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  • timeless genius..... this is what music can be....been playing this since I was a kid....still have the original vinyl LP. Simply awesome even now in 2012 and I am pushing 53 lol.

  • This was not really reaching for Phil he is forever playing jazz even with Genesis . Listen to Dance On A Volcano from A Trick Of The Tail.

  • Brand X were equally as good as Return to Forever or Mahavishnu Orchestra!

  • @Vandertop I agree!

  • hear loike mahavishnu but very good

  • Magistral

  • Phil: Not just commercial.

  • Amazing imagination here - a jazz fusion waltz with the guitar part being played on a 12-string acoustic rather than a scorching 6-string electric. The intonation is a bit off on some of the higher frets, but that just makes things feel rougher and earthier to me.

  • Love that Rhodes.

  • Imagine listening to mainstream music all your life, then someone showing you this kind of stuff on your deathbed. Fucking gutted.

  • There wasn't Morris Pert on Unorthodox Behaviour

  • This is classic fusissssssion..!

    RIP Morris Pert... You always put on such intense live shows....@^@

  • oh happy memories...and such inventive album covers... can't roll anything on a CD.

  • fascinating - always knew he'd been in brand x, but don't remember hearing them...although I may have seen on whistle test , but this is excellent - thank you for posting.

  • When Phil Collins was Phil Collins....Morris Pert r.i.p

  • @prutters Ohh no, I didn't hear Morris Pert passed, R.I.P. =[

  • @prutters Did not know Morris DIED! That is so sad. He hit everything between here and scotland now he's hittin all the places on his way up there.

  • grandissimo Phill Collins............

  • Phil Collins..'Shut up and play yer drums!'...now this is something I can respect.

    Whereas, everything from ABACAB onward sounded like drivel coming out of Genesis.

  • i have every brand x album as well any song you name it, i'll post it

  • Still got my vinyl 'Moroccan Roll, Unorthodox Behaviour, Masques,' Livestock,Product'- i-pod somehow doesn't do this music justice. Must be an analogue thing!!

  • I love this album, can anyone recommand any opther fusion albums similar to this one?

  • @seb2112 Aside fom the Mahavishnu Orchestra ,check out " Eleventh House" w/ Larry Coryell , "Tony Williams Lifetime" -featuring John Mclaughlin & Jack Bruce, Pierre Moerlen's Gong (not Daevid Allen), "the Dixie Dregs", Bill Bruford's " Sahara of Snow "period.

  • @TumbrelJockey I checked them all out and none of them hooked me in. Even Brand X I only really like this album, and 2 songs off the one after. I'm really picky when it comes to fusion jazz, I usually prefer progressive rock, and the majority of what I listen to is death metal and rap!

  • @seb2112 Know what you mean seb2112 , the honest anwer to your question is that for me "Moroccan Roll " was really a "one of" & as far as i wanted to ride.Good hunting.TJ

  • @seb2112

    Look for their album Xcommunication. Some absolutely freakish Acid Jazz that just oozes groove. Suggest starting with the tunes "Kluzinski Period" and "Liquid Time".

  • @seb2112 i want t put jeff beck's, blow by blow and jan hammer's Oh Yeah! in the fusion mix

  • If you like Brand-X you might as well try a band called ''Gong'', Their album called ''Expresso II' is pretty jazzy. I love this band as well as'' Bill Bruford's'' album called ''One of a Kind''.

  • @MrTobeDamit I checked out Gong, I really liked it a lot, thanks for the suggestion.

  • @MrTobeDamit Shamal is a great album aswell

  • @MrTobeDamit I checked out both. they're both good, but not my kind of stuff. too happy and Bruford's album is too keyboard heavy verging on 80s jazz for me.

  • @seb2112 Try Return to Forever's "Romantic Warrior". Also Jean Luc

    Ponty's "Enigmatic Ocean". I'm kind of taking some wildshots because Brand X is one-of-a-kind to me. But both recommendations are good music imo.

  • @Freenetnow Great suggestions! Can't believe I didn't think of them.

  • @MrTobeDamit Excellent suggestion, I love Gong and that is one of their best (and trippiest) albums.

  • @MrTobeDamit One of a Kind was a GREAT album! :D

  • @MrTobeDamit

    Of course you are refering to Pierre Moerlen's Gong and not the psychedelico-LSDo-dizzyeo group called simple Gong. Pierre Moerlen took over a moribund group (Gong) in 1974 to fulfil the contract with Virgin Records. There were 2 albums to release and these were Gazeuse (Expresso in US) and Expresso II. After that Pierre Moerlen changed the group name in PM's Gong. P. Moerlen not just did the job but took Gong to a whole new level. RIP Pierre

  • @MrTobeDamit

    You have excellent taste!

