Wonder whether The Clashing Buzzards would be a useful name for a Smashing Pumpkins tribute act?
Incidentally, what we call buzzards in the UK generally refers to species like this Common Buzzard, Buteo buteo. In the US, the term "hawk" is usually used for such species and "buzzard" is a more colloquial word in some places for the turkey vulture...
@sciencebase Budgie's 'In for the Kill' album would fit.
@sciencebase I've got it on right now. They're nowt like Deep Purple either.
@SteelFolk They are a little bit...but only in the way that a lot of early post-British-Blues-Explosion 70s stuff is...similar guitar sounds and riffs and solos, wailing vocals, minimalist drum kits, heavy bass.
@sciencebase I can hear 'Hush' and oddly much later with Tommy Bolin rather than Blackmore. No keyboards a bit unusual for then.
@SteelFolk Hush was from the 60s British-Blues-Explosion malarkey though, written 1967. Purple covered it in 68. We do a kinda Kula Shaker version without keys with my band ;-)
@sciencebase I realise I really meant 'Shades of.....' rather than 'Hush' alone. I've never heard 'Book of Taliesin' though. May have to think about it...
@SteelFolk Odd that Soft Machine did "The Tale of Taliesin"
Purple was the book, like you say, but they spelled it with a y Taliesyn
@SteelFolk Taliesyn is proto proggie nonsense...sounds awful, hahah
@sciencebase Just heard it streaming. I though Blackmore must have got it from somewhere, not just trying to impress Ms Knight with his pointy hat. Urrgh.
@SteelFolk It was 7th Century poetry or something?
@sciencebase I'm afraid we did it at junior school. I had to sing in it.
@sciencebase It is mind-numbingly bad. I offer only P Harum's 'Something Magic' as something worse.
@SteelFolk Oh, yes! Hahah