latter... So yeah, Curved Air, which I always somehow associated with the Quicksilver Messenger Service song Fresh Air ("Have another hit...") and the other great San Francisco bands, Moby Grape and, especially, Jefferson Airplane. And then I started to get very heavily into British & European prog, which only seems a bit odd now in retrospect, as an almost old man. I mean, I was just a kid, but I'd be hanging out in bookstores, headshops, and, most frequently, those great, great record shops, buying stuff like Colloseum, Greenslade, Captain Beyond, Skin Alley and, closest to my heart, Frank Zappa and Gentle Giant. By the time I was 15, my record shelf was much longer than I was tall. I taught myself German so that I could understand what Kraan, Grobschnitt (and their genius sound engineer/drummer, Joachim Ehrig--"Eroc"), Guru Guru (with another genius drummer, Mani Neumeier), etc, etc, and later, Schwoißfuaß ("Stinkfoot") were on about. And not that my tastes haven't expanded & evolved--70s jazz-fusion was brilliant, for example, Stanley Clarke and Jean-Luc Ponty and the Dixie Dregs, etc, etc, and other brilliant stuff keeps happening, decade after decade, deeper and deeper undercover and ever more underground & obscure--but I still have, and still listen to, all those first albums I started collecting in 1971. (I have, sadly, lost track of my 45s from the 60s, when I was a very little kid, along with my 8-tracks, although I do still have the old 8-track recorder, somewhere around here...) My whole long-winded point is that, for me at least, 1971 (50 years ago!!) was a very pivotal year. Curved Air? Hell yes! Only worrisome thing is that the only people who seem to remember it tend to be a good deal older than I am, which only makes sense, since I was so young then, but I fear that once the young hippie kids like me are gone, who's going to remember any of it? (Edit: here's an old gem from those days I recently discovered. Two short sets from the Old Grey Whistle Test by Greenslade, very rare, very awesome still, especially "Melange" at 9:40) kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3K3gmSioLurd7M

[@franciscojuarez6280]

That lady is severely good-looking.

[@Byezbozhnik]

Scary to think what she may look like by now...

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

@@Byezbozhnik one thing you can be 100% certain of in life is you’re going to get old and wrinkly some day if you live a full life.

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

@@Byezbozhnik read the comment properly, I said if you live a full life. I was hoping that would stop anyone replying saying exactly what you just said lol. I see you’ve now removed your comment on seeing how foolish you looked.

[@michaelcruz7704]

stewart copeland of the police used to be the tour manager of this band ang later on sustituted for drums before he went on to form The Police.

[@333wheeler]

@@michaelcruz7704 Also married her as well !

[@luizroque4114]

Super Band,merecia destaque bem maior no cenário do rock

[@cabrinibruno]

Pois é, fera! Eles realmente não são muito conhecidos, uma pena!

[@alexanderyaroslavich2703]

Sonja Kristina is like a proto-Siouxsie

[@djrobotcitizen]

Yes totally!

[@neile2001]

@Sebastian much better in fact

[@fredfox3851]

European production values through the sixties and seventies were MILES ahead of ours in the USA. Their musicians were also miles ahead.

[@rhodaborrocks-dy3fb]

Banger

[@nullkommanix9660]

fantastisch, wie die sich den ganzen spiessbuergerkaefig vom Hals schreit, heute wie gestern

[@davidkirby5044]

Just imagine the groupies SONJA must have had! Woo, Woo! I'm one of them.

[@postmortemritual]

count me in ! haha, regards

[@Rykerdude100]

Hey! Back off! I saw her first! 😅

[@fabrikk60]

R.I.P. Francis Monkman

[@GhostRanger5060]

Oh, the spectacle of it all...!

[@mateogavela6143]

i will just say wow

[@JoséAntonio-l4b]

Ela e linda e sensual voz soberba

[@anthonyhudson3136]

you listen to this and the absolute dross thats churned out today and think where the fuck did it go wrong

[@SelectCircle]

Liberals can never keep it on course.

[@TheLRider]

Blame fuckin Simon Cowell..

[@halitmarmaris]

Thank you 🎵

[@matthewclear8547]

Im done 😍

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

very very well.................................................

[@richardthayer5907]

WHY NOT 20 MILLION VIEWS MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@johnshort5003]

Hate the way You Tube puts up a visual of the next video before the ongoing one is finished. Wonder which genius thought that was a good idea? Anyway, Curved Air were incredible.

[@plunkadelicdaydream]

So wonderful. Shades of Zep, reminiscent of "in the light" and live jams, generally speaking, Fairport Convention, perhaps some Mahavishnu, not at all derivative. Brill musicians so way ahead of their time.

[@ksjoyjespeace]

Sonja was definitely a huge influence on Ann Wilson of Heart !!! Whether she admits it or not...

[@MemphiStig]

you gotta be really heavy to curve the air, man

[@MrEmptySlot]

Haha I love headbanging contest between Sonya and Darryl.

[@potdog1000]

yes

[@h.p.dominocus]

I keep hearing ""Hold my cell phone".

[@nillehessy]

bloody awesome this ✌ 💊 🍸🍸 🚀 😎

[@theaylesburycyclist8756]

I dig this !!

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

Proggy AF!

[@harrynewiss4630]

In the immortal words of Terry Scott - 'Phwoaar...'

[@vincenthuggett4259]

Ok Sonja might be hot but Francis is on fire here.

[@dougthePogingguitarist]

great song