Rick Wakeman's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

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La crême de la prog

― proggist, Thursday, 2 October 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Hardly...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 October 2003 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I kinda liked it when I was umm 15.

It is nonesense.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 2 October 2003 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

oh dud but in a classic way

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Thursday, 2 October 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i loved this strawbs live album just a a collection of curious and antique from 1970. where folkrock met progrock. very british and classy. rick is phantastic on piano.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 2 October 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

has anyone seen the DVD of this ? not that i'm interested . honest. oh ok a little. i had a prog phase. and loved this album. and Wakeman was one of my first gigs. mid80's St Georges Bradford .. prior to all his new age bollox.
was full on Rock Ensemble and a lot of fun.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 2 October 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Not as good as the one about Henry VIII's wives. Now that one's pissed.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 2 October 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Was this a record or something that actually happened?

― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Thursday, 2 October 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

oh. a glorious OTT record with Wakeman in full steam ahead mode. completely mad. but ace. and fcking rocks in parts all truth be told. along with his King Arthur project - these three lp's were the laffing stock of many a journo. but i like em. dunno why as i shouldn't.
"6 wives of henry 8th" is the best though. i think. but i suspect i am wrong. very wrong.
WTF happened though .. cos my god he went off.
was the Return of Centre of the Earth (???) released a couple of years ago any good .. i couldn't face my inner emotional demons and purchase another Wakeman album as so missed out on it .. any news on that ?

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 2 October 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Was this a record or something that actually happened?

Both, considering it is a live recording of a one-time performance...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Just tunnelling noises, then?

― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

What is it, Official Prog Day on ILM?

I kinda always wanted to hear the Return to the Centre of the Earth dingus because it has Patrick Stewart and Ozzy, if I recall.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Six Wives Of Henry VIII is tremendous, esp. if yer a fan of thick Moogy sounds, ARP choirs and the Squire/White rhythm section (they're on a couple songs here).
My fave Wakeman solo recording.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Except it isn't

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahem,
did any venerable ILMer in their yoof actually attend the ice-skating dry-ice-puffing KING ARTHUR live extravaganza??

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 2 October 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I am generally a huge fan of prog, particularly the more melodic and symphonic kind.

As for Rick Wakeman's solo albums... oh, well... nevermind....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 October 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

this album = sux0r, as do all of rick's solo things. He was always best on other people's musick, like bowie's "space oddity", the strawbs lp referred to above, yes' "fragile" etc etc.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 2 October 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

t\'\'t, i saw him on the tour for the M&L album, but at the glasgow apollo, not wembley
(it was a fuckin GREAT gig - at one point he was hitting minimoog notes so low pitched, with such slow-decay hi-Q filter sweepdowns on them, that it felt like yr chest cavity was about to start resonating)

i think it was May 1975, which puts it a couple of months before the ice-show ?

i can remember THAT being broadcast on TV though - have a strong image of 2 blokes dressed as knights-on-horseback (complete with bernie-clifton-style horsey attachments), skating around having a 'swordfight' while clouds of dry ice obscure WakeSorZ & co on a central podium...it looked and sounded like a complete shambles

i was glad i had attended the glasgow show instead

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Except it isn't

But...but...it IS!

ok - I haven't listened to it in 6 years. But I think it is.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 3 October 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(Yay! for Snowy Mann who saw King A.size Wakeman!)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 3 October 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

IMHO: Dud.

One of the most pretentious, dull, and overblown offerings from one of the rock world's most laughable stuffed shirts. God bless Mr. Wakeman and his ilk for being such utter gasbags that punk had to happen. Equal & opposite reactions are a bitch.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 4 October 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

My thoughts on Journey.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 24 October 2011 10:32 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/06/20/rick-wakeman-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-earth-round-68-grahams-choice/

Dud.

― i reject your shiny expensive consumerist stereo system (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 27 June 2014 10:50 (eleven years ago)

Seen the reissue yesterday (new cover art?) , nearly bought it but I want King Arthur before this.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 27 June 2014 11:24 (eleven years ago)

I had never heard of this record until I saw a recent BBC documentary on British artists in the US. Wakeman brought the whole orchestra on tour, hired a private plane, and lost $250,000 ($1.2 million today). But the increased record sales (9 million copies in the US, #3 on Billboard) made up the difference.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 27 June 2014 14:09 (eleven years ago)

My DVD of RW performing this in Australia (!) is a treasured possession. The inflatable dinosaur! The sub-"Dr. Smith" narrator in a big rattan chair! Cans of lager on the Mellotron! CLASSIC.

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 27 June 2014 15:06 (eleven years ago)

voila!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0u7luCFMlg

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 27 June 2014 15:07 (eleven years ago)

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Rick Wakeman's Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - classic or dud?