STEVE HILLAGE - "SALMON SONG" (reaction)
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Very much in the spacerock Gong/Canterbury scene vein, and several members of Gong play on this album.
Hillage has recently been touring again, playing this solo material with the Kavus Torabi led current Gong lineup as his backing band.
Saw that tour in 2019, absolutely awesome
Fantastic stuff. Got to see Steve Hillage play a few years ago. He used my amp for the show. The entire Gong universe is something else. Check out the Flying Teapot trilogy by Gong or Space Shanty by Khan for more Hillage!
His techno project System 7 and work with The Orb are also fantastic, if you're into that sort of stuff. His partner Miquette is usually killing it along-side him.
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Pierre Moerlen's drumming is sublime here. Best heard on the "Power Trio Backing Track" from Motivation Radio CD.
takes me back to my teens, love this track and the album too. This, L and Green are my favourites and are a proud part of my music collection. These, along with his stuff with Gong are a bit "trippy" but don't give a damn, I like them. He's a good guitarist to boot too.
Rainbow dome played at sunrise before you close your eyes after ab evening of hillage and gong is a treat .
I believe this was Hillage’s 1st album after leaving Gong in ‘74(?). Gong’s music was incredibly good, incredibly psychedelic/weird, unapologetically. Hillage has had a long career since those days, in more recent years in an electronic duo with his wife Miquette Girardy on synths and stuff. Steve is a very influential guitarist to his generation of European creative space rockers, never really caught on as much in the US. : )
His duo with Girardy is System 7
This was recorded when he was still in Gong. His 1st after he left was 'L'.
The version on "live herald" is even better. In fact the entire album's worth checking out. Was given that album, "decade" by Neil Young and "china" by vangelis by my brother on my 18th birthday. Haven't looked back since. Kudos for reacting to this. Nobody is doing Hillage as far as I can see.
I recommend the Steve Hillage's cover of "Hurdy Gurdy Man" from his album "L", which is produced by Todd Rundgren and features Utopia as the backing band
Oh my gosh! Someone reviewing this amazing artist and song! I've had this l.p. since 1975. Steve is such an amazing guitar player. Anyway, thanks for reviewing him.
Glad you enjoyed Martin!
MASTERPIECE !!!!!! The entire album is one trippy psychedelic surreal journey with Solar Musick Suite being the creme de la creme! Steve is out of the Canterbury Prog scene previously with GONG then one release with KHAN*** which included keysman Dave Steward (Hatfield & the North****, National Health*** & Bill Bruford's band from YES/King Crimson. He sings about a lot of Cosmic Spiritually infused ideas! NOTICE on the cover, the fish inside the vesica piscis “Vessel of the Fish” - a sacred symbol that is made of the intersection of two circles of the same radius and the center of each circle lies on the circumference of the other. The symbol prominently originated from Pythagorean history and portrays the divine feminity, female fertility, and birth of life. Connecting the overlapping points with lines allows you to create all the major enclosed geometric shapes without a measuring device starting with the Triangle, Square, Pentangle, Hectagon and on & on which are considered the forms from which Nature ITself is build upon ... Steve's was into that.
Trippin times. Love Hillage!
Really neat to here this. For about 4(!!??!) decades I've only been listening to the live version of this song. Thanks muchly.
Thanks for being here Marko!
"King of the fishes!"... Far out!
Have loved Steve Hillage since he played with Gong; and his message about love and understanding...well you can't possibly argue with it can you?
Hearing this always makes me want to go listen to the live version of Isle of Everywhere on Gong, Live Etc. He plays like literally no-one else. Love it!
I used to listen to the band Gong when in my final year at high school and when I heard that Steve Hilllage had left the band to go solo, I bought the album the day that it was released in 1975 (unheard). I didn't regret this blind purchase. The best track on the album is "Aftaglid".
Another good song of his is "Lunar Musick Suite" from his album "L". Utopia are his backing band and Todd Rundgren is his engineer and producer.
But, the very best Steve Hillage is "Rainbow Dome Musick". Both tracks, one on each side of the vinyl album, are dreamy and amazing. They calm you and sooth you.
Yes, it is Steve Hillage singing.
Shoutout to Steve!
Label that! Mix of early trance, rock, jazz, folk. Takes some getting into, but worth the effort. Takes me back many years!
Was originally with space rock group Gong has been session player for many and acclaimed certainly as one of the greatest English guitarists ever
LOVE THIS. I already knew Gong, but his name didn't ring a bell … until now. Really nice one! Original stuff
Gong!
Gong must surely be coming after this.
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@@SightAfterDark Steve Hillage appeared on various albums of the amazing Gong between 1973 & 2012. Gong are trippy but fantastic musicians and along with Zappa and King Crimson are amongst my favourites
I'd never heard of the guy until I saw him as the opening act for ELO in 1978. Been hooked ever since!
We’re hooked now too!
I saw Steve Hillage play a gig in about 1976 at Guildford University - but I was only 15 at the time. Very trippy and hippy. This was just before punk and new wave arrived and changed everything. I also remember having the Gong album Camembert Electrique. This stuff is very much of its time and to me it hasn’t aged very well. Top marks for nostalgia though!
I was listening GONG in late 70s traveling in the south american mountains,Steve was the guitar player....
I know him as part of the band Gong. Great musicians with mad lyrics.
Yes this is Steve Hillage voice here. Check his life on TH-cam, you will realise he involve in many different styles of music and also some sounstracks for cinema. And he was the gutarist of Gong at the time of their best records!
