John Cann, one of the world's greatest guitarists, with Atomic Rooster, and Hard Stuff too, seek out Time Gambler for one of the best songs musically and lyrically ever made, RIP one of my all time heros.
+Keith Gordon So underrated. He was in The Attack too, if you haven't already check them out one insanely underrated band from the late 60s. One of my favourite bands ever and heavy too.
Time Gambler was my fav Hard Stuff track, just superb in every way musically and lyrically "You don't need the friends that you have"....The guitar is so good, it is almost like it is talking to you. I have the script 'Time Gambler' tattooed under my chin.
The intro is based on a bit of classical music - "Mars, God of War" I think...so nobody ripped off anybody, but this track was released at least a year earlier than Sabbath.
True. A lot of rock artists and bands of every genre and every era used phrasings from classical music. Way too many times to count. I wonder how people would compare this to rap and sampling.
@@jimsmith9753 The moment you hear music in your life, you are already influenced. No matter how hard you try to sound "original", your subconscious mind will always give you ideas which is the result of all the songs that you have heard in your lifetime.
I was pleased to hear this incredible band in mid-October or November 1969 in a memorable show that still had fat matress and the band andwellas dream.
There's an appeal pending for me 'bout my returning to sanity I hope this time it goes through If it don't there's nothing left to do For me just to live an existence And not need any assistance Would mean everything to me All I want is just to be free I know if they just set me free I'd do everything that's wanted of me I know if they just let me go I would live my life on my own I can't carry my hopes anymore So please tell me what plans are in store Being here only makes me feel low So please free my life and let me go For me just to live an existence And not need any assistance Would mean everything to me All I want is just to be free I know if they just set me free I'd do everything that's wanted of me I know if they just let me go I would live my life on my own
The timeline of the Mars riff is something like: Sep 1918 - Adrian Boult conducts **Holst's Mars, Bringer of War Jul 1953 - The Quatermass Experiment miniseries premieres, with Mars as its theme song, is huge hit with young boys Jun 1965 - Bowie's (an explicit Quatermass fan) project The Lower Third closes their shows with a guitar rendition of Mars, no recordings exist Sep 1967 - Sands uses an electric guitar Mars for half of their anti-war Listen to the Sky Sep 1967 - Family uses a very short bit of Mars for Scene Through the Eye of a Lens Mar 1968 - The Attack is dropped by their label and doesn't complete their album Roman God of War Oct 1968 - ex-The Attack member John Cann's Andromeda repurposes unused songs, including the Mars-based Return to Sanity for John Peel Nov 1968 - John Peel broadcasts Return to Sanity, and Andromeda records a full album including even more of Mars, but album is not released (though you can find the demos now). Nov 1968 - Scottish band Writing on the Wall records the heavily Mars-based Shadow of Man for John Peel Nov 1968 - ex-Sands members record pop album with Deep Purple - does their Listen to the Sky come up? Dec 1968 - John Peel broadcasts Shadow of Man Apr 1969 - British government honours Holst conductor Boult's 80th birthday to much fanfare Jun 1969 - Andromeda re-records album with Return to Sanity Jul 1969 - King Crimson opens for a massive Rolling Stones show and closes with a thunderous guitar version of Mars, possibly played at earlier shows? Aug 1969 - Black Sabbath (last show as Earth) plays Black Sabbath, a deconstruction of Mars Aug 1969 - Deep Purple performs Child in Time, which has a notable passage from Mars. Sep 1969 - Deep Purple records a symphonic version of Child in Time* Sep 1969 - Andromeda finally releases Return to Sanity Oct 1969 - Black Sabbath records Black Sabbath Oct 1969 - Writing on the Wall releases the album with Shadow of Man Apr 1970 - King Crimson release a deconstructed Mars as The Devil's Triangle Jun 1970 - Deep Purple release studio album with Child in Time Mar 1972 - Jerusalem release Hooded Eagle, which utilizes the Mars riff. Mar 1980 - Diamond Head record Am I Evil, heavily drawing on the Mars riff. Mar 1982 - Metallica begin playing Am I Evil (and then you've also got Dead Kennedys in 1980, King Diamond in 1982, Savatage in 1987, Nile in 1996, Symphony X in 1997, Bathory in 2001, Gorgoroth in 2002, Judas Priest finally gets around to it 2008 and I'm sure there's more)
The sound of this record reminds me of Pink Floyd's, Instellar Overdrive as it builds to a Crescendo and takes yr mind to a place it has never been to before. I wonder if they were influenced by Pink Floyd or whether or not Pink Floyd was influenced by them. p.savage
"Mars, the bringer of war" was a track from Gustav Holst. And a great Death Metal Band called "Nile" took that intro in the track "Ramses Bringer of War", too.
