Lucifer's Friend - Spanish Galleon (FULL)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- The only other copy was cut short by almost three minutes, due to the 10:00 limit. YT has upped that limit to 15:00. This is the full track. Enjoy!
From the album: Banquet
1974 German Vertigo / US Billingsgate
John Lawton - Vocals
Peter Hecht - Keyboards
Dieter Horns - Bass / Backing Vocals
Peter Hesslein - Guitars / Percussion / Backing Vocals
Herbert Bornhold - Drums / Percussion / Backing Vocals
R.I.P. John Lawton. Amazing voice.
Lucifer's Friend had so Many Styles of Music. One of the most Underrated Bands of the 70's. Great Musicians!!! John Lawton's Vocals are Excellent.
I fully agree every album was a different style of music, I have 4 vinyl albums I am not sure if put out more or not. So many great bands have come out of Germany. I kind of liken this band to Blue Oyster Cult whom I love and have several of their albums as well as seeing them in concert multiple times, they also have a different style on each album'
someone said this band didn’t have style concrete so they made different sound every time. But this is not true.
They just made what they feel like. Even today I am deeply impressed by their imagination and techniques.
Rest in peace John. Missed but never forgotten
The best German rock band. Hard rock, fusion, prog rock...and first class musicians.
MANY "ROCK GODS" DONT EVEN TOUCH "LUCIFER'S FRIEND" IN ALL THE WAYS!!!!!!!!!!!JUST AMAZING!!!!!!!
I miss this style of music and there is no more today. Keyboard, brass, voice and imagination all parts were so unique. This is a truly masterpiece!
A classmate in one of my college electronics courses included LF-SG on a mix tape he gave me back in (mumbles) 1986. It was all different stuff from the Zappa, Gentle Giant, Happy The Man that I was used to. Sadly the cassette was lost to the sands of time or the crack of seat in the Opal Station Wagon. It was all good music but the one song that stuck in my head deep enough to search for the album years later was Spanish Galleon. I had some hassle finding it because the stuff that kept coming up was a lot more Metal sounding (not that there's anything wrong with that) and I remembered Lucifer's Friend but not the song title. Eventually I tracked it down and it was even more amazing than I remembered. The writing, the instrumentation, the playing, the singing and the production are all next level stuff. Enjoyed very much! Thank you Eggs! I'm glad I found this version first. I would have dropped a brick when it got cut off...
8:06 John Lawton was an amazing Singer. One of the best rock voices I've never Heard 🔝
I think it says something when there's 917 likes and no one dared to dislike this great song. You'd be hard pressed to find any other music on here that wasn't given the thumbs down by at least a few people.
yes, bro
Their masterpiece, their best song, very underrated, wonderful songwriting and excellent playing...super rythm section too...
Best album may be more
One of the definite songs to show what was so fantastic about classic 70s rock
their best, most interesting, underrated and original album ever...the compositions with their different styles and influences, the great instrumental parts and the vocal melodies clearly show it...
This has to be one of the best songs I've ever heard in my life. Those solos by the Hammond Organ, Guitar, Drums!!. Man its just like mind blowing, every second. There's even a bass solo!! This song alone blew my mind. I love the brass!!
I don't hear any hammond organ.
Dieter horns Is one of the best '70 bass players for sure.
RIP
John Lawton- Funny thing is I sing just like him and look just like him!!!! Really strange. I love Lucifer's Friend. I love especially, though, his work with Uriah Heep which in my opinion is the best music they ever made. Both great bands. These guys had chops, just listen to how well they play and how much variation they are capable of. Thanks for the post!
I know people enjoy their "metal inspired" debut LP (which is very good), but Banquet was so much better musically.
brilliant, masterpiece, ahead of it's time
What a masterpiece! I am in love with it 30 years and every time delivere's the same sense of magik!!!The musicians are fantastik!!!
these fender rhodes solos around the whole album....a listening joy
I kept thinking it might be a Wurlitzer EP, but the album does say Peter plays a Fender Rhodes.
Fabulous performance music. Thanks for posting them. Good time for you
my all time favourite. the keyboard n vocals so good.
My favorite song by this band. Thanks for the post!!
Heard this KILLER for the first time when I was 9 or 10 years old listening to my once great rock station in STL. I'm still moved by the musical transitions, and progressions, in this piece of music, but alas, there are very few who have the taste to truly appreciate this masterpiece!I wish a super hot, artistic, woman would let me know I'm wrong. And we could talk about music, meet, and have a life where we just groove on the finer artistic things in this life. I'm dreaming, I know. But, I still believe in dreaming...what if???
