The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown!

TrogDawn · 10-10-2005, 05:57 PM

One of my first EVER 7 inch, 45 rpm singles was "Fire" b/w "Rest Cure" by THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN. Man! As soon as I heard that intro: "I am the god of hell-fire, and I bring you..." I was HOOKED! I begged my cousin to give me the record (which she did) and I must have spun that thing literally hundreds of times when I was 7 years old on my old monaural record player (a neat little package decorated red and white checkers that clasped together in a handy dandy little carrying case - that thing saw me through the KISS years from 1976 to 1979 as well!)

But I digress...

I never heard the entire debut album those two songs came from until probably a good 15 years after that but it too delivered the goods!

Now, some 30 years later, I am spinning the CD (complete with 5 original mono mixes) over and over and loving it just as much as, if not more than, the first time I heard it. Vincent Crane and Carl Palmer (who went on to form ATOMIC ROOSTER after this first outing with Arthur) are just as stellar musically as Arthur is vocally, and the overall vibe of this album is just too good to be believed!

So, in similar "better late than never" fashion with this music that I literally grew up with (me and the debut were both born in 1968) I am finally venturing out into Arthur's other material with KINGDOM COME and as a solo artist. I've also heard that two other albums, Strangelands and Jam were recorded with the original CRAZY WORLD lineup before it imploded.

So, that being said, any other ARTHUR BROWN fans here? Sound off!

galen · 10-10-2005, 06:56 PM

here's an opportunity to tell my arthur brown story!
about 5 years ago i was talking with my friend about arthur brown and it transpired that i'd never heard the first LP. we thought this was a glaring ommision so he taped me it and gave it to me a few days later.
it was actually the day before i was going on holiday, and i had to get up at 4am or something like that. i put on the tape while i was getting ready and listened to the first few tracks, and then it was time to go. the last bit i remember listening to was in the third song or so it's going "you're gonna die!" and remarked to my girlfriend how cool it was.
we had to change flights in schipphol airport in amsterdam. if you've not been there it is the biggest building i've ever been in. it has 5 "spokes" around a central hub, each of which is the size of most airports. my gilrfriend wanted to buy a new memory stick for her camera so we went to look for a shop. we probably walked a mile or so. we got to the duty free shop and headed over to the electrical section. i heard music. you guessed it... arthur brown. not just that though, it was the second half of that song! no jokes... it happened. i felt really strange for a few days, almost blissful, then it faded away. one of the biggest coincidences i've ever experienced. OR WAS IT?

anyway, i'm also really into "journey" by kingdom come, with the early drum machine. saw arthur brown play about 15 years ago now. i'd only ever heard Fire. happened to be walking past Nice n' Sleazies in Glasgow and saw he was playing. he was brilliant, was really impressed. was also super-impressed by the support band whose name i never got and it was their last gig. the singer was a bit like capt beefheart and the guitarist was a mod type guy. just in case anyone knows who they were (doubtful).
there you go...:-@

~~Wallace~~ · 10-10-2005, 07:39 PM

"Jam" be bettar than Wallace expekter'd. Mebbe ewen bettar than "Strangelands".(Less quirky/disjointer'd ,anyhoots.)

Yer needin' Arfur wic Craig Leon "Lost Atoya Tapes". Elektruniks.'80.
"Vampire Suite" alser.

Music discussioon group Wallace postin' maist to be "Galactic Zoo". But it isnae a straight Arfur group.

Aye, Arfur.
Him do.

