A bit of a curate's egg of an album IMHO. It includes some really excellent tracks; I love Under A Cloudless Sky, Cold Steel and, especially, This Barren Land...
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Steve Young
steveyoung20...
Feb 24, 2012 9:34 pm
I love this version of If. It never done it for me live, but Robert's strings so enhance the lyrics and the interplay of the guitar. I remember a debate on...
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LinDsaY
lasorrell1234
Feb 25, 2012 11:38 am
PLEASE NOTE: THE GOOD OLD BOYS' GIG AT THE WINDMILL SPORTS CLUB, NUNEATON, HAS BEEN POSTPONED FROM 3RD MARCH UNTIL 26TH MAY....
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Knst456@...
Feb 25, 2012 2:36 pm
This album signified The Strawbs are back in all their glory. I love the way it opens up, right away with the Mellotron flutes and the repeating rythm line....
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mizunoman1958
Feb 25, 2012 4:10 pm
Thursday night at The Flowerpot usually brings a rush of punters five minutes before the start - we had tickets 50-54 and Keith Brown had 57/58 ...... I don't...
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Steve Young
steveyoung20...
Feb 26, 2012 7:11 am
The Album Analysis of Dave Lambert - Framed starts today for a week. If you need to buy this cd you can do no better than going straight to ...
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Steve Young
steveyoung20...
Feb 26, 2012 10:55 am
Took me a bit of searching, but I found this album info.... which might help.... J 1 - Take A Little Bit Of My Life (Dave Lambert) 02 - Framed (Dave Lambert &...
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keithbrown57@...
keithbrown57...
Feb 26, 2012 1:08 pm
shame there wasn't many at the Flowerpot, hope it wasn't the silly rumour about it "not being a good acoustic venue" sounded great to me, one of the best i've...
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Knst456@...
Feb 26, 2012 4:58 pm
Very cool. No doubt Monsieur Lambert has his own muse besides being one of the most amazing players on the planet. Very cool indeed . Cheers, Ken /NY In...
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Knst456@...
Feb 26, 2012 5:04 pm
Oh yeah, I've got that on vinyl too ! My old Dual 1229 finally gave up. 41 years of unbelievable, beautifully engineered service. I'm stripping it down and...
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Knst456@...
Feb 26, 2012 5:25 pm
Oh yeah I saw The Acoustic Strawbs out on L.I. in a town near Montauk..almost a 3 hours drive for me. The Strawbs were great as always but the sound was...
58685
Knst456@...
Feb 26, 2012 5:31 pm
Oh yeah, John Ford and Jill showed up at that gig. I think I was wearing my JF New World tee shirt..a man's got to look stylin' :) Ken/NY In a...
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wwbadgeman
Feb 26, 2012 9:02 pm
As regular readers will know I have been to a few Strawbs gigs over the years, so when I say last night was up there with the very best, ( more reasons than I...
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Jeremy Crisp
jeremy.crisp...
Feb 26, 2012 9:14 pm
A glimpse of heaven - Review by Jeremy Crisp The stars were shining brightly on this perfectly clear and still night, but none more so than the Acoustic...
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Thomas Curran
dj0454
Feb 26, 2012 9:59 pm
Sounds like a great show..And the guys played 4 songs from Dragonfly. One of my favorite Strawbs albums..Wish i could have been there. Love the setlist..Thanks...
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Thomas Curran
dj0454
Feb 26, 2012 10:16 pm
Ken, Pam and i saw them at a place called The Thirsty Ear in Columbus, OH a couple years ago electric. And the place was so small that we pulled right up to a...
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Dick Greener
strawbsweb
Feb 27, 2012 11:30 pm
Late again (to quote Stealers Wheel) - a week to listen again and find time to review is tricky to fit in with the day job. Deja Fou: hard to believe that this...
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Dick Greener
strawbsweb
Feb 27, 2012 11:32 pm
Just a reminder, that I tend to reprint any reviews/comments from album analysis on Strawbsweb. (I do edit a bit as necessary.) If anyone DOESN'T want their...
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PeteMadeley@...
peter_madeley
Feb 28, 2012 12:07 am
This album is definitely one of those that "got away", and should never have been allowed to escape. I like pretty well all of it, and there are three...
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wwbadgeman
Feb 28, 2012 12:20 am
If any one out there loves Roy and I know you do...please give his latest advert a facebook "like" and share. Ta very much..I'm sure he will feel the love come...
58694
Steve Young
steveyoung20...
Feb 28, 2012 7:33 am
"The very first time that I set foot on this shore, I was scared to be alone" perhaps refers to life outside Strawbs?.... or this could be a reference to...
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pete_seattle
Feb 29, 2012 5:08 pm
Ran across this lovely gentle version of "Two Weeks Last Summer" by the duo Winterflora 2011 who did a different version about a year ago under the name...
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Dick Greener
strawbsweb
Feb 29, 2012 5:59 pm
Link already up on Strawbsweb Pete at: http://www.strawbsweb.co.uk/@f/f_fdld.htm Latest additions page. Some more to come when I get chance ... D ... DICK...
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Dick Greener
strawbsweb
Feb 29, 2012 6:18 pm
Hi folks Happy Leap Year Day - 29 February (have any Strawbs fans been proposed to by their girlfriends today ?) Some live dates news for the Acoustics beyond...
58698
pete_seattle
Feb 29, 2012 6:23 pm
Well you travel the world searching only to come home and find what you've been searching for in your own backyard! I caught all those Claridge songs you...
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NeilPunnett@...
Feb 29, 2012 7:10 pm
Sad news of the death of Davy Jones, the Monkees frontman. Although a manufactured group the Monkees caught the imagination of British teenagers in the late...
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maryanne kehoe
atl1104
Feb 29, 2012 7:19 pm
News reports over here said local Florida law enforcement in his area said cause of death was a heart attack. Maryanne...
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Pete Bradley
pancentricism
Feb 29, 2012 8:52 pm
I remember their film, "Head" as being truly groundbreaking. It made the Beatle's "Yellow Submarine" look like a cartoon. ... From: maryanne kehoe...
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LinDsaY
lasorrell1234
Feb 29, 2012 9:05 pm
That's really sad news, Lindsay...
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LinDsaY
lasorrell1234
Feb 29, 2012 9:59 pm
Framed is a really good album which contains several great tracks, most of which would probably fall into the "soft rock" category. My own feeling was that it...
