RARE Colosseum Live 1969 - Valentyne Suite Part-1/2

Colosseum - Valentyne Suite

Recorded live at Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, June 22, 1969.

Track 1 - Valentyne Suite :
)Theme one : January's Search
)Theme two : February's Valentyne
)Theme Three : Beware the Ides of March *(Incomplete)
(14:49)
Composed By Dave Greenslade and Dick Heckstall-Smith

Artists:
Dave Greenslade - Organ, Vocals
Dick Heckstall-Smith - Saxophones
James Litherland - Guitar, Vocals
Tony Reeves - Bass
Jon Hiseman - Drums

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Important historic fact about Montreux Casino which held Montreux Jazz Festival you might want to know (from Wiki):

Montreux Casino (Casino de Montreux) is a casino located in Montreux, Switzerland, on the shoreline of Lake Geneva.

Montreux Casino was built in 1881 and had modifications made to it in 1903. Throughout the twentieth century, the site played host to many great symphony orchestras and well-known conductors. By the late 1960s, jazz, blues and rock artists began to perform there.

In 1967 the Casino became the venue for the Montreux Jazz Festival, which was the brainchild of music promoter Claude Nobs. The festival was held there annually and lasted for three days. The highlights of this era were Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Evans, Nina Simone, Jan Garbarek, and Ella Fitzgerald. Originally featuring almost exclusively jazz artists, in the 1970s the festival began broadening its scope, including blues, soul, and rock artists. Some notable rock acts which performed at Montreux Casino in these years include Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Deep Purple.

In December 1971, Montreux Casino burned down during a concert by Frank Zappa, after a fan had set the venue on fire with a flare gun, reducing it to ashes. Claude Nobs saved several young people who, thinking they would be sheltered from the flames, had hidden in the casino from the blaze. A recording of the outbreak and fire announcement can be found on a Frank Zappa Bootleg album titled "Swiss Cheese / Fire" English rock group Deep Purple subsequently made Montreux famous with their song "Smoke on the Water", which tells the events of December 1971:

"We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline / To make records with a mobile - We didn't have much time / Frank Zappa & the Mothers were at the best place around / But some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground / Smoke on the water, fire in the sky"

The Casino was subsequently rebuilt, and during the interim the Montreux Jazz Festival was held in other auditoriums in Montreux, until it could return to the newly re-opened Casino in 1975. The Festival continued to be hosted there until 1993, when it moved to a larger Convention Centre located approximately one kilometre from the Casino. From 1995 through 2006, the Festival occupied both the Convention Centre and the Casino. Beginning with the 41st Festival in 2007, nightly performances of headliners were again moved mainly to the Convention Centre, although the Casino still hosts the odd one-off show.

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• Frank Zappa
• Montreux Jazz Festival
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[evets1968]

Deep Purple took note...

[theachtungtree]

@NeilThompson30 great...i love points of views, i'm doing this collection of memories from people and the bands they love, i will totally make a book out of that, specially with people like you who ived those awesome AWESOME times

[eventplay]

LOVE IT ! :)

[Migo6Lino]

Saw Collosseum on theier FIRST concert after over 20 years at Freiburg ZMF, man, it was like being in a film, all the stuff we heard drifting in space when kids, they were great and found the spirit after a while. Tent was cooking... Valentine Suite as such great parts in it

[cesarindf1]

Fabulosa pieza, de lo mejor de Colosseum, el tiempo no pasa...

[GillespieChief]

Oh boy. These guys didn`t stimulate theirselves with chemical substances.

[hooptyhee1]

You're looking at one of the great drummers of all time. I saw this group in '70, and I remember how easy Hiseman made his solos look, and I'd seen both Baker and Mitchell before, and I thought he was better than either, as great as the other two were.

[wolfen682]

used to jam along to this album at 15 years of age in a friends bedroom.My two friend nick and pete .. we had 2 electric guitares a violin - electric piono and ecoustic guitar - everything on full volume - A selmer amp ans variouse improvised speakers made from radio sets.Sometimes nicks elder brother or 2 elder sisters would crane there heads around the door to see what was going on. Happy days...

[NeilThompson30]

@theachtungtree - it's hard to say - as I said - I love both bands - I think the most consistent is Colosseum because Purple did have a lot of fillers on their albums as well as classics - whereas Colosseum didn't do fillers - plus I was the one that bought the Colosseum records when I was a kid - and my older brother bought the Purple ones - I played both sides of the Walking in the park single to death when I was a kid - all the best.

[theachtungtree]

@NeilThompson30 as a fan of both which band was more complex in your opinion? im not going to bash either cause im getting into their music....just wanted your opinion

[NeilThompson30]

@evets1968 - Deep Purple was before Colosseum (I love both bands)