Hatfield and The North ► Mumps [HQ Audio] The Rotters' Club, 1975

Dave Stewart - organ, electric piano, noise generator
Phil Miller - guitars
Pip Pyle - drums, percussion
Richard Sinclair - bass, vocals
Tim Hodgkinson - clarinet
Lindsay Cooper - oboe, bassoon
Jimmy Hastings - flute, saxophone
Mont Campbell - French horn
Barbara Gaskin - backing vocals
Amanda Parsons - backing vocals
Ann Rosenthal - backing vocals
Recorded and mixed on Saturn, Worthing Recording Studio, January and February, 1975
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[@Fabiopalmieri67]

Mumps (Dave Stewart) 00:00 a) Your Majesty Is Like A Cream Donut (Quiet) 01:59 b) Lumps 14:51 c) Prenut 18:50 d) Your Majesty Is Like A Cream Donut (Loud)

[@musicisyouronlyfriend]

Thank you :-)

[@odysseychl4925]

"Prenut" lmao

[@romeosyne]

Postnut can be a problem as well

[@zackzallie8735]

"Cream donut" "Prenut" This band is something else lol

[@090nj2]

*Richard Sinclair, such a Godfather of the Canterbury Scene*

[@mattdeluccia153]

Some of the most clever lyrics ever. “And if I tread upon the C” meaning the letter C, the ocean and also the song modulating to the musical key of C major is some wild triple entendre.

[@sd67b]

Dave Stewart is a genius. all his early groups sound amazing . . Egg is another favoruite.

[@jamiepastman5594]

yes he is, the greatest of the prog keyboardisits. So much better than Rick Wakeman who everybody knows. The greatest fuzz organ solos ever played.

[@TagmakersCoUk]

it's late 1975. I go into a record shop in central Johannesburg (South Africa) and thumb through the tray of "Latest Releases". A sole copy of Rotters Club. I thumb past it. Three months later I go back to the shop. That sole copy of Rotters Club now in the "Sale" bin at 25 cents (around 20p at the time). So I buy it. It's now 2019 - and I still have it. Best buy I ever made in a record shop.

[@jeffreyshaw4037]

Wot a bargain you lucky swine.🤩🤩🤩

[@jeffreyshaw4037]

What a great find

[@tomotoole7546]

the best buy i have made, and i'm sure ever will make is the first picchio dal pozzo album on vinyl for 0.99 i'm pretty sure it still has the price tag on it. the record may be slightly worn since i have owned it hehe...

[@javiermk1055]

Found it similarly In Spain, same year, I was 16

[@ericsguitar8029]

I think the music on this album may have saved my life back in the early 80’s

[@bassbymichele]

This is some of the best music ever created

[@pedropereira7391]

TRUE!!

[@gordonlandreth9550]

Why these folks didn't get more exposure in the " colonies " is a shame . So English sounding ! Just love ' em.

[@gaetanoapicella3903]

hai ragione michele

[@timothydillow3160]

No argument here.

[@timothydillow3160]

National Health first and second album and this one,. right up there on the creme-de-la-creme list of the greatest Progressive albums ever.

[@taffmanetothyme7]

Mumps holds the record for the most articulate and complex ending in the history of Rock imo. I'm sure that this was no mistake by Mr Stewart and his cohorts. Brilliant, pompous and comedic gold with musical integrity thrown in just for kicks and just because they could!! 😎👌

[@PEGGLORE]

Ending of Frownland is more complex.

[@user-rw9ju2zy5u]

I think this suite is the most sophisticated Canterbury music. I always give you special thanks for your uploading, from a Japanese who loves Canterbury scene.

[@LilHaseProductions]

Hey I've seen you on Egg videos

[@user-rw9ju2zy5u]

@@LilHaseProductions Thanx! Egg is one of the most imaginative band of British rock scene. The Civil Surface album is the masterpiece.

[@jeffreyshaw4037]

Britain's answer to Frank Zappa

[@jeffreyshaw4037]

Also I saw egg in concert in Watford at the Kingham hall for less than a pound. The Kingham hall is no more,it is a carpark. Go figure.

[@lihns]

Mumps is up there but Mont Campbell's music can get weird (look at Agrippa and Paracelsus for example).

[@marcos22216]

Simply the best Canterbury scene song

[@zacharydetrick7428]

exactly

[@tobygentry6289]

I purchased this record in 1975 and it's still my all time favorite.

