A.Latimer, S.Hackett, S.Rothery, D.Gilmour and M.Oldfield. Hard pressed to find a better sounding, tasteful, original, melodic guitar player than these. Oh Steve Vai? Sorry, I said tasteful :P Just kidding, for each his own.
This whole album is beautiful, and closer to classical music in terms of theme and overall structure. And like others have said, it's intended to be heard as one continuous piece of music. :)
Love both Snow goose and Moonmadness. In reference to the Trespass album, you would love Anthony Phillips Geese and the ghost album! Pastoral beauty with both Phil and Mike from his old band.
As I have said earlier, when I listened for the first time to this album I realized - while listening - that it tells the same story as the movie The Snow Goose I had seen a couple of years before. That tells something about the power of the musical storytelling of this album. Especially the next 2 songs made me realize this back in the 70's.
When you said that you could just sit and listen to this in one go it took me all the way back to when I bought this album, not long married, had moved out of parents houses and into our one bedroom flat and didn't have a tv for years. We used to sit around in the evenings listening to music like this, peaceful and just a little bit magic. Reading the book that inspired the album of course. (OK, maybe not at the same time as listening to the record but it least meant that we knew who Rhayader was and how he related to the Snow Goose - It's a beautiful book BTW and well worth a read if books are your thing) ... Thanks for the memories.
Loved Camel music for a long time, underrated band, Rain Dances, Moonmadness, and Nude albums well worth a listen. Some great instrumental tracks which I prefer to vocal work.
I love this album. I have often used it to relax after the intensity of bands like VdGG, GG and ELP. Kind of like dessert after a great dinner. Almost impossible to just stop without hearing the whole album😃
How good are these pieces of music ppl.. Wow.. Wow and a bigger WOW Justin. You've made my day butty. Camel are just superb imho. ❤️ Sanctuary, that acoustic guitar Justin.. Beautiful. And then Fritha, with them stunning keyboards.. Ok reminds me of Mr. Oldfield, at his best. And, yes, i get the essence of Trespass by Genesis too butty. 😊 Gorgeous track. And then The Snow Goose.. That guitar melody us just sublime... Oh my god.. Andy Latimer is an absolute genius. So much depth, and feel in his hands.. What a track this is Justin. What a three some butty.❤️ Totally blown away by this. Great choice Justin.. Absolutely awesome butty More please.. Oh yes ♥️
I know you broke this up in easier segments, but *please* do yourself the favor and listen to it in its entirety when you can. It is one of the most incredible pieces of music ever written.
One of my favourite albums. I was especially into instrumentals at that time and when I got this I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I went on to buy all their catalogue and there is so much great band music. Camel always had a band that played as a band should, each supporting the other in service to the song, great parts that make a greater whole.
One of my favorites. My brother introduced me to Camel The Snowgoose and now I own quite a bit of their albums. Wished I had the chance to see them live. Still enjoy where they put me when listening
Qué bien escogiste esta sección de TSG...Probablemente lo que más me gusta de Camel y una de mis favoritas de toda la historia del Prog Rock. Pasaron décadas y aún hoy vuelvo a ella a menudo. Andy Latimer le pone un sentimiento a sus interpretaciones que lo hace único e irrepetible. Siempre grandes, Camel.
Great Great Great album! Ive never really enjoyed instrumental tracks but this album opened my mind to that type of track. The story telling is top tier. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent choice! I think your appreciation of this fine work is on target, Andrew Latimer plays like liquid silver is flowing through his fingers. Just beautiful. Also you are spot on about Peter Bardens being a great musical foil for Latimer. RIP Peter. The last time I had the opportunity to see Camel was 2002 at NEARfest. I really hope for another chance to see them in concert some day before it is too late. Andrew did have some major health issues. They have done a show in the UK in 2018 released on DVD "Live At The Royal Albert Hall." Playing keyboards on this show was the wonderful Peter Jones of Tiger Moth Tales and Red Bazar. Camel's catalogue is well worth further exploration. Also their " Canterbury cousins" Caravan have some great music. I would recommend reacting to "For Richard" and " "Nine Feet Underground." The two bands at one time appeared to be interchanging members to the point they were being laughingly referred to as "Caramel."
This is a great album, as you say Andrew Latimer is a great guitarist. The words are from the novella of the Snow Goose by Paul Gallico on which the album is based. It sounds great on vinyl. Top review Justin!
I want to hear more Camel, because I'd never heard of them until this year, but now I'm anxiously awaiting watching you react to Mental Medication by U.K., Hemispheres by RUSH, Tempus Fugit by YES, and more ELP and Pink Floyd. Why doth thou torment me, Justinian of Yorkshure? See, you've made me go all Medieval on you. sigh : )
Hello, Justin. Dave again from the UK. Another CD in my collection and this is a beautiful passage from it. Andy Latimer is such a lyrical, melodic guitarist. You may know that the current keyboardist and woodwind player in Camel is Pete Jones, who records solo under the name Tiger Moth Tales. His album The Depths of Winter is excellent and seasonal. He has a great voice, a bit like a cross between Gabriel and Collins, and plays a mean guitar, and his material is influenced by the likes of Genesis (maybe too much at times). Favourite track - Take the Memory - is about the passing of his partner's guide dog (maybe I should have mentioned that Pete too is unsighted).
Great music for a cold winter's day. I am cursing myself for not listening to this band back in the day. Still, better late than never. Two songs for a cold winters day: Gordon Lightfoot: Song for a Winter's Night Bruce Cockburn (pronounced Coe-burn): Coldest Night of the Year Great review as usual.
