Triumvirat-"Triangle" exerpt- Illusions on a Double Dimple

[MultiVideohelp]

Triumvirat lives forever!

[chuckbyf1]

Got sacked last Friday. Hit me with another double.

[KIMORID]

BRASIL. EU OUÇO ISTO DESDE CRIANÇA. CONCORDO COM ALGUNS COMENTÁRIOS QUE A INFLUENCIA DO ELP ETC MAS QUEM GOSTA DE EMERSON LAKE & PALMER E TRIUNVIRAT SABE QUE SÃO AMBOS EXCELENTES. QUANTO AO YES É CLARO CONCORDO TBEM. NO ENTANTO 

[musicfreak1967]

RIP Helmut Köllen!

[SeteRaiosComunicados]

Triumvirat; excelente grupo alemão, fãs eles mesmos de ELP.

Seu primeiro trabalho "Ilusões num buraco duplo" é tremendo; ainda sendo do estilo (único de Emerson, Lake & Palmer), não tem plagio nenhum. "Spartakus" é igualmente bom mas, em "Pompeii" acabaram por imitar o sucesso daqueles.

Vale a pena!

[Mortimermanto]

i love this album. A true great 'almost forgotten' prog album of the 70s. Spartacus is also tremendously enjoyable to listen to.

[jmellopinheiro]

this album album and Spartacus are mind blowing.

[anwarrofiq]

like ELP song

[neff49]

Even though Triumvirat had an excesive influence from ELP, they sound very good with excellents musicians, especially the keyboardist and its music is very well composed contrary to what we hear in music currently.

[skip901]

i definatley can hear some journey from mariabronn, by kansas.

[TheMawkperron]

@skip901 ..good point.but i think this was done b4,,but the elp,,commments have merit,,,kansas double live,,paid a fortune for that album,,an cd's we're coming out soon,,boston,,dire straights.bruce sprinstein,,i used to know the first 4 cd'ds, crappes,,cranial cramp...anyway..it all brings me back to supertramp..crime of the century

best concert next to nusery crimes,,genesis.ottawa 76,n starcastle a few month after

[TheMawkperron]

@TheMawkperron a cold old worried lady,,has merit as a classic,i'me a guitar player ,but appreciate good piano..melody n verse,without guitar once n while,,,n listen to the last verse..he played again lol

[greasedog]

I'm not trying to be malicious. I acknowledge the music is good. I love prog rock. But, it's a classic rip off of ELP. Just as Starcastle was an obvious rip off of my favorite prog rock band YES who I saw live (5) times. I saw ELP live in St. Louis back in the late 70's. "Pictures at an Exhibition" is among my all time favorites. I guess imitation is the highest form of flattery or maybe I'm just a snob but I can't help but be a little put off. Just a little. Did I mention it IS good music?

[greasedog]

Good music..yes! Seems I've heard this before or something like it. Oh yeah, I think there was a British Prog rock band that sounded something like these guys Emerson, Lake and something-or-other.

[FairDealDan]

@greasedog

Wow thats harsh.....I admit I can't get enough of these buzzy fizzy synth sounds so I'm still a fan. But they are definitely ELP "lite" me and my friends got some good laffs from Triumvirate's "Pompeii" LP

[agferrari]

Sounds like "Trilogy" (ELP) Very similar..

[ripper58]

smoked a LOT of dope listening to Illusions

[cristicini]

Only the unaverage people can appreciate this, welcome! This is the real stuff!

[xxqwxx1]

tight !!

[ichbinzehn]

Einer meiner ersten LP!

Einfach nur klasse!

[mikemcglohon]

Nice clip... although I wish you had done the full version of 'Illusions...' maybe some other time... Thanks!

[AretyRocks]

I play sparticus at least once a week in my car.

[Akron162]

Damn it, why they don't call themselfs "The German ELP".

[baadddrx7]

Awesome keyboardist, next to Keith.

[Cozy990]

The whole album is one of my "running"

CDs in my car!

[palejewel3]

I first heard this back in '75 too. I was in high school. I loved it then and I still love it. i have the same album still.

[me43431]

@palejewel3 Same here, Although I don't have the vinyl record I do have it on cd.

[harpsinth]

Analog Synthesizers !....what a sound !

[BigMoInAZ]

This was the second album I ever bought in my life! I was in HS living in Holland and the time and would listen to this album and mostly this song endlessly for hours! Of course I was stoned out of my mind throughout! Thanks for sharing the memories!

[allabouttheink]

I had this album too and I grew up in Baltimore, MD USA. Funny thing, some years later I had a German guy working for me who came from Cologne and knew these guys, It was his job to put the mouse in the egg shell and photograph it! It took him HOURS and they gave him credit on the record and let him do some kind of Lyric!

I have not thought of that for YEARS!

[BigMoInAZ]

What a small world heh?

[allabouttheink]

Made smaller by the music itself and smaller yet by the internet!

[meowzer999]

Wow thanx, whadda treat, I ain't heard this stuff since I got an *8-track* (!) copy back in '75...a couple yrz later I was listening to punk & prog at the same time, ha...alwayz liked the Illusionz stuff

[bigcanguy]

great sound!! great band...this and Spartacus were seminal albums for me in the 70's.

[electrovirginal]

"live" videoa!!!!!!!!!

[prutters]

Jurgen Fritz...the Yngwie Malmsteen of keyboards..:)

[STRATCAT101]

can anyone post the illusions album? The entire album, because it comes in sections,from the start of school days to the end.Illusions was thier greatest album,i love them all,but i can't find the cd any where.

[giliofelipe]

Watch this:

watch?v=suDxISFa9bg

Nice!!!!

[progrockman]

Nice video work! I like what you did with the images and how you matched it with the music. And, of course, Triuvirat is a GREAT band!!!