  • @MrTobeDamit I tried it i didnt like it and i do Love bruford with Yes and especially love the short stint he did with Genesis

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  • @MrTobeDamit that is an interesting leap from jazz fusion to green cheese rock :D

  • Hi Spaggs, Unless I,m mistaken you,ve missed John Goodsall's finest hour. "Voiderama". Have you got it to post? Saw them live a few times and wondered what they'd be like with Holdsworth! In my dreams.

    Thanks for what you,ve put on.

  • Please post anything and everything from Livestock. Great album. Thanks.

    I'm so glad there are others out there who remember this stuff.

  • Beautiful. Thanks. I was a teenager cranking this stuff in the 70's. Brings back good memories.

  • @SpagsJippy

    nightmare patrol off of the " live stock " album

  • a shaggy Phil Collins....

  • To see Morris Pert and Phil Collins on stage was a REAL Treat..!!

    The great days of the 1970's..!!

  • Yes, before the Sussudio bullsh*t Phil Collins WAS a fantastic drummer...

  • No one I turn on to Brand X can believe it is him

    He was amazing

  • then they didnt hear his fantastic drumming on any of the "Gabriel Genesis albums"..he took their music to another level

  • He was a fantastic drummer with Genesis, right?

  • Thanks for uploading....brings a lump to the throat everytime I hear this. Outstanding!

  • this is so awesome. too bad nobody knows who Brand X was

  • your not gettin rid of me.

    so???

    who can dance to Euthanisia Waltz?

  • I apologise to the previous chapa etc. but; if i may how many of you have danced to it?

  • oi! countdumas why go to so much trouble?

    enjoy!

  • you make me laugh ... your all so young.

    but ...happy they live on as they will with me...

    forever!

    riverbrue...william thomas bonner

  • I hear you DBH1959 Face value was a letdown for me too. but there was plenty of Brand x and genesis still.

  • I Own This Vinyl. Great Stuff Here & I'm Only 19. A Friend At Work Told Me About This Band... I'm Really Into Genesis So Brand X Is Just Perfect.

  • Let me give you some more recommendations of unknown prog rock or psychedelic---Gong, Magma, Jade Warrior, Aphrodities Child, Lisa Gerrard, Uriah Heep, Eat Static, Steffi Sharpstrings, Acid Mothers Temple, Steve Tibbetts, Mother Gong, Kazumi Watanabe, Ozric Tentacles and Melting Euphoria.

  • @countdumas WHATABOUT PFM??

  • Thats great to hear. The earlier a person gets saved from the mainsteram music, the better off they are !

  • @orlandez22 Hopefully you are enjoyimg all that Genesis has to offer. Check out Peter and the Wolf.

  • @orlandez22 if you really are into Genesis you gatta look into King Crimson. The best progressive rock band ever. It all starts from or is related to KG...Van der Graaf Generatror is something too..

  • Yes, Unorthodox Behaviour and Moroccan Roll were it!

    I was a HUGE 'Brand X' fan back in the days... and was once lucky enough to be given a signed copy of vinyl from Robin Lumley

    This Euthanasia Waltz is still nice... 'never used to know what that word meant!

  • hey man ive seen them three times xcellent prog jazz (in70's)

  • Thanks for all your comments, everyone. I'm happy to have been able to post this music for people to come back to and enjoy.

  • From the their first and best album. I saw them at London's Marquee Club when it was released and they were awesome, Collins' playing with Brand X shows what a great drummer he is, away from his more commercial solo work. I remember that I had high hopes for 'Face Value' when it came out - what a disappointment that was! BTW the band pics on the vid are from the sleeve of the second album, 'Moroccan Roll' (More Rock 'n' Roll) and I don't think Morris Pert actually features on this one.

  • wrong again ! I've just re-listened to unorthodox behaviour and it really makes me want to put a milonga to it ! so much good music from that period !

  • love it all, just as i did in the 70's and 80's, but this is the only track i can really take a woman in my arms and danse to. It really is a waltz, and absolutely delicious if you can danse tango !

  • A cool moment in time

  • Yeah, what a groove. A big impression for me, in the wonderfull seventees.