Oh my Justin, this is the best 11:47 minutes I have spent in a while. The music was so, so peaceful and moving and your commentary was helpful to someone who never heard this before. I will definitely search Camel for more. Thanks for this beauty and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
This is my favorite album of all time inspired by one of my favorite books of all time and imo the best story of the strong ties of friendship and love. The snow goose ofc being a metaphor of an injured perception of people and once a wounded point of view heals, it turns into a rare beautiful thing which is again the snow Goose. Truly revives something in us. Great video sir
Welcome to one of the best treasures of an album. Camel is AWESOME!! One of the few bands I never had the privilege of seeing them live...man I bet they were great live. Justin...enjoy the rest of the album. Great Christmas treat!!
I've been lucky enough to see Camel live twice. The last time four years ago in Barcelona. It was a prog rock festival but some people came over from other countries just to watch Latimer play. I remember an old French guy crying next to me as Andrew played.
Me too, I was so impressed by the mix. It was like listening to an album on headphones and for somebody who really concentrates at gigs like I do it was enormously satisfying musically.
Thanks JP - another great reaction video. Yeah, Andy Latimer - how to create mood and emotions with just a bit of wood and a few bits of wire. Oh, and a large helping of extraordinary talent, that's sure to help! Their music can transport you wherever you want to go, just close your eyes and feel. Thanks JP.
It's interesting that you mention Trespass. Anthony Phillips' (guitarist on Trespass as you know) first solo album (composed and largely recorded well before 1975) is titled, The Geese and the Ghost. The final track is a lovely pastoral instrumental titled, Sleepfall: the Geese Fly West. Now, about the story in the liner notes, the prose that accompanies the tone poems; this has been done a few times by other artists. Genesis with The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, Steve Hackett's Metamorpheus, and to a certain extent, Mike Rutherford's Smallcreep's Day which, like The Snow Goose, is based on a novel. It's a multi-media artform I like. This was my introduction to Camel, which makes no sense what with me being a child of the Seventies, but there just aren't enough dollars and hours in the day to know everything, you know? I'm thinking, though, it might not be too late... Thanks for another great review, Justin. And I still want you to consider giving City Boy another try with Interrupted Melody...
Have a listen to the recent concert 2018 from the Royal Albert Hall. ( available on Bluray - or YT). Different line up except for Latimer and Colin Bass who joined at the end of the 70s but the addition of Peter Jones on keys has added a great singer to the group and rectified the vocal issue which even the staunchest fans would probably admit has been their Achilles heal. We have lost all too many of the great musicians that played with this band but that concert was a great swan song.
Hi JP, First of all I want to congratulate you for your channel and above all for your comments always so elaborate and accurate, revealing someone with knowledge in the area and obviously with a good ear and great taste. For someone still so young, I appreciate your openness and the emotion you show when listening to great bands from other times, which it doesn't always happen with people of your generation, more focused on more contemporary sounds. That fact reveals a great maturity on your part. I was pleasantly surprised by your comments regarding the albums "Encantations" by Mike Oldfield and "Snow Goose" by Camel, two of the albums of my life. Regarding the work of Camel, there is an album off this band, that has passed alongside its history and labeled as a minor work by the band. In my humble opinion, something unfairly because I consider it a great album and for that reason I strongly recommend your hearing, I refer to the album "NUDE". Another band that I highly recommend your audition, is Echo & the Bunnymen, (Albuns; Porcupine, Heaven up here, Ocean Rain). Being a proud Portuguese, I would like to suggest that you listen to some of my country's good music. The project that I will recommend to you no longer exists (Setima Legião), this band marked the scene of Portuguese music in the 80s and 90s Setima Legiao (ua-cam.com/video/w1oT8lD73fQ/v-deo.html) Thanks and good hearings
I really enjoy Camel for those mellow moods, to get lost in the instrumental. More of my youth, love it. I do not know if you realize what I am about to say but one of the all time Hard rock gods of guitar died today. Along with bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep there was a band out of my area of the world, Mountain who created some of the most classic heavy riffs, killer live band with a thunderous rhythm section that set the wheels moving into the Hard Rock and later the Heavy Metal genre. Leslie West had such a unique sound, both singing and playing lead. Gravelly vocals, killer blues riffs and well I was hoping you could do a tribute to him by reviewing one of their songs. Nantucket Sleigh ride, Mississippi Queen and Never in My Life are in a nut shell Leslie West at his and Mountain's best.
I met Peter Barden at the L.A.'s 1993 Progfest. He just came from Keith Emerson's place and told us about his wrist issues. And Keith had to sell some of his keyboards to pay for his Carpel Tunnel operation.
The album was inspired by a story by Paul Gallico set in 1940 in the Second World War when British soldiers were stranded in France and were rescued by a fleet of fishing boats. (It was weird to see a war memorial in Washington give the dates of the war as starting in 1941.) I saw Camel perform the whole album in London in 1975 and you really need to listen to it in one go but respect to Justin for bringing it to a new audience
This album is the best in what I call comfort prog, it's got some complexity, but the way the album continues on and is so relaxing and enchanting...it's amazing. I can't wait til you get to the later bits of the album!
