Lighthouse Live!

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Lighthouse Live! is a live album by Canadian rock group Lighthouse, recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York City on February 6, 1972. The long extended Byrd’s tune “Eight Miles High” on side 2 along with their studio album hit “One Fine Morning” are reasons to keep this double vinyl 1972 release. Some of the other long jams are good, as every member gets to jam out live, there’s some Jethro Tull like soloing from the flute player and some rocking guitar solo. The band had various vocalist, although Bob McBride, who also plays percussion does most of the vocals and has a very good voice, but there are lots of band member, with horn, flute viola added to the usual rock band instrument. Lighthouse incorporate jazz into their rock songs and the largeness of their band is a good fit for thi. There’s no “Pretty Lady” live, maybe the best song Lighthouse ever wrote along with “One Fine Morning” and “Sunny Days”, because they had not written it yet, that song showed up on the 1974 Can You Feel It album. Drummer Skip Prokop formed Lighthouse in 1968. The Canadian band released two singles on RCA in 1970 and played at the Newport and Monterey Jazz Festivals and the Isle of Wight Festival, though they had turned down Woodstock.” Lighthouse is a Canadian rock band formed in 1968. With a brass and string section, they mix rock, jazz and classical element. They won three Juno Awards in 1972–74. After disbanding in 1976, the group has been performing again since 1992. History Lighthouse was formed in Toronto in 1968 by Skip Prokop (drum, vocals) and Paul Hoffert (keyboards). Their idea was a rock orchestra consisting of three sections: a rock rhythm section, a jazz horn section and a classical string section. The original formation had 13 member. The band’s first performance was on May 14, 1969 in Toronto. In their freshman year, they played at Carnegie Hall, Fillmore East, Fillmore West, the Atlantic City Pop Festival, and the Monterey and Newport Jazz Festival, among other. In 1970 they played at the Strawberry Fields Festival and the Isle of Wight Festival. Their first two album, Lighthouse and Suite Feeling, were released on RCA in 1969. After the third album Peacing It All Together (1970) the band switched to GRT. With some lineup change, they released two albums in 1971: One Fine Morning and Thoughts of Movin’ On, both of which reached gold status in Canada. Capitalizing on the succe, RCA released a best-of album called One Fine Light based on the first three album. Lighthouse toured 300 days a year. They were also the first rock band to perform with symphony orchestra, including the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Company – the project that toured Canada was called Ballet High. Lighthouse Live! was recorded at Carnegie Hall in February 1972. It was the first Canadian album to achieve platinum statu. They went gold again with the next studio album, Sunny Day. Hoffert left the band in 1973 but remained their producer. After the Good Day album the following year, Prokop also left. The band stayed together for some time before disbanding in 1976. In September 1982, Lighthouse reunited for four concerts in Ontario. In 1989 Denon Records released The Best of Lighthouse – Sunny Days Again. Lighthouse have been performing again since 1992. In 1995 the album Song of the Ages was released by Breaking Record. The single Remember the Times was a Top 30 hit in Canada. Awards .

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