Circus Maximus NEVERLAND REVISITED Vanguard VSD 79274 200g IMPORT reissue MINT
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Circus Maximus NEVERLAND REVISITED Vanguard VSD 79274 200g IMPORT reissue MINT
Label:
Vanguard Records VSD 79274, Comet RecordsFormat:
Vinyl, LP, Reissue, 200g, Old style tip-on heavy stock jacketCountry:
ItalyReleased:
1999Genre:
RockStyle:
Psychedelic Rock, Prog RockTracklist: A1 Hello Baby Written-By – Bob Bruno 2:45 A2 How's Your Sky, Straight Guy Spy Written-By – Bob Bruno 2:07 A3 Come Outside, Believe In It Written-By – J.J. Walker* 2:45 A4 Parallel Written-By – Bob Bruno 3:37 A5 Trying To Live Right Written-By – J.J. Walker* 2:40 A6 Lonely Man Written-By – Bob Bruno 2:07 B1 Mixtures Written-By – J.J. Walker* 2:27 B2 Negative Dreamer Girl Written-By – J.J. Walker* 2:42 B3 Neverland Written-By – Bob Bruno 4:29 B4 Neverland Revisited Written-By – Bob Bruno 1:39 B5 Hansel And Gretel Written-By – J.J. Walker* 6:01
- Published By – Danel Music
- Art Direction – Jules Halfant
- Bass, Vocals – Gary White
- Design – Kasoundre
- Drums – David Scherstrom
- Engineer – Ed Friedner
- Lead Guitar – David Scherstrom (tracks: A4)
- Lead Guitar, Piano, Organ, Vocals – Bob Bruno
- Photography By – Joel Brodsky
- Producer – Dan Elliot
- Rhythm Guitar, Tambourine, Vocals – Pete Troutner
- Rhythm Guitar, Vocals – Jerry Jeff Walker
- Matrix / Runout (Side One label): VSD-79274 A
- Matrix / Runout (Side Two label): VSD-79274 B
Features:
- 200 gram audiophile quality pressing
- Old style heavy stock tip-on jacket
- Vanguard's 50th Anniversary Limited Edition
- All original graphics
Circus Maximus was an American band in the late 1960s, which combined influences from folk music, rock, and jazz into a form of psychedelic rock.
The band, originally called the Lost Sea Dreamers, was formed in 1967 by Bob Bruno and Jerry Jeff Walker. Vanguard Records insisted on a name change, as the initials "LSD" were considered too linked to the drug culture. Bruno's song "Wind", from the band's self-titled first album, became a minor hit in the United States, particularly through airplay on "progressive" FM radio stations. The song received critical acclaim, with one reviewer calling it "pure joy..." and praising the group as "superlative," and another critic saying the song was "particularly absorbing, a classic in mood, time and place."
In late December 1967, the band performed in an unusual pair of "Electric Christmas" concerts together with New York Pro Musica, an ensemble that performed early music. There were two 80-minute performances. The material performed included a reworking of 14th-century composer Guillaume de Machaut's "La douce dame jolie" as an English-language song "Sweet Lovely Lady" arranged by Robert M. Bruno for the ensemble, and Bruno original "Chess Game" that, unbeknownst to Bruno but noted by John White, director of the Pro Musica, strongly echoed the "Romanesca", a piece that first appears in 16th-century Spanish lute books.
The concert was not a critical success. Donal Henahan, writing in The New York Times, said that it "fell somewhat short of being the total-environmental trip that was promised… the night summed up most of the esthetic ideas now in the air: incongruity, simultaneity, games theory, the put-on, the parody, the Trip… and the effort to create a 'Total Environment' in which all the senses can come into play." Henahan asserted that the concert's commercial success showed a breakdown in the separation of classical and popular audiences.
Bruno's interest in jazz apparently diverged from Walker's interest in folk music, and by July 1968 the band had broken up and Walker was appearing at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village, sharing a bill with Joni Mitchell. Bassist Gary White went on to write Linda Ronstadt's first solo hit, "Long, Long Time." By 1972 Bruno was appearing with Noah Howard's groups which included several appearances at the NY Free Jazz Festival. He is on the recording called Noah Howard Live at the Village Vanguard with Noah Howard, Frank Lowe, Earl Freeman, Juma Sultan, and Rashied Ali (Freedom Records, re-released on Iron Man in 2004 as a CD). Robert Shelton included the Circus Maximus album Neverland Revisited in a November 1968 list selected to represent "the breadth… of today's rock".[Wikipedia]
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