The first album I listened to, halfway the 1970’s, and I immediately became a fan. The other albums that we’re and came out followed. Stationary Traveler from 1984 was the last album I bought. My taste shifted a bit more in the direction of heavy metal (Iron Maiden) as well as to synthesizer and New Age music (Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream). I still love Camel and listen to it a few times a year. So melodic and emotional music. The music is revisited by Andrew and band in the nineties with albums like Never let Go, Coming of Age.
hello Justin, once again i come to thank you, for the suggestion given some time ago, about this fantastic album by camel, i guarantee that you will not regret it, to hear this album in its entirety, because, without a doubt it is a master picie, one of the albums that made the most impact to me when I listened to him at the time, is simply, wonderful, and once again I thank you for analyzing. Looking forward to the end of the album, a big hug for you my friend.
I remember a friend of mine getting me a ticket to see camel at the ROXY in Hollywood knowing nothing about them .... sat against the stage ... Andy stepped out onto our table and played .... to this day, after 100's of concerts .... that is still in the top 3 ( early 70's )
Love to watch your reactions but found myself closing my eyes and dissolving into the music as I always do with this album. Glad you are enjoying it and hope you can find time to do more from Camel after you complete Snow Goose. Never ceases to amaze me how unknown they are but I guess in the context of the time there was an awful lot of competition.....Hopefully you can expose them to a few new folk.
Hey Justin My Man!! Wow!! Never really listened to Camel but did know of them!! YOUR SPOT ON AGAIN!! The guitar work and drums are JUST BEAUTIFUL!!! WOW!! Anxious to listen to the rest of this album with you!! Okay now for my new song requests!! #1-SARAH JAROSZ 2 Songs of hers! First song is a SOFT BALLAD CALLED- EDGE OF A DREAM! Second song is a HARD BALLAD CALLED- HOUSE OF MERCY!! I'll let you pick which one!! #2 -MELANIE- RUBY TUESDAY! #3 RIVER WHYLESS- BORN IN THE RIGHT COUNTRY!!! Their my FAVORITE BAND RIGHT NOW! PROG- FOLK!! Before I go I have a CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU AND YOUR WIFE!- MUSIC OF COURSE!!! AN ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS Song you haven't heard!!! ITS CALLED- WHEN THE CHRISTMAS BABY CRIES BY- THE ANNIE MOSES BAND!!! Its just BEAUTIFUL!! Theyre a family band of 3 Brothers & 3 Sisters who are all graduates of JULLIARD!!! AMAZING MUSICIANS!! Watch the live performance of this song from PBS!! I've seen them a few times and met all of them and their Parents too!!! Then song #2- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen!!! The 2 oldest brother and sister do a violin jam- off at tge end!!!! JUST AWESOME!! PLEASE WATCH THESE 2 VIDEOS FOR CHRISTMAS AND ENJOY!!! AND MAY I ALSO SUGGEST YOU WATCH THE WHOLE SHOW AND MAYBE DO A SONG REACTION FROM THEM!!! OKAY IM DONE NOW!!! HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! YOUR #1 AZ FAN MICHAEL😽😸😊😊
So happy to see you finally continuing with this album! A slight change to my previous divion of songs: Next episode should be "friendship"+"migration"+"rhayader alone"+"flight of the snow goose", then "preparation"+"dunkirk"+"epitaph", and finally "fritha alone"+"la princesse perdue" To save space in the title, you could name the videos parts 3, 4 and 5 hahaha 😄
Love the album. These three songs are very relaxed (still pretty), but work great in the flow of the album - Rhayader Goes To Town came off with quite a bit of energy. I am anxious to see what you think of the rest of the album and I hope you will do an album review afterwards as well - this one really deserves it in my opinion.
My older brother bought that LP when it was released, just like "Thick as a brick" in the newspaper cover and quite a lot other nice LPs first and later lost the interest in it and he gifted them to me 😃
The title track is pre meditative bliss, my favorite song on the album along with La Princesse Perdue. He just plays the exact notes I want to hear I swear.
Great album. Although they played the Snow Goose live completely on "A Live Record" ,which is the first Camel album I got as a sort of "greatest hits" at that point in their career, I bought the album separately as well. I love the way it flows and this section might even be my favourite part. Gives me goose bumps! 🤣 Anyway Latimer has a way of playing I absolutely love. Laidback in a way but he sure hits the right notes! But the drums have a really nice role here too, not overdone but just right. Too bad you cut it up. I always play albums in full and this album certainly fills the need to do so!
Good call on the "beach" sound that you picked up on, as the story is set on the southern coast of England. I wanted you to keep going, since this is one of my favorite albums. I once mentioned it on Twitter, and will do so again; since you enjoy instrumentals that feature guitar work with long sustained notes, have a listen to "The Steppes" by Steve Hackett. One of his best.
On to something there! I discovered Camel only a few years ago. And while they might not belong to the absolute A-League of classic prog acts, this album and especially 'Moonmadness' (hope I rember the title correctly) are really worthwhile. Lots of other tracks worth discovering throughout their discography :-)
Ohh my favorit group :) they did a 2013 "remix" of that album and you should really check it out when you finish with this one maybe, i really think they did a excellent job! cheers!
Justin, you could analyze this album by the order of the songs, because, it works like a symphony, with a sequence of stories. thanks for everything again.
All progressive rock is rooted in classical music. Longer pieces, thematic, with many transitions from soft to dramatic. And only great musicians need apply. This album is a good example of that,
Again,very funny-Wednesday-Camel (humpday!).Ha ha.am I sensing a theme here? Snow Blind-Snow Goose ? This is one of my goto albums for peace and calm!And do I need it,a family member down there in your state tested positive and has symptoms! So stay vigilant and Merry Axemas to you and yours.Peace.