TrogDawn · 10-10-2005, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by galen

here's an opportunity to tell my arthur brown story!
about 5 years ago i was talking with my friend about arthur brown and it transpired that i'd never heard the first LP. we thought this was a glaring ommision so he taped me it and gave it to me a few days later.
it was actually the day before i was going on holiday, and i had to get up at 4am or something like that. i put on the tape while i was getting ready and listened to the first few tracks, and then it was time to go. the last bit i remember listening to was in the third song or so it's going "you're gonna die!" and remarked to my girlfriend how cool it was.
we had to change flights in schipphol airport in amsterdam. if you've not been there it is the biggest building i've ever been in. it has 5 "spokes" around a central hub, each of which is the size of most airports. my gilrfriend wanted to buy a new memory stick for her camera so we went to look for a shop. we probably walked a mile or so. we got to the duty free shop and headed over to the electrical section. i heard music. you guessed it... arthur brown. not just that though, it was the second half of that song! no jokes... it happened. i felt really strange for a few days, almost blissful, then it faded away. one of the biggest coincidences i've ever experienced. OR WAS IT?

anyway, i'm also really into "journey" by kingdom come, with the early drum machine. saw arthur brown play about 15 years ago now. i'd only ever heard Fire. happened to be walking past Nice n' Sleazies in Glasgow and saw he was playing. he was brilliant, was really impressed. was also super-impressed by the support band whose name i never got and it was their last gig. the singer was a bit like capt beefheart and the guitarist was a mod type guy. just in case anyone knows who they were (doubtful).
there you go...:-@

That's a friggin' cool story, man! And you even got to see him live? Too cool!

Yeah, there's something about AB that really just resonates with me!

TrogDawn · 10-10-2005, 07:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wallace

"Jam" be bettar than Wallace expekter'd. Mebbe ewen bettar than "Strangelands".(Less quirky/disjointer'd ,anyhoots.)

Yer needin' Arfur wic Craig Leon "Lost Atoya Tapes". Elektruniks.'80.
"Vampire Suite" alser.

Music discussioon group Wallace postin' maist to be "Galactic Zoo". But it isnae a straight Arfur group.

Aye, Arfur.
Him do.

Wallis am jus TU funnee wiv straynge langwidge! Wallis giv trog chans to yooz trog-speek!

noe wurreez, mayte, trog am ayme tu gitt AWL ov AB's schtuff!

Kevin · 10-10-2005, 08:02 PM

Arthur rules. 'Galactic Zoo Dossier' and 'Journey' by AB's Kingdom Come rule as well. Must haves, must hears.

Has anyone seen the film footage from the first Glastonbury Fayre concert, back in '71? For some reason Arthur doesn't appear on the album, but there's rare footage of him performing 'Galactic Zoo' stuff if you can find the film document from the Fayre.

Also, check out Robert Calvert's 'Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters' for a great performance on 'The Gremlin.' I believe he also worked with Klaus Schulze ca. 1980.

Word has it he formed a painting company (!) in Austin, Texas (!), with Jimmy Carl Black of the Mothers of Invention(!) 'Twas called something like Black and Brown. Maybe just a rumor on that one.

Living in America, I'm afraid I'll die without ever seeing him. He was supposed to have toured with Hawkwind a year or two ago.

galen · 10-11-2005, 12:49 PM

did he not also play with the pretty things when they did the whole of sf sorrow. he did the narration if i remember. that would have been a good 'un.

TrogDawn · 10-11-2005, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevin

Word has it he formed a painting company (!) in Austin, Texas (!), with Jimmy Carl Black of the Mothers of Invention(!) 'Twas called something like Black and Brown. Maybe just a rumor on that one.

I don't know about a painting company, but he did do an album with JCB called Brown, Black & Blue.

Kevin · 10-11-2005, 04:28 PM

Yep. I wish I could pin down that painting rumor.....

Sir Lord Doom · 10-11-2005, 05:10 PM

Arthur Brown is just a blast to listen to..Vince Crane's organ work is fantastic as well as the haunting vocals. I wish we still had more bands playing inspired like that...

~~Wallace~~ · 10-13-2005, 03:16 PM

TrogDawn:
"Fire" isnae by Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
Its by Arthur Brown.
Th'GROUP ,Crazy World of Arthur Brown, didnae cum inter bein' till '73.