[@jamiepastman5594]

me too

[@taffmanetothyme7]

Had it on order the day of release at my local record shop. Was ill at the time so my girlfriend at the time kindly went downtown and picked it up for me. Loved the first Hatfield album and thought they won't beat that......Rotters Club dispelled that after the first listen. 👌

[@bobgreen623]

Richard Sinclair. That playing, that tone. Love him/it.

[@mrsp3992]

@Keith Aldis Your uncle is one of the best musicians in rock history; his musicianship, his voice and his songs. What a pity he isn't playing with the current incarnation of Caravan.

[@stillben]

Love that guitar

[@blipblip88]

A lovely composition with complex chord progressions and time signature changes. The band was very talented.

[@notrombones5041]

1-of a-kind Masterpiece.

[@glenngage274]

Here in the states back in the 70's during the classic prog era, I could only find these albums in the import bin at the most laid back record stores in Arizona. The staff would play these albums under all sorts of "comforts" day or night. I remember buying the Gong trilogy this way and also found a German Import of a Caravan that featured 9ft underground and Love in your Eye. I loved Richard's playing and found his name on this album cover in the bin....so many classics from those days, yet it was so difficult to share, because just about everyone didn't get it in those days. So it's rather nice to see so many folks sharing and enjoying them now.....

[@bobgreen623]

Anything with Richard Sinclair on it is fine by me!

[@robyndaigneault5390]

"...The only thing that matters is to Share It" After al!

[@fredericfournier5662]

Glenn, Richard's bass sound is just perfect in this album.

[@jeffreyshaw4037]

You betchya. This is up there with Frank Zappa.

[@Wukoki]

Evolution Records in Phoenix/Tempe had them

[@RyanWStevensonmusic]

This is music on another level. Unbelievable!

[@martinlewis3359]

The best 'free-form progressive jazz' you'll ever hear - mixed with a healthy dose of humorous quirk !!

[@LilHaseProductions]

Very true. Apparently from what I heard, the guitarist (can't recall his name at the moment) could never remember how to play this song the way he had because it was largely an improvisational piece throughout.

[@cesarincamendozaloyola4407]

​Phil Miller

[@martynjacobs3994]

The first time I heard Rotters Club back in '75, my friend had lent me the album and I put in on while I was having Sunday roast at home that my mum had lovingly prepared and I just sat there and let it go cold as I just didn't want to miss anything of this superb album--I was just mesmerised by it and still am today. Superb musicianship by masters of their trade--Hatfield were, and still are the best. I saw them a few weeks before Pip Pyle left us and had the privilege of meeting Richard Sinclair and told him that his vocals had just taken me back 35 years as they were just as perfect as they were then. The best album and band in my life!!!

[@joeyburgio6569]

my god that ending!!!!! i’m 20 and this vein of music has forever changed me & my tastes. and of course, dave stewart is always the one to blame😂 he has written the soundtrack to my life!

[@pietrovilla9609]

Masterpiece of the international music

[@timothydillow3160]

Very thankful I had older friends that got me into good music when I was a teenager, this was an album I saw and thought how odd back in the day, then listening to National Health as I was older, discovered how great this album really was. Dave Stewart can write some memorable end beautiful melodies.

[@ericdupont1326]

43 years of real pleasure with this record I bought in septembre 1975 I have listenned again and again . Pip Pyle and Phil Miller , we do not forget you

[@edwardjohn8988]

Me too

[@Snardbafulator]

The single greatest 20-minute suite in all of British progrock. Dave Stewart's masterpiece !

[@TheSimonScowl]

You might just be right there, fella!

[@dalexanderberry4317]

Snardbafulator but Moon in June

[@Snardbafulator]

Hey, I absolutely adore Robert Wyatt. And I love Moon in June. But Moon in June is an eccentric pop tune with some tacked-on fusiony jams. Mumps, OTOH, is a through-composed prog fusion suite. There's just no comparison ;) I think you can make a comparison with Soft Machine's Teeth (maybe Soft Machine's magnum opus), especially the introductions; in many ways that piece served as Stewart's template. But Mumps goes well beyond even that ...

[@fusionhar]

Couldn't put it more precisely my friend!