Justin - Just been to check the sleeve of my album, but there are no such explanatory sleeve notes on mine. However, mine is one of the later ones with ‘ Music Inspired by ‘ added to the sleeve to placate Paul Gallico, who was threatening to sue them for copyright infingement. So maybe mine didn’t have them, if the notes were from (or inspired by) the novel. This was the second Camel album I bought, back in about 1974. Mirage was the first. I still play both, of course! In fact, I shall play it now, just because I can!
Another winter-theme suggestion: December by All About Eve. When I say that you'll fall in love with Julianne Regan's voice, I'm really not kidding. Epic song too....
Yes, hard to stop playing the album. Latimer and Bardens are a perfect team here. Beautiful melodies and arrangements. Bardens had a gift for making synths warm and inviting. The rhythm section of Ward and Ferguson also provides what is perfect for the song. Not lyrics. The album is "inspired by" the book. A lawsuit by the author necessitated changing the title. The record company was appalled the album had no vocals with lyrics.
Have a recommendation for you from Camel. It’s a musical interpretation of a Steinbeck novel. The album is Dust and Dreams. Its does a good job of bringing you into the angst os the Great Depression.
Such an incredibly overlooked band by the masses. But the masses tend to overlook lots of good stuff. Glad you are giving them their due...Camel, that is, not the masses....lmao
@@JustJP Justin you mentioned the guitar reminding you of Genesis Trespass...think that was Anthony Phillips back then You would like his solo stuff ..especially "The Geese and the Ghost" LP Has quite a catalog
Can anyone confirm this? I think I read somewhere that Camel did not manage to get the permission from the copyright owner of the book for the lyrics, so they made an instrumental album.
You have to do the next three together ! Rhayader Alone: best song about loneliness (no need for word, just the guitar for emotion)! Have a good holiday time ! sorry for my english.
All those albums are great that you refer to - for some reason the critics were really won over more by 'Snow Goose.' I dig them all - saw them live in '78 I think - and they played Snow Goose and I think they did not play 'Lady Fantasy.' This is the kind of thoughtful prog that I feel somehow is non-existent in the so-called prog by better known North American bands - ( - - - - - - , - - - - , - - - - , and - - - - - - - - - ).
Odd one this. Looking at album info, 16 tracks, lots very short, and do they all meld into one like this? I believe it was themed on a book, but sounds more like it could be a soundtrack for film or tv, Incidental music. It was ok, I'm sure they're fine musicians, but it just didn't seem to go anywhere. Even as chill music, you'd probably forget it was on after a few minutes. Like the ticking clock in the room you don't register until you look up and see it.
Great review of this but gotta do a seasonal correction on your pronunciation of "Latimer". It's Latimyrrh as in gold, frankincense and myrrh. Happy Christmas!
Andrew Latimer, one of the best melodic guitarist of all time. Some of his live performances send shivers down my spine.
Agree. To me, especially Ice (never let go live).
I agree with you. Listen to the guitar solo of the song Summer lighting. One of the best of all times.
A.Latimer, S.Hackett, S.Rothery, D.Gilmour and M.Oldfield.
Hard pressed to find a better sounding, tasteful, original, melodic guitar player than these.
Oh Steve Vai? Sorry, I said tasteful :P
Just kidding, for each his own.
This whole album is beautiful, and closer to classical music in terms of theme and overall structure. And like others have said, it's intended to be heard as one continuous piece of music. :)
The album that made me a Camel fan, just beautiful.
Love both Snow goose and Moonmadness. In reference to the Trespass album, you would love Anthony Phillips Geese and the ghost album! Pastoral beauty with both Phil and Mike from his old band.
As I have said earlier, when I listened for the first time to this album I realized - while listening - that it tells the same story as the movie The Snow Goose I had seen a couple of years before. That tells something about the power of the musical storytelling of this album. Especially the next 2 songs made me realize this back in the 70's.
The album is pure.I play it often and get emotional with its beauty. Yeah, then I break out Moonmadness and get my rock licks from Latimer.
When you said that you could just sit and listen to this in one go it took me all the way back to when I bought this album, not long married, had moved out of parents houses and into our one bedroom flat and didn't have a tv for years. We used to sit around in the evenings listening to music like this, peaceful and just a little bit magic. Reading the book that inspired the album of course. (OK, maybe not at the same time as listening to the record but it least meant that we knew who Rhayader was and how he related to the Snow Goose - It's a beautiful book BTW and well worth a read if books are your thing) ... Thanks for the memories.
Loved Camel music for a long time, underrated band, Rain Dances, Moonmadness, and Nude albums well worth a listen. Some great instrumental tracks which I prefer to vocal work.
The snow goose melody is beautiful
Its absolutely is gorgeous
This is one of the rare 10/10 albums for me. You really need to listen to it from start to finish.
I love this album. I have often used it to relax after the intensity of bands like VdGG, GG and ELP. Kind of like dessert after a great dinner. Almost impossible to just stop without hearing the whole album😃
Haha, this is definitely a good sweetener after the heavy stuff!
How good are these pieces of music ppl.. Wow.. Wow and a bigger WOW Justin.
You've made my day butty.
Camel are just superb imho. ❤️
Sanctuary, that acoustic guitar Justin.. Beautiful.
And then Fritha, with them stunning keyboards.. Ok reminds me of Mr. Oldfield, at his best. And, yes, i get the essence of Trespass by Genesis too butty. 😊
Gorgeous track.
