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I'm listening to Remember The Future now, and it's impressing me already, 3 minutes in!

Definitely going to give them a good listen :D
 

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I can recommend "A Tab In The Ocean" some great tunes on it ..




My fave though is King Of Twilight excellent song. :)
 

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Nektar is a great band Remember The Future is a favorite but gotta agree w/ Sox

A Tab in the Ocean is their best.
 

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MP Edit: Video removed from youtube

Love that bass drum! Nektar is a great band. Once I lost interest in Rush I went straight for this band, great stuff for sure.
 

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Thier first five albums are all excellent IMO. I agree with Wolf and Sox that Tab is thier best but I haven't heard anything after Down To Earth(1974). I think the band went to more of a mainstream sound in the mid/late '70's which was typical for prog bands during that time period. Sadly.
 

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I can recommend "A Tab In The Ocean" some great tunes on it ..




My fave though is King Of Twilight excellent song. :)

Exactly, it is my favourite song from this album. Just listened to it, truly brilliant piece of English krautrock!
 

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I only have Remember The Furure which is great. I'd like to get their other albums but they want a lot of money for the imports. :/
 

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Nektar is a great band with an excellent guitarist in Roye Albrighton. The first six albums from the original lineup are all very good:

1971 Journey to the Centre of the Eye
1972 A Tab in the Ocean
1973 ...Sounds Like This
1973 Remember the Future
1974 Down to Earth
1975 Recycled

Roye Albrighton left the band to form his own group and the subsequent album, with Dave Nelson and Larry Fast, is in a slightly different style but is still a strong album (ignore the critics):

1977 Magic is a Child

The band recorded two albums live in New York. Both are good, but I cannot track down the second on CD. The NearFest album may be an offical bootleg and again, is excellent, but seemingly impossible to find:

1977 Live in New York
1978 More Live Nektar in New York
2002 Unidentified Flying Abstract - Live at Chipping Norton 1974
2002 Nearfest 2002 (Studio M Recording)

I do not know much about these later albums:

1980 Man in the Moon
2001 The Prodigal Son
2004 Evolution
2008 Book of Days
2011 Juggernaut

When the 'classic' Nektar lineup reformed in 2002, Larry Fast also rejoined the band. The Nektar project site says Dave Nelson went on to some solo work and joined a band called Spy, before going into finance. I have not heard his solo work or his work with Spy. Roye Albrighton formed his own band, following the split with Nektar, and the musicians seem to have disappeared.

An interesting little ditty: Roye Albrighton played the nifty guitar parts on the excellent Lone Ranger single by Quantum Jump.
 

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I personally feel that Nektar are a bit underrated by the 70's Progressive Rock
aficionados. Very cool stuff, I have the following on CD and or vinyl, plus two Live DVDs :

1971 Journey to the Centre of the Eye
1972 A Tab in the Ocean
1973 Remember the Future
1974 Down to Earth
1975 Recycled
 

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