Danish progressive & blues bands from the 60's and 70's

[davorp]

I'm starting this thread because I want to share some of the good progressive rock and blues bands from Denmark from the 60's and 70's. In my opinion, Denmark at the time had some great progressive rock bands such as "Pan", one of my favorite bands. So, here we go:



Pan

Bio: Pan was a Danish rock group (1969-1970) founded by the late Robert Lelievre and Arne Würgler. They were featured several times in the Swedish movie "Deadline".

Music:

Lady of the sand



To get along alone


Eternally


Pan rehearsal


More songs can be found on Youtube and on Facebook.




Day of Phoenix


Bio: DAY OF PHOENIX hails from Denmark and was formed in 1968. The first line-up consisted of native english singer/guitarist Cy Nicklin, drummer Henrik Friis plus Ole Prehn, Karsten Lyng and Jess Stæhr - all three ex-members of a band called 'The Maniacs'. During the early days they released the single 'Tell me / I think it's gonna rain today' and wrote one soundtrack before Nicklin suddenly left to join the band 'Culpeper's Orchard'.

Tony Reeves - bassist of the early Colosseum band - was the producer of their first long player 'Wide Open N-Way'. It was recorded in Copenhagen and is pointed out as the jewel of the band's musical history. With new vocalist Hans Lauridsen and bassist Erik Stedt substituting Stæhr they worked out an ambitious psychedelic based album with references to the US West Coast style. Additionally provided with folk and jazz elements it has a reputation nowadays in the progressive rock scene and is receiving excellent reviews. 1971 the next single 'Deep Within The Storm / Chicken Skin' followed.

And then DAY OF PHOENIX fall apart because Erik Stedt died unexpectedly. The band had to be reorganized with the remaining Prehn and Lyng. After the split of Burnin' Red Ivanhoe Ole Fick, Jess Stæhr and Bo Thrige Andersen joined to record the new album 'The Neighbour's Son'. Compared to the foreunner it contains shorter and more plain rock songs and is frequently evaluated as a disappointment. Stæhr, Fick and Anderson went on to rebuild Burnin' Red Ivanhoe afterwards.

1979 the danish sublabel of swedish Sonet Grammofon reissued both DAY OF PHOENIX albums as a 2LP release followed by a Universal Music digitally remastered version in 2000.


Music:


Deep within the storm



Mind funeral



If you ask me


More songs can be found on Youtube.



Young Flowers


Bio (translated from danish -Google translate-): Young Flowers was a psychedelic, progressive rock group formed in Copenhagen in the summer of 1967. The group consisted af Jens Henrik Dahl, guitar, he came from The Defenders, Peter Inge Male, elbas and vocals, where a provisional arrangement game Seven Sounds and Ken Gudman, drums, he also came from The Defenders.
Young Flowers track debut in September 1967 with the single Like Birds. After udgivelsen in 1967 forlod Jens Dahl group and was replaced af Peer Frost on guitar, formerly provisional arrangement game with Les Rivals.


Music:


The pusher



I want to know


April '68


Discography at Discogs:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Young+Flowers

More songs can be found on Youtube.



Delta blues and Boogie band


Bio: Danish rock/blues band. The original line-up at the time of the 1969
debut was: Troels Jensen, Michael Puggaard-Müller, Thomas Puggaard-Müller, Søren Engel. Shortly after the debut release, the Puggaard-Müller brothers. They were replaced by Preben Feddersen and Peter Høiler.

Music:


Shit on my shoes


You don't know my mind


We've got hard times

 

[architect]

Also from the ashes of Burnin Red Ivanhoe came Secret Oyster, an excellent progressive jazz fusion outfit.

 

[davorp]

Agathorn, Burnin' Red Ivanhoe and ACHE.



Agathorn - Reflections 1 and 2




Burnin Red Ivanhoe - Across The Windowsill




ACHE - Expectation

 

[LG]

I have to admit my knowledge of Danish prog bands is extremely limited so I'll keep an eye on this thread Davorp.