Annover shockin' inditement o' th' level o' ignarunce 'round 'ere!

TrogDawn · 10-13-2005, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wallace

TrogDawn:
"Fire" isnae by Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
Its by Arthur Brown.
Th'GROUP ,Crazy World of Arthur Brown, didnae cum inter bein' till '73.

Annover shockin' inditement o' th' level o' ignarunce 'round 'ere!

Now that's just not true. "Fire" is on the debut of CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN which came out in 1968. I think you are mixing up your bands. CRAZY WORLD was prior to the ARTHUR BROWN solo stuff. In fact, I believe Arthur formed KINGDOM COME after the demise of CWOAB and before he started using his own name exclusively (although I believe he resurrected the CWOAB name for some later releases). In any case, "Fire" is definitely by CWOAB. Just search the internet, you'll see.

Butch · 10-13-2005, 08:55 PM

I just found the CWOAB at a record show for $7 and it looked to be in nice shape....turns out the record has an irreparable skip in "I Put A Spell On You" - needless to say I was both bummed and pissed cause I had no way of returning the record. So.... I just bought it on ebay for $12 on CD.

Anyway.... I digress... this was my first listen to the CWOAB all the way through and I am much impressed. Arthur's vocals, to me, seem to predate the high pitched metal scream by a couple of years.

~~Wallace~~ · 10-14-2005, 08:30 AM

Awlricht Trogdawn, yew gubbins.
Wallace be forc'd tae eat crow.
Ah did sum diggin' an', yes 7" acetate o' "Fire" is credited to CWOAB, noo Arfur hissensell. (Ah kin post acteral pitchure 'ere, but ah doan ken 'ow.)

Dis be wha Wallace learn'd:
ARTHUR BROWN & THE DIAMONDS 45rpm on Readington label. Copies given awa' wif Readington University school paper

ARTHUR BROWN SET 2 uncredited tracks on soundtrack to Roger Vadim's film "The Game is Over"

CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN -SAME yep! It say so on orrigernal label (UK mono Track and US Atlantic -orrigernal US was Atlantic! US Track press came later.)

Sae, ah takes it yer content now.

-Wallace (grumblin' in his tatties an' skreel.)
.......

Oh aye! 'ere's a double quiz fer anyone brae eneugh:

1/ Nick Greenwood lp "Cold Cuts" credits 'im as bein' th' cornerstone of CWOAB. Was Nick indeed ewer in th' band?

2/name all th'keysmen tha' wark'd wif Arfur

~~Wallace~~ · 10-15-2005, 08:40 AM

As shure as thare be cauld shite inna daid cat's arris, this site is bein' its perdictabool, useless self.

Cummon lads!
Th' question is:
NAME AS MANY KEYBOARD PLAYERS AS YOU CAN WHICH WORKED WITH ARTHUR BROWN.

Evraybody kens the main 2 keysmen, yet noo person ha' ewen mention'd dem yet!
Dis be eiver insuffrabool ignarunce, or mair belike, ossual 'ellrider dozy, sponge-inna-woodwork non-participatioon. In shart: bollard-matter.

80 persons have been tae dis thried.
Cummon lads! Make th'effart.

