From: rcj@engin.umich.edu (R o d Johnson)
Subject: Re: Arthur Brown record?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 15:59:13 EDT
Organization: Lost Tribes of Gazebo

Stuart had asked about "Strangelands" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

>Interestingly, The Crazy World's musical director,
>the superb arranger/organist/pianist Vincent Crane (who moved on with
>Brown to the later Kingdom Come and then with later drummer Carl Palmer,
>formed Atomic Rooster) is not present on this record. 

I think this has to be wrong.  (Apprently I've missed some Arthur
Brown disucssion here, so forgive me if I'm ignorant (and if anyone
saved any of it, please send me a copy?).)  Vincent Crane wasn't in
any of the Kingdom Comes I know about (personnel below).  I thought
Crane and Palmer left TCW in 1969 and formed Atomic Rooster right
away.

>Instead the organist
>is identified as Jonah Miller. Theaker plays drums (plus something called
>"synthetophone"....guess that's the electric sax?). But there's also a
>separate sax credit to someone named George Khan. The bassist is David
>Bailey (I believe he was the regular Crazy World bassist). And there's a 
>guitarist too (there was no guitar on the debut album, nor have I ever
>seen a guitarist in any old photos of The Crazy World) identified as Android
>something. 

Huh.  I always thought "Strangelands" was the proto-Kingdom Come band,
but I guess not.  I don't recognize *any* of these names except
Theaker.  None are on the Kingdom Come albums.

In article <spray.714759050@convex.convex.com> spray@convex.com (Rob Spray) writes:

>The Crazy World of Arthur Brown was a three piece with ex-schoolteacher
>Arthur on vocals, Vincent Crane on keys and some drummer who's name
>I forget.

According to Pete Frame, it was Brown and Crane, plus Carl Palmer on
drums and Nick Greenwood on Bass.  Crane and Palmer left in 69 and
formed Atomic Rooster.  Actually, supposedly that lineup was only on
*some* of the first album--who knows who the rest of the personnel were?

>When I saw Kingdom Come, circa 1972, they were a three piece with
>guitar, bass and Arthur on vocals and running the first drum 
>machine I ever saw.

On "Galactic Zoo Dossier" the band was:
 Arthur Wilton Brown, vocals ("and teeth")
 Julian Paul Brown, VCS synth (Arthur's brother, I believe)
 Andrew Kenneth Dalby, lead guitar/vocals
 Desmond John Fisher, bass
 Michael William Grenville Harris, organ
 Martin Philip John Steer, drums
 Denis Taylor, lights
 (and of course Viv Stanshall, guest vocals)

(Trivia: They also thank Dave Ambrose, who used to be in Peter B's
looners, a band with the pre-Camel Peter Bardens and pre-Mac
Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood, and Rob Tait, who "`did it' for a few
tricky figures" on Kevin Ayers' first solo album.)

On "Journey" (1974) they were pared down to:
  Arthur Brown, drum machine/vocals
  Andy Dalby, guitar/vocals
  Phil Shutt, bass/vocals/percussion
  Victor Peraino, mellotron/piano/synth/theremin/percussion/vocals

(Hey Stuart!  did you ever do that mellotron article?)

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