Noble Gas makes top 40 American Idol Underground

[Swamp Gas]

#28 on page 3. One Foot Above the Ground

We're getting 1000 hits a day on our site now.

Thank you very much, to all who have supported us through the years.

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[Mech]

Wow.....congrats my man.

I'm starting my own internet radio program with a local musician here soon.

You can be sure ill play your stuff.

You should thank your birds for the vocal parts.

[Swamp Gas]

mech said:

Wow.....congrats my man.

I'm starting my own internet radio program with a local musician here soon.

You can be sure ill play your stuff.

You should thank your birds for the vocal parts.

We also thank you for your vocal parts, unwavering support, and being the true Constitutional fellow you always are.

Oh, don't forget Theta's shrieking, yodeling, harmonizing, and swooning too.

BTW, are you using Nicecast for the broadcast? The best for Mac platform, as I even use it for corporate Webcasts. PM me about it.

Also, Science Faction is out in the world now too, on a compilation hitting Australia, New Zealand, and Asia right now.

Interesting that the people are also get to hear about Aerosol Mitigation through Johnny Spray, which is on the CD

[Mech]

Actually its going to be on his website and he is a win-doze user.

Ill be doing all my shows in advance and put them on MP3s.

Hes going to stream them in continuous rotation along with all the other shows on the site

[DannyRock]

Congratulations...

[chickenlittle]

How fab and fun!!!Hey Swamp do you have a p.o box I would like to send you a cd I would like you to hear my husband and I play we are doing others songs but you can see what we are like through our music as we can see you guys.Actually I have our songs loaded on my i tunes there may possibly be a way to send you via email a copy of one or two do you know anything about that,I will ask the hubby he probably knows how just had not thought of it before,
Listen if we can no making fun of us o.k?
chicky

[Swamp Gas]

Thanks Chicky!!

If you PM either Theta or me, we can do that. Can you encode your songs to mp3, 64kbps? If yes, I'll also send my email, so you can forward them.

BTW, we had a small get together of a few old friends of ours last night. We listened to 60s psychedelia, 70s space music and prog rock, 80s New Wave and New Romantic, and modern Techno and Trip Hop. We literally had tunes playing for 8 hours, and the most popular was the 80s stuff, which is incredible stuff.....Duran Duran, The Fixx, Bananarama, DEVO, B52s, Tears for Fears, etc. It was like how we used to do in the 60s.

[chickenlittle]

Of course the eighties was the best! My 20 yr.old is so into the 80's she understands the intensity in the music she isn't a musician like my husband and I but she knows she tells me that one of the greatest songs ever was Turning japanese
and I really have to agree there is a Ton of different music going on in that song it is soooooo intense.
Time changes and stuff and I always scoff at thise who make fun of the eighties.
I will check out and see what I can send music wise.
chicky

[Thetaloops]

Thanks everyone so much. We are very excited about this. How ironic that it would be American Idol. I near watched the show and thought it was kind of straight (my coworkers talk about watching this show all the time), but, as we must always be ready to do is adjust our thinking as situations unfold.

Chicky I didn't know you and your husband wrote music. We would love to hear you creations. As you say we'll get to know each other even better by sharing.

Einstein said something to the effect - 'There is not such thing as genius it is only persistence that counts.'

Swamp and I have been working together on music since 1978 when we were do copy songs with a Wurlitzer piano and no microphone at a little party in Lake Tahoe, CA. It's a very slow process and you really can't expect to make much money from it. It has to be a labor of love.

Mech, thank you for your work with us and I hope we can do something again. Your ideas and vocals are great. You have done some great PR work as well and continue to do so. You're a pal.

Thanks again to all.

[Swamp Gas]

We saw The Vapors open for Gary Numan in 1980 in Los Angeles. It was an exciting show, and Numan was Spooky to say the least. Right at the same same time we also went to see Wall of Voodoo open for Ultravox, and both groups were astounding. Then there was Lene Lovich playing with the B52s..........

[chickenlittle]

I kind of forgot what I started talking about to begin with.My son said he can put them on a website and you can go there and listen to them how about that ? kind of a hassle though I dont want to be a pain about it but I can send to soundclick.com or something like that.
Doesn't it seem strange that it is so hard to send music over the internet?Seems like that should be an easy thing to do.
I probably can go through PM that would be the easiest way.I have them on my I tunes account as we just uploaded our cd on there.I wish you had an i tunes account and I could send it through that way.
chicky

[KNOWTHIS]

Wow, that's fantastic! I'm actually excited for you guys. Things are really starting to progress in leaps and bounds for your music it seems? I'm really glad that you're getting exposure and opening new doors with new fans. My best of wishes for further future exponential successes.

[Thetaloops]

Thanks Knowthis really appreciate your enthusiasm. ;D

[kat]

Atta-a-Boy, Swampy! I hope this ends with a little more finacial freedom for your family. My eyes lately have been getting worse so I haven't been able to visit regularly. Best of wishes for yeah.

