Comments on: Mighty Baby “A Jug Of Love”

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?