The riff at the very end is also similar to another song by Holst from the planet suits "jupiter bringer of joy" i guess they wanted to end on a happy note
While many rock and metal bands used Mars as a source of influence, I think the Diamond Head track might be influenced by the adaptation by Writing On The Wall in their Shadow Of Man. Both share quirks that aren't in the original.
@squarepyramid99 yes the intro is based on one from the songs from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst, if it's the song Mars more specifically i am not sure, but it is from one of those songs
@ianmatthewmcknight7 Im one of those people....how r bands like these not at least as famous as sabbath if not more....world is unjust!!!!..tho if it were maybe i wouldnt get such a soulful tune as this
@ysfawolfpack you hear "Mars, God of War" by Gustav Holst, on guitar and bass. And more than that... it's Diamond Head's "Am I Evil". Metallica just did a cover of it.
Although it is Holst, Black Sabbath did support Andromeda around this time (Black Sabbath were just starting out) and so they may well have been influenced by this... Both great tracks though
Yeah I know. Old musicians borrow from other musicians they like. Been that way since the end of time, Was that way when classical music was being put out. The real inportant thing is that the music inspired other people to write some good music too. Maybe even better than what they were copying...
Any native english speaker could post the complete lyrics of this masterpiece? I'm not english speaker and i cant neither find the lyrics on the internet. Thanks!
Hu hu hu... Without this Andromeda your name stealing "Andromeda" wouldn't make the music they make today and would probably have a different name.. And no one pwns anyone.
Gustav Holst.
The original metalhead.
that would be bach, but hes on it too
@@user-el6ve2rl9b You could easily tell that the first part of the song sounds like Holst's Mars.
wow, what an AMAAAZING and truly underrated band.
this is when youtube is amazing, bringing brilliant music such as this.
John Cann, one of the world's greatest guitarists, with Atomic Rooster, and Hard Stuff too, seek out Time Gambler for one of the best songs musically and lyrically ever made, RIP one of my all time heros.
+Keith Gordon So underrated. He was in The Attack too, if you haven't already check them out one insanely underrated band from the late 60s. One of my favourite bands ever and heavy too.
I love time gambler from that first Hard stuff album. Some mean guitar work from John Du Cann on that.
Time Gambler was my fav Hard Stuff track, just superb in every way musically and lyrically "You don't need the friends that you have"....The guitar is so good, it is almost like it is talking to you. I have the script 'Time Gambler' tattooed under my chin.
monster in paradise did it for me. love that song.
John Cann wasn't remotely 'One Of The World's Greatest Guitarist's'!! This statement is beyond stupid!
The intro is based on a bit of classical music - "Mars, God of War" I think...so nobody ripped off anybody, but this track was released at least a year earlier than Sabbath.
True. A lot of rock artists and bands of every genre and every era used phrasings from classical music. Way too many times to count. I wonder how people would compare this to rap and sampling.
@@jimsmith9753 The moment you hear music in your life, you are already influenced. No matter how hard you try to sound "original", your subconscious mind will always give you ideas which is the result of all the songs that you have heard in your lifetime.
@@flowerDance2112 mostly it’s because Holtz’s planets were the introduction to classical music in the English schools at the time
The intro is also similar to ”Am I Evil?” Diamond Head 1980: ruclips.net/video/WlfS-oakUxM/видео.htmlsi=QauqNIP4WUnYA6rS
Its a (borrowed) intro from Gustav Holst's Planet Suite ( Mars, The Bringer of War) ....& indeed an awesome track! Great band in its day!
It’s obviously inspired by Holst’s Planets
Malcolm Thompson ... Those were my thoughts exactly.
Metallica borrowed it too.
I dig the Holst into and outro!
I love the bends that bass plays during the verses. Awesome band.
RIP John Du Cann, your music remains to inspire us all
Beastly! Beautiful! Magical!
I was pleased to hear this incredible band in mid-October or November 1969 in a memorable show that still had fat matress and the band andwellas dream.
Rock 70s Andromeda were one of the great 'support acts' of the period!
wow amazing!!!! Noel Redding's band!!
