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lemonade kid Posted - 27/02/2012 : 21:58:48
I can't believe we don't have a thread for Maddy & Steeleye!!?





Seven Hundred Elves...live 1974....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--gpp4K-AbU&feature=related






I just love to watch Maddy perform!....

Thomas The Rhymer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=h44ZIsB374c&feature=endscreen




Black Jack Davy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZzmPbzwZ1o&feature=related




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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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rocker Posted - 13/03/2012 : 20:56:24
I think Mr. Bowie got in with the SS guys on "Now We Are Six", right? His big chance at being a folkie crooner!..
Things we'd liked to have seen..Bowie abandoning rock to hide and play dulcimer in the mountains....
Kula John Posted - 12/03/2012 : 16:45:17
Great band! Saw them live last year with my parents (probably the only time my parents and I will end up at the same gig!!). It was their 'Now We Are Six' tour. I've been playing a fair bit of 'The Span' in recent weeks.

For the time that I've been given's such a little while and the things that I must do consist of more than style....
rocker Posted - 12/03/2012 : 14:40:03
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haef8QSRg3Y&feature=related

just getting a little bit ready for St Patrick's!......and this was on one of their finest records...
lemonade kid Posted - 11/03/2012 : 18:45:52
quote:
Originally posted by Ashrob

Yes LK - released by Pegasus PEG 9 and the disc is dated 1971.

On the inside sleeve the number 1489 is very neatly handwritten in blue biro on the top right hand corner.





Very cool. One of those rare first presses paid for out-of-pocket by the band! I wonder if they also stuffed the records in each jacket? Those were the days!

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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

-Peter S. Beagle 1973
Ashrob Posted - 11/03/2012 : 11:19:02
Yes LK - released by Pegasus PEG 9 and the disc is dated 1971.

On the inside sleeve the number 1489 is very neatly handwritten in blue biro on the top right hand corner.



lemonade kid Posted - 10/03/2012 : 22:16:12
quote:
Originally posted by Ashrob

Looking for something else, I have found 3 albums that I must confess I had forgotten about:

Please to see the King
Ten Man Bop
Below The Salt

Ten Man Bop cover is in excellent condition.

Time to get reacquainted with the music.

Don't think I saw them live.



Does your TEN MAN MOP have the original booklet/liner notes inside the textured cover? See the above posts about the rarity of the original UK vinyl.

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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

-Peter S. Beagle 1973
Ashrob Posted - 10/03/2012 : 20:53:32
Looking for something else, I have found 3 albums that I must confess I had forgotten about:

Please to see the King
Ten Man Bop
Below The Salt

Ten Man Bop cover is in excellent condition.

Time to get reacquainted with the music.

Don't think I saw them live.

rocker Posted - 29/02/2012 : 16:45:43
and wondering what kind of 'brew" is in those cups the gentlemen are holding!....
rocker Posted - 29/02/2012 : 16:44:09
very good lk..that's it!...real fine photos and descriptions...
Dukie Posted - 28/02/2012 : 23:28:08
My friend's band (Palladinos) supported Steeleye on tour in 1994 I think it was and I managed to catch one of the shows in Wales.
lemonade kid Posted - 28/02/2012 : 20:51:54
quote:
Originally posted by rocker

You know I have their record "10 Man Mop"..(now what does that mean???) Anyway, if one sees it you'd swear it was made just yesterday. For some reason, that album cover was made so well and different. It's like a packaged work of art that hasn't aged in my closet. None of my records look like that after all these years.



TEN MAN MOP, or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again





"The album's curious title and subtitle require some explanation. A 'mop' or 'mop-fair' is a late medieval term for a job fair, where labourers come looking for work. (The song "Copshawholme Fair", from the band's first album, is about such a fair.) The conceit was that the band was out of work and job-hunting. A 'ten man mop' would be a very poor show, since there would be few potential employees to choose from. The even more curious subtitle is a reference to Reservoir Butler, who had originally performed one of the songs covered on the album. The band was so struck by his unusual name that they decided it needed to be saved from obscurity.


On THE COVER ART....



The album was notable for having a textured "gatefold" sleeve and inner pages on its original release. This was paid for by the band but cost more to print than the album generated in profits, meaning the band lost money on each album sold. None of the re-releases have included the original number of pages of liner notes.
The photograph on the sleeve was taken c. 1900 by John Benjamin Stone. Entitled "Sippers" and "Topers", it is of two villagers at the Bidford Mop, an annual fair held at Michaelmas in the village of Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. The village has a centuries-old reputation for heavy drinking. --wiki










________________________________________________

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

-Peter S. Beagle 1973
rocker Posted - 28/02/2012 : 20:36:54
You know I have their record "10 Man Mop"..(now what does that mean???) Anyway, if one sees it you'd swear it was made just yesterday. For some reason, that album cover was made so well and different. It's like a packaged work of art that hasn't aged in my closet. None of my records look like that after all these years.
lemonade kid Posted - 28/02/2012 : 20:21:13
quote:
Originally posted by rocker

Yeah..they certainly deserve a thread lk..one of my favs...have alot of their stuff....your best record? I've always thought "Parcel of Rogues" was a keeper....

All Around My Hat...Rocket Cottage, Storm Force Ten...hard to pick, so good.

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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

-Peter S. Beagle 1973
rocker Posted - 28/02/2012 : 20:02:02
and RIP Tim Hart founding member who died in Dec of 09...
rocker Posted - 28/02/2012 : 19:59:42
Yeah..they certainly deserve a thread lk..one of my favs...have alot of their stuff....your best record? I've always thought "Parcel of Rogues" was a keeper....

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