10-10-2005, 05:57 PM	#1
TrogDawn Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Arizona, USA Posts: 346	The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown! One of my first EVER 7 inch, 45 rpm singles was "Fire" b/w "Rest Cure" by THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN. Man! As soon as I heard that intro: "I am the god of hell-fire, and I bring you..." I was HOOKED! I begged my cousin to give me the record (which she did) and I must have spun that thing literally hundreds of times when I was 7 years old on my old monaural record player (a neat little package decorated red and white checkers that clasped together in a handy dandy little carrying case - that thing saw me through the KISS years from 1976 to 1979 as well!) But I digress... I never heard the entire debut album those two songs came from until probably a good 15 years after that but it too delivered the goods! Now, some 30 years later, I am spinning the CD (complete with 5 original mono mixes) over and over and loving it just as much as, if not more than, the first time I heard it. Vincent Crane and Carl Palmer (who went on to form ATOMIC ROOSTER after this first outing with Arthur) are just as stellar musically as Arthur is vocally, and the overall vibe of this album is just too good to be believed! So, in similar "better late than never" fashion with this music that I literally grew up with (me and the debut were both born in 1968) I am *finally* venturing out into Arthur's other material with KINGDOM COME and as a solo artist. I've also heard that two other albums, Strangelands and Jam were recorded with the original CRAZY WORLD lineup before it imploded. So, that being said, any other ARTHUR BROWN fans here? Sound off! __________________ http://thecave.niceboard.com http://www.myspace.com/troglodawn http://www.myspace.com/christiandoomalliance *- "Screw the naysayers and DOOM, baby! Friggin' DOOM!!"* Last edited by TrogDawn; 10-10-2005 at 06:04 PM.

10-10-2005, 06:56 PM	#2
galen Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: edinburgh, scotland Posts: 109	here's an opportunity to tell my arthur brown story! about 5 years ago i was talking with my friend about arthur brown and it transpired that i'd never heard the first LP. we thought this was a glaring ommision so he taped me it and gave it to me a few days later. it was actually the day before i was going on holiday, and i had to get up at 4am or something like that. i put on the tape while i was getting ready and listened to the first few tracks, and then it was time to go. the last bit i remember listening to was in the third song or so it's going "you're gonna die!" and remarked to my girlfriend how cool it was. we had to change flights in schipphol airport in amsterdam. if you've not been there it is the biggest building i've ever been in. it has 5 "spokes" around a central hub, each of which is the size of most airports. my gilrfriend wanted to buy a new memory stick for her camera so we went to look for a shop. we probably walked a mile or so. we got to the duty free shop and headed over to the electrical section. i heard music. you guessed it... arthur brown. not just that though, it was the second half of that song! no jokes... it happened. i felt really strange for a few days, almost blissful, then it faded away. one of the biggest coincidences i've ever experienced. OR WAS IT? anyway, i'm also really into "journey" by kingdom come, with the early drum machine. saw arthur brown play about 15 years ago now. i'd only ever heard Fire. happened to be walking past Nice n' Sleazies in Glasgow and saw he was playing. he was brilliant, was really impressed. was also super-impressed by the support band whose name i never got and it was their last gig. the singer was a bit like capt beefheart and the guitarist was a mod type guy. just in case anyone knows who they were (doubtful). there you go...:-@ Last edited by galen; 10-10-2005 at 06:58 PM.

10-10-2005, 08:02 PM	#6
Kevin Hellride Staff Writer Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jefferson City, MO Posts: 1,603	Arthur rules. 'Galactic Zoo Dossier' and 'Journey' by AB's Kingdom Come rule as well. Must haves, must hears. Has anyone seen the film footage from the first Glastonbury Fayre concert, back in '71? For some reason Arthur doesn't appear on the album, but there's rare footage of him performing 'Galactic Zoo' stuff if you can find the film document from the Fayre. Also, check out Robert Calvert's 'Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters' for a great performance on 'The Gremlin.' I believe he also worked with Klaus Schulze ca. 1980. Word has it he formed a painting company (!) in Austin, Texas (!), with Jimmy Carl Black of the Mothers of Invention(!) 'Twas called something like Black and Brown. Maybe just a rumor on that one. Living in America, I'm afraid I'll die without ever seeing him. He was supposed to have toured with Hawkwind a year or two ago. __________________ Now wait a minute, I can't change attitudes!

10-11-2005, 04:28 PM	#9
Kevin Hellride Staff Writer Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jefferson City, MO Posts: 1,603	Yep. I wish I could pin down that painting rumor..... __________________ Now wait a minute, I can't change attitudes!

10-11-2005, 05:10 PM	#10
Sir Lord Doom Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Glückstadt, 65 kilometres north west from Hamburg! Holstein über alles!!!! Posts: 2,460	Arthur Brown is just a blast to listen to..Vince Crane's organ work is fantastic as well as the haunting vocals. I wish we still had more bands playing inspired like that... __________________ I’m hungry, weary, but I cannot lay me downThe rain comes, dreary, but there’s no shelter I have foundIt will be a long time till I find my abodeHere I am on man’s road, walking man’s road

10-10-2005, 07:39 PM	#3
~~Wallace~~ FAIL Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 943	"Jam" be bettar than Wallace expekter'd. Mebbe ewen bettar than "Strangelands".(Less quirky/disjointer'd ,anyhoots.) Yer needin' Arfur wic Craig Leon "Lost Atoya Tapes". Elektruniks.'80. "Vampire Suite" alser. Music discussioon group Wallace postin' maist to be "Galactic Zoo". But it isnae a straight Arfur group. Aye, Arfur. Him do.

10-11-2005, 12:49 PM	#7
galen Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: edinburgh, scotland Posts: 109	did he not also play with the pretty things when they did the whole of sf sorrow. he did the narration if i remember. that would have been a good 'un.

10-13-2005, 03:16 PM	#11
~~Wallace~~ FAIL Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 943	TrogDawn: "Fire" isnae by Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Its by Arthur Brown. Th'GROUP ,Crazy World of Arthur Brown, didnae cum inter bein' till '73. Annover shockin' inditement o' th' level o' ignarunce 'round 'ere!

10-13-2005, 08:55 PM	#13
Butch Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,102	I just found the CWOAB at a record show for $7 and it looked to be in nice shape....turns out the record has an irreparable skip in "I Put A Spell On You" - needless to say I was both bummed and pissed cause I had no way of returning the record. So.... I just bought it on ebay for $12 on CD. Anyway.... I digress... this was my first listen to the CWOAB all the way through and I am much impressed. Arthur's vocals, to me, seem to predate the high pitched metal scream by a couple of years.

10-14-2005, 08:30 AM	#14
~~Wallace~~ FAIL Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 943	Awlricht Trogdawn, yew gubbins. Wallace be forc'd tae eat crow. Ah did sum diggin' an', yes 7" acetate o' "Fire" is credited to CWOAB, noo Arfur hissensell. (Ah kin post acteral pitchure 'ere, but ah doan ken 'ow.) Dis be wha Wallace learn'd: ARTHUR BROWN & THE DIAMONDS 45rpm on Readington label. Copies given awa' wif Readington University school paper ARTHUR BROWN SET 2 uncredited tracks on soundtrack to Roger Vadim's film "The Game is Over" CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN -SAME yep! It say so on orrigernal label (UK mono Track and US Atlantic -orrigernal US was Atlantic! US Track press came later.) Sae, ah takes it yer content now. -Wallace (grumblin' in his tatties an' skreel.) ....... Oh aye! 'ere's a double quiz fer anyone brae eneugh: 1/ Nick Greenwood lp "Cold Cuts" credits 'im as bein' th' cornerstone of CWOAB. Was Nick indeed ewer in th' band? 2/name all th'keysmen tha' wark'd wif Arfur

10-15-2005, 08:40 AM	#15
~~Wallace~~ FAIL Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 943	As shure as thare be cauld shite inna daid cat's arris, this site is bein' its perdictabool, useless self. Cummon lads! Th' question is: NAME AS MANY KEYBOARD PLAYERS AS YOU CAN WHICH WORKED WITH ARTHUR BROWN. Evraybody kens the main 2 keysmen, yet noo person ha' ewen mention'd dem yet! Dis be eiver insuffrabool ignarunce, or mair belike, ossual 'ellrider dozy, sponge-inna-woodwork non-participatioon. In shart: bollard-matter. 80 persons have been tae dis thried. Cummon lads! Make th'effart.

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