Неизвестные 60-е. Часть 42. Группа Tomorrow

Спасибо Кощею!

Personnel:

STEVE HOWE gtr A
TWINK (JOHN ALDER) drms A
KEITH WEST vcls A
JOHN WOOD bs A
(KEN LAWRENCE drms A)

ALBUM:

1(A) TOMORROW (Parlophone PMC/PCS 7042) 1968 R2

45s:

1 My White Bicycle/Claramont Lake (Parlophone R 5597) 1967
2 Revolution/Three Jolly Little Dwarfs (Parlophone R 5627) 1967

Reissue 45:

3 My White Bicycle/Claramont Lake (Parlophone R 5813) 1969

Tomorrow was one of the leading psychedelic bands of the era. West, Howe and Wood had all earlier played with the In Crowd, a mid-sixties R&B group who released three singles, one of which, That's How Strong My Love Is, reached No 48 in May 1965. They changed their name to Tomorrow at the dawning of the psychedelic era in 1967. While playing with this band, West was working on the 'Teenage Opera' project with German producer Mark Wirtz. This was never actually completed, but two tracks from the projected album, Excerpt From A Teenage Opera and Sam, reached Nos 2 and 38 respectively in 1967. Meanwhile, neither of Tomorrow's singles - the fine psychedelic version of My White Bicycle and the psych-pop number Revolution broke through. Both were included on their album, composed largely of Hopkins/Burgess songs and produced by Mark Wirtz. Among the more interesting tracks on the album were The Journey Of Timothy Chase, Auntie Mary's Dress Shop, the Eastern-influenced Real Life Permanent Dream and a competent version of Lennon/McCartney's Strawberry Fields Forever. This group failed to survive the psychedelic era, but Howe went on to form Bodast and later to play with Yes. Twink, meanwhile joined Aquarian Age and then The Pretty Things. John Wood was also in Aquarian Age. He later found fortune, if not fame, working as a croupé in Mediterranean casinos. The band also appeared in 'Smashing Time', a movie which included Lynne Redgrave but don't perform any music, although they mimed to Skip Bifferty's. They once shared the stage with Jimi Hendrix at the UFO club in 1967.

Their second 'A' side, Revolution, was a highly experimental song in many respects but it had an element of commercial appeal.

Tomorrow disbanded in April 1968.

My White Bicycle
https://www.beatles.ru/down.asp?id=77

Revolution
https://www.beatles.ru/down.asp?id=78

это они

Альбомы есть здесь: http://musicmp3.spb.ru/mp3/search.php?key=t

http://www.nfte.org/interviews/SH230.html

MOT: As far as the song "My White Bicycle" goes, it says in the liner notes that the Beatles came in during the mixing of the song. Were you around for that, and do you have any memories of this if you were?

SH: Well, I remember members of the Beatles calling in on us at various times; I don't remember particularly that they came in when we were mixing it. We were around on the mixing; Mark would do some of it in a very short space of time. Work was done very, very efficiently in those days, because you only have about three hours or six hours or something, so you had a double session, and evening session, you know...so things were done--that was it, wrapped up, put to bed quite quickly, so a lot happened and we didn't realize it really I suppose.

MOT: So the Beatles were recording SERGEANT PEPPER right next door, right?


SH: Well, yeah. We did hear strains of that music. We heard strains of that album, and another time I was doing something at Olympic, and the Beatles were there doing...John Lennon was there recording, I don't know, possibly "Across the Universe" or something, like that, one of those songs that was sort of later released. So, we did hear, and touch base...I remember Paul distinctly came in one afternoon and said, "Hi guys! How are you all doing?" We went, "Great, Paul, fantastic." You know, we were just knocked out he came in, and so we were in another kind of league, and we felt it. We arrived by bus or something [laughs]. We were always delegated a little bit to the struggle, and Yes hasn't been too dissimilar in a way. There's a certain struggle that seems to be evident in most of the groups I've been in.


http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/story.jsp?story=537175
The Ten Best Psychedelic British Songs

3 MY WHITE BICYCLE Tomorrow (1967)

Geoff Emerick, George Martin's Beatles sidekick, used all the tricks in his psychedelic toolbox for this one. A pre-Yes Steve Howe's brilliant backwards guitar kept us warm and fuzzy on many a long trip. Twink on the skins gets almost as loud as his trousers. Keith West sings about the white bicycles of 1960s Amsterdam.

У меня вот такое соображение возникло...
Я неплохо знаю инглиш и читаю легко. Многие люди в форуме несомненно тоже влегкую читают англоязычные посты.
А что делать тем, кто язык знает не очень хорошо? Может следует переводить их вкратце? а для знатоков выкладывать ссылку соответствующую?
В противном случае получается отпихивание тех, кто не изучал в школе ангельскую мову, а сие не есть хорошо.
имхо, разумеется

2Expert:
Прочел и понял, что воз и ныне там:))) Ну и бох с ним

2BOB DYLAN
>>>воз и ныне там:)))

Почему же. Если появится человек, которому надо перевести что-либо на сайте и более - не думаю, что запрос останется без ответа. К тому же люди "не владеющие" давно обзавелись эл.переводчиками, а кто нет, использует "переводческие" сайты.

Здесь вот предпринял попытку

https://www.beatles.ru/postman/forum_messages.asp?cfrom=1&msg_id=10422&cpage=1&forum_id=

Что касается сабжа - то, группа известна в основном благодаря сотрудничеству с Марком Вирцем в его Teenage Opera - амбициозный проект, ксати, по словам Пола, повлиявший на него во время работы над Abbey Road.

http://teenopera.narod.ru/teenop_cd01.htm

Кому 8.3 мб качать не лень советую "Grocer Jack".

