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 Post subject: [2008-12-08] Deep Feeling (Jim Capaldi/Poli Palmer/Luther Grosvenor) "Pretty Colours" unreleased recordings (Sunbeam UK)
PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 10:31 pm 
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Trace the roots of several legendary UK bands and you'll end up here. Jim Capaldi (Traffic), Poli Palmer (Family) and Luther Grosvenor (Spooky Tooth/Mott the Hoople) were first in Deep Feeling, whose flutes, vibes, distorted vocals and Eastern accents pointed the way for many psychedelic bands to come. They formed in '66 and wowed London crowds, but these cuts (including demos) were never issued: The Ruin; Pretty Colours; To a Lady in Black; Chicken George, and more!

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1. Pretty Colours
2. The Ruin
3. Chicken George
4. The Necessitarian
5. On Something
6. I Put A Spell On You
7. Coming Home Baby
8. I Don't Know Her Too Well
9. On The Circle Of Life
10. To A Lady In Black
11. Imaginations Of Alice
12. Blues For Witley

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 Post subject: [2008-12-08] Deep Feeling (Jim Capaldi/Poli Palmer/Luther Grosvenor) "Pretty Colours" unreleased recordings (Sunbeam UK)
PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 10:49 pm 
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Was listening to this recent acquisition tonight. We'd missed it on the ICE boards when it first came out six years ago, but let me post about it now since it's an important piece of the Traffic puzzle, among other things. Try out a couple of tracks and see what you think:




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 Post subject: [2008-12-08] Deep Feeling (Jim Capaldi/Poli Palmer/Luther Grosvenor) "Pretty Colours" unreleased recordings (Sunbeam UK)
PostPosted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 10:57 pm 
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WOW, this got past me as well Linda. Being a major fan of Traffic and it's members I didn't even know about this piece of history.
Got to get this!

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 Post subject: [2008-12-08] Deep Feeling (Jim Capaldi/Poli Palmer/Luther Grosvenor) "Pretty Colours" unreleased recordings (Sunbeam UK)
PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:48 am 
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Nice find, Linda. A bit more from AllMusic:

Artist Biography by Richie Unterberger


An interesting though barely recorded mid-'60s British band, Deep Feeling fed members into major psychedelic bands, star and cult, of the late '60s, including Traffic, Spooky Tooth, Family, and the Blossom Toes. The group evolved from an outfit called the Hellions, which featured future Traffic members Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason. After Mason left Deep Feeling, future Spooky Tooth guitarist Luther Grosvenor joined. This lineup, also including vibraphonist and flute player Poli Palmer (later in Family and the Blossom Toes), guitarist Gordon Jackson, and bassist Dave Meredith, did some unreleased recordings with influential U.K. manager/producer/impresario Giorgio Gomelsky (most famous as the manager/producer of the Yardbirds). One 1966 track, "Pretty Colours," does show up on the Luther Grosvenor CD Floodgates Anthology and is a pretty nifty early psychedelic venture, with flute, vibes, distorted vocals, and the kind of pop-friendly yet Asiatic-Middle Eastern melody that the Yardbirds often explored.

Unfortunately, nothing by Deep Feeling was released at the time, although they did record at least one other track with Gomelsky, "Poltergeist of Alice" (according to the liner notes of Floodgates Anthology). Gomelsky has recalled that they recorded an album's worth of material, and that some of the ideas -- including African percussion and vibraphone -- were incorporated by Traffic, the band Capaldi joined, signaling the end of Deep Feeling. In addition to the post-Deep Feeling projects mentioned above, there was a solo album by Gordon Jackson on Gomelsky's Marmalade label in the late '60s.

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