Talk:Spectrum (band)

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Yet another Spectrum?[edit]

There's another band called Spectrum, that was around in the UK at the end of the 60's.

There is an compilation album by "The Spectrum" called "The light is dark enough" which, strangely, contains I'll Be Gone and Launching Space, Part 2. See this link: Albums by The Spectrum.

I have in my possession the 7" 45 with "Free" and "The Tale of Wally Toft" on it, on RCA (first record I ever bought).

Here's a link to their singles:

UK Single List 1966-72

as you see it's all RCA, no Harvest there, and they clearly date from before the Australian Spectrum started up.

By all accounts they weren't all that good, apart from The Tale of Wally Toft which is utterly, utterly beautiful.

Seems to me that I'll Be Gone and Launching Space Part 2 have got onto this album by mistake, as they are plainly not the same band at all.

Worth mentioning this, so as to clarify some of this confusion? --WestwoodMatt (talk) 21:51, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I thought about that, but I think that the reference at the top to Peter Kember is sufficient. If someone wants to put up a page for the The Spectrum (English band), then they are most welcome! Because the confusion about the inclusion of I'll Be Gone/Launching Space Pt 2 is on another website, I think it's best to take that up with jbpco rather than introduce more confusion here. I have added some references (mainly to Duncan Kimball's monumental MILESAGO: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964-1975 which is considered a touchstone online reference here in Australia). -- Andrew in Hall (talk) 11:37, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Citations[edit]

A big, rambling story has been told in this article. Who wrote it? Where did the quotes come from? How can I begin to believe any of it? I mean, not even one citation or reference is given to justify this article's existence on Wikipedia. Don't get me wrong, I want to believe it, by the sounds of it nothing extraordinary happened to this band in their lifetime, so it might be hard to check the truth behind nothing. SpencerCollins (talk) 14:05, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi SpencerCollins. I don't know who initially wrote it, but it very closely corresponds with Duncan Kimball's monumental work MILESAGO: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964-1975, specifically his articles on Spectrum, The Pink Finks, Party Machine and Sons of the Vegetal Mother. It was already listed in the External Links, but I have taken the time to reference first usages in several parts of the article to help remove the cloud of doubt. Duncan's own references include mikeruddbillputt.com (Mike & Bill's History), Rock historian Glenn A. Baker's liner notes to EMI LP EME-1100 and Raven CD RVCD18, Ian McFarlane's articles in From The Vault (Vol.2 No.3, 1990), Freedom Train (Vol. 1, Issue 3, 1996) and Encyclopedia of Australian Rock & Pop (Allen & Unwin 1999), Noel McGrath's Australian Encyclopedia Of Rock (Outback Press, 1978), Mike Rudd's email to Paul Culnane, December 2000, and Chris Spencer, Zbig Nowara & Paul McHenry's Who's Who of Australian Rock (Five Mile Press, 2002). Unfortunately, Duncan wasn't specific in which facts he was sourcing from where, so I can't enter them as direct references in the Wikipedia article. The comment about "nothing extraordinary happened" I'll let go through to the keeper, and it wasn't hard at all to check "the truth" as it was provided in the External Links all along. Andrew in Hall (talk) 11:46, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]