And then The Snow Goose.. That guitar melody us just sublime... Oh my god.. Andy Latimer is an absolute genius.
So much depth, and feel in his hands.. What a track this is Justin.
What a three some butty.❤️
Totally blown away by this.
Great choice Justin.. Absolutely awesome butty
More please.. Oh yes ♥️
I know you broke this up in easier segments, but *please* do yourself the favor and listen to it in its entirety when you can. It is one of the most incredible pieces of music ever written.
Definitely will!
One of my favourite albums. I was especially into instrumentals at that time and when I got this I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I went on to buy all their catalogue and there is so much great band music. Camel always had a band that played as a band should, each supporting the other in service to the song, great parts that make a greater whole.
One of my favorites. My brother introduced me to Camel The Snowgoose and now I own quite a bit of their albums. Wished I had the chance to see them live. Still enjoy where they put me when listening
Qué bien escogiste esta sección de TSG...Probablemente lo que más me gusta de Camel y una de mis favoritas de toda la historia del Prog Rock. Pasaron décadas y aún hoy vuelvo a ella a menudo. Andy Latimer le pone un sentimiento a sus interpretaciones que lo hace único e irrepetible. Siempre grandes, Camel.
Great Great Great album! Ive never really enjoyed instrumental tracks but this album opened my mind to that type of track. The story telling is top tier. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent choice! I think your appreciation of this fine work is on target, Andrew Latimer plays like liquid silver is flowing through his fingers. Just beautiful. Also you are spot on about Peter Bardens being a great musical foil for Latimer. RIP Peter. The last time I had the opportunity to see Camel was 2002 at NEARfest. I really hope for another chance to see them in concert some day before it is too late. Andrew did have some major health issues. They have done a show in the UK in 2018 released on DVD "Live At The Royal Albert Hall." Playing keyboards on this show was the wonderful Peter Jones of Tiger Moth Tales and Red Bazar. Camel's catalogue is well worth further exploration. Also their " Canterbury cousins" Caravan have some great music. I would recommend reacting to "For Richard" and " "Nine Feet Underground." The two bands at one time appeared to be interchanging members to the point they were being laughingly referred to as "Caramel."
This is a great album, as you say Andrew Latimer is a great guitarist. The words are from the novella of the Snow Goose by Paul Gallico on which the album is based. It sounds great on vinyl. Top review Justin!
Ah got it, ty!
Check out the movie Snowgoose. It's beautiful with some sadness.
@@progger53 True, it's available on UA-cam.
I listened to Camel many moons ago. Nice to hear them again.
I want to hear more Camel, because I'd never heard of them until this year, but now I'm anxiously awaiting watching you react to Mental Medication by U.K., Hemispheres by RUSH, Tempus Fugit by YES, and more ELP and Pink Floyd.
Why doth thou torment me, Justinian of Yorkshure?
See, you've made me go all Medieval on you.
sigh : )
Hahaha, I have most of what you've mentioned coming up 😁
@@JustJP I know. I just enjoy messing with you : )
@@Lightmane i was messing with you to! I only have Bieber and Drake coming up!😁😁😁
@@JustJP ROFL!!!
@@JustJP :)))
Hello, Justin. Dave again from the UK. Another CD in my collection and this is a beautiful passage from it. Andy Latimer is such a lyrical, melodic guitarist. You may know that the current keyboardist and woodwind player in Camel is Pete Jones, who records solo under the name Tiger Moth Tales. His album The Depths of Winter is excellent and seasonal. He has a great voice, a bit like a cross between Gabriel and Collins, and plays a mean guitar, and his material is influenced by the likes of Genesis (maybe too much at times). Favourite track - Take the Memory - is about the passing of his partner's guide dog (maybe I should have mentioned that Pete too is unsighted).
Rediscovered this 30 years later. Crying
Great music for a cold winter's day. I am cursing myself for not listening to this band back in the day. Still, better late than never.
Two songs for a cold winters day:
Gordon Lightfoot: Song for a Winter's Night
Bruce Cockburn (pronounced Coe-burn): Coldest Night of the Year
Great review as usual.
Wonderful pieces of arts.
Oh my Justin, this is the best 11:47 minutes I have spent in a while. The music was so, so peaceful and moving and your commentary was helpful to someone who never heard this before. I will definitely search Camel for more. Thanks for this beauty and Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Ty Lynn! I'm glad you enjoyed this one so much!
This is my favorite album of all time inspired by one of my favorite books of all time and imo the best story of the strong ties of friendship and love. The snow goose ofc being a metaphor of an injured perception of people and once a wounded point of view heals, it turns into a rare beautiful thing which is again the snow Goose. Truly revives something in us. Great video sir
Ty Eddie!
Welcome to one of the best treasures of an album. Camel is AWESOME!! One of the few bands I never had the privilege of seeing them live...man I bet they were great live. Justin...enjoy the rest of the album. Great Christmas treat!!
Certainly pulls the heart strings
One of the best albums of the 20st century. No doubt, masterpiece.
I've been lucky enough to see Camel live twice. The last time four years ago in Barcelona. It was a prog rock festival but some people came over from other countries just to watch Latimer play. I remember an old French guy crying next to me as Andrew played.
Man I can imagine!
Me too, I was so impressed by the mix. It was like listening to an album on headphones and for somebody who really concentrates at gigs like I do it was enormously satisfying musically.
Such a stunningly gorgeous album. I look forward to your encounter with "Flight Of The Snow Goose". Total ecstacy.
