My favourite album is ‘Colosseum Live’ from … by the band Colosseum. Nice raw vocals, but at the same time also instrumental gems of solos on guitar and keyboards. Besides that, I find it, certainly for an album of over forty years old, unusually good quality for that time. Especially the song “Lost Angeles” is great (but it’s almost 20 minutes long…) because of its construction and passionate singing. In the early/mid-seventies, three or four of us (we were about 17-18 years old) would regularly go to obscure places like “De Kruk” in De Meern (now music venue Azotod) and sometimes to the “Werfkelder Sarasani” in Utrecht, to get slightly stoned in dark corners together, because we didn’t have much money to blow, the beer did the rest…. Especially Karel (who also drew very well) could make great joints that kept us going for a while! The longer songs were often played later in the evening and for example “Lost Angeles” was a hit and of course a lot of work by bands like Frank Zappa, Soft Machine, Iron Butterfly, Rare Earth, The Doors etc. etc. A great time, when really good music was still being made.