There's an appeal pending for me
'bout my returning to sanity
I hope this time it goes through
If it don't there's nothing left to do
For me just to live an existence
And not need any assistance
Would mean everything to me
All I want is just to be free
I know if they just set me free
I'd do everything that's wanted of me
I know if they just let me go
I would live my life on my own
I can't carry my hopes anymore
So please tell me what plans are in store
Being here only makes me feel low
So please free my life and let me go
For me just to live an existence
And not need any assistance
Would mean everything to me
All I want is just to be free
I know if they just set me free
I'd do everything that's wanted of me
I know if they just let me go
I would live my life on my own
Thank U, man
You the MVP.
Me and my father have been trying to decipher the lyrics of this band's songs for quite some time. You did impressive!
One of my favourite guitar solos, John Du Cann could sure play.
This bassist is a hero
..... Some part is recalled me of Rainbow's Temple of the king.
this track is connected with so many great moments in my life
same
Thanks for posting...one of the great UK bands. John DuCann (also The Attack, Atomic Rooster, Hard Stuff) is my favorite guitarist of the period.
The timeline of the Mars riff is something like:
Sep 1918 - Adrian Boult conducts **Holst's Mars, Bringer of War
Jul 1953 - The Quatermass Experiment miniseries premieres, with Mars as its theme song, is huge hit with young boys
Jun 1965 - Bowie's (an explicit Quatermass fan) project The Lower Third closes their shows with a guitar rendition of Mars, no recordings exist
Sep 1967 - Sands uses an electric guitar Mars for half of their anti-war Listen to the Sky
Sep 1967 - Family uses a very short bit of Mars for Scene Through the Eye of a Lens
Mar 1968 - The Attack is dropped by their label and doesn't complete their album Roman God of War
Oct 1968 - ex-The Attack member John Cann's Andromeda repurposes unused songs, including the Mars-based Return to Sanity for John Peel
Nov 1968 - John Peel broadcasts Return to Sanity, and Andromeda records a full album including even more of Mars, but album is not released (though you can find the demos now).
Nov 1968 - Scottish band Writing on the Wall records the heavily Mars-based Shadow of Man for John Peel
Nov 1968 - ex-Sands members record pop album with Deep Purple - does their Listen to the Sky come up?
Dec 1968 - John Peel broadcasts Shadow of Man
Apr 1969 - British government honours Holst conductor Boult's 80th birthday to much fanfare
Jun 1969 - Andromeda re-records album with Return to Sanity
Jul 1969 - King Crimson opens for a massive Rolling Stones show and closes with a thunderous guitar version of Mars, possibly played at earlier shows?
Aug 1969 - Black Sabbath (last show as Earth) plays Black Sabbath, a deconstruction of Mars
Aug 1969 - Deep Purple performs Child in Time, which has a notable passage from Mars.
Sep 1969 - Deep Purple records a symphonic version of Child in Time*
Sep 1969 - Andromeda finally releases Return to Sanity
Oct 1969 - Black Sabbath records Black Sabbath
Oct 1969 - Writing on the Wall releases the album with Shadow of Man
Apr 1970 - King Crimson release a deconstructed Mars as The Devil's Triangle
Jun 1970 - Deep Purple release studio album with Child in Time
Mar 1972 - Jerusalem release Hooded Eagle, which utilizes the Mars riff.
Mar 1980 - Diamond Head record Am I Evil, heavily drawing on the Mars riff.
Mar 1982 - Metallica begin playing Am I Evil
(and then you've also got Dead Kennedys in 1980, King Diamond in 1982, Savatage in 1987, Nile in 1996, Symphony X in 1997, Bathory in 2001, Gorgoroth in 2002, Judas Priest finally gets around to it 2008 and I'm sure there's more)
cool song...nice riffs......un-cluttered......
one of my favorite songs :)
The sound of this record reminds me of Pink Floyd's, Instellar Overdrive as it builds to a Crescendo and takes yr mind to a place it has never been to before. I wonder if they were influenced by Pink Floyd or whether or not Pink Floyd was influenced by them.
p.savage
Great track!
Excellent song!!!
The cover and the music is a good company.
very good........................................................
a grand Band!
Que genial canción, siempre que echo caca la escucho. Porque me relaja y puedo echar caca tranquilo y en paz. 👍👍
Yes, please!
"Mars, the bringer of war" was a track from Gustav Holst. And a great Death Metal Band called "Nile" took that intro in the track "Ramses Bringer of War", too.
Just Great
OG Vietnam Classic 🙏☮☯👻👻👻
The riff at the very end is also similar to another song by Holst from the planet suits "jupiter bringer of joy" i guess they wanted to end on a happy note
is the intro evil ? it is man , yes it is ! (diamond head actually "borrowed" an awesome intro from andromeda)
Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War
I was thinking the same thing. Am I Evil.
While many rock and metal bands used Mars as a source of influence, I think the Diamond Head track might be influenced by the adaptation by Writing On The Wall in their Shadow Of Man. Both share quirks that aren't in the original.
@@elhekoyya Diamond Head is 100% pulling from Shadow of Man
writting on the wall - shadow of man
I m sorry I didn t know I don t carry no hope anymore set me free let me go
@squarepyramid99 yes the intro is based on one from the songs from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst, if it's the song Mars more specifically i am not sure, but it is from one of those songs
@hardstuff72 10000000% agreed. the man was a genius
I think I saw them either at Chatham Tech.college or Maidstone,my memory is a bit fuzzy when I think back to those days!!
Keg
@ianmatthewmcknight7 Im one of those people....how r bands like these not at least as famous as sabbath if not more....world is unjust!!!!..tho if it were maybe i wouldnt get such a soulful tune as this
We have the original LP. Real good album.
that's a valuable piece of vinyl
What is the release date?
Faarr Outt Man! -u-
@ysfawolfpack you hear "Mars, God of War" by Gustav Holst, on guitar and bass. And more than that... it's Diamond Head's "Am I Evil". Metallica just did a cover of it.
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A game from Sega M1 Abrams had the intro of the song
+El Edgard y Nieves do you remember the name?
M1 Abrams...
Although it is Holst, Black Sabbath did support Andromeda around this time (Black Sabbath were just starting out) and so they may well have been influenced by this...
Both great tracks though
It also sounds like Diamond Head's song "Am I Evil?"
"THE ROULETTE REGIME WAS HERE"
@sybnios ER I think you mean Diamond Head. Saw them in the early eighties, just another NWOBHM band doing the circuits.
jesus.
diamond head am i evil!
OMG Diamond Head totally ripped this off for the opening riff in Am I Evil lololol
Pay homage to a band that nobody knows and give them no credit. Hmmm...
Yeah I know. Old musicians borrow from other musicians they like. Been that way since the end of time, Was that way when classical music was being put out. The real inportant thing is that the music inspired other people to write some good music too. Maybe even better than what they were copying...
Yeah I totally agree. I often think that RUSH was a copy/cat of Budgie bwahahahaha
The opening is from Gustav Holst- MARS
Oh, yes, Ravel's Bolero
Any native english speaker could post the complete lyrics of this masterpiece? I'm not english speaker and i cant neither find the lyrics on the internet. Thanks!
where can I get lyrics for this song? I'm looking for it for over 2years ;
The intro is am i evil from diamond head
This came 11 years before diamond head
Does anyone know the name of that painting?
BOLERO .....
also a bit like bolero.
anyone has the lyrics? if they do please let me know.
Pure shit man... how a band could record something like that?!?!
the intro is not from diamondhead
diamondhead 'stole' it from andromeda
doesnt really matter
but still
+kvhamondLH both andromeda and diamondhead stole the intro from Gustav Holst "Mars"
yeah I discovered his composition of the planets.... What an amazing play!
Mars the bringer of war and I discovered Holst from the soundtrack to "spaced invaders"
*Am I Evil!!!* Oh wait wrong song hahahaha
Love gun...oh wait
1. Not funny
2. Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War
I hear metallica Am I Evil !!!! actually its note for note and in the same key. only the bass line is a little different.
Am I evil is a song by diamond head ,metallica just covered it
zappa also stole from holst
am i evil,yes i am,this doesnt make diamond head less awsome
intro some thing like metallica
Hmmm androdema must’ve stolen it🤔
Nathan Wright i hope you're kidding haha, if you do cheers :)
It's Flat :) QC
the intro sounds a lot like sabbaths black sabbath. who ripped of who?
This is before Black Sabbath
@@Capillus my guy ur replying to an 11 year old comment
Black Sabbath supported Andromeda back at the time....
diamond head
This was 11 years before "Am i evil"
Sounds like if tool was from the 60s
lol
?
:D
Hu hu hu... Without this Andromeda your name stealing "Andromeda" wouldn't make the music they make today and would probably have a different name..
And no one pwns anyone.
writting on the wall - shadow of man