Thanks JP - another great reaction video. Yeah, Andy Latimer - how to create mood and emotions with just a bit of wood and a few bits of wire. Oh, and a large helping of extraordinary talent, that's sure to help! Their music can transport you wherever you want to go, just close your eyes and feel. Thanks JP.
Ty Lorna!
Justin, every time you react to Camel, you elevate the cultural level of humanity. Thanks and keep it up!
Haha ty Rob!
It's interesting that you mention Trespass. Anthony Phillips' (guitarist on Trespass as you know) first solo album (composed and largely recorded well before 1975) is titled, The Geese and the Ghost. The final track is a lovely pastoral instrumental titled, Sleepfall: the Geese Fly West.
Now, about the story in the liner notes, the prose that accompanies the tone poems; this has been done a few times by other artists. Genesis with The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, Steve Hackett's Metamorpheus, and to a certain extent, Mike Rutherford's Smallcreep's Day which, like The Snow Goose, is based on a novel. It's a multi-media artform I like.
This was my introduction to Camel, which makes no sense what with me being a child of the Seventies, but there just aren't enough dollars and hours in the day to know everything, you know? I'm thinking, though, it might not be too late...
Thanks for another great review, Justin. And I still want you to consider giving City Boy another try with Interrupted Melody...
Never heard this beautiful work!👍🏻❤️☮️✌🏻🎸
That was just freakin beautiful. I’m trying not to listen on my own but as you listen to it, it is all first time for me. 🎸🎸🔥
Bought this CD years ago. Still my favorite Camel album. Love them Instrumentally, vocally not so much.
Have a listen to the recent concert 2018 from the Royal Albert Hall. ( available on Bluray - or YT). Different line up except for Latimer and Colin Bass who joined at the end of the 70s but the addition of Peter Jones on keys has added a great singer to the group and rectified the vocal issue which even the staunchest fans would probably admit has been their Achilles heal. We have lost all too many of the great musicians that played with this band but that concert was a great swan song.
@@scifimonkey3 I saw that one on YT - great live version. Also: The great whistle test with a chamber ensemble (70s)
Those opening acoustic arpeggios are so pretty
Hi JP,
First of all I want to congratulate you for your channel and above all for your comments always so elaborate and accurate, revealing someone with knowledge in the area and obviously with a good ear and great taste.
For someone still so young, I appreciate your openness and the emotion you show when listening to great bands from other times, which it doesn't always happen with people of your generation, more focused on more contemporary sounds.
That fact reveals a great maturity on your part.
I was pleasantly surprised by your comments regarding the albums "Encantations" by Mike Oldfield and "Snow Goose" by Camel, two of the albums of my life.
Regarding the work of Camel, there is an album off this band, that has passed alongside its history and labeled as a minor work by the band.
In my humble opinion, something unfairly because I consider it a great album and for that reason I strongly recommend your hearing, I refer to the album "NUDE".
Another band that I highly recommend your audition, is Echo & the Bunnymen, (Albuns; Porcupine, Heaven up here, Ocean Rain).
Being a proud Portuguese, I would like to suggest that you listen to some of my country's good music.
The project that I will recommend to you no longer exists (Setima Legião), this band marked the scene of Portuguese music in the 80s and 90s
Setima Legiao (ua-cam.com/video/w1oT8lD73fQ/v-deo.html)
Thanks and good hearings
Ty so so much! Ive only done one song from Echo, nut I definitely need to do more. Hope youre having a great weekend!
The Snow Goose was pretty cool. I wish I could create melody out of the guitar like he does. Nice reaction.
Another great band. Can't go wrong w/ any of Camel's catalog.
I really enjoy Camel for those mellow moods, to get lost in the instrumental. More of my youth, love it. I do not know if you realize what I am about to say but one of the all time Hard rock gods of guitar died today. Along with bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep there was a band out of my area of the world, Mountain who created some of the most classic heavy riffs, killer live band with a thunderous rhythm section that set the wheels moving into the Hard Rock and later the Heavy Metal genre. Leslie West had such a unique sound, both singing and playing lead. Gravelly vocals, killer blues riffs and well I was hoping you could do a tribute to him by reviewing one of their songs. Nantucket Sleigh ride, Mississippi Queen and Never in My Life are in a nut shell Leslie West at his and Mountain's best.
This prompted me to give Camel a listen. I'm glad I did.
I'm glad you enjoyed it Jon!
@Jon Check out the "Rain Dances" album ... and of course the full Snow Goose album.
Hi Justin.That album is a fantastic STATE of ART FROM Camel....
Beautiful !!
I met Peter Barden at the L.A.'s 1993 Progfest. He just came from Keith Emerson's place and told us about his wrist issues. And Keith had to sell some of his keyboards to pay for his Carpel Tunnel operation.
The album was inspired by a story by Paul Gallico set in 1940 in the Second World War when British soldiers were stranded in France and were rescued by a fleet of fishing boats. (It was weird to see a war memorial in Washington give the dates of the war as starting in 1941.)
I saw Camel perform the whole album in London in 1975 and you really need to listen to it in one go but respect to Justin for bringing it to a new audience
This album is the best in what I call comfort prog, it's got some complexity, but the way the album continues on and is so relaxing and enchanting...it's amazing. I can't wait til you get to the later bits of the album!
The first album I listened to, halfway the 1970’s, and I immediately became a fan. The other albums that we’re and came out followed.
Stationary Traveler from 1984 was the last album I bought. My taste shifted a bit more in the direction of heavy metal (Iron Maiden) as well as to synthesizer and New Age music (Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream).
