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Italian TV 1973
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Under the Blossom Disk 1 Originally released as One of the finest 'heavy-rock' albums ever made. Utterly magnificent guitar set in some excellent songs Disk 2 Previously unreleased tracks from aborted second album Jon Hiseman drums Foyers Of Fun Live at the BBC Jon Hiseman drums This is essentially a guitar duel between Halsall & Holdsworth Available from Amazon here
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Live in Frankfurt July 1973 Interesting early trio performance still including a couple of the incredibly complex old Tempest numbers Live at the Beeb July 73 A splendidly drunken affair featuring Ollie on lunatic monophonic synthesiser! Live at The Teatre Nuova, Solo guitar complilation from Living In Fear [above]
TEMPEST Jon Hiseman's Temple Music site
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BOXER "The thing I haven't mastered yet is a high energy thing where I can perform solos and chord work more spontaneously" |
single 1975 Below The Belt 1975 Halsall & Patto's final attempt at the big time. Shooting Star was surely a potential Number One. From an album packed with sure-fire hit singles, whatever posessed them to release All The Time in the World!? Available from Amazon here: Live at the Roundhouse,
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Bloodletting 1976
A third album, Absolutely, was made after Ollie's departure. Available from Amazon here: Please avoid the Arkarma release Ducks in Flight - The Lost Jazz Album which is an unauthorised bootleg of the bonus tracks from A Sense of The Absurd [together with, perversely, Teachers from the later Boxer album Bloodletting?! ] BBC Radio sessions 1975 Mike Patto keys vocals |
Michael de Albuquerque
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Michael de Albuquerque [far right] formerly bass player with The Electric Light Orchestra |
We May Be Cattle |
Stalking the Sleeper 1976
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Terry Stamp
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Fatsticks 1975 Some of Ollie's wildest playing since Patto. This 're-introduction' to hard-rock led him and drummer Tony Newman into Boxer (who covered two Fatsticks tunes). |
The CD version supplied by Terry [not as yet officially rereeased] has revised track sequence which places all of Ollie's principal contributions in the first 5 tracks: |
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