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What's new on this web page?
If you see the date changing on this page, without an announcement in this section, it is probably something like fixing minor coding problems, spelling errors, minor layout changes, new page on this site (so I changed bottom index), ... Any major changes to this page, will be announced here.
January 22, 2007. A Head Rings Out was reissued this month with bonus tracks. Bonus tracks include both sides of all three 45s. So now all all available studio recordings have been released on CD.
July 18, 2005. I just noticed that the ezBoard message board that I had set up for this web site had been deleted. Since restoration of the deleted conference is only available to subscribers to their service, and since the activity was relatively light, I not planning on looking for another message board. If you do think a message board is worth while, or you have a message board that you like, let me know and I may promote it here. As always you can contact me here.
September 1, 2004. ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF LONG AWAITED NEW BLODWYN PIG CD PIGTHOLOGY
Los Angeles CA (PRWEB) September 1st 2004 - Blodwyn Pig the British rock band formed by Mick Abrahams (formerly of Jethro Tull) Jack Lancaster, Andy Pyle, and Ron Berg, have released an anthology featuring re-recorded and re-mastered recordings of the band's most beloved and successful songs Dear Jill, See My Way, Drive Me and previously unreleased materials.
Blodwyn Pig in its first form was a legend in rock history hitting the top of the LP charts in Britain and elsewhere around the world. The members received new inspiration when Cameron Crow used the recording of Dear Jill in his movie Almost Famous. The original BLODWYN PIG consisted of Mick Abrahams, vocals, guitars. Jack Lancaster, sax, flutes, violin and wind controllers. Andy Pyle, bass and Ron Berg drums and was later joined by Jethro Tull's Clive Bunker on drums.
Many bands credit Blodwyn Pig with being a huge influence at the start of their careers. One member of Aerosmith was recently quoted in Rolling Stone as saying "There wouldn't have been an Aerosmith if there hadn't been a Blodwyn Pig". and there are many fan sites across the Internet which still attest to the band's popularity.
The band played alongside Led Zeppelin, The Who, Procul Harem, BB King, Miles Davis, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd and Joe Cocker at the Isle of Wight rock festivals, the Reading rock festival. The Pig completed two successful American tours playing venues like Fillmores, numerous universities and the LA Forum. Some of the recordings on BLODWYN PIG'S, PIGTHOLOGY are from this period as well as later recorded songs from their first two albums.
PIGTHOLOGY was produced, compiled and mastered by Jack Lancaster and Mick Abrahams.
May 7, 2004. Jack Lancaster visited this site, and let me know that he and Mick Abrahams are working on a Blodwyn Pig compilation CD. I will post more details as they become available.
March 10, 2001. It looks like I may have been premature in moving to a new web hosting site. I just found out that whenever Tripod.com is having hardware or software problems with their servers, they put up a message for the webmaster that their site is in violation of terms, and the web site has been deleted (instead of a message about system problems and try again later). Anyway, I believed Tripod.com when they said they deleted my account, so I will be moving, and making chromeoxide.com my new home on the web.
March 10, 2001. As long as I am moving my entire site, I decided to make a few changes to the layout of the individual pages, and the web site in general, including (but not limited to) I removed the counter, and moved the listings of mirror sites to the bottom of the page, ...
March 6, 2001. Sometime between March 1 to March 5, 2001 Tripod deleted my account/web site. The last stats Tripod gave me were 9,000+ visitors per month. Since my site is so popular, I have decided to keep it going, in spite of this major setback. But rather than trying to build up another free web site, and possibly deal with this problem again, I decided go with CommandLine.net to host the new chromeoxide.com.
October 31, 2000. The new Chrome Oxide Music Collectors Pages Message Board is provided by EZBoard.
July 6, 2000. I just picked up The Modern Alchemist and The Basement Tapes. While these are nice additions to my collection, couldn't someone out there re-release the first two studio albums, with all the tracks from both the American and European LPs and the misc 45s?
October 31, 1999. There used to be a complete listing of all the bands featured on this site at the bottom of each page on this site. The complete band list has now been moved to the Site Map.
Back in June 1997 when I started this site, the index at the bottom of the page seemed like a good idea. Due to the amazing growth of this site, I now think that the Site Map is a better way to do it.
I will continue to list the featured band of the month at the bottom of each page on this site.
December 3, 2002 CD Now is undergoing changes, and asked that ALL links be removed.
October 28, 1999 I signed up with CD Now.
October 22, 1999. The Chrome Oxide Music Collector Pages web site hit the big time! And I didn't even know it.
Tripod stats showed that this web site had more than 4,000 unique visitors last month (September 1999). Because of that, Tripod has increased my web space from 11mb to 50mb.
May 21, 1999. On the advice of legal counsel, we have now added a copyright notice, and legal disclaimer to the bottom of each page on this web site.
March 31, 1999. I started a new section on this page, Classifieds. Now, if someone is interesed in putting an ad here, or I find something I think is worthwhile, there is a place for it.
March 19, 1999. Jack Lancaster and his wife visited this web page.
March 16, 1999. Thanks to a recent visitor to this page, we now have a logo for the Chrome Oxide Music Collectors Pages, as well as a new background and seperator bars. There may be additional changes to look forward to as well.
October 11, 1998. I just picked up a new book about Jethro Tull, which also included a bit of information about Mick Abrahams. Turns out, the track listings on American and European releases on vinyl and CD vary substantially. There is material that was originally released on 45 which hasn't managed to be re-released on vinyl or LP or cassette. And, there is live album from 1970 The Modern Alchemist, that was just released in 1997.
August 8, 1998. I started creating this page. :-)
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Blodwyn Pig, a late 1960s band from England. Mick Abrahams had recently quit Jethro Tull. With this band he created a harder rock/bluesier/jazzier band where his guitar prowess, singing, and song writing could be shown to a greater advantage.
While Blodwyn Pig only recorded two albums in their short career, I think they are too good a band to be overlooked.
Mick Abrahams continues play live and record music with various musicians. He still lives in England.
Jack Lancaster currently writes music for TV and movies. He continues to play live, occasionally with Wayne Kramer (MC5). Jack Lancaster currently lives in California.
Comments and corrections would be appreciated.
And of course, any audio-video-print additions to my collection would be appreciated.
I am also interested in getting wider exposure for this site. So links from your site to mine would be appreciated. And if you know of any sites that allow/encourage submission, I would also appreciate knowing about them as well.
Do you have any articles, books, albums, tapes, CDs, ... on this band that you would like reviewed and / or integrated into this page?
Do you have any other band that you would like to see a page for on this site?
Please send to:
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Personnel
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PERSONNEL: 1969 - 1970
Mick Abrahams - guitar, vocals, seven-string guitar, tenor guitar
Jack Lancaster - flute, violin, electric violin, tenor sax,
baritone sax, soprano sax, phoon horn, cornet
Andy Pyle - electric bass, six-string bass
Ron Berg - drums, tympani
A Head Rings Out
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STUDIO SESSION: 45 (released May 1969 Island Records WIP 6059) (a1) Dear Jill (American and European 1st LP) (a1) Sweet Caroline STUDIO SESSION: A Head Rings Out (released August 1969 Island Records ILPS 9101) (a1) a e It's Only Love (American and European 1st LP) (a1) a e Dear Jill (American and European 1st LP) (a1) e Sing Me A Song That I know (European 1st LP ONLY) (a1) a e The Modern Alchemist (American and European 1st LP) (a1) e Up And Coming (European 1st LP ONLY) (a1) e Leave It With Me (European 1st LP ONLY) (a1) a e The Change Song (American and European 1st LP) (a1) a See My Way (American 1st LP) (European 2nd LP) (a1) a e Ain't Ya Coming Home, Babe? (American and European 1st LP only) BONUS TRACKS: (remastered A Head Rings Out) (a1) Sweet Caroline (a1) a Walk On The Water (American 1st LP) (some European 2nd LP) (a1) a Summer Day (American 1st LP) (some European 2nd LP) (a1) Same Old Story (a1) Slow Down (a1) a Meanie Mornay (American 2nd LP) (a1) a Backwash (American 1st LP ONLY) (a = american release) (e = european release) STUDIO SESSION: 45 (released September 1969 Island Records WIP 6069) (a1) Walk On The Water (American 1st LP ONLY) (a1) Summer Day (American 1st LP ONLY) STUDIO SESSION: 45 (released January 1970 Chrysalis Records WIP 6078) (a1) Same Old Story (a1) Slow Down
Radio Shows
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LIVE SHOW: February 11, 1969 Marquee, London, England
RADIO SESSION: February 24, 1969 Symonds On Sunday, BBC Studio 2, Aoelian Hall, London, England (p8)
(recorded: February 24, 1969, broadcast: March 2, 1975)
The Change Song
Ain't Ya Coming Home
It's Only Love
LIVE SHOW: March 22, 1969 Mothers' Club, Birmingham, England (pd)
RADIO SESSION: March 24, 1969 Top Gear, BBC Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London, England (p8)
(recorded: March 24, 1969, broadcast: April 13, 1969)
Ain't Ya Coming Home
(a4) The Modern Alchemist
It's Only Love
(a4) Mr. Green's Blues
RADIO SESSION: April 16, 1969 WS R&B, BBC Maida Vale 4, London, England (p8)
(recorded: April 16, 1969, broadcast: May 12, 1969)
It's Only Love
Dear Jill
Ain't Ya Coming Home
Leave It With Me
LIVE SHOW: April 18, 1969 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: April 29, 1969 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: May 20, 1969 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: May 30, 1969 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: June 13, 1969 Town Hall, Birmingham, England (pd)
LIVE SHOW: June 15, 1969 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England (pd)
LIVE SHOW: June 20, 1969 City Hall, Newcastle-On-Tyne, England (pd)
LIVE SHOW: June 26, 1969 Guildhall, Portsmouth, England (pd)
LIVE SHOW: June 27, 1969 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: June 28, 1969 Bath Festival, Shepton Mallet, England (pd)
LIVE SHOW: June 29, 1969 Royal Albert Hall, London, England (pd)
RADIO SESSION: July 7, 1969 Top Gear, BBC Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London, England (p8)
(recorded: July 7, 1969, broadcast: July 13, 1969)
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Summer Day
See My Way
(a4) It's Only Love
LIVE SHOW: July 11, 1969 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: July 25, 1969 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: August 9 or 10, 1969 9th National Jazz and Blues Festival, Plumpton Race Course, Sussex, England (p1) (pz)
LIVE SHOW: August 15, 1969 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: August 29, 1969 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: August 30, 1969 Isle Of Wight Festival, England (pe)
LIVE SHOW: September 30, 1969 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: October 9, 1969 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (p2)
LIVE SHOW: October 10, 1969 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (p2)
LIVE SHOW: October 11, 1969 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (p2)
LIVE SHOW: October 12, 1969 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (p2)
VIDEO SESSION: October 1969 Beat Club, German TV
(broadcast October 25, 1968)
See My Way
The Modern Alchemist
RADIO SESSION: October 1, 1969 WS R&B, BBC Maida Vale 4, London, England (p8)
(recorded: October 1, 1969, broadcast: October 25, 1969)
See My Way
Summer Day
The Modern Alchemist
LIVE SHOW: November 14, 1969 Fillmore East, New York City, NY (p1) (p5)
LIVE SHOW: November 15, 1969 Fillmore East, New York City, NY (p1) (p5)
RADIO SESSION: Beat Club/Top Of The Pops - 1969/1970
(a9) See My Way
(a9) Ain't Ya Coming Home
LIVE SHOW: February 8, 1970 Greyhound, Croydon, England (p7)
LIVE SHOW: February 10, 1970 Marquee, London, England (p6)
RADIO SESSION: March 4, 1970 WS R&B, BBC Maida Vale 4, London, England (p8)
(recorded: March 4, 1970, broadcast: April 5, 1970)
Worry
Meany Morny
Black Night
RADIO SESSION: March 30, 1970 Harding, BBC Maida Vale 4, London, England (p8)
(recorded: March 30, 1970, broadcast: April 14, 1970)
See My Way
Worry
Meany Morny
Getting To This
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STUDIO SESSION: Getting To This - 1970 - BGOCD81
(released April 1970 Chrysalis Records ILPS 9122)
(a2) a e Drive Me (American and European 2nd LP)
(a2) a e Variations On Nainos (American and European 2nd LP)
(a2) e See My Way (European 2nd LP) (American 1st LP)
(a2) a e Long Bomb Blues (American and European 2nd LP)
(a2) a e The Squirreling Must Go On (American and European 2nd LP)
(a2) a e San Francsico Sketches (American and European 2nd LP)
a) Beach Scape
b) Fisherman's Wharf
c) Telegraph Hill
d) Close the door, I'm falling out of the room
(a2) a e Worry (American and European 2nd LP)
(a2) a e Toys (American and European 2nd LP)
(a2) e To Rassman (European 2nd LP ONLY)
(a2) a e Send Your Son To Die (American and European 2nd LP)
(a1) a Meanie Mornay (American 2nd LP)
(a1) Summer Day (American 1st LP) (some European 2nd LP)
(a1) Walk On The Water (American 1st LP) (some European 2nd LP)
(a = american release)
(e = european release)
Fillmore West
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VIDEO SESSION: May 25, 1970 Beat Club (TV), Bremen, Germany
(broadcast May 30, 1970)
See My Way
RADIO SESSION: May 29, 1970 Black, BBC Studio 1, Aoelian Hall, London, England (p8)
(recorded: May 29, 1970, broadcast: July 10, 1970)
Rock Me Baby
Live
Worry
San Francisco Sketches
LIVE SHOW: June 3, 1970 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: June 26, 1970 Fillmore East, New York City, NY (p1)
LIVE SHOW: June 27, 1970 Fillmore East, New York City, NY (p1)
LIVE SHOW: August 3, 1970 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (p2)
----- set 1
It's Only Love
Ain't Ya Comin' Home Babe?
Dear Jill
Worry
San Francisco Sketchers
----- set 2
It's Only Love
Change Song
Cat Squirrel
See My Way
Slow Down
Rock Me
LIVE SHOW: August 4, 1970 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (p2)
LIVE SHOW: August 5, 1970 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (p2)
LIVE SHOW: August 8, 1970 Fillmore East, New York City, NY (p1)
LIVE SHOW: August 1970 Fillmore West (both sets ?)
(a9) I Wonder Who
(a9) It's Only Love
(a9) Dear Jill
(a9) San Francsico Sketches
(a9) a) Beach Scape
(a9) b) Fisherman's Wharf
(a9) c) Telegraph Hill
(a9) d) Close the door, I'm falling out of the room
(a9) It's Only Love
(a9) The Change Song
(a9) Cat's Squirrel
(a9) See My Way
(a9) Slow Down
Sometime in mid 1970, Mick Abrahams left the band, and was replaced by Peter Banks.
Sometime after that, Larry Wallis was added to the band.
By December 1970 the band had broken up.
? per BBC radio logs?
? Mick Abrahams not part of band for September 14 + 23, 1970 shows?
PERSONNEL: September 18, 1970 (per Time Out magazine for September 1970)
Peter Banks - guitar, vocals
LIVE SHOW: September 18, 1970 Marquee, London, England (p6)
LIVE SHOW: October 25, 1970 Greyhound, Croydon, England (p7)
LIVE SHOW: December 15, 1970 Marquee, London, England (p6)
The Modern Alchemist
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LIVE SHOW: 1970 (location unknown) (released 1997 Indigo Records IGOXCD 507) (a3) It's Only Love (a3) The Modern Alchemist (a3) The Change Song (a3) Summer Day (a3) Dear Jill (a3) See My Way (a3) Drive Me (a3) Slow Down (a3) Ain't Ya Coming Home, Babe? (a3) Mr. Green's Blues (a3) Cat's Squirrel
PRINT MEDIA
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BOOKS AND PRINTED MATERIAL:
(I am always interested in expanding my collection.)
Minstrels In The Gallery - A History Of Jethro Tull by David Rees
Published by Fire Fly Publishing. Copyright 1998. 218 pages. Paperback.
While this book is about Jethro Tull, it does contain a fair amount on current and prior members, which include Mick Abrahams (guitarist on the first Jethro Tull album).
The Great Rock Discography (third edition) by M.C.Strong
Published by Omnibus Press. Copyright 1996. 950 pages. Hardbook (oversize).
Live Show Listings
Live show listings come from various sources, including the below listed
books, visitors to this web site and from other web sites. None of these
listings have been verified by me. And just because there was a print
advertisement for the show, is no guarantee that there weren't problems
which caused the show to be cancelled.
(p1) The Art Of Rock - A Spectular Visual And Oral History
Writter: Paul D. Grushkin, Artworks Photographed by Jon Sievert
Published by Artabras. Copyright 1987. 516 pages. Hardback.
(p2) The Art Of The Fillmore - The Poster series 1966 - 1971
Writter: Gayle Lemke, Art Research Editor Jacaeber Kastor
Published by Acid Test Productions. Copyright 1997. 240 pages.
(p5) The Fillmore East Edited By Richard Kostelannetz
Published By Shirmer Books. Copyright 1995. ??? pages (not numbered). Hardback.
(p6) London Live By Tony Bacon
Published By Miller Freeman Books. Copyright 1999. 192 pages. Paperback.
(p7) Rockin' Croydon By Chris Groom
Published By Wombeat Publishing. Copyright 1998. 224 pages. Paperback.
(p8) In Session Tonight - The Complete Radio 1 Recordings By Ken Garner
Published By BBC Books. Copyright 1993. 320 pages. Paperback.
(pd) Led Zeppelin: The Concert File by Dave Lewis and Simon Pallett
Published by Omnibus Press. Copyright 1997. 176 pages. Softback (oversize).
(pz) King Crimson Epitaph Booklet (4 CD set)
AUDIO MEDIA
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AUDIO COMPILATIONS:
(I am always interested in expanding my collection.)
Commercial Releases
(a1) A Head Rings Out the first studio album.
A Head Rings Out has been re-released with bouns tracks, including both 45s.
(a2) Getting To This the second studio album. And final album before the breakup.
(a3) The Modern Alchemist is a 1970 live show that was released in 1997 on Indigo Records IGOXCD 507. I have not seen this one, but the review I read said "Sound quality no better than a good bootleg."
(a4) The Basement Tapes Released in 2000 on Hux Records HUX 019. This is various BBC recordings from 1969 (3 tracks), 1974 (8 tracks), and studio outtakes from 1996 (2 tracks). Only the 1969 tracks contain the original members.
Other Material
(a9) Radio Shows
(a9) Fillmore West
In my collection, both Radio Shows and Fillmore West are on a single C-90 tape.
VIDEO MEDIA
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VIDEO COMPILATIONS:
(I am always interested in expanding my collection.)
(Not much here yet.)
OTHER RESOURCES (links)
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Do you have a Blodwyn Pig / Mick Abrahams related site? Do you want a link from this page? E-Mail me!
I am also interested in getting wider exposure for this site. So links from your site to mine would be appreciated. And if you know of any sites that allow/encourage submission, I would also appreciate knowing about them as well.
Squirrel Music The Mick Abrahams-Blodwyn Pig Official site
or
Mick Abrahams official site.
Mick Abrahams and Blodwyn Pig fan page.
CLASSIFIEDs
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This is an experiment. I am listing various classified ads that might be of interest to browsers of this page.
Let me know what you think of this idea?
And if you do order something listed here, let them know you found out about it here.
Also, let me know how this worked out for you.
June 29, 2003.
MusicStack looks like a good source of used music items
(LPs, CDs, posters, ...).
As always, let me know what you think.
Back in October 1999 I put up links to CD-Now so that visitors could easily link to the related band pages and instantly see which items were still in print/available for purchase. CD-Now no longer has that option. For the moment I am putting in Amazon.com search boxes. Amazon.com doesn't easily allow for links to individual band pages in the same way that CD-Now used to. So, instead of me being able to create direct links, I have put up the Amazon.com search box instead. So you can still go to a page with the various bands products, buy you now need to go through a search box.
As always, let me know what you think.
April 22, 2002.
Would you like to show your appreciation for
(the time, effort, money, ... that goes into creating, maintaing, updating)
this web site, without getting anything in return
(except a listing of your name (and url) on this web site as a friend of this
web site)?
sign up for PayPal and simplify your online payments.
December 3, 2002 CD Now is undergoing changes, and asked that ALL links be removed.
October 28, 1999 I signed up with CD Now.
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