Terry Reid

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first side is lazy enveloping blues-rock w/David Lindley's slide. second side is spacedout singer/songwriter epic wandering.

well, couldn't have said it better. and the second side is definitely tropicalia-influenced, but it's more like a polynesian nocturne.

He's kinda in the same class as Steve Marriott. But better?

No, not better but good. "Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace" from the Mickie Most period is the song I come back to most.

Although when you add the River to Reid's Micky Most output, it makes a compelling claim that there was something pretty cool going on there.

i recently picked up superlungs (a comp of early stuff) and i like it way more than river.

I dunno. I mean, I've heard totally pleasant donovan songs but I have no desire to own a donovan album.

"Atlantis" is cool & a little campy, another 6th grade favorite. Otherwise Donovan is mostly interesting for production, etc. I took a look at his recently published autobio after it got good notice in the NYT and it was a strange brew of cosmic hippie verities and namedropping showbiz jive.

Terry Reid's albums were cut-out bin classics in the 70s, easily obtainable for a couple bucks. Me & my bros stocked up after hearing "Speak Now" on Cheap Trick's debut. IIRC the later ones aren't nearly as deep. Seed of Memory was produced by Graham Nash. Rogue Waves came out when I was working in a record store and the cover looked so smarmy I passed on listening more than once. The Driver was one of many promos I got in the 90s but I was so busy reviewing the hits of the day I must've sold it w/o listening. Like to hear all three of these again now. Revisionism!

are you a fucking ROCKIST or something?

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hey, it's chris robinson!

terry reid vs. tara reid

superlungs

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I just found a copy of Seed Of Memory and am in love. I was gonna post that it sounds like CSNY and then just read that graham nash produced it. Makes sense. It's a great country rock album with touches of soft rock (in a good way), and some tasty drums and bass. Great production with tons of vocal harmonies and slide guitar all over it.

scottish dude on myspace recommended him to me. im listening to his 1974 album River. i think he was better off without zep! fucking fantastic stuff!

river is GREAT. I also really like parts of his s/t LP, but "Bang Bang..." never grabbed me (beyond that cut, which is of course a classic.)

I really wanna check out Seed of Memory.

it's so good. it's what i was hoping that denny doherty album you told me to check out would sound like.

check him out: old, sweaty and with a busted out of tune guitar, and he still sounds like a god

this dude rules.

Wednesday, May 5th in Oakland:

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Even though it's too hot, too humid and my life is kind of going to hell right now, this dude is perfect music for this time of year.

see these wide screen. the second is scratchy but the performance is amazing, terry gets v. funky on gtr

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When this gets rolling, the groove is formidable.

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I've been picking thru youtube clips, looking for the best bits off of that Glastonbury Fayre verite docu thing, that's probably the best of them that's online, although i remember the Traffic and Fairport Convention clips being even better, the Fairports were fierce. Watching the Terry Reid clip, it's like what primal scream are flailing around and miserably failing to do with their more retro-sounding rcords, this is how it's done properly, 39 years old, WTF.

'70-'71-'72 a very underrated time for UK music I think.

thanks for sharing this pash, amazing performance - reminds me of the dave mason solo versh of 'shouldn't have took more than you gave' w/clapton playing some amazing wahwah gtr - jon savage included it his great 'meridian' 1970 comp

The cover is terrible. Terrible. He looks like a shy fat girl.

The cover is awesome. Awesome. He looks like a shy fat girl.

Ran into a friend at the store while digging around and he pulled this up and suggested I try. Took me like 2 years to get around to it and now I'm finding so much to love.

Awright, a bunch of his albums are on Spotify! Not Bang, Bang though. Rec'd Plant and Jones to Page; also could have joined Deep Purple, according to Unterberger's bio (Spotify has deal w Rovi for such material---which reminds me, I can't connect to Rovi or Allmusic etc.; haven't gotten in for months, no matter the browser---anybody else having that problem? Says "Connecting..." but after minutes, I give up and go on to something else).

Plant and Bonham, that is.

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nice. discovered seed of memory lately, it's really nice, maybe one for the beach bum thread

Has it been said that there is an Original Album series of him including the late 60s stuff and River. Not sure if it goes beyond River, in which case it would presumably have the lp with the white cover with a half porrtrait photo of him on.
Anyway if you haven't got that stuff already it's a good way to get it.
I bought things individually or at least river and a sanctuary set called Superlungs My Supergirl which has the 3 late 60s lps on it.

A 1971 set turned up on Dime a few days back with David Lindley recently ex-Kaleidoscope on guitar. That band also opens the Glastonbury Fayre film or at least is shortly after the title sequence.

Yeah, that O.A.S. box goes up to River and then skips ahead to Rogue Waves and The Driver, with no bonus material.

This currently on the front page of online Washington Post. Still in good voice....

lol, american tv, really, commenting on an intimate night in the kitchen like it was a... anyway
Seed of Memory is immense.

yeah I was gonna mention how condescending the reporter sounded, starting with the assumption that someone who clicked on a feature about Terry Reid wouldn't know who Terry Reid was.

I think his editor made him do that.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2016/04/13/who-is-terry-reid/?tid=a_inl

Money has come up because, a few minutes earlier, Elliott Salter called. Reid let the voicemail pick up and listened as the West Hollywood pawn shop owner left a message.
“You need to start getting me money every month, Terry, or I’ve got to sell the guitars,” Salter said. “I love you dearly, but your love doesn’t pay my bills.”

I adore his «All I Have to Do is Dream»

I heard a longish podcast interview with him recently. May have been the C86 Show.

It was indeed, from back in June.

RIP... though tbh I've never heard so much as a millisecond of his music.

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RIVER is a great album

RIP and yes RIVER runs...

Oh yes River is such an amazing record RIP

"Without Expression" is probably my first exposure to his music and the song I hear most from him, though often through covers. It's kind of a standard, and he wrote it as a teenager. (Very nearly made it on to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Déjà Vu.)

oh no! RIP

Love that story in Trouble Boys about how the Replacements were in LA working on All Shook Down and they were unknowingly renting some vintage gear from Reid, who delivered it to the studio himself. Paul and Tommy (fans from back in the day) start freaking out and invite him to hang in the studio, demanding to hear all his stories about the old days as the clock runs. Terry realizes how much money is getting thrown away, tells them they need to get to work, and ends up singing backup on "Someone Take The Wheel".

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Robert Plant, on Facebook:

Terry Reid's enthusiasm and encouragement were incredible back then ... still teenagers we crashed each others' gigs and crucified Season of the Witch time and time again … So much fun. So on it. He was all of everything ... such charisma.

His voice, his range ... his songs capturing that carefree era ... Superlungs indeed. He catapulted me into an intense new world he chose to decline ... I listen now to his album The River and shed a tear for my brother in arms.

RP

Wow! "he chose to decline": well I read that he later was a club singer in L.A.. but yeah the original story, when I was in HIGH school, was that he could have been in Led Zep---so I got Bang Bang You're Terry Reid and did seem, like for instance when he slowed the chorus of "Bang Bang" and squeezed it, like there was a para-Plant sound---but somehow I've never checked The River, although it's always has a great rep. Must do that, and get back to Bang Bang...---others?

You might as well check out The Other Side of The River, which is half alternate versions/half new but unreleased songs, from The River sessions.

The UK two-disc version of the Superlungs comp has everything (perhaps too much) that he did during the '60s. The abridged US version focuses on selections released & unreleased from the two Micky Most lps. Either are worth checking out, plus River.

Those appeal, thanx yall!

i will rep for Seed of Memory. That and River are the two i return to

It is interesting thinking of the alternate path where he takes the singer role in Zep (which also maybe means no Bonham?) cuz there are spots where he does sound like Plant & it's clear he has the range and approach Page was looking for but at the same time he's a lot rougher & jazzier than Plant, maybe closer to Donovan or even Tim Buckley. So at times I can kind of picture it and others it seems impossible.

Man River is such an incredible record

He didn't seem to have the extrovert razzle-dazzle a band like LZ required. Diffidence rarely sells!

xpost You're reminding me that Page and Jones backed Donovan on record, and that Plant covered Buckley's "Song to a Siren" pretty well (way beyond the Zep era/approach).

way *past* it, I should have said---not "beyond" in the sense of "better."

Donovan claimed that "Hurdy Gurdy Man" was Page, Jones, and Bonham + Alan Holdsworth, but Bonham playing drums on it has been disputed by Jones and some guy I'm forgetting who probably really played the drums.

(Led Zeppelin + Holdworth is definitely what is credited on that 2CD 90s Donovan comp that I have)

maybe closer to Donovan

I typed Donovan but I was thinking Steve Marriott, though Donovan obv a touch point for all of them at this point

A big problem with Reid joining Zep (which he sometimes mentioned when telling the story) is that had he been able to say 'yes', Reid was still under an exclusive production contract with Mickie Most, and Reid knew Page was in no hurry to work with him again after the bad experience he had with Most over The Yardbirds Little Games sessions (not to mention all the issues Jeff Beck was then having with Most producing the Jeff Beck Group). So it probably wouldn't have worked out at all.

And of course Reid had a lot of issues with his two albums with Most, complaining about poor production and indifferent mixing.

This was on his gofundme page:

Yesterday by Angela Bruyere

It is with the deepest of sorrows that we share the passing of our extraordinary friend, Terry Reid. On the morning of August 4th at 11:15 am, Terry transitioned peacefully surrounded by those who meant the most to him, his loving wife Annette and his adoring daughters Kelly and Holly.

Terry met every challenge with remarkable courage and an unshakable optimism. Even in his final days, he believed with all of his heart that he would recover. He sat up and played his guitar just 3 days ago. Unfortunately, his beautiful heart grew too tired to continue, but it was full. Full of love, full of gratitude, and full of peace, He was deeply touched by the outpouring of support from friends, fans and loved ones around the world. Your kindness, your messages, and the generosity shown through this campaign brought him immense comfort. It allowed him moments of calm and dignity during an unimaginably difficult time.

At this moment, his family gently asks for privacy as they begin to grieve the immense loss of their beloved husband and father. Thank you all for being part of his journey. For lifting him when he needed it most. And for loving him, fiercely and truly. There will never be another Terry Reid.

"It makes me ache right now
That the lover of life
Gets lost somehow
Cause his colours fade in the rain
He goes down to the river again"

The top donor apparently gave $20,000 anonymously - given Plant's tribute (and Reid's role in getting him into Led Zeppelin), I kind of wonder if it came from him.

I somehow had never listened to the Other Side of the River record until last night and holy shit it is great

The UK two-disc version of the Superlungs comp has everything (perhaps too much) that he did during the '60s. The abridged US version focuses on selections released & unreleased from the two Micky Most lps. Either are worth checking out, plus River.

― Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, August 5, 2025 5:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I had never heard of him when I was browsing in Other Music in the early 00s and they played the US comp. I was blown away and bought it on the spot. I listened to the heck out of that.

got the 2cd compilation of 66-69 material years ago.
tried to get into it, but i always found the the first few tracks hard work, and so would often give up.
due to thread revival etc, i checked discogs.
turns out that his 2 albums prior to The River are on the comp in the same order as per original releases.
his debut, 'baby .. ', starts at track 9 on disc 1, and 'terry reid' opens disc 2.
this makes a lot more sense.
may have to seperate the comp into the individual albums and put the rest into a seperate folder,
as i much prefer the original albums as a listening experience.