[ageshero]

Im Glad nintendo and the creators of super metroid had a good sense of musical taste when they chose to copy the song Haha!

[itsnotmedj]

Illusions of a double dimple is the best cd ever made period! Once you listen to the first song you have to listen to it from beg. to end.

[eyerock36]

I had purchased tickets to see Triumvirat, Slade, and Peter Frampton in Philly, around '76...concert was cancelled due to the Slade singer being ill! grrrr!! Like when I had tickets to see ELP, Deep Purple and Dream Theater in about 2000; it, too, was cancelled due to the singer in Deep Purple being sick! Double grrrr!! Anyway, Triumvirat was a great band.

[mikey1829]

These guys were great...PERIOD<<<

[victormotta262]

Gostaria muito de ter um DVD dessa ban

da, mas infelizmente no Brasil não conse

go encontrar.

[bonnbonnjojo]

Posso te dar um CD e enviar para o Brasil. Do you speak English? Hablas Espanol?

[bonnbonnjojo]

Eine meiner ersten aufgenomenen Cassetten!!

Immer noch hörenswert!!

Top! Danke fürs Einstellen!

[ichbinzehn]

Eine meiner ersten Platten!!

Immer noch hörenswert!!

Top! Danke fürs Einstellen!

[News4usall]

Funny how so many prog lps sound so dated - with their cheesy instrumentation or "stones of years" head-scratching lyrics.

But this band holds up great. Still listen to them.

[PLANx]

The album is called "Illusions on a Double Dimple" and every song is excellent!

[rickylee310]

You are so right...I still reherse to this album. Sure love to find some live footage

[me43431]

@PLANx I found that out in 1974 when I first heard the record!!!

[PhyloidealCreations]

from which album is this song? and where can i find it completed, please?

[Avebury]

I saw them on the tour for this album. They played the Shire Auditorium in Los Angeles, opening for Fleetwood Mac and Jefferson Starship.

I had tickets to the Spartacus tour, but they had to cancel it because the bassist had been drafted by the German army.

[kevinlovesceri]

I once saw a keyboard based prog tri on The Old Grey Whistle Test. I was immediately impressed and immediately forgot their name. Could this be them. Were they on the programme?

[mikamikamika666]

some notes of this song dream theater use in theirs songs .. fuck copy xD

[imperialpod]

Ha, funny thing is these guys were accused of ripping off ELP.

What goes around comes around I guess!

[theantkid12]

Lol not like they were ripping off them in a bad way.

IMHO they cloned ELP and made it better.

[imperialpod]

I don't know about better, more of a homage to the prog of ELP.

Fritz is a VERY accomplished musician in his own right and certainly did no harm to the prog movement!

[theantkid12]

ELP was definitely a major influence to them. Fritz is a prog god.

[srvalasco]

lol....a very nice clone but nothing more then a small shade of ELP.

[jppineau]

@mikamikamika666

Lol, this song itself is a pale copy of ELP's Tarkus segments in the 5/4 part.... but for copy, you know... it is still amazing to hear what the human kind could make out of 12 notes...

[VenusGrnys]

whatever happened to these guys?????

[AretyRocks]

thanks There must be a live show on video somewhere what a shame Jack

[PLANx]

Apparently they appeared on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert back at the peak of their popularity. I would love to be able to see that footage!

[CatapultYourMom]

@PLANx I saw the Illusions tour...awesome!

[Hounddoggy33]

I remembered this song... when I was sacked last Friday...

[Raiderblack]

Great Album!! Mr. Ten Percent!!

[breakfastisready]

Played this endlessly back in the day.

Still holds up well. I miss this era.

[glennheald]

Illusions on a Double Dimple is one of the all-time great prog albums. It still sounds great.

[B3Rock]

You can now get their old albums on remastered German import C.D.'s. I think they sound better than any of my U.S. made C.D.'s !

[AretyRocks]

is there any live concerts of this band ? I need to see sparticus done live.. Jack

[Guitriff]

There's live audio out there...in the hands of some radio stations or djs of that time..don't know about anything official...but video is still a mystery

[bryaninstlouis1]

What a fantastic band!!! They were around about the time Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, and ELO were here in the 70's. Saw them in St. Louis. What a show! Thank you for remembering them.

[pavlovsdog3]

I wonder why people in St. Louis seem to have a greater depth of knowledge about classic rock and the less commercial bands of the 70's in comparison to people in other cities. Could it have been because of KSHE95 and the sunday classic rock show?????

[mooregl]

You had better bet it is! Not to mention that with all of the great venues in STL and KSHE, many great acts came here due to the huge following thanks to KSHE. The midwest was a great location for new music in the

60's and 70's. You can find many of the former KSHE DJ's now on KHITS, 96.3 in STL. They stream live on the computer. Complete with Rich Dalton. From KSHE Sunday morning classic show. I still have hundreds of my ticket stubs from shows in STL presented by KSHE.

[pavlovsdog3]

I remember Ruth, the kshe 65 year old dj.  She was awesome. Wasn't Joe Mama Mason and JC Corcoran on KSHE? They were great. Especially their "helium blues news". Also, check out the band "Starcastle" from Illinois, timeless 70s music (sound like ealy Yes.) I left STL 9 years ago, but recall 96.3 was a softer music format. Perhaps my memory fails me. I'll check out the web. Mooregl, thanks for the post. Be well!

[pavlovsdog3]

PLANX - Excellent post. Post the entire illusions of a double dimple album. Excellent stuff. To colin5765 - you didn't miss the 70's, you just missed some great music.

[colin5765]

who the f were triangle, did i miss the 70,s

[PLANx]

The band was Triumvirat, the song is Triangle