[@fusionhar]

Forgotten to add...Egg, Hatfields, National health have immense 'hits' on YT.....Nearly as many as GaGa

[@JohnFiocchi]

I bought both albums in the 70's. I enjoyed their first album a bit more...but Rotters Club is beautiful and important to my life. Hatfield and the North were a huge influence on my writing. I also had an album titled Afters and Live At The Rainbow which featured "Halfway Between Heaven and Earth" and of course Virgin compilation album Various Artists. I still find the music of Hatfield and the North a timeless experience. It brings back beautiful memories of my youth . It helps me to recall the good times when life was more interesting. It brings back the sadness of people throughout my life who died tragically. The few people I knew who listened to Hatfield and the North as I did. They are all deceased ...but I remember their enthusiasm about the band and their music. Hatfield and the North was not commercially viable music, but it did affect some of my friends here in the U.S. Back in the 70s there was no internet...so in fact it was like discovering something unique and beautiful that most people were unaware of. ...unlike today where you use a cell phone or computer to type in a google search of an unknown band from your past. As a result you get a page full of history, reviews, pics..etc...whereas in the 70s people who liked Hatfield and the North came together to appreciate their music. You would usually meet fans of their music at concerts. Possibly waiting in line with your ticket to see Bruford. Now its too easy not unlike a cow flop spread out for all to see..it took a huge percentage of the fun or mystery out of it...

[@droningmachine583]

R.I.P Phil Miller D: D: D: one of the greatest guitar players ever to walk this Earth

[@WendyBandurskiMiller]

i know.

[@jamiepastman5594]

Yes, what a great great great musician he was. Spent my whole life listening to him, happily. RIP Phil (and Pip)

[@Hazardous541]

Dave Stewart is insane here!

[@croiners4166]

In a good way!

[@SamSung-xk2hk]

loving it... ever since 1975..

[@osojae3065]

Where has this song been all my life??!!

[@stevedotwood]

same here

[@JoyDivision88]

So glad I got to see these guys in '74-'75 on a double header with Kevin Coyne. Bought The Rotters Club as soon as I saw it in the Record Store. Wife at the time thought it was awful. It ended up a case of them or her. Don't know what happened to her, hope she is ok.

[@pseudopo]

13:37 to 14:49 what a fabulous passage, really deserves more time this section.

[@mauriziofernetti1157]

18.50 Above all the epic and glorious final! All the piece is an ispired masterpiece of stunning creative fantasy! Harmonies, rhythmes, melodies, sophisticated arrangements, talented musicians and originality. It still sounds modern and attractive. Nothing is missing...thank you, thank you very much guys! You really gave us something...between heaven and heart

[@Logan-Wolverine]

La vetta più alta del Canterbury Scene,in coabitazione con Of Queues and cures dei National Health. Come loro nessuno mai

[@MegaCirse]

I appreciate at the end of the day this affectionate music that surrounds me and embraces with its sweet and fragrant notes of another era, another world

[@oriotentacles]

MASTERPIECE !!!

[@Moon_Moon91]

Came here thanks to Jonathan Coe’s Rotters Club... and I’m not disappointed!

[@steveblease]

If you wanted to, you could listen to new music every day for the rest of you life and not have to hear one current durge ever.

[@edwardjohn8988]

Dave Stewart! Listen up, "keyboard wizards".

[@ze1054]

The 6 dislikes may well have had their ears lopped off by the Rotters Club....

[@jeffreyshaw4037]

They should have their ears washed out with lyesoap and scrubbed with wire wool.

[@supergnorf]

Eternal Music.. R.I.P Phil Miller

[@Zockopa]

For a long time this was pure "insider" stuff. Back in the late seventies and eighties before cd reissues were released. This is music for listeners,for music lovers. I mean you cant fully appreciate this kind of music with in-ears in the subway,,, But im happy that many young ppl discover and love it. I guess good music will always find its audience. Anyway imho this is best heard on a good setup,with friends/lovers and a little bit mary jane to make the ears that certain notch more sensibel .....

[@eren7350]

Jojo rabbithole takes you places (not me tho haha)

[@keef1975]

世界一好きな曲です

[@richardrobbins7949]

I bought this album and Gentle Giants The power and the glory in the summer of 2008 - I had heard both bands on college radio in atlanta in the 70s and 80s WREK 91.1 awesome station back in the day - love the jazz influence on this stuff totally different from Genesis or Yes - Dave Stewart is in a class unto himself and the other musicians are total musical monsters - I think Dave Stewart went onto play with Bill Bruford - Phil Millers guitar is out of this world - love the woodwinds Jimmy Hastings - I think Richard Sinclair played with camel? - Pip Pyle not to be over looked! awesome record - so glad I finally bought this 10 stars - lol!!! and the way this track ends pure prog!