I still love Camel and listen to it a few times a year. So melodic and emotional music.
The music is revisited by Andrew and band in the nineties with albums like Never let Go, Coming of Age.
Great album! better be listened as a whole indeed for its a Concept Album. 'Camel a live record' is still my favourite album, Snowgoose included.
hello Justin, once again i come to thank you, for the suggestion given some time ago, about this fantastic album by camel, i guarantee that you will not regret it, to hear this album in its entirety, because, without a doubt it is a master picie, one of the albums that made the most impact to me when I listened to him at the time, is simply, wonderful, and once again I thank you for analyzing. Looking forward to the end of the album, a big hug for you my friend.
Ty so much Miro!
Very pleasant. At times, almost ambient. I've heard The Snow Goose but not the first two tracks.
I remember a friend of mine getting me a ticket to see camel at the ROXY in Hollywood knowing nothing about them .... sat against the stage ... Andy stepped out onto our table and played .... to this day, after 100's of concerts .... that is still in the top 3 ( early 70's )
Thats table service for ya!
This album to me is like a children’s storybook version of Dark Side of the Moon
You know, good comparison
Love to watch your reactions but found myself closing my eyes and dissolving into the music as I always do with this album. Glad you are enjoying it and hope you can find time to do more from Camel after you complete Snow Goose. Never ceases to amaze me how unknown they are but I guess in the context of the time there was an awful lot of competition.....Hopefully you can expose them to a few new folk.
Ty scfi, this is definitely the type of music to dissolve into
Hey Justin My Man!! Wow!! Never really listened to Camel but did know of them!! YOUR SPOT ON AGAIN!! The guitar work and drums are JUST BEAUTIFUL!!! WOW!! Anxious to listen to the rest of this album with you!! Okay now for my new song requests!! #1-SARAH JAROSZ 2 Songs of hers! First song is a SOFT BALLAD CALLED- EDGE OF A DREAM! Second song is a HARD BALLAD CALLED- HOUSE OF MERCY!! I'll let you pick which one!! #2 -MELANIE- RUBY TUESDAY! #3 RIVER WHYLESS- BORN IN THE RIGHT COUNTRY!!! Their my FAVORITE BAND RIGHT NOW! PROG- FOLK!! Before I go I have a CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOU AND YOUR WIFE!- MUSIC OF COURSE!!! AN ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS Song you haven't heard!!! ITS CALLED- WHEN THE CHRISTMAS BABY CRIES BY- THE ANNIE MOSES BAND!!! Its just BEAUTIFUL!! Theyre a family band of 3 Brothers & 3 Sisters who are all graduates of JULLIARD!!! AMAZING MUSICIANS!! Watch the live performance of this song from PBS!! I've seen them a few times and met all of them and their Parents too!!! Then song #2- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen!!! The 2 oldest brother and sister do a violin jam- off at tge end!!!! JUST AWESOME!! PLEASE WATCH THESE 2 VIDEOS FOR CHRISTMAS AND ENJOY!!! AND MAY I ALSO SUGGEST YOU WATCH THE WHOLE SHOW AND MAYBE DO A SONG REACTION FROM THEM!!! OKAY IM DONE NOW!!! HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! YOUR #1 AZ FAN MICHAEL😽😸😊😊
So happy to see you finally continuing with this album! A slight change to my previous divion of songs: Next episode should be "friendship"+"migration"+"rhayader alone"+"flight of the snow goose", then "preparation"+"dunkirk"+"epitaph", and finally "fritha alone"+"la princesse perdue" To save space in the title, you could name the videos parts 3, 4 and 5 hahaha 😄
I agree with this order. Preparation/Dunkirk belong together and they flow even better with Epitaph.
Love the album. These three songs are very relaxed (still pretty), but work great in the flow of the album - Rhayader Goes To Town came off with quite a bit of energy.
I am anxious to see what you think of the rest of the album and I hope you will do an album review afterwards as well - this one really deserves it in my opinion.
Now that's some good stuff
Indeed!😁
I've got this album somewhere and haven't played it for years. Hearing it again was beautiful and I'm going to dig it out. Thanks Justin
My older brother bought that LP when it was released, just like "Thick as a brick" in the newspaper cover and quite a lot other nice LPs first and later lost the interest in it and he gifted them to me 😃
Beldin 2 - sounds like a good brother
The title track is pre meditative bliss, my favorite song on the album along with La Princesse Perdue. He just plays the exact notes I want to hear I swear.
Really need to hear the whole lp at once tbh. Classic stuff though
Great album. Although they played the Snow Goose live completely on "A Live Record" ,which is the first Camel album I got as a sort of "greatest hits" at that point in their career, I bought the album separately as well. I love the way it flows and this section might even be my favourite part. Gives me goose bumps! 🤣 Anyway Latimer has a way of playing I absolutely love. Laidback in a way but he sure hits the right notes! But the drums have a really nice role here too, not overdone but just right. Too bad you cut it up. I always play albums in full and this album certainly fills the need to do so!
I gave a thumbs up before even listening to this, after thinking last night that I would like to see you review songs from this album.
Ty Rich! Great timing!
Andy Ward ...magical, the best Camel moment
Camel an often forgotten Great Prog band from later in the Prog era ! : )
Good call on the "beach" sound that you picked up on, as the story is set on the southern coast of England. I wanted you to keep going, since this is one of my favorite albums. I once mentioned it on Twitter, and will do so again; since you enjoy instrumentals that feature guitar work with long sustained notes, have a listen to "The Steppes" by Steve Hackett. One of his best.
On to something there!
I discovered Camel only a few years ago. And while they might not belong to the absolute A-League of classic prog acts, this album and especially 'Moonmadness' (hope I rember the title correctly) are really worthwhile.
Lots of other tracks worth discovering throughout their discography :-)
Ohh my favorit group :) they did a 2013 "remix" of that album and you should really check it out when you finish with this one maybe, i really think they did a excellent job! cheers!
Justin, you could analyze this album by the order of the songs, because, it works like a symphony, with a sequence of stories. thanks for everything again.
All progressive rock is rooted in classical music. Longer pieces, thematic, with many transitions from soft to dramatic. And only great musicians need apply. This album is a good example of that,
The last song has the style of the song Chord Change from the album moonmadness. Pure feeling
Again,very funny-Wednesday-Camel (humpday!).Ha ha.am I sensing a theme here? Snow Blind-Snow Goose ? This is one of my goto albums for peace and calm!And do I need it,a family member down there in your state tested positive and has symptoms! So stay vigilant and Merry Axemas to you and yours.Peace.
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Justin - Just been to check the sleeve of my album, but there are no such explanatory sleeve notes on mine. However, mine is one of the later ones with ‘ Music Inspired by ‘ added to the sleeve to placate Paul Gallico, who was threatening to sue them for copyright infingement. So maybe mine didn’t have them, if the notes were from (or inspired by) the novel.
This was the second Camel album I bought, back in about 1974. Mirage was the first. I still play both, of course! In fact, I shall play it now, just because I can!
Ty for checking that out for me Arne!
AHHHH it's just so URGGGHH it's so oowah-sooooome :..D
Here's a bit of British prog trivia: Andrew Latimer and Bill Bruford were both born on May 17, 1949. Brought to you by Almost Interesting Facts, Ltd.
Another winter-theme suggestion: December by All About Eve. When I say that you'll fall in love with Julianne Regan's voice, I'm really not kidding. Epic song too....
Think Kate Bush with more of a hard-edged, guitar driven sound and you won't be a million miles away
their best album
Justin definitely check out the official live version from Royal Albert Hall with the LSO 1975.
Yes, hard to stop playing the album. Latimer and Bardens are a perfect team here. Beautiful melodies and arrangements. Bardens had a gift for making synths warm and inviting.
The rhythm section of Ward and Ferguson also provides what is perfect for the song.
Not lyrics. The album is "inspired by" the book. A lawsuit by the author necessitated changing the title. The record company was appalled the album had no vocals with lyrics.
Camel...Nice! But you still haven't gotten to my two favorites off The Snow Goose. Those being, "Rhayader Alone" & "Fritha Alone".
This man is *consistent* wtaf
Check out the movie SnowGoose. Its a beautiful movie with a great score.
Good stuff Camel, been listening to them for years. unfortunately(as with many bands) their earlier music is better.
Ward & Ferguson - possibly the tightest rhythm section i know of
Have a recommendation for you from Camel. It’s a musical interpretation of a Steinbeck novel. The album is Dust and Dreams. Its does a good job of bringing you into the angst os the Great Depression.
Hey look its christmas!!
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Such an incredibly overlooked band by the masses. But the masses tend to overlook lots of good stuff. Glad you are giving them their due...Camel, that is, not the masses....lmao
I'm glad l have been one of the minority!
Haha anytime!
@@JustJP Justin you mentioned the guitar reminding you of Genesis Trespass...think that was Anthony Phillips back then You would like his solo stuff ..especially "The Geese and the Ghost" LP Has quite a catalog
Can anyone confirm this? I think I read somewhere that Camel did not manage to get the permission from the copyright owner of the book for the lyrics, so they made an instrumental album.
You have to do the next three together ! Rhayader Alone: best song about loneliness (no need for word, just the guitar for emotion)!
Have a good holiday time ! sorry for my english.
Ty PG, will do! Youre English is great!
Btw Justin, now that Leslie West has passed on, please do Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain! 👍
If I get the time, I'll keep it in mind!
I like this album but Mirage, Moonmadness, Rain Dances and Breathless are better IMHO ! 😎
All those albums are great that you refer to - for some reason the critics were really won over more by 'Snow Goose.' I dig them all - saw them live in '78 I think - and they played Snow Goose and I think they did not play 'Lady Fantasy.' This is the kind of thoughtful prog that I feel somehow is non-existent in the so-called prog by better known North American bands - ( - - - - - - , - - - - , - - - - , and - - - - - - - - - ).
Have the album's you mentioned apart from Mirage, have to give it a listen.
A great and beautiful album from Camel, although I slightly prefer Moonmadness. Just personal taste
Why not Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider
I think the lead electric guitar, reminds me more , of the tone Hank Marvin has.
Odd one this. Looking at album info, 16 tracks, lots very short, and do they all meld into one like this? I believe it was themed on a book, but sounds more like it could be a soundtrack for film or tv, Incidental music. It was ok, I'm sure they're fine musicians, but it just didn't seem to go anywhere. Even as chill music, you'd probably forget it was on after a few minutes. Like the ticking clock in the room you don't register until you look up and see it.
If you haven't already, may be time for some Porcupine Tree.
Great review of this but gotta do a seasonal correction on your pronunciation of "Latimer". It's Latimyrrh as in gold, frankincense and myrrh. Happy Christmas!
Ty! Had no idea lol
check Moonmadness their other master piece.