![]() ![]() First The Beatles, then The Moody Blues, The Nice and Deep Purple. Fact is, they’d stopped releasing singles after December 1968 and had followed their second album, that year’s A Saucerful Of Secrets, with a stunning soundtrack for the art house movie More.īesides, Geesin's odd ideas to their AHM were in fact just one of several experimental trends followed by most of the early 1970s European rock bands, and as a result those times were also challenging for classical session musicians – it was as if every long-haired rock group wanted cellos and tubas on their records. ![]() And it was more than clear back then that they were pursuing a new direction to the band's music. For those that don’t know The Purple Gang were an integral part of The Summer Of Love (1967) and recorded the Hippy anthem ‘Granny Takes A Trip’. If you want to delve back into the past you can read EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE that was written by founder member Chris (Joe) Beard. Now that I think of it, I just wonder what the heck the band members previously expected of Geesin's collaboration on that project that they further called AHM, since they were at least somehow aware of his musical background. The Purple Gang Many, many years ago we featured part of The Purple Gang story on this site. Gilmour joined Ron Geesin to perform the suite at the 2008 Chelsea Festival, with cellist Caroline Dale, a chamber choir, brass players from the Royal College Of Music and an Italian Pink Floyd tribute band.
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