[@craigthomable]

Note the Yes crossover coming with Stewart indeed making albums with Bruford. Make sure you check out National Health's Of Queues & Cures if you haven't come across it. Tremendous record.

[@Amsterdamagesoup]

Hatfield and the Giants are my favourite english bands of the 70s.

[@jamiepastman5594]

@@Amsterdamagesoup Wow Lisa, me too! Have been my whole adult life. Dave Stewart and Kerry Minnear my 2 biggest heroes (I'm a pro keyboard player). Your taste in music is amazing!

[@lawerenceswain4894]

i still have my 2 hatfield LP's the 73 H & the North and The Rotters club 75 original copies brought at the Virgin store in manchester England now I live in America and have played the LP's for friends sometimes they get it sometimes not but all of them find something to like in these LP's . the other stubbs effect

[@ianmuir870]

Bought my copy of H&TN, Gong, Soft Machine's Bundles (&more) from there too. :-)

[@seriousoldman8997]

One of my Desert Island Discs,if not the only one.

[@LilHaseProductions]

12:45 This solo is god tier (the Drums and Keyboards too)

[@peterhudd5397]

Superb!

[@liselottecan]

Mon premier concert à Brest.fr. En 1974 ? 1975 ? Depuis je n'ai rien lâché !

[@samwiseterminator]

It's very good. Loving the drums in particular.

[@zacharydetrick7428]

man, Suha...i love his band with my whole heart, and this is music that the whole world needs to hear. i hope life is treating you well, i wish you could come to the US or I could come to turkey and we could have coffee together... :)

[@philoupaulo]

When a band touch at the perfection...

[@enzogalli5506]

Masterpiece. Sublime Canterbury music!!! HATN...phenomenal band!!! Enzo57Italy

[@andywjackson1135]

🎶🤸🍀 fabulous band 🎸☯️

[@andywjackson1135]

Thanking you 🤸🎶🦋☯️☯️🏄

[@andywjackson1135]

Thanks 🎶

[@kingcruiser7049]

I was 15 and was seriously involved in this suite. Even today, sometimes back to Canterbury w/ brain waves

[@johnhawkins2777]

The best band ever!!

[@williamgross7918]

you are so right

[@1359401]

Damm great band and i love them big time but gentle giant is/was the greatest ever.

[@glenross6952]

AND THIS BAND WAS IN THE 70s.......AWESOME STUFF, THE ARRANGEMENTS ARE OUT OF THE SECTOR......

[@jeffreyshaw4037]

This band is the best jazz rock ensemble that has ever existed

[@jamescross1903]

Then you also need to check out National Health and Gilgamesh. Tis wonderful stuff for sure, and yes we did indeed get something right back in them days...

[@markclipsham9199]

There is so much great music out there why don't the play it on the radio? Instead I get to hear Journey, Boston and Who Cares until I can get to the radio to turn it off.

[@otuzbesbin]

Güzel album

[@colinglass1342]

🌍📀Found this gem of a record in a new and second hand music shop called sellenbys in South Harrow middleex England where I use to live eons ago. any one ever heard of sellenbys .Fantastica music finds 🙆🎸🎹🥁🎙🎤👨‍🦰💽Hatfeild and the North along with the ROTTERS CLUB THIS SURLY MUST BE THE BEST album DONT CARE WHAT YOU SAY THIS is the ALBUM OF TNE DECADE ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF SEVENTIES ABSOLUTE CLASSIC FAVOURITE ALBUM THIS ALBUM RANKS IN MY TOP 1000 BEST EVER ALBUMS FROM 1970 TO 2020 WELCOME TO MY ALBUM COLLECTION NOT SURE WHERE TO PLACE THIS ALBUM MAYBE somewhere in the top 100 IN MY TOP 1OO0 greatest ALBUMA EVER played on the radio

[@bekindtoeverykind-tryvegan]

This morning, I thought I would pop on over to KZbin Music's current popular songs to see what most people are listening to. It was madness 😬 Thank god for Mumps! Endlessly enjoyable 💗

[@zackzallie8735]

Towards the end, it started to sound like Pharoah's Dance by Miles Davis.

