Ozric Tentacles

Blort · #1 05-22-2011, 01:56 AM

Anyone else familair with this band?

I have liked them for years, finally got their whole discovery. I'm not familair with the bands history, but they have had a lot of members. Some of their bass lines are excellent.

Adam Wright · #2 05-22-2011, 02:01 AM

Great band. I haven't really kept up with them for some time though.

The Mouse · #3 05-22-2011, 02:03 AM

Theres a blast from the past.. Good stuff!

KenHR · #4 05-22-2011, 11:49 AM

I stuck with them up thru Arborescence, but they were repeating themselves by then. I don't know if they lasted long after that album, though? Lost track of Winne entirely.

"Saucers" from Strangeitude is probably my favorite track of theirs. I have the CD box set of their early albums, too; love the live album where it's announced thtat the drummer has evaporated.

ctufankjian · #5 05-22-2011, 11:51 AM

I remember them. They had a track on a sampler from the 90's that I got at a headshop. Pretty cool band.

UncleFluffy · #6 05-22-2011, 11:56 AM

I saw them a bunch of times in the early 90s and they were an incredible live band with insane energy. Everyone was dancing for hours.

Saw them again late 90s/early 00s and they had changed a lot. Much more ambient. The audience just sat chilling. Not so much my thing.

I'd recommend the earlier material up to and including Erpland. After that, YMMV.

knumbskull · #7 05-22-2011, 12:07 PM

i used to like Jurassic Shift a lot... Not sure i'd dig it quite as much now.

Me and my mate went to see them live in Manchester... We took mushrooms and somehow he managed both to **** his pants and to meet the woman who later became his wife. To this day she doesn't know about the mushrooms or the trouser mishap.

factorplayer · #8 05-24-2011, 01:38 AM

I've listened to them for 10+ years, lots of great bass groovin on most albums. The later ones I can't always tell if it's real bass or programmed. I like Arborescence, Erpland, Curious Corn and The Hidden Step the most.

Roly Wynne (guitarist Ed Wynne's bro) played bass on the earlier material but sadly committed suicide in the 90's sometime... Zia did the bass after that.

mcbosler · #9 05-24-2011, 09:09 AM

Thanks to the OP for bringing this up. Hadn't heard of them & really digging it.

berkeleebass88 · #10 05-25-2011, 07:08 AM

I saw them live twice, once with Rodger Waters son on keyboards.

I have all the recordings... and in a way its like Kiss... they put out the same album 20 times, and if you are a fan you'll get every one, because there is just enough variation to make it fresh. You really can't go wrong with any of them, but get "Jurassic Shift" if you only want one, (has both Roly and Zia on bass), or "Spirals in Hyperspace" for the more recent techno / trance direction.

That said, this is one of my favorite groups ever, not so much for the bass playing, as the marriage of rock, techno, dub, ambient, bubbling arpeggiated synth, odd time sigs, and general spaciness. The last few CDs are all Ed Wynne, and he does some wicked sequenced bass lines, very musical, and always in taste with the song.

45cmckay105 · #11 05-25-2011, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by KenHR

I stuck with them up thru Arborescence, but they were repeating themselves by then. I don't know if they lasted long after that album, though? Lost track of Winne entirely.

"Saucers" from Strangeitude is probably my favorite track of theirs. I have the CD box set of their early albums, too; love the live album where it's announced thtat the drummer has evaporated.

There are some GEMS after Arborescence to my ears. Big fan of Swirly Termination. Floating Seeds REMIX album is quite impressive as well.

My favorite will always remain "SPLOOSH.
Think that is on Strangeitude or Pungent Effulgent.

Floridabwoy · #12 05-25-2011, 09:23 AM

Allright! Jam Band Fans!

KenHR · #13 05-25-2011, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by 45cmckay105

There are some GEMS after Arborescence to my ears. Big fan of Swirly Termination. Floating Seeds REMIX album is quite impressive as well.

My favorite will always remain "SPLOOSH.
Think that is on Strangeitude or Pungent Effulgent.

It's on Strangeitude.

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll definitely check them out!

Smit_Dogg · #14 05-30-2011, 07:10 AM

Ozrics are fantastic, They're from the Hawkwind mold but they have really set themselves apart adding the dancey/electronica element to it. Roly Wynne, their original bass player was fantastic and quite an influentual player in his own right. its also worth checking out Eat Static, a side band of Ozrics which is more dance orientated.

Hifiguy · #15 06-01-2011, 02:49 PM

Great band, though the only constant seems to be Ed Wynne's presence. I do like me some space fusion, and they do it extremely well.

If you like the Ozrics, check out Gong's "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy or Steve Hillage's mid-1970's solo albums.

UncleFluffy · #16 06-01-2011, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Hifiguy

If you like the Ozrics, check out Gong's "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy or Steve Hillage's mid-1970's solo albums.

Thankyou!

I'd totally forgotten about Hillage's solo stuff until you mentioned it here. Time to dig out Green and crank up The Glorious Om Riff offensively loud... mmm .... space rock nostalgia ...

edit: From one youtube commenter "I was absolutely baked the first time I heard this and when the main riff kicked in I felt like I was being shot out of a cannon. 15 years later and I still enjoy it." Yup, that's pretty much my recollection...