  • Good shit!! Phil, Phil, Phil. What happened to the love of music? It is a shame that money took over with Phil Collins and Genesis as well. Anyhow, this great stuff lives on.

  • His carreer as a drummer is quite impressive, he's great at what he does. He's not Bill Bruford, but he gets close.

  • He's got a better feel for grove then Bruford. So does Chester.

  • That's because they play different stuff - I could throw Art Blakey in the discussion, for example. Chester used to play with Zappa, you gotta have a good feeling for that. Bruford is an accurate drummer, precise, surgical, differently from Phil. I still prefer Bruford and Thompson, though.

  • Phil Collins is such a good drummer, he made such impressive works in Genesis, and now I see, in Brand X... Why did he have to destroy progressive rock after that?!

  • Money, I mean yeah it's a shame that he doesn't play this stuff as much these days, but he saw a gap in the market and exploited the buggery out of it!

    The guy is an under rated drummer though, more people should know this side of him.

  • This is my introduction to brand x i think im gonna very much enjoy listening to this band its fucking brilliant

  • same to me. It's just great!

  • Best Brand X track after and so to f.. from Product. Also check out Brand X appearing on "Marscape" an album by Jack Lancaster and Robin Lumley (brilliant)

  • This is probably my favourite Brand X track.  Love that keyboard solo in first part of track.

  • wat a bassist!!

  • Love that album: Unorthodox Behaviour. Phil is a great "fusion" drummer!!

  • who is playing drums?! Phill?!!!??

  • Phil is playing =]

  • Saw them in New York also and Phil was playing percussion & keyboard's while Kenwood played the drum's Sick ! Why can't this kind of music come back again!

  • Phil AND Kenwood at the same time!

    Holy crap I wish I was there-

    Tarzan soundtracks make more money though

  • I've meet Kenwood here in Cincinnati in 77 with Brand X

  • The version I am used to is off of the album "Livestock". There is a great Goodsall solo around 2:00

  • Oh, I see now. I have that one. But this is the one from the Unorthodox Behavior (76) album whereas the Livestock album was 1977

  • This version is without the John Goodsall solo that made the song great! Where is the original version?

  • I wasn't aware of any other version. This is the one I have off the album. Sorry =/ I thought this was the original. If you happen to find any info on it, please let me know.

  • ah yes this is kick ass collins saw him with gabriel his last tour lamb lies down tour and the trick of the tail tour with chester thompson man both doing dance on a volcano that is some bad ass drumming this is my all time favorite bandthe era is 1977 jazz in all its colors and a whole lot more fussion jazz@ its fucking best

  • Timeless..........

    I'll still love this tune after 30+ years

  • they're smoking weed on the back top photo of Moracan Roll

  • I love this track! I wish I could have seen Phil in his drumming prime! What an amazing influence on fusion drumming as we know it today....almost 30 years later.

  • I didn't see him Brand X, although I saw Brand X in 77. Kenwood Dennard was the drummer and smokin'! I saw Phil with Genesis in 77, 78. 80 & 82.

  • I'm so envious!

  • I like you thought the were very good.John didn't...

    I spoke to John about the videos on youtube.He did not like them and he said he was going ask the person that put up to them removed.I don't know if he did.

  • Morris is living and recording in the North of Scotland.

    Robin the last I heard,he was in Aus.

    John in the US.John brought out a couple of CD's awhile back they are BRILLIANT the group name Fire Merchants albums are called FireMerchants its on the Medusa Records and the number is 772354-2 The second album is Lords of Atlantis on the Renaissance number RCD1007.

    Percy dito.

  • There used to be 8 vids of the Fire Merchants posted, but they were removed for some reason. Maybe they didn't get enough accolades. I thought they were tremendous.

  • yes, I would have loved to heard them. =/

  • rhodes

  • Last thing I heard he played on "Lay Your Hands On Me" by Peter Gabriel on his "Security" album.

  • Oh, by the way, do you know what Robin Lumley is up to these days? I've been trying to find videos and things about him, but nothing! Do you know anything?

  • Nope. Sorry!

  • ahh, okay, no problem. hehe, no one seems to know much about that guy anymore.

  • I haven't heard this in a while! Partied with them in Cincy in 77.

  • Ah! That's awesome! I wish I was old enough to have gone to see them live.

  • Talked a lot to Morris Pert...poor guy!

  • Really? What happened to Morris Pert? I really don't know much about him. I don't know much about any of them, really. Just Phil and Percy.

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