“I went back to my hotel room,” he said, “and started messing around with a chord structure that reminded me of Nights In White Satin. This was not an accident, because he had a point to prove. He wrote the song in response, and it did in fact sound like a certain Moody Blues song. Vocalist/guitarist John Lees was particularly irked, and became determined to make that particular lemon into lemonade. From that point on we stopped talking to the UK music press.” “We thought it was okay to take the band to task, but insulting the people who bought our records and came to see us was taking things too far. “The worst thing about this guy was that he kept criticizing our fans”, explains keyboardist Woolly Wolstenholme. The comment was not just unjust, but angered the band. The band encountered him at the Colston Hall in Bristol on 20 October 1976 during their Octoberon tour. The song was written as a response to a music journalist from the magazine Sounds who referred to Barclay James Harvest as a “poor man’s Moody Blues”. This is a hauntingly beautiful love song, although its inspiration was anything but beautiful. One of the most popular songs on the album is Poor Man’s Moody Blues. Sea of Tranquillity was another orchestral sounding track (about the space race), built in similar fashion, and all in all a lot of the album embraced atmospheric prog and a certain level of sophistication to a larger degree. It contains what appears to be massive brass and strings, but the track is in fact built using synthesizers, mellotron and guitars. It contained tracks like the opener Hymn, which is a huge, cinematic track (about the dangers of drug use, dedicated to musicians like Hendrix, Kossoff and Joplin). It set the foundation for an ongoing career in those markets, and since then these have been their strongest markets in terms of album sales and live shows. It was the band’s largest selling album overall, eventually selling a few million copies worldwide. It is still ranked #6 on the list of longest running albums on those charts. In Germany it peaked at #10 and stayed for 197 (!) weeks in the album charts. People in Germany, France and Switzerland in particular embraced that album, which seemed to resonate with people in those countries. It reached #30 in the UK charts – the expected “no flop, but only minor hit”-territory – but it also finally saw the band break into the mainstream European market. (And as we’ll learn later in the story, not all reviews were positive.)īarclay James Harvest released their eighth studio album, Gone To Earth, in 1977. Plenty of people will however debate that they are giants otherwise! Still, in the UK the formula would often be relatively positive reviews, somewhat lesser sales. Towards the end of the decade they found success in continental Europe, but they are still not one of the giants in their genre from a popularity point of view. In their native England they saw some popularity in the 1970s, always borderline breaking through to the mainstream, but never quite. That’s assuming people know much about Barclay James Harvest at all. “We played Middle Earth at the Roundhouse in 1968 with The Gun, and with Pink Floyd at London All Saints, that kind of heritage.” “I don’t think people realise how far back Barclay James Harvest goes” guitarist and vocalist John Lees recently said. Milwaukie, Oregon 97267 U.S.A.Barclay James Harvest are an English progressive rock band, founded in Oldham in 1966. | Downloads | Contact | Welcome | Gift Certificates | Categoriesĭatabase Search | Site Search | Empty Cart | View Cart | Check Out Sheet Music Online - 5830 S.E. Home | Benches Tuning Supplies Metronomes etc. Over 500 web pages of recommended music and products.Ĭlick Here to search our separate SQL database. $12.95 Contents: Chattahoochee (Alan Jackson)Ī Thousand Miles From Nowhere (Dwight Yoakam)ĭon't feel like ordering from this page?Ĭlick Here to be magically transported to our site search page where you can search (strum and pick patterns chart for songs) Good collection for the beginning player. This format is standard notation with tablature (like most guitar books), but the notes resemble Big-Note format, and note names are written in to the note heads in the standard notation part. Clarity is excellent, and overall this is very much like a c-edition fake book style. Also includes "strumming patterns" and "picking patterns" for each song. This format is standard notation (no tab) with complete lyrics and guitar fretboards. There are hundreds of guitar collections in print and in stock! Click on the "Guitar" category to your left to browse our wide variety of selections! Click on "popular" for more contemporary titles,
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