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KindredSpirit

Anyone love Fish Rising as much as I do?

Orbless · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:27 pm Post subject:

I only have "Rainbow Dome Musick" and it is great, haven't heard anything else though

magneticweb · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:36 pm Post subject:

i stick with "rainbow dome musick" as well

Reality Checkpoint · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:49 pm Post subject:

I remember seeing Hillage play with Gong at Lady Mitchell Hall in Cambridge circa 73/74. (Also saw Brian Eno and The Winkies there too!)

I did not really follow him after his departure from Gong, although did hear Fish Rising a few times as my contemporaries were into it.

Only caught up with him again with System 7 which I really liked, and still play now and again.

jarvis · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:56 pm Post subject:

Hillage is great! Fish Rising is a killer album. The only others I've only heard are L and Open, both of which have some great tracks but I don't think compare to Fish Rising. Another great Gong offshoot is the Tim Blake Crystal Machine record

sundog · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:48 pm Post subject:

Funny, last night I read a rather groovy interview with Steve and his band in Synapse magazine, March 1977 (link below). Very much of it's time, but well worth a read.

Loved Rainbow Dome Musick, and think I may have heard him with the Orb, Brixton 93 or 94.....those memories a bit hazy though.

http://www.cyndustries.com/synapse/intro.cfm

Scot Solida · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 3:43 pm Post subject:

I love Fish Rising. Great record.

emdot_ambient · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:24 pm Post subject:

ai · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:56 pm Post subject:

I saw Steve Hillage open for ELO in '76. They had two large Moog modulars, one on either side of the stage, played by Miquette Giraudy and Roger Powell. They were totally awesome! The crowd didn't like them so much, though, and kept chanting for ELO, so they didn't get to play very long. ELO came on-stage amid way over-the-top pomp and circumstance, and proceeded to suck in comparison.

CJ Miller · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:02 pm Post subject:

I don't know, how much do you love Fish Rising?

I do love it though! It is easy coming off of Gong since most of the band were involved. It is probably the 70s Hillfish I have gone to the most. I had this, Rainbow Dome Musick, and Motivation Radio - all of which I enjoyed for different reasons. And I love Syatem7 also. Would love to check them out live sometime.

ringstone · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:19 pm Post subject:

I'm more a Gong fan, but have been meaning to check out some of Steve's solo stuff. It gets a bit of a bad name as being "hippy-dippy" shit I think... anyone remember that Young Ones episode? And WTF is with the cover artwork? Anyway I'm sure I'll love it when I get over that...

He's a great producer too, I've been all over the Simple Minds albums he did for many, many years - still favourites of mine!

Cheers
Blair

Minimoog56 · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:25 pm Post subject:

Nice memories of early 70s gong and eno and other prog favs, Hatfield and te north, henry cow, etc. all great music in retrospec even if the sex pistols made them irrelavent for a while...

suitandtieguy · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 11:23 pm Post subject:

I like everything I've heard of his from prog rock to psytrance.

Morley · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:36 am Post subject:

I love his work.
Not sure about his singing voice, but overall, he made some great albums. Live he was good too.

langley · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:04 am Post subject:

See him in our local every now and again. Lovely bloke.

KindredSpirit · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:36 am Post subject:

Babaluma · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:02 am Post subject:

huge fan of everything he and miquette have been involved with. don't forget that track 1, "garden of paradise", on rainbow dome musick, was all her composition. she gets left out too much i think, but maybe she likes it that way? lol

i guess my fave things he's been involved with are the gong "radio gnome" trilogy (he only played on "angel's egg" and "you" though, right?), rainbow dome musick, and various system 7 albums (i like the earlier ones more than the later ones, and the "mastering" job on "up" makes it pretty much unlistenable for me).

saw system 7 live in december 1997 at an escape from samsara event at the brixton academy with an 80k rig and some really good acid. best sound quality gig i've ever been to, and when steve came on stage and started playing guitar we were all like: we're not worthy

have had a few nice emails from him, and he's always been a gentleman!

chamomileshark · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:14 am Post subject:

I have a huge soft spot for Steve (and Miquette) from the Gong days, seeing them live on the Live Herald tour in Bristol, the stuff since and to an extent System 7.

Glad to see them both still going and still creative.

If ever I need cheering up Gong and Steve & Miquette are the best for that.

premieklovn · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:10 am Post subject:

I haven't explored any of his older stuff but this track is amazing:

VomitFlowers · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:36 am Post subject:

Rainbow Dome Musick is great, as is Fish Rising, and the Radio Gnome Trilogy with Gong. Some live shows of his and with Gong from that period are worth seeking out. His later stuff can be a bit much for some, but most of the album Green is great, especially the opening track.

fyvewytches · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:47 am Post subject:

Looks like I'm the only one here who thinks GREEN is his best.... one for my desert island thumbs up

Babaluma · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:20 am Post subject:

i love green too, especially that version of the glorious om riff!

Graham Hinton · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:44 am Post subject:

There has been some rare footage surfacing recently from French TV. Like this little gem:

CJ Miller · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:20 pm Post subject:

Oh yes, Green! That was the fourth one I had. Was trying to remember.

Norman_Phay · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:43 am Post subject:

I like all his band stuff, even "and not or / for to next". Fish Rising is the best one by far but I also really like Motivation Radio and Green. He always had such great backing bands. The Simple Minds album he produced "Sons and Fascination" I had on in the car the other week, it's fantastic and sounds great cranked up.

System 7 I found bafflingly bad. I remember reading the hype when the first alb came out - steve hillage and derrick may! How can that not be awesome. ZZZzzzz. I used to get annoyed reading interviews where he dissed on his old band material in favour of sys7 or the orb, blech.

fsound · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:47 pm Post subject:

I haven't listened to my Hillage albums in a while but I always hold him in high regard. Went to see him 3 or 4 times in the 70's, L, Motivation Radio and Green tours I remember. He always had really great backing bands, tight rhythm section. Combining guitars and synth always seemed difficult to pull off but Hillage got the blend right, and there was a good mix of instrumental work-outs and songs, great production too. I don't really know much of his more recent work ('more recent' to me is the last couple of decades), but I admire him for trying to do new things and not relying on his past. Mmmm, I feel a bit of Lunar Musik Suite coming on...

plord · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:25 pm Post subject:

Huge fan of everything I have heard. Rainbow dome musick, Gong, Sys7, and all the Orb work. Love it. Slavishly copping bits of it. Me <- fanboy.