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A very underrated guitarist
Never heard much of SH but anyone associated with Gong makes me smile.
Wow, how did I miss STEVE HILLAGE? Lots of good comments. Thanks Patreon Bert XD
Surprising choice--and a fantastic one. Steve was somewhat more than tangentially related to what's (controversially) known as "The Canterbury Scene" of 60's/early 70's British rock. The subject is far too long to summarize here, though Wikipedia does its customary okay job on the page dedicated to it. In brief, it's the bands which came out of The Wilde Flowers: Robert Wyatt-era Soft Machine and Caravan. It's a rabbit hole, though, so be warned.
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I don't know how many times I've listened to this album (netheir in how many states). Love almost everything Gong.
Love a bit of Hillage!
Steve Hillage is a guitarist and a vocalist. Very avant guarde and mystic. A prog rock pioneer. I had 2 of his albums back in the 70s. I read about his album "L" in a Milwaukee entertainment section of the newspaper and bought the 8-track format. Very psychedelic and different. Much akin to Hawkwind and Pink Floyd. Then I had to buy "Fish Rising" too. You're the first channel I've seen to react to his music. Bravo!! 👏✌❤
Thanks for the info and thanks for watching Justine!
Peace & Love.
Great stuff. The Gong Trilogy is worth a listen
I love what you said about his voice being like Robert Plant without the belting. It's easier to pull off and it's a pretty sound.
Him and his partner, Miquette Giraudy, (the woman doing the "space whisper" on this song), set up the ambient dance act, System 7. Well worth listening to as well. He produced some quite popular UK bands too; Sham 69, Simple Minds, and others!
Thanks for the info Jim!
Bought the next(?) album, 'L', in '76, intrigued in part by an article touting his use of "glissandi" and his prior membership in Gong, a band I only knew by name and a reportedly deserved reputation as innovators. Can't say it had a lasting impact, much as I enjoyed and respected his playing, probably wasn't ready for it, too staid in my tastes. Sounds really cool to my ears now!
Oh yes, the studio album "777" is far less trancy than the live vid link I posted. Much more structured and nuanced, with a great deal more personnel and vocals. Blessings.
Hillage as member of Gong was one of my follows back in my youthful
low grade THC Mary jane consuming days. The spiritual and cosmic
attribution of the natural process of the salmon to further thier
spieces is uncompairable by Hillages artistist impression
Love this album
Must do Angels Egg album by Gong
Or Camembert Electrique
Never heard this before but WOW! Giving me Mahavishnu vibes.
Lets face it folks, this is NOT Steve Hillages's best moment. This is not where I would have started. There is SO much brilliant work from this HIGHLY UNDERRATED artist. Perhaps a better start would be from the album "Green" (produced by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason) . How about "Sea Nature/Ether Ships" or "Unidentified (Flying Being)"? a great slice of space funk! ...or maybe "Lunar Musick Suite" from the Todd Rundgren produced "L" album. Also the band Gong features Steve Hillage on several albums . Try "Sold To The Highest Buddha" from "Angel's Egg", or "Zero The Hero and The Witch's Spell" from "Flying Teapot", OR a kick -ass piece of instrumental fusion "Master Builder". Gong was a beautiful mix of jazz, prog, and psychedelia, with a lot of humor mixed in. They shared quite a bit with Zappa. PLEASE, PLEASE GO BACK INTO STEVE HILLAGE'S WORK! You wont regret it! TRUST ME.
Lots of history, thanks Steven!
You guys, I'm sorry but I don't do Patreon at all. I'll use the excuse that if I start I'll get addicted to supporting with $ I just don't have in these trying days. Wah wah wah. Life's not an easy thing for any.
So among the suggestions you get from there pay attention to "Gong" requests. I suggest you start with song one on "You", their most progressive and psychedelic album to my mind. It is definitely a concept album to be taken in order, otherwise you won't have a clue about the Pothead Pixies and Zero the Hero.
Hillage and Gong are a huge and necessary exploration of the "Canterbury Scene". While prog-rock was exploding there was this weird and wonderful off-shoot of music. Gong. Soft Machine. Hatfield and the North, Matching Mole, and more. To follow the family trees as these people did work later in life is an amazing thing. So many phenomenal musicians that deserve their kudos.
In the band "System 7" (a computer operating system at that time), Hillage and Miquette Giraudy, both from "Gong", broke new ground in being credited with being the first "techno" band to perform live.
So, you're doin' Hillage charms my heart and is part of a whole era/scene of music that was phenomenal. My most familiar/favorite System 7 album go to "777".
But just watch this for yourselves. There's no way to do a reaction to it. "Dance 'til you drop!"
This man and his music have ALWAYS been whatever is considered psychedelic at the time, from the '70's and with this video, into 2009, full on trance-dance music with the laser lights and all. Hillage, Gong. "You".
Blessings from me and all the Pothead Pixie's.
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You can’t go wrong with You. That’s where I started in 1974. Did you know the US lp,8 track cover art is a bit different than the uk that’s universally seen since the late 70’s? I own both lps.
Great song but side
1 is Solar Music Suite and takes up the entire side of the record. It’s for me the best he did.
he was in gong, look them up, but the sound is bad cos it was recorded in the 70's,
It's like ...over their heads..just like parody or satire.
Have no idea.
Gong rabbit hole
Yeahhh!