[@apsaras21st]

In winter, regardless of the front jacket, I listen to this album side B and this part occupies most of it. It stimulates something inside of me intellectually. Cool...yeah

[@SasimeRecords]

Great tune, great musicians absolutely masterpiece!!!

[@tomato3435]

I'm waiting for the occasion when KZbin algorithms recommend this to the world.

[@domenicodesimone7313]

wonderful..... 6:40 superb Dave Stewart !

[@Snardbafulator]

Absolutely incredible, extremely well-developed and gorgeously fuzzed solo. I'm sure it's the thing Bill Bruford heard and said hey, I want to play with this guy ;)

[@domenicodesimone7313]

Hatfield is the greatest band of Canterbury scene (in my mind)....are they still playing some show?

[@Snardbafulator]

I agree, Domenico ;) Unfortunately not. Dave broke up the band in '75 so he could form National Health with his friends Mont Campbell (of Egg) and Alan Gowen (of Gilgamesh). Bill Bruford was in their first incarnation. Then he left National Health to play on Bruford's first two albums, with Allan Holdsworth and Jeff Berlin. An incredible culmination of 70s prog fusion. After that point, Dave stopped doing progressive music altogether and recorded "pop music for adults" with Barbara Gaskin of the Northettes. I've tried very hard to get into it (I'm a Kate Bush fan) but the music's just not there for me I find it clever but cold. They had an unexpected big hit with a remake of Lesley Gore's It's My Party (and I'll Cry if I Want to). Hatfield reunited in the early 90s for some tours, with Sophia Domenech (Pip Pyle's girlfriend at the time) on keyboards. There are some KZbins of those shows. It's just not the same. Sophia is an adequate keyboardist, but she has a cocktail jazz sensibility :( A decade later, they reunited again with Alex Maguire on keys, who's very aggressive with a Mike Ratledge go-for-broke solo attack. Better than Sophia, but still not Dave :( I saw a show with them at the Bethlehem PA NEARfest in '05. Then a couple months later, in Europe, Pip Pyle died :(:(:(

[@ОСТРОВгде-томеждуЗемлейиНебом]

diamond moment -solo !!!6.40-7.35

[@jeanwilliquet4035]

Wow. How can I have ignored this so long? Weh mir!

[@ThePlungerboy]

Never heard this band before. Some of there stuff reminds me of Gentle Giant

[@mihohobaba]

This is just thirteen years after "Love Me Do"

[@musicisyouronlyfriend]

It's a shame that the following 42 years we didn't even progress half of this period.

[@czgibson3086]

It was a golden age of music.

[@bumpdunlop]

This is great music, no doubt. The comparison between Love Me Do and the short time period for the progress of music is off base. There is music far more advanced and amazing than Hatfield & the North that was created 20 years (or more) prior to the Beatles.

[@olivier3847]

zappa was making music like this even before '75

[@olivier3847]

@@bumpdunlop i'm curious to know which music you are referring to...music in pop culture or modern classical or jazz? can you give some examples?

[@MrMjp58]

This was for me, a sort of ultimate (1975) of the sort of rock that Brits could create - in the well meant, earnest style that I understood. Ironically, it was produced immediately prior to the whole scene imploding, with the synthetically devised advent of the dreaded punk/new wave disaster of late ‘76. People have told me that the new styles were a ‘breath of fresh air’ and ‘full of energy’ etc. I listen, but don’t respond to such specious stuff…

[@musicisyouronlyfriend]

@MrMjp58 imho zenith of British progressive music was produced by these guys, but just a few year later: First two National Health albums.

[@stillben]

Agreed..I think punk was very destructive not just musically but with all the wannabees giving up and punking out in the 70s and 80s.

[@UBIK1969]

Probably the best Prog Album ever.

[@williamgross7918]

no, there 1st album is here best buy it now !!! there only a few tracks on u tube

[@zacharydetrick7428]

i agree!

[@matreynolds1]

magnificent, check out Tenemos Roads by National Health which is just as good.

[@nurulhanafi4897]

Mathew Reynolds you could also try Volare, the uncertainty principle

[@calogan4219]

AGREED... Sonic transportation of an astral/cerebral/aesthetic ilk!

