Comments on: Mighty Baby “A Jug Of Love”

By: Bettyu

Bettyu — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:51:10 +0000

los fceilito por el blog!gran posteo este tambien…hits y mas hits en este compilado!saludos y nos vemos x ahi

By: dirigibledave@gmail.com

dirigibledave@gmail.com — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:04:37 +0000

Ian:
The line-up was Roger McGuinn Chris Hillman Kevin Kelley Gram Parsons Doug Dillard
It was one of Grams last gigs, and the one at which he was introduced to the Rolling Stones.

There’s a very very hard to find bootleg of the gig titled ‘The Byrds Middle Earth London 1968 11th May 1968′. However, it’s easy to find the Gram Parsons double cd ‘Under your spell again’ (tracks 4-11 on cd 1) . Needless to say the sound quality is pretty bad.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:58:55 +0000

Clarence White, no doubt, on his B-Bender guitar. Thanks for the comment, Ian, and the fine, fine music.

By: Ian Whiteman

Ian Whiteman — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:51:51 +0000

It was our gig with the Byrds at Middle Earth wot made us get rid of the big old amps and speakers. All those bendy notes through little Fender amps was just too nice for words. Not sure who the Byrds line up was then. Roger Mcguinn and …….. Anyone know? How are you Deepinder?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:13:35 +0000

Great tune! I have been looking for the tune House Without Windows by Mighty Baby for a long time. Any chance you could email it to me? liberty.lynch@gmail.com

Thanks! Great site!!!

By: deepinder cheema

deepinder cheema — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:23:04 +0000

The country guitar licks on the opening number etc is Martin Stone. His head was severely tweezed when the band saw the Burritos’ in Covent Garden during 1970. In fact they covered one of their songs ‘Lazy Day’ in their set – a sound recording of that tune exists from their Glastonbury 1971 set – it was broadcast on Radio Geronimo from Andorra (I believe) toward the end of the year. I think the best piece off the original 1971 LP is ‘Happiest man in the Carnival’ A note about the change of pace from debut of Nov 1969, and the last Lp; Oct 1971 – there is a photo of the band at the Coldham Common gig from July 1970. They are pictured with Fender amps, which they bought with their advance from Blue Horizon – so they had the deal well over a year before the Oct 1971 release – the significance of these amps is their ability to play quieter and to listen to what the others were playing, methinks well suited to their heads at that time.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:22:15 +0000

“Really nice” is the (awful) phrase that comes to mind. Mighty Baby played a lot of festivals at the beginning of the seventies and were always a treat, partly because, as you say, they did play very long songs that you could really get “into” (a certain timelessness that is rare these days is an abiding memory of those events). Everyone was always very relaxed ( this being before punk, of course). In 2008 I have to admit that “Egyptian Tomb” sounds justa touch more convincing but really nice is not to be sniffed at either. Thanks

By: b.b.blunder

b.b.blunder — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:05:39 +0000

how ’bout something from Reg King’s solo album?