Rick Wakeman - Live At The Maltings 1976 (2013)



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Beautiful show from the maestro in the absolute peak of your sintherizers powers. The
concert was broadcast by the BBC with introduction by Bob Harris, which
actually makes this very interesting item. Picture (cristal clear) and
sound are great, the known pattern of concerts broadcast by the BBC in
the seventies.

By Eduardo Macedo, amazon
Rick Wakeman is one of those artists who really needs no introduction,
but just in case you have spent the past four decades with your head in a
bucket, or ensconced on a desert island somewhere (or both) I will
provide a potted history (mostly) nicked from Wikipedia.

“Wakeman was born in West London. He purchased his first electronic
keyboard at 12 years of age. In 1968, he studied the piano, clarinet,
orchestration and modern music at the Royal College of Music before
leaving after a year in favour of session music work. He went on to
feature on songs by artists including Black Sabbath, David Bowie, T.
Rex, Elton John and Cat Stevens. Wakeman joined the folk group Strawbs
in 1969 and played on three of their albums. He first joined Yes in 1971
to replace Tony Kaye, and left the group in 1974 to work on his solo
career. He returned in 1976 before leaving with lead vocalist Jon
Anderson in 1980. Wakeman was part of the side project Anderson Bruford
Wakeman Howe, a group of ex-Yes members formed in 1989, and the
eight-member Yes line-up that followed until his third departure in
1992. He returned for two years in 1995 and once more in 2002, where he
was part of the band's 35th anniversary tour until its end in 2004.

Wakeman began his solo career during his first run with Yes. His perhaps
most known records being his first three, The Six Wives of Henry VIII
(1973), Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1974) and The Myths and
Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1975). He has
produced over 100 solo albums that have sold more than 50 million
copies. In November 2010, Wakeman was awarded the Spirit of Prog award
at the annual Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards, and in 2012
was crowned as a ‘Prog God’ at the Prog Rock awards”

What Wikipedia doesn’t say is that Rick is one of the most fluid and
intuitive keyboard players in the world today, wether in the rock genre
in which he is most famous, or within any other genre of the broad gamut
of contemporary musicianship.

This album was recorded at Farnham Maltings in 1976; a year when Rick
was just about to take a break from his solo career and rejoin Yes for
the triumphant album that was Going for the One. It was actually
broadcast in the same evening that it was recorded, and The English Rock
Ensemble featured a new guitarist John ‘Dusty’ Dunsterville, who – it
has been rumoured – was a relative of the man upon whom Kipling based
the eponymous hero of Stalky & Co, whgo was also my late Godfather’s
Godfather.

JON DOWNES
Rick Wakeman - Live At The Maltings 1976 (2013):

Tracklist:

01. Journey Medley
i.) Journey Overture
ii.) The Journey
iii.) The Hansbach
02. Realisation
03. Lancelot & The Black Night
04. Spaceman
05. Catherine Parr
06. Prisoner
07. Merlin The Magician






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