[@ericktappan2553]

The title is from the book " The Worm Ouroboros"

[@matreynolds1]

@@ericktappan2553 I tried to read it and found it to be totally unreadable. There was enough mystery to support the music though.

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

VERY VERY GOOD.................................................

[@bouckeguy5606]

Très sympa cette musique très cool comme caravan et Richard sinclaire

[@raymondbonington9355]

Think this made the top 50 in the chart albums back in 1975 .

[@hinder90]

The bridge of Phish's "Reba" is a complete lift from this song.

[@Snardbafulator]

I'm going to have to check that out, now ... What album is it on?

[@zoranmatijevic9984]

Један од мојих 5 омиљених бендова,обожавам ту екипу.Сва та Кентерберијска сцена је за сладокусце.

[@davidbriggs9675]

I've been searching for 1970s Prog like this for a while. I remember spending hours brousing in record shops at the time and seeing this LP. Wish I'd bought it along with the other Hatfield album with a cloudy overcast sky and other albums like Egg, Instead I bought Back Door and Soft Machine.

[@DavidHSykes]

If you like this, check out National Health, Bruford, Brand X, Paraphernalia, Nucleus, Neil Ardley, in roughly that order.

[@edwardjohn8988]

Perfect.

[@Yacobsmusic]

So wonderful!!!

[@gergelykadar4280]

For me, Hatfield and the North is on the same level as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Very unique, brilliant and timeless.

[@bumpdunlop]

Beatles Floyd Zep and Sabbath were all commercial music ventures aimed at a musically unsophisticated age group of say, 15 year olds to say 30 year olds. As most of us older music listeners learn over time, we still love the music of our youth, but we realize that it may not the greatest music on the planet.

[@bumpdunlop]

I was in 9th grade when Zep came out. I remember buying ELP's first album early in 10th grade (1970). I didn't like it, took it back, told them that it skipped and got a copy of Grand Funks first album. Loved it. Within a year my tastes had changed to southern, rock ala Allman Bros, prog rock (especially ELP) , soon to be supplanted by jazz fusion, and on and on. I went through a very long period of blues, then on to early 60's jazz. Today, I can listen to and enjoy this. Larry Coryell 11th House, George Dukes albums right after his stint with Zappa are great and if your ears are open to H & N you may enjoy them too. European Prog is amazing and almost limitless. Two of my favorites are After - Endless Lunatic and After - Hideout. If you youtube those it will take you to some new musical worlds for sure.

[@bumpdunlop]

I only listen to After occasionally, once every few years, and I'm actually mailing both my cd's today to a friend who likes European prog. That is why they were on my mind, definitely not earth shattering (nor is Hatfield). Anekdoten and Anglegard are two more of hundreds of good prog groups. A person could dig really deep into that genre. I've never heard the term Canterbury used before. What is that? I like a lot of jazz and will listen to about anything to see if I like it. I like Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy who may be similar to Coleman. Coleman played one of his very last concerts in my home town in 2015. On that day I was at the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago with (the same) friend, who is a great Coleman fan. We didn't know about the show until the day after.

[@bumpdunlop]

I was listening to Soft Machine and Caravan when they first came out. I'll give Hatfield and the North another listen or two. All improvised music is not Jazz, and none of these are Jazz to me, a fusion of Prog Rock and Jazz. As I said, very interesting and good music. Of course not on the same level or same Genre, just wondering if you ever listen to Starcastle? I grew up with those guys in the late 60's and 70's and played with one of their guitarists 2009 through 2015. Not anything like Starcastle though, just plain old Midwestern roadhouse rock. I'm checking the Cantebury stuff. I like that it will take your mind where it will, trannsport you to a different place for a while.

[@bumpdunlop]

I was asking about Starcastle. Have you ever listened to them? I grew up with those guys. They were really good, but with my inquiry I am not trying to place them on equal footing with ELP, Yes, etc. I like Hatfield better than Soft Machine at the moment. So much great music, so little time.

[@raulrios5986]

Sehr erfreulich !!!

[@srslydoatm9251]

I wish Your Majesty is Like A Cream Donut loud and soft were separate songs I could listen to...

[@derivandodrv3933]

love it...

[@timpratt5305]

a lot of the Canterbury bands didn't really get the accolades they deserved but certainly Caravan lead the way. Dave Stewart was good in Bill Bruford's Earthworks too.