[Swamp Gas]

Thanks Kat. 50 freakin' years of playing, and some minor successes, been a long journey, but we have some more in the can. Weird that I started playing when Bill Haley and The Comets did "Rock Around the Clock". Watched and was around this since the beginnings of Rock and Roll. Actually, American POp music is at it's worst I have ever seen. Perhaps us old farts can bring some life back into it.

We have divided the music into two parts.....Wild, soundscape electronica, and politically active songs like Microwaved Minds, Homogenized, Fragmented, and The Legend of Johnny Spray.

Oh, try massive doses of Bilberry for the eyes.

[kat]

Hey Swampy I hear yeah there about the years of music that have reeled bye. In your vast chasm of music through the years did you ever run across a band named GYPSY? There biggest hit was named Gypsy Queen. One of my old friends brother worked with their sound crew and died after touring in Chicago on their way home driving their equipment truckvan. What a flashback that was. I just had to ask.

[Swamp Gas]

I do remember something about them. Early 70s or so, and with some lofty singing. Sort of like Glass Harp. Sad about your friend. So many of the people we knew are gone, mostly suicides, overdoses, and bad livers.

[kat]

I first got to listen to them while home on leave at a bar in dinky town on the west bank of mpls. mn. Can't remember the name of the bar but they had a huge outdoor patio at the rear of the bar. No cops, lotta smoke. It seems like all a pipe dream now. I also caught Luther Allison along with child prodigy Lee Ritenour at the same bar. ;D

GYPSY biography

Formed in 1964, this quintet began as a Minneapolis-based pop band called The UNDERBEATS. They eventually relocated to Los Angeles and, changing their name to GYPSY, began pursuing a heavier, more complex sound, blending SANTANA-like guitar and organ riffs with vocals and arrangements reminiscent of early CHICAGO. They released two excellent albums on a small label in the early 70’s then switched to RCA who (it is said) pushed the band in a more commercial direction. Consequently, they lost thei...Formed in 1964, this quintet began as a Minneapolis-based pop band called The UNDERBEATS. They eventually relocated to Los Angeles and, changing their name to GYPSY, began pursuing a heavier, more complex sound, blending SANTANA-like guitar and organ riffs with vocals and arrangements reminiscent of early CHICAGO. They released two excellent albums on a small label in the early 70’s then switched to RCA who (it is said) pushed the band in a more commercial direction. Consequently, they lost their progressive edge and the subsequent two releases are no more than a collection of average, mid-70’s radio-friendly pop.

Their eponymous first album (70) was a double LP made up of jazz, prog rock and pop elements, featuring fantastic harmonies with vocalist/keyboardist James Walsh in the lead. The more polished “In the Garden”, released a year later, is in the same vein with Walsh really cooking at the keyboards. With the release of “Antithesis” (72) and “Unlock the Gates” (73), however, the band took a downslide into bubble-gum pop. Sole member of the original line-up, Walsh gathered some musicians in 1996 and tried to revive the GYPSY sound with an album called “20 Years Ago Today”; an average-to-good album mostly made up of new compositions plus a couple of nicely reworked classics.


Gypsy
(Studio Album, 1970)


Side 1
1. Gypsy Queen Part I (4:21)
2. Gypsy Queen Part II (2:33)
3. Man of Reason (2:59)
4. Dream If You Can (2:48)
5. Late December (4:12)

Side 2
6. The Third Eye (4:55)
7. Decisions (8:16)
8. I Was So Young (4:00)

Side 3
9. Here In My Loneliness (3:10)
10. More Time (5:35)
11. The Vision (7:30)

Side 4
12. Dead and Gone (11:07)
13. Tomorrow Is The Last To Be Heard (5:48)

Total Time: 67:13
Bonus track on Bedrock CD:
14. The Innocence (4:37)
Line-up

- Enrico Rosenbaum / guitar, vocals
- James Walsh / keyboards, vocals
- James Johnson / guitar, vocals
- James Epstein / drums
- Doni Larson / bass
- Preston Epps / percussion
- Jimmie Haskell / string arrangements

[Swamp Gas]

Now I remember them. Preston Epps played the 50s hit, "Bongo Rock", and was a collaborator with Sandy Nelson of "Teen Beat" fame.

Speaking of psychedelia, we had a little get together with a few old timers last weekend. One of the albums we listened to was The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. Whew!! Did that bring back wall melting memories

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Congrats you guys been working hard at it for a long time.

[Swamp Gas]

Thanks Increase....Yes, a long time, and you can't rest. Next is the Live performances, with one in Kingston, New York, on a radio show/Beat Cafe.

[Thetaloops]

Thanks Increase and Kat, Noble Gas has been a long time coming and has along way to go. Music and Art are forever young. We have to bring those wonderful musical and artzy times from the past into the now and into the future.

If it weren't for all of us here it would make it much harder to keep going. Thanks.