Absolute perfection !!!!! Greatest lineup of the band 🙏❤️🙏 Total MASTERWORK !!!!
Why didnt they make more albums like this masterpiece?
Thank you....., AGAIN!!! How can this not be timeless???
Wonderful guitarist skill intelligens, superb band
Great song! Great album! For me the best Lucifer's Friend album.
I respectfully disagree. They never sold out. They put out several different styles, with each album, up through "Banquet". They nailed each one. Rather than a sell out, I considered them showing how extremely talented and diverse they were. They spanned genres from the brilliantly, rocking first album, to the psychadelic "Groupies", and the ProgRock classic that was "Banquet". Great band, and I'll dig on all their early stuff, all day. I thought "Mind Explosion" was a bit on the weak side, tho.
@Rocky B
Eargasm, indeed. The first time I heard this, I got through the first two minutes or so, as the guitar and Fender Rhodes soloed ....and then this horn section popped in and took over. Immediately I knew *not* to turn it off -- good things were going to happen very soon.
John Lawton fucking rocks
@cag52imarn Yep. A lot of good music came out of Germany, in the mid-seventies, Lucifer's Friend is not among the least of them! =) Glad you liked it, rock on!
My God what a great piece!!!
Lovin' it continuously since 1982
I guess its all opinion but this is how Progressive Jazz Rock should sound. This has everything going for it i mean everything all the right stuff i love the Fender Rhodes Piano especially in the two main songs on the album. Spanish Galleon and Sorrow, For me 11 minutes is a great length you have the vocals sections and the instrumental sections. Total Eargasm indeed.
most underrated album an band of 70s...
dieter is such an amazing bassist
was :((((
I'm like nine hundred and ninety-five. Wish I could've been one thousand. Underrated song and band. I like to play this and "Closer to Home" by Grand Funk Railroad back-to-back. Feels like I've Marty McFly'ed back to listening to records after school. With someone who hopefully had some awesome weed.
More backing vocals from the former Les Humphries Singers members Elvira "Puppa" Herbert, Sheila McKinley and Dave Brian.
@jeffthepoet
Banquet was a great LP, that's for sure! I like all of their first four albums. The talent this band displayed over different genre was amazing. Keep the album, man. It might be worth somethin, some day. =)
This is a great jazz-rock epic. The band is defenitely going into Steely Dan territory with this track....
VERY GOOD.........................................
Best intro ever for a mastetpiece!
Thanks, splendido, first i don't like this album its more progressive than the three first album but now i idore it so much good music
I had only heard the first LP before Pete Pardo told me about Banquet (he ranks it as his third favorite LF album). This opener is certainly an impressive musical showcase for a hard rock type band that was ripping off Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" just two years prior.
Actually Zep ripped from them.
Don't know exactly why, but i love that cover!
That lunatic keyboard solo at the end...
I can´t help my self, but it´s kind a bohemian rhapsody material, but i just like to get stoned with my lucifers friends, so...
Che meraviglia...che geni 🤟
one of my fav bands, great era..greetings from spain.
Put in my play list from album tracks great upload!!
Я с ним лично общался. ВДНХ Москва. Это для нас родные люди в музыке❤
KSHE-FM/St. Louis used to play this on the air in its entirety, during the day, during the week. RIP freeform radio.
dat bass. dem drums.
i see yew
Remember this from the Seventh Day on KSHE.
Amazing composition
RIP
Real musicians
mind. blown. wow.
@groundhog713 Yup. The entire album is that way. Give a listen to "Dirty Old Town". =)
This album is like fine wine
Lost treasure. Been a fan since ....... day 1
The best random click
Never ever disrespect a band that is Amazing...So many memories, always listened to on an LP , so wow digital is amazing. They could have named the band a bit different , but not disrespect , it yo can not feel they music...???
KSHE St Louis Classic
Thank you!!!!
Wow, what an epic.
i love it
Are any of their other songs remotely like this? Love it. I heard Sorrow was another (happens to be on the same album), but are there any improvisational epics like this on other albums?
Yes. Gamelore...Where the Groupies Killed the Blues lp
Sweet. YT *did* up the time limit! =)
thx for the post
que maravilla del rock¡¡¡
Awesome indeed
I'd like to propose an alternate history in which Jack Lawton records this and the subsequent album (because it contains "Yesterday's Ideals"), and then leaves, and joins Genesis to replace Peter Gabriel in the summer of 1975.
I agree! Funny we'd both have the same thought. It's John Lawton actually. He is one of my very biggest heroes and I even look a bit like him crossed with Peter Hecht! Can you believe that!? Lawton would have been the perfect fit for Genesis. It would have worked with him better than with Phil Collins who basically was a Gabriel attempt in the beginning and then some devilish creation of commercial pop tripe out of Hell!
I'd say it worked pretty damn well with Phil singing. "Ripples," "Blood on the Rooftops," etc, and yes, even *I* like the WCD album.
That said, it's just an exercise in counter-history, that's all. Phil is the most brilliant, naturally gifted drummer on this or any other planet in the known universe; but, after hearing "Spanish Galleon," I can picture Lawton belting out "six-six-six ..is no longer alone!!" and being brilliant at it.
Drchainsaw77
I love what you mentioned Phil singing! He was the best drummer in the world in fact he may not play anymore because of tragic illness, but he always will be the best. I just think that "WCD" was a horrible album and Land Of Confusion was a little spotty. I was just a little kid when Genesis were at their peak of fame. I loved them then. Then I got into the Gabriel era after I initially hated it coz I was a dumb little 14/15 year old. Lawton is one of the best singers in the world. It's not hard to imagine him in Genesis, but yes counter-history in real life he went into Uriah Heep and did a sterling job. Still interesting to contemplate.
Interesting idea, but I like the current reality. I don't think anyone but John could've replaced the great David Byron in 1977.
This makes me think at times of The Doors' Soft Parade album and John and Robby's post Doors group The Butts Band but this is better than either.
Right On!!
David Byron (Uriah Heep) on vocals. One of his side projects.
That's not David Byron. It's John Lawton.
It’s insane this song and band is virtually unknown in the US…
Magnum opus
Sounds like Carlos Santana.
i said the same thing !!!!
The intro does, but then it goes to places that Carlos never dreamt of going.
@@ericcampbell6370 Have you heard any of the fusion albums he made in the early to mid 70s? They’re killer.
De acuerdo
Galeón Español
This is my favorite anime OP.
Someday, whether it be in a year or twenty, I'll still make an anime OP with that song. Once you see it, remember me.
Well, its already worth 65 - 120 € today...!
If I had this money on dispense, I'd gladly spend it for this album on vinyl !
Get it on Japan SHM-CD. Sounds good.
Sailed the seas of broken Мen
And freed their wealthy wives
А warriors dream of riches
Gold wiped up
With blooded knives
The captain the witches
Warning of stories in far
Off lands
Well, it`s bread and water
The prisoners daughter,
Knights in shining gold
The prisoners hard luck
Story with the pain of an
Empty cry.
With lights of a far
Away temple drifting
Away, drifting away
You and your dreams
In a world of fantasy, turn
Around chimed the bells
In a world of silvered fire
Run said the wind
The words he sadly spoke,
You can lean on me cried
The oak.
And the weeping willow
Cried at the break of
Morning,
The crack upon
The empty wall
And the house that little
Jack built touching
The ground
Paths of gold a story
Book in tidy rhyme,
Soldiers bold the tortures
That they hid right down Inside
The devil the captain
Dealing in worthy souls,
Oh it`s silk and satin
And children clapping
A thousand marching feet
The prisoners hard luck
Story with the pain
Of an empty cry.
With the lights of a far
Away temple drifting
Away drifting away.
You and your dreams
In a world of fantasy
Turn around chimed the Bells.
In a world silvered fire
Run said the wind
And the words he sadly Spoke,
You can lean on me
Cried the oak
Run said the wind
And the words
He softly cried,
You can lean on me
As he sighed.
And the weeping willow
Cried at the break of
Morning
The crack upon the empty wall
And the house that
Little Jack built
Touching the ground.
Genial ❤❤❤❤
2:20 - 3:50 - perfect anime intro song
If anybody needs the chords for this, I have figured them out.
If someone has the lyrics I would much appreciate it if you'd share, thanks.
Posted above ;)
does anyone know the lyrics?
posted above ;)
Hey, tienes buenos gustos ✌
Interesting but I don’t like the electric guitar in it
BUFĖT, V KRĖMLĖ!?!
Ohne die grausigen Bläser wäre der Song wirklich gut. Aber so....
this is a good song by them though heard some bubble gum instruments in parts of the song
Great song! Lawtton is God!