[@danpinzone8226]

Soft machine,egg, gong all for some reason were passed over to bad great stuff

[@jaimealvarez3015]

Excelente album

[@FiddlerNick]

That guitar note at 2:41 must be the longest sustain ever!

[@musicisyouronlyfriend]

Try "Every Step of the Way" by Santana from "Lotus" version. I hink i also shared this one. Carlos Santana is/was the sustain master. R.I.P. Phil.

[@czgibson3086]

Try Gary Moore's Parisienne Walkways from 'Blues Alive', or if you want serious, glacial levels of sustain, check out Sunn O.

[@Amsterdamagesoup]

Phil Miller and I rest my case.

[@PEGGLORE]

Rush - Limelight. Final note of the guitar solo.

[@jcc2709]

Que auténtica belleza sonora. Descansa en paz amigo Miller.

[@vladimirperkovic3126]

My desert island treat. I wish i could get myself a new lp

[@phra1lphilmurray215]

R i P - Masters at work - Headphones & coffee or something headier.

[@Riccardo-mj9kj]

Thanks for posting, i've been searching for the complete song for a while. I hope they don't take it down again.

[@Snardbafulator]

They just took down somebody's full The Rotters' Club :( When will these asshole middlemen who think they're acting on behalf of the artists (when all they're interested in is a cut of the revenue) realize that if they truly cared about the legacy of this music, the very best thing they could do is leave up full versions on KZbin for new people to discover ... Do they really think that somebody who falls in love with this is going to want to content themselves with playing it on KZbin -- with all that horrendous compression, not to mention through earbuds on underpowered handhelds? No. They're going to want to play it on their go-to music equipment. And that means they're going to want to buy the best copy of the music they can. KZbin has replaced broadcast radio as the way people learn about new music. And the technology makes DRM impossible. So stop punishing people whose only interest is turning others on to great music, already.

[@Riccardo-mj9kj]

Snardbafulator Agreed, but I also understand the fact that they just want to protect their intellectual propriety. I discovered a lot of music through youtube, but I don't personally understand, why they are so aggressive, with copyright strikes, with a band like Hatfield & The North, which is not so known by the mainstream audience (in fact, I think that ,with the Beatles, this discussion has more sense). Small and not so known Prog bands don't possess a VEVO channel, so i'm hoping that in the future something will change. Soon or later, i'm going to buy the album, anyway, since it's one of my favorites

[@Snardbafulator]

"Intellectual property" sounds like a perfectly sound concept in theory. But copyright laws were written for an entirely different paradigm, when copies were degenerative. Do you remember what this used to be like during the Napster days before the DMCA? High-profile prosecutions of teenagers -- sometimes the parents of teenagers who owned the computer -- for "illegally" downloading music. That didn't even seem fair to the prosecutors (part of the reason they stopped it). But it's cogent within the concept of "intellectual property rights." Now the DMCA puts the onus on content sharing services like KZbin to police their sites on behalf of the copyright owners. And this leads to endless absurdities. Like perpetual new crops of people (or at least new accounts) putting up the same content over and over again. Or smart uploaders who will pitch or speed shift the content to make it past the KZbin search algorithm. Technology makes policing DRM for music a perpetual (and absurd) rearguard action. Ironically enough, copyright strikes are *less* severe for classic bands like the Beatles, who have for all practical (if not legal) purposes entered the public domain. The real heavy hands at YT copyright strikes are the tiny boutique labels who specialize in obscure music. A special place in Hell awaits Steve Feigenbaum of Cuneiform Records. Sure, you can understand where they're coming from. This music is vastly unpopular and will never become popular, so why make it that much more difficult for artists who are struggling to make a living at it? Sounds all noble and pro Art For Art's Sake, doesn't it ... But examine it a little more closely. It's really about *control,* and it obscures a deep layer of cynicism. These micro label houses are counting on the idea that there will *never* be a broader audience for their music, so they want to be the tastemakers and lead a tiny group of hipster cognoscenti ear-unheard to their proprietary weirdness Mecca. Well it *has to be good,* it's being put out by Weirdo Records ! ;) Classic Econ 101 -- increase the value through scarcity -- doesn't work for a commodity that can be effortlessly re-spawned like digital copies. It's going to take more than the DMCA before the middlemen who aspire to control music fully adjust to this new digital reality.

[@Riccardo-mj9kj]

Snardbafulator Indeed, I think that you perfectly summed up the modern situation between niche marketing and internet. With my "hoping for changes", in my previous response, I intended a change in copyright laws, that don't conciliate well with modern realities. Anyway, I think that you're right.

[@Snardbafulator]

You know, we shouldn't be sanguine about the effect this sea change has had on artists just trying to get by on their music. Gone are the days when you could sign onto even a small label and expect to live on advances while you put your album together. And you nailed it about niche marketing -- also gone are the days when bands who made generally obscure music at least had a fighting chance to be played on commercial radio or chart a single -- even if totally unrepresentative of the rest of their stuff. Hell, they used to play Share It regularly on WNEW FM -- that's where I first heard it. In the last decade or so, I think Tool is the most "progressive" band to rate a sustained chart success for an album (the Heavy Metal charts, but still). There's no unified musical culture anymore, where Hatfield and Gentle Giant would be played on the same afternoon show with Zeppelin and Deep Purple. If you're off the beaten path, you can just forget about it. Should fans blame ourselves for this, because we listen to music on KZbin? Hell, I certainly don't. I just spent $25 through Wayside Music to buy a vinyl of Magma's '15 release, Slag Tanz (the band's label, Seventh Records, has an insecure Internet connection). I didn't do it for the vinyl -- I haven't owned a turntable in decades. I did it for the download card so I could get a .wav copy I can play without breaks between tunes (since it's a continuous suite of music). Fans are more than willing to do stuff like this for music they love. But in order to do that, they have to not only *know* the music exists, they have to *hear it* to decide if it's worth their investment. And that's where guys like Feigenbaum go so horribly wrong ...

[@glenross6952]

I OWN THE LP, ALL SCRATCHED I DON'T PLAY IT ANYMORE...... FOUND IT IN MIAMI, FLA. IN A MALL, SPEC RECORDS, IT WAS AMONG ALL THESE LPS SOLD FOR $ 1.29 EACH. : )

[@danpinzone8226]

Clean it well than spray distilled water on it don't wipe just play it will dampen alot of the scratches

[@tommygustafsson5128]

Please listen to Caravan - In the Land Of Grey and Pink. Line-up - Richard Sinclair / bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals - Pye Hastings / electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals - David Sinclair / organ, piano, mellotron, harmony vocals - Richard Coughlan / drums, percussion - Jimmy Hastings / flute, tenor saxophone, piccolo - David Grinsted / cannon, bell, wind

[@Snardbafulator]

It's kind of proto-Hatfield and Dave Sinclair gets a great fuzz organ sound, but for my money, anyway, it's a little too straight-ahead rock (I'm talking about Nine Feet Underground) ...

[@zorbanongreco]

snard: that's why we love it !!!😎🐂💨💨

[@zorbanongreco]

Tommy: YES ! an all-time classic album💖, it still gives me a glow.🔆 Saw them at Progfest 2017 in North Wales they brought tears to my eyes with amazing replay of stuff from that album.🐂💨💨💨

[@dmacrolens]

🤠🤠🤠

[@lotuskarter2451]

Nice Canterbury album!

[@jaimealvarez3015]

Tan fresco como hace 44 años

[@vladimirperkovic3126]

This album makas.you proud that you didnt waste your life in vain . But why dont they reissue it on vinyl again . The only British record i miss in my collection . And I bought it in our shopping center in Rijeka in 1975 'id like it again . My desert island album

[@TheSimonScowl]

06:17 Had to recreate my shortcut!

[@planetxtk7567]

Omg I never knew music so old could sound so amazing. This sounds like something a current artist would make.

[@musicisyouronlyfriend]

I'm surprised to hear that. Honestly I don't know any active band today who can produce such beautiful music.

[@geoffw913]

A current artist couldn't come close to making this type of music....these are musicians and not dial twiddlers!

[@MariaDiazskn]

Suha Önder That's a bit too much. There are good musicians still active and new ones too. Not so many as before but that's probably also because people's tastes have changed. Some have to decide between being creative and eat.;) And there's only so much you can create with not so many notes.

[@zachjohnson637]

And which current artist would that be...?

[@MariaDiazskn]

Zach Johnson Well, Soft Machine is still active and has a very good new album. As to the rest, you can choose from here: www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?syears=2017 All genres, of course, as music is music regardless.

[@Aleriann]

çok güzel;) ah.. masterpiece..

[@mirunok5210]

good,