The Unknown Greats

[twm]

Wizz Jones! See "Bruce Springsteen" thread, Reply #39, second paragraph.

[twm]

Wizz Jones more recently; white haired and no longer bearded:



A nice gentle lullaby.

[vgonis]

Maybe he is not so unknown, but surely great and undervalued. Pottel, I guess you know him, he is playing with Gilmour on the whole album and most of the songs are co-written!

[Rkd]

Until recently, Rodriguez qualified for this category. Outstanding talent in his day.

[Pottel]

Maybe he is not so unknown, but surely great and undervalued. Pottel, I guess you know him, he is playing with Gilmour on the whole album and most of the songs are co-written!

no clue as again the video is "not available for my country..."

[vgonis]

It was a Roy Harper video from his fantastic album "The unknown soldier" who mostly co-wrote with Gilmour who also contributed on guitar. Have you seen this?

[Pottel]

Of course! Remember that and the gdansk concert movies are exactly what I have been hoping for from mark. And echoes is like my all time favorite Floyd song, hearing the acoustic version of it was like the second coming...

[RAc]

well, those who remember me from the red pages would probably have guessed who I pitch in a voice for now: Show of Hands, the "arguably best active folk duo in the world" (quote not from me). Look them up on YouTube; for hardcore folkies, I'd recommend the Blue Cockade or Cousin Jack. Steve Knightley is certainly something different in the league of top notch singer/songwriters, and his pairing with Phil Beer makes it all the more astounding. Currently my favorite listening alongside Mark.
 

[Pottel]

well, those who remember me from the red pages would probably have guessed who I pitch in a voice for now: Show of Hands, the "arguably best active folk duo in the world" (quote not from me). Look them up on YouTube; for hardcore folkies, I'd recommend the Blue Cockade or Cousin Jack. Steve Knightley is certainly something different in the league of top notch singer/songwriters, and his pairing with Phil Beer makes it all the more astounding. Currently my favorite listening alongside Mark.
 

does this rock your boat as well? i love em...
 

[twm]

I saw Show of Hands live a few years back and I was impressed enough to buy a couple of CDs - "WITNESS" and  "as you were" (the latter is a live double-CD  for their Autumn 2004 tour). The pair were accompanied by a female string bass player. 

Live, they toss in some songs not written by Steve Knightley (Little Feat, Dylan etc) and the occasional traditional song arranged by Knightley.

[vgonis]

I was going through my records and stumbled upon an LP by a band called December's children. Nice sounding band, but since this was their only release ( I have the re-issue) they never made it to the other bank of fame river, and stayed a somewhat cult psych band. Now that it is easy to find details, through the internet, I came across this page. It is peculiar, but I just thought that many hopeful bands and musicians have a similar future and only few make it big. Imagine our MK not making it with the first DS album... 
http://www.buckeyebeat.com/decchildcl.html
http://prognotfrog.blogspot.gr/2007/09/decembers-children-decembers-children.html

[Hoops McCann]

These guys always struck me as unknown greats:

 

[vgonis]

Dan, what a great find! Thanks! The last solo was ska, metal, punk, prog, nutty and nice! I am going to listen to some more!

[Hoops McCann]

Dan, what a great find! Thanks! The last solo was ska, metal, punk, prog, nutty and nice! I am going to listen to some more!

Cool, glad someone enjoyed it. 

[Pottel]

More then one. Liked the echo on his voice. Liked the guitar bits, like the amateurish behavior.name?