Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Doug Curran and Jeffrey Crecelius
This week, Mark and I continue our deep dive into The Syn by listening to the oldest songs on the compilation album, Flowerman – Rare Blooms from The Syn 1965-69. We discovered some fascinating music along with information about how it came about via the very good sleeve notes in the album. As with Yes, there are plenty of surprising twists to the tale of The Syn, even in the comparatively short spell they were active in the 60s. After our overview from Streve Nardelli last week, we enjoyed listening to the surviving output from those days.
I have included the YouTube videos of the whole album in the show notes for this week so you may want to listen to the music before putting up with Mark and me banging on about it.
- How much music was officially released by The Syn in their initial period?
- Does it sound anything like early Yes?
- How successful were the band?
Yes – The Tormato Story & Tales from Topographic Oceans – Yes Album Listening Guide
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Producers:
- Joseph Cottrell
- Wayne Hall
- Jeffrey Crecelius
- Doug Curran
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| Robert Nasir | Declan Logue | John Thomson |
| John Holden | Jamie McQuinn | Stephen Lambe |
| Chip Palmer | Brian Husvar | Michael O’Connor |
| Geoff Bailie | Lobate Scarp | Ronnie Neeley |
| Hogne Bø Pettersen | Chris Bandini | Michael Handerhan |
| Peter Hearnden | Scott Colombo | John Viola |
| Mark Slater | Robert Vandiver | Paul Tomei |
| Brian Sullivan | Todd Dudley | David Watkinson |
| Simon Barrow | Steve Scott | Geoffrey Mason |
| Steve Dill | Tim Stannard | David Pannell |
| Thomas DeVries | Bob Martilotta | Brian Harris |
| Brian Harris | Paul Hailes | Ray Riethmeier |
| Henrik Antonsson | P.T. Wilson | Terence Sadler |
| Steve Luzietti | Barry Gorsky | Steven Roehr |
| Craig Estenes | Martