#jon camp

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Jon Camp

A lovely collection of guitar reveries for your Bandcamp Monday this week. Maryland-based musician Jon Camp's self-titled album is breezy and bright, guitar blending harmoniously with pedal steel, mandolin, tuba, bits of percussion and the always gorgeous fiddle of Pelt's Mike Gangloff. The songs are miniatures, springing up, blossoming beautifully and then fading away. The relatively epic "Iffy Strut" and "17 Years" are the exceptions, but even those never overstay their welcome. Camp isn't a flashy player — his fingerpicking on both acoustic and electric sounds intuitive and natural, as though these compositions were conjured up on the spot.

[rainingmusic]

Renaissance - Kiev

[decembersoul]

Ashes Are Burning - Renaissance    Happy Birthday to Annie Haslam♥♥♥

[longliverockback]

Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories 1975 BTM ——————————————————————— Tracks: 1. Trip to the Fair 2. The Vultures Fly High 3. Ocean Gypsy 4. Song of Scheherazade a. Fanfare b. The Betrayal c. The Sultan d. Love Theme e. The Young Prince and Princess as told by Scheherazade f. Festival Preparations g. Fugue for the Sultan h. The Festival i. Finale 5. Bullet ———————————————————————

Jon Camp

Michael Dunford

Annie Haslam

Terence Sullivan 

John Tout 

* Long Live Rock Archive

[ponderingrandomthings]

Wow.

Looks like a very hard working band... This is a 1974 footage.

And, of course, they have their own place in music.

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Is it just me or does the video at 1:50 remind me of the Alan Parsons Project song A Dream Within a Dream (at 2:25)?

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If I remember correctly, most of the band's lyrics were written by a lyricist Betty Thatcher.

And fascinating/funny trivia about her:

"she won a scholarship to a grammar school, where she refused to take part in any examinations. After two years excelling in English and art, she transferred to a school that accepted difficult students."

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From Wikipedia: "Thatcher wrote most of the band's lyrics for the studio albums:

Prologue (1972)

Ashes Are Burning (1973)

Turn of the Cards (1974)

Scheherazade and Other Stories (1975)

Novella (1977)

A Song for All Seasons (1978)

Azure d'Or (1979)

Camera Camera (1981)" - this was her last album for Renaissance.

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Current Members:

Annie Haslam – vocals, percussion (1971–1987, 1998–2002, 2009–present)

Rave Tesar – keyboards, piano (2001–2002, 2009–present)

Mark Lambert – guitar, backing vocals (2015–present); bass (1985–1987)

Frank Pagano – drums, percussion, backing vocals (2009–2017, 2018–present)

Leo Traversa – bass, backing vocals (2015–2018, 2022–present)

Geoffrey Langley – keyboards, backing vocals (2016–present)

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Read this link for an exhaustive list or Renaissance band members.

List of Renaissance band members - Wikipedia

[musicmags]

[vbasement]

Quote from Jon Camp, an American vegan activist from Vegan Outreach.

[ironminds]

HEY USC STUDENTS/COLUMBIA PEOPLE

Come out to the Green Quad on campus tonight at 7pm.

There's a free documentary screening of Fowl Play being presented tonight to us by Jon Camp from Vegan Outreach! 

There's also free food from the Good Life Cafe and desserts from Earth Fare.

Completely free, 7pm. Come hang out, there's a Q&A afterwards with Jon Camp.