Aquarian Age - 10 000 words in a cardboard box
https://www.beatles.ru/down.asp?id=79

koshei
Спасибо! Давно ищу эту песню в таком варианте!

если надо,можно и оперу веста (сингл).

2Expert:
>Что касается сабжа - то, группа известна в основном
>благодаря сотрудничеству с Марком Вирцем
Мне попадалась информация, что Вирц как раз был рад привлечь для рекламы "модного исполнителя". Но что главный хит-сингл был именно "оперный" - факт.
Twink, кстати, тоже культовая фигура (в очень узких кругах).

И, наконец, лично я о Tomorrow слышал как о группе, где начинал некий Steve Howe. Это имя известно несколько больше остальных :-)

PS
Ну и фотки афишек многие видели.
Клуб UFO и Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Tomorrow...

2karp
>>Но что главный хит-сингл был именно "оперный" - факт.

Мне к тому же попадалась информация о первых гастролях Tomorrow по Англии. Народ, как оказалось, шел на этот самый хит-сингл, ничего не предполагая о группе, о том, что к хиту они имеют весьма далекое отношение и что у них свой совершенно иной (сайкоделикал) репертуар.

www.bomp.com/Wirtz.html

Trouble was, Tomorrow's significance as a band had been diminished to merely peripheral by all the attention given to Keith as the "guy from the Teenage Opera." Even if his and Tomorrow's concerts still drew huge crowds, people came to hear Keith sing "Grocer Jack" and "Sam," not "My White Bicycle," or "Revolution." Disgusted by Keith's mainstream success, and accusing him of having "sold out," Tomorrow's hard core fans had turned their back and deserted the band in droves.

The True, Never-Before Told Story of "Teenage Opera"
by Mark Wirtz

2Expert:
>как оказалось, шел на этот самый хит-сингл
Да. И мне вспоминается, что где-то проскакивало про "группу где раньше пел Кейт Вест, тот самый который..."
Но саму группу любители психоделического андеграунда очень ценят.
Правда, мне они как-то не пришлись по душе...

Twink

ALBUM:
1 THINK PINK (Polydor 2343 032) 1970 R2

Twink's real name was John Alder. In 1963 he drummed for a Colchester band, Dane Stephens and The Deep Beats, who later changed their name to The Fairies in 1964, when they signed to Decca.
By 1967, Alder assumed the name Twink and resurfaced in Tomorrow. He was then involved in The Pretty Things, playing on their S.F. Sorrow album in 1968, but by 1969 he'd left them too to form an early Pink Fairies line-up with Mick Farren and Steve Peregrin Took (from Tyrannosaurus Rex). He'd also recorded the above solo album with assistance from several musicians, including Took and various members of The Deviants. Twink sings as well as drums on the album, which is a mixture of his own songs (including some instrumentals) and poems. It is a very significant disc in the wilderness of British psychedelia. Its highlights included the opening cut, The Coming Of The Other One, with its Eastern-sounding gongs, bongos, sitars, backward tapes and sighs and screams; The Sparrow Is The Sign and Thousand Words In A Cardboard Box. It wasn't actually released until 1970, though. It is now very collectable but some copies were pressed on red vinyl and these are now ultra-rare. In 1970, Twink also formed Pink Fairies as a more stable unit with Mick Farren, but by mid-1971 Twink had left the group and shortly afterwards left the country too.
In 1972, he formed an outfit called Stars with Syd Barrett and bassist Jack Monk (ex-Delivery). They only lasted for half a gig before Barrett wandered off the stage - indeed, they must be a contender for one of the shortest-lived bands in history. Having married in 1974, Twink returned to the music scene in the late seventies but that is beyond the time span of this book.

Aquarian Age

Personnel:
CLEM CATTINI drms
NICKY HOPKINS piano
TWINK (JOHN ALDER) multi-instrumental
JOHN 'JUNIOR' WOOD bs

45:
1 10,000 Words In A Cardboard Box/Good Wizard Meets Naughty Wizard (Parlophone R 5700) 1968

Twink, who later achieved some fame with The Pretty Things and Pink Fairies, was the brainchild behind this studio project, which was produced by Mark Wirtz. Indeed Wirtz later re-recorded it under another title Love And Occasional Rain on his Come Back And Shake Me album and Twink later re-recorded it for his Think Pink album. The 'A' side, 10,000 Words... is a superb slice of orchestrated free-form psychedelia, the flip, a novelty thow-away effort.

сингл 1

На сайте www.bubblegum-machine наряду со всяким хламом есть масса интересного и помимо прочего одна композиция группы In Crowd - это Tomorrow образца 66-го года. Типичный напористый ритм энд блюэ.

Keith West - Exp. From A Teenage Opera
https://www.beatles.ru/down.asp?id=113

Keith West - Sam
https://www.beatles.ru/down.asp?id=114

Альбом в 256

http://chrisgoesrocks.blogspot.com/2007/09/tomorrow-tomorrow-uk-psychedelia-feat.html

Купил альбом в мини-винильном издании от Японии.
Очень сильный диск, как и в плане композиций, так и в плане состава!
Супер!

https://www.beatles.ru/postman/forum_messages.asp...4&cfrom=1&showtype=0&cpage=108#2534183

Disc and Music Echo 9 September 1967

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