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Thread started 03/14/06 12:08pm

SupaFunkyOrgan
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Does anybody know of a 70s avant-garde jazz/rock group with an astronaught on the cover?

In 1997 one of my friends worked at a mental hospital and befriended this man. One time I went to pick her up and he invited us over to hang out. He and I got to talking music and he dragged out this record, put it on and asked what I thought. He told me it was a premiere jazz group from the 70s and that the album was made by this jazz group and premiere rock musicians of that time.

I remember that there was an astronaught on the cover and he told me it was an interpretive story about a knight rescuing a princess. I can't really remember much more than that but the music was absolutely killer. He made me a tape of it but did not label it and I can't remember who this group was. And I have since lost track of the tape sad

Anybody know who this group might be? pray
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Reply #1 posted 03/14/06 12:13pm

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its possible that adventures in utopia by utopia... though i think it was a space coffin on the cover...

i seem to remember an album with a song about major tom you might want to research
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Reply #2 posted 03/14/06 12:22pm

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This was the 1st cover that came to mind but the storyline doesn't match...



... and now this doesn't really look like an astronaut either. neutral


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Reply #3 posted 03/14/06 12:50pm

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Then there's this one that satisfies the astronaut requirement...



...but no Rock musicians or knights/princesses again. confused


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Reply #4 posted 03/14/06 1:01pm

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theAudience said:

Then there's this one that satisfies the astronaut requirement...



...but no Rock musicians or knights/princesses again. confused


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I knew you'd show up biggrin It is an astronaught wearing an astronaught outfit like the guys on the moon. Gosh, I just remember that the music was so incredible. And there were no words. So where this guy got the story of the Princess and the Knight I'll never know lol I want to find this again pray
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Reply #5 posted 03/14/06 1:06pm

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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

In 1997 one of my friends worked at a mental hospital and befriended this man. One time I went to pick her up and he invited us over to hang out. He and I got to talking music and he dragged out this record, put it on and asked what I thought. He told me it was a premiere jazz group from the 70s and that the album was made by this jazz group and premiere rock musicians of that time.

I remember that there was an astronaught on the cover and he told me it was an interpretive story about a knight rescuing a princess. I can't really remember much more than that but the music was absolutely killer. He made me a tape of it but did not label it and I can't remember who this group was. And I have since lost track of the tape sad

Anybody know who this group might be? pray



That sounds like a concept Chick Corea would do. But that would mean the astronaut wouldn't be on the cover if it was a group album and it would be "The Romantic Warrior" Sounds to me like it would be a foreign group outside of the U.S.
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Reply #6 posted 03/14/06 1:09pm

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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:


I knew you'd show up biggrin It is an astronaught wearing an astronaught outfit like the guys on the moon. Gosh, I just remember that the music was so incredible. And there were no words. So where this guy got the story of the Princess and the Knight I'll never know lol I want to find this again pray

wink How you?


More clues...woot!

* Single astronaut on the cover
* Instrumental fusion music
* Storyline may be a figment of someone's imagination.

hmmm


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Reply #7 posted 03/14/06 1:10pm

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Trickology said:



That sounds like a concept Chick Corea would do. But that would mean the astronaut wouldn't be on the cover if it was a group album and it would be "The Romantic Warrior" Sounds to me like it would be a foreign group outside of the U.S.

I thought about Romantic Warrior but ruled it out because of the cover.
(Knight vs Astronaut).

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Reply #8 posted 03/14/06 1:18pm

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There is definitely an astronaught on the cover nod
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Reply #9 posted 03/14/06 1:24pm

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This was another possibility...



...but then there's too many astronauts and it was done in '69.


Groundbreaking record though for the electronica crowd.


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Reply #10 posted 03/14/06 1:27pm

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I'm going to assume it's not Flood by Herbie Hancock's Headhunters




I guess that doesn't fit the rest of the criteria....





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Reply #11 posted 03/14/06 1:34pm

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None of the albums are it. I would recognize the cover if I saw it. The astronaught is pretty large and takes up a good space on the cover.
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Reply #12 posted 03/14/06 2:01pm

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The UK group Camel had an album called "I Can See Your House From Here"...had a picture of a crucified Astronaut looking toward earth ...actually, this was more progressive rock, though....



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paligap said:

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The UK group Camel had an album called "I Can See Your House From Here"...had a picture of a crucified Astronaut looking toward earth ...actually, this was more progressive rock, though....



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Reply #14 posted 03/14/06 2:19pm

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theAudience said:

Trickology said:



That sounds like a concept Chick Corea would do. But that would mean the astronaut wouldn't be on the cover if it was a group album and it would be "The Romantic Warrior" Sounds to me like it would be a foreign group outside of the U.S.

I thought about Romantic Warrior but ruled it out because of the cover.
(Knight vs Astronaut).

tA

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yeah. that's the first album that came to mind. Why would there be an astronaut on the cover if the story line is about a knight rescuing a princess? lol

me thinks supa was stoned that night. nod
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sinisterpentatonic said:

theAudience said:


I thought about Romantic Warrior but ruled it out because of the cover.
(Knight vs Astronaut).

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yeah. that's the first album that came to mind. Why would there be an astronaut on the cover if the story line is about a knight rescuing a princess? lol

me thinks supa was stoned that night. nod


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Actually there was some of this goin round weed

But I clearly remember holding the album cover as he laid out this whole story about a Knight in search of a princess and he explained each of the songs in this story and I remember lookin at the astronaught on the cover and trying to figure out how the hell this was a story about a knight rescuing a princess but that album was the bomb. Next time I go to storage I'm gonna dig for the tape.
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