Amon Duul - Yeti

will SSR win?

yes

ok lock thread

i'd say 76.435% SSR will win
21.23% for Archangels Thunderbir
2.04% for Eye Shaking king
0.2% for the rest of it

now nobody will vote for it just watch

lol maybe...

"Yeti (Improvisation)" – 18:12 all the way!

2nded

I thought Archangel's Thunderbird was everyone's favourite - it's the only song with its own thread.

Archangel is good. i think it was my favorite song to begin with.
but time changed things..

Always thought it was pretty overrated. "Yeti (Improvisation)" – 18:12 all the way!

yeah, it has some problems with the melody imo

Archangel's is pretty great. Would like to know how many tracks borrowed the drum intro, because I sampled it and sped it up once and cut it in a lame d&b style once and went "wait... I've heard it like this before".

Voting Eye Shaking King, though.

Always thought it was pretty overrated. "Yeti (Improvisation)" – 18:12 all the way!

this. brilliant album.

Amon Duul II - "Archangels Thunderbird"

The cover was designed by the band's organist, Falk Rogner, and features a collage depicting the Grim Reaper (German: Der Sensenmann), made from a photograph of Wolfgang Krischke. Krischke, who had worked with the band as a sound man, had died of hypothermia while under the effects of LSD.

has this ever been reissued with the full version of "pale gallery"?

eye shaking king

One of thevgreat things about AD2 is how well they mastered both the extended free-jam as well as the shorter more melodic format, which is why I'm tempted to pick pne of tge Disc One instrumentals, like either Chimney or Rubezahl, but I cd just as easily vote Archangel or ESK. I'd have to listen to Disc two tho to be sure...

I'd have to listen to Disc Two AGAIN...

"has this ever been reissued with the full version of "pale gallery"?"

I just bought this recently not knowing anything about there being different versions, mine has the short version (bummer) but there are reissues with the longer version. But it seems to me that the longer version is not considered the proper version, I've seen it noted as a bonus for british listeners.

Several people have said that this band sucked later on but the reissue I got of Phallus Dei has two tracks from the 80s called "TouchMaPhal" and "I Want The Sun To Shine" which I honestly think were as good as anything else on the album. But I'm beginning to hate bonus tracks because of certain issues of certain albums differing so much, especially Henry Cow. Also those Cocteau Twins bonus tracks only on certain reissues of Garlands arghhhh. I haven't got my head around all the Henry Cow editions, I just hope if I get the two live box sets to add to my studio box set, I'll have everything that matters.

There still seemed to be a number of live sets by Henry Cow turning up on Dime last year. So presumably they must be form other dates than represented on the box, yeah there are only 10 discs or something in the box set so there are bound to be a lot that isn't on it. They played 1/2 hour improvisations live as part of longer sets might give you some indication as to how much more material there is likely to be.

With Amon Duul II there is a live set from Munich in '69 worth seeking out.
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=433554
not currently seeded but still on th etracker.

xp i think i had read somewhere that "pale gallery" had been truncated for the original cd release but it looks like you're right. discogs has images from the original german vinyl label with track times and the short version is the proper one.

I think the long version originally turned up on the Captain Trip reissue.

Also it's Archangel's Thunderbird all the way. I love the way she phrases stuff in that song, like the end of lines happen every one-and-a-third bar. There's nothing bad on Yeti, though. Eye-Shaking King isn't going to win but it's one of those amazing out-Sabbathing-Sabbath jams there weren't enough of at the time.

Yeah I class yeti with sabbath crimson and art bears and almost no one else for a certain mephistophelean 70s art heaviness.

I read an interview with H R Giger where he said one of the drummers wrote a crazy fantasy novel to do with tarot cards and that he talked like a machine gun.

I was going to ask if it was Walter Wegmuller but I don't think he was in Amon Duul II. Tarot madness was just in the air, I guess.

It was a strange pseudonym like Akron or something, so I was searching for drummers called Akron and couldn't find any.

Giger and Akron collaborated on a tarot card series called Baphomet and there was an additional fantasy book based around it which probably never got translated to English.

Looks like his real name is Charles Frey.

1969 to 1972 he was co-founder of the Black Magic Band Black Mass and was temporarily drummer of cult band Amon Düül . Amon Düül, there was a scandal and a method for blasphemy , an alleged black mass and a nude maiden on a cross that belonged to the ceremonial part of the band Amon Düül. The procedure was to Akron but was not renewed the work permit in Germany.

Akron's first book appeared in 1972 Whose eyes are the stars? For a small publishing house. In 1975 he wrote an experimental novel, The Fifth Wall, which the oracle of the underworld became the basis of the Mystery Plays. 1976 Akron wrote the rock opera Pyrrho, which premiered with the Swiss band Iceland in the St. Gallen Stadttheater. From 1974 to 1978 Akron was a cultural critic in the eastern Swiss AZ from 1980 and had its own column in the St. Galler Tageblatt. In 1988 his book Beyond the threshold. The book deals with spiritual energies of the outer planets of the solar system. In 1989 the second volume in the light of the sun, which deals with the inner planets of the solar system. In 1992, the Akron, in collaboration with the Swiss artist was HR Giger created Tarot in two large openings in the Giger Bar in Chur and the Museum of Bavaria in Zurich presented. On Halloween 1994 Akron founded the Templum BAPHOMAE, a group that deals with shadow work busy raising awareness of the interests of the people repressed personality.

Autotrans obviously.

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I just read through this thread backwards and it took me a while to figure out why Akron was everywhere. Weird.

solid results imo

Ok wow I forgot to vote; put one down for Chimney