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Thought I read something here about MERGER recently.
Can't find it...

I just wanted to add a link to an amazing 1978 live recording (27 min.) put online last month by Dutch radio station VPRO:

http://weblogs.vpro.nl/radioarchief/2010/04/27/merger/

Enjoy

damn they sounded great live. i'd like to download or buy that recording or others from the same period.

here's a treat for you from the same year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvLX1HKW ... re=related

I love the electric piano but isn't that bass out of tune (?)

The 70s was the period of the so called "Progressive" Rock.
And Soul and Reggae bands were also into that progressive sound: long songs, complex arrangements, solos, pedals, elaborate chord structures and over the top virtuosity ( or boring and pretencious self-indulging pseudo-virtousity!)

A friend of mine call them "Progressive Reggae", referring to the UK bands of the period like Merger,Cimarons (at the time of Maka), Matumbi, Aswad, etc.....and even JA bands like Third World, In Crowd.

I like this stuff (most of it anyway, not always)
When is good, is very good, experimenting and taking other influences into a Reggae structure....but can be awful too.
It's just personal taste I guess....

Inyaki wrote:I love the electric piano but isn't that bass out of tune (?)

yes...

and I dont like too much the harmonica solo neither.... and not because of the instrument. I love their "progressive" musical concept, but maybe this was not their best performance. A tuner for the bassman would help of course

ruff wrote: here's a treat for you from the same year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvLX1HKW ... re=related

this performance sounds pretty good