urban@bmcg.UUCP (Urban Jangren) (10/04/85)
Does anyone out there have any info on Kit Watkins or Andrew McCulloch. Kit Watkins used to play in a group called "Happy the Man" (1977). He plays the Moog with wonderful feeling. He also played on the "I can see you from here" (1979) album by "Camel". Andrew McCulloch used to play drums with the group "Greenslade". Any information about those two, or the groups they used to play in would be appreciated.
rosen@ucbvax.ARPA (Rob Rosen) (10/06/85)
In article <1919@bmcg.UUCP> urban@bmcg.UUCP (Urban Jangren) writes: > >Does anyone out there have any info on Kit Watkins >or Andrew McCulloch. > >Kit Watkins used to play in a group called "Happy >the Man" (1977). He plays the Moog with wonderful >feeling. He also played on the "I can see you from >here" (1979) album by "Camel". Kit Watkins played keyboards and flute on HAPPY THE MAN (1977), CRAFTY HANDS(1978), and BETTER LATE...(recorded in 1979 but released in 1983) with Happy the Man, a Washington, DC group which took its name from an old unreleased single by Genesis. Happy the Man's first two albums have been out of print for a long time, but the latest one is availible from Azimuth Records, Box 3495, Arlington, Va. 22203. Kit Watkins has also recorded two solo albums (I recommend the earlier one, entitled LABYRINTH) and a "project" album with Coco Roussell (sp?); all of these are also availible from Azimuth, which I believe is owned and operated by Kit. He's an excellent synth. soloist whose playing I believe in many ways surpasses Jan Hammer's. As far as the Camel album he played on (I Can See Your House From Here)... not that great. I'm a pretty big fan of Camel myself and think that ICSYHFH is pretty poor material, at least when compared to their earlier efforts. -- --Rob Rosen ...ucbvax!rosen rosen@ucb-vax.berkeley.edu
barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards) (10/08/85)
In article <1919@bmcg.UUCP> urban@bmcg.UUCP (Urban Jangren) writes: >Kit Watkins used to play in a group called "Happy >the Man" (1977). He plays the Moog with wonderful >feeling. He also played on the "I can see you from >here" (1979) album by "Camel". ^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ | ||| ||| ||| |||| |||| I believe the name of the album is I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE, in reference to the joke about Christ and the apostle John. The album cover depicted an astronaut floating in space with the Earth below him. The astronaut is crucified on a plexiglass cross. (A friend of mine had the album but I never listened to it, though I have other Camel albums, so I am in no position to offer any opinions on the music.) Barth Richards Tellabs, Inc. Lisle, IL "If God's up there, we're his excrement." -Ron Geesin