Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock.progressive
Titolo: High Tide

Ho appena acquistato due album degli High Tide:
1. Sea shanties
2. High Tide
Se qualcuno desidera parlarne, sarei interessato a ricevere informazioni.
Edgardo

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http://www.borderlinebooks.com/uk6070s/h8.html#High
 Tide  :
HIGH TIDE
Personnel:
TONY HILL gtr, vcls A 
SIMON HOUSE violin, organ, piano A 
PETER PAVLI bs A 
ROGER HADDEN drms A 
ALBUMS:
(A) SEA SHANTIES (Liberty LBS 83264) 1969 R1 
(A) HIGH TIDE (Liberty LBS 83294) 1970 R1 
NB: (1) reissued (Psycho 26) 1984, (2) reissued (Psycho 27) 1984.
(1) and (2) reissued on CD (Repertoire REP 4413-WY) and REP
4414-WY respectively) 1994. (1) and (2) also available on one CD
(Liberty 7243 8 2971122) 1994. Also relevant are three
retrospective CDs:- Interesting Times (Lobster 001) 1990,
Precious Cargo (Cobra Records CD 003) 199?, and The Flood (World
Wide Records SPM-WWR-CD-0005) 1990. 
Formed in 1969, High Tide were part of the wave of 'progressive
underground' bands which grew up in Britain in the late sixties.
Tony Hill had earlier played with The Misunderstood. Their
albums, which were for the most part completely uncommercial,
were characterised by elaborate, sometimes over-sophisticated
guitar work. The band were more popular on the Continent than in
Britain. The strongest tracks on the first album are arguably
Walking Down Their Outlook and Pushed, But Not Forgotten, which
has a beautiful, mellowed vocal intro. Futilist's Lament was also
melodic whereas Missing Out and Nowhere were high energy 'wall of
sound' instrumentals with a mesh of violin and guitar. Their
second album was of a similar mould and comprised just three
tracks; the 14 minute Saneonymous which accounts for the whole of
side 2, the 8 minute Blankman Cries Again and The Joke, which
lasts for over 9 minutes. All three are extended instrumental
compositions with occasional vocal interludes. Despite their
undoubted ability as musicians, High Tide's music lacked
sufficient interest to attain wide recognition. Walking Down
Their Outlook was introduced to a wider audience via the Son Of
Gutbucket compilation. 
As High Tide's albums had not sold well when originally issued,
they had become quite difficult to obtain prior to their reissue.
Simon House later played with Hawkwind and David Bowie. He also
played with members of The Third Ear Band on the soundtrack to
Roman Polanski's 'Macbeth'. Peter Pavli was later involved with
House in several Hawkwind offshoot projects. 
Of the recent CDs, the first to appear was Interesting Times,
with ten tracks featuring Tony Hill and Simon House and a drum
machine. This appeared first as a mail order cassette which was
better quality than the later CD. Precious Cargo appears to be
rehearsal sessions by original members in 1970, for what would
have been the 3rd album including Ice Age, Movie Madness, and
Rock Me On Your Wave. The Flood is an eleven track collection of
recordings from 1970-76, some with the original line-up, some
with Dracham Theaker. Ice Age turns up here also. 
There have also been three later CDs. Ancient Gates (World Wide
Records SPM-WWR-CD-007) 1990, is a reunion recording with Hill
and Pavli teaming up with former Crazy World Of Arthur Brown's
Drachen Theaker, violinist Dave Tomlin and vocalist Sushi
Krishnamurthi. The first track Resonance is brilliant, but gets
worse with every subsequent track and I defy anyone to listen to
it all the way through. A Fierce Nature (SPM-WWR-CD-0012),
contains seven tracks recorded 1990 by Tony Hill and Dracham
Theaker and A Reason Of Success (SPM-WWR-CD-0024) contains
another five tracks from 1990. Both are worth a listen. 
Tony Hill also recorded a solo CD (on World Wide Records) and
Maggie Bell released a single of the "Hazell" theme tune on Swan
Song records in 1978. 
For more information check the following website:
http://www.guitarz.com/bymnhho.html
 
(Vernon Joynson / John Hobbs) 
"Un po' della violenza di oggi è
l'innocenza che difende se stessa.
Un po' della musica di oggi è
Van der Graaf Generator"
Pubblicità della Charisma, 1970

 another five tracks from 1990. Both are worth a listen.
Valerio HT:
Veramente, sia su "Ancient Gates" che su "A reason of success"
vi sono dubbi circa la paternità reale dei brani e persino la
presenza reale di Tony Hill nella formazione... vedi quanto detto
a Giancarlo Nanni da qualcuno di Black Widow.
Mi sa che andro' a trovare Gasperini, e cercherò di saperne qualcosa
di piu' su questa strana questione. Mauro Moroni sostiene che
a suonare la guitar in "Ancient Gates" sia un tedesco (se non e'
uno dei suoi scherzi).
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uno dei suoi scherzi).
Beh, se comunque è diciamo così un "apocrifo", è quantomeno
riuscito, visto che tutti quelli che sono in possesso dei due
succitati, splendidi dischetti SPM, se li tengono ben stretti
:-)
Colgo l'occasione per spingerti a recuperare il disco degli
Horse, una band del giro Andromeda/Saturnalia che fece un solo
disco: sembrano vagamente h-tideani, la voce è meno doorsiana e
l'impostazione più mayblitziana, meno "fractured" e regolare lo
stile, ma un allure sostanzialmente a te ben noto.
ciao stanz
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"Le canzoni di Vashti possono sembrare irreali
agli ascoltatori di città, ma dovrebbero essere
udite con cuore e mente aperte; non ho mai 
conosciuto nessuno la cui musica fosse così 
completamente un riflesso della sua vita e
del suo spirito"
Joe Boyd, 1970

 Horse,
Valerio HT:
Grazie per la segnalazione...
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