Golden Earring

[cosmorock]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

They must have a dozen or so records, but I own none...can't help on this one...but I like what I've heard...

They have much more than a dozen records.More like 2 dozens!

Most of their albums recorded between 1968 and 1977 have lots of prog bits on them.Supersister's keyboardist Robert Jan Stipps played with them for awhile.

''Vanilla Queen'' and ''She flies on Strange Wings'' are two of their best proggy songs.And they have many more.

[mailotron]

Most of their albums recorded between 1968 and 1977 have lots of prog bits on them.Supersister's keyboardist Robert Jan Stipps played with them for awhile.

''Vanilla Queen'' and ''She flies on Strange Wings'' are two of their best proggy songs.And they have many more.[/quote]

Some datas about Golden Earing ( with one r sorry) As a belgian rock fan i learnt to like that band from our neighborhood country, Holland,Home of Dutch,

They began as a british pop like band with a rether good domestic success.
In 1969 they recorded Eight miles high ' a cover of the famous Birds's song' ( the track filled one side of the LP) . The version is high quality psyché-rock .


Their next Lp simply entitled Golden earing feetures a 7 minutes long track called Brother Wind , it is as good as any Jethro tull stuff from the same period ( flute and guitar)

Moontan is the zenith of their career , tracks like Vanilla Queen and above all 'Are you receiving me?' are more prog than lot os stuff in the Am library . that's why i did not understand Jim's radical statement about radar love ( the LP version is unabriged , a gem !). Just for the record , european label of GE was¨Polydor, in order to gain success in UK and in the USA, GE' Moontan has been issued on TRACK records for UK and US markets. track was the The Who's own label. The TRACK version's set list is different and gives to the LP a more psych rock color than the Polydor's one which is more rock oriented. Moontan Lp's cover art was frankly glamour but the UK/US was rather tame.

Switch and To the hilt showed also pro elements . Ther only weak point is imho the lyrics of thier songs . ( example : ' ce soir' from their Switch Lp is a real florilège ( en français dans le texte)

the band was an outstanding and wild live act. They were nicknamed ' the flying dutchmen' . They were as good as The Who themselves . The best testimony of GE's live performance is the 1977/78 double LP 'LIVE' , the band hosted the fantastic blues guitarist Elco Geeling ( from seminal dutch blues rock band Cubby and the blizzard) . She flies on strange wings and mad love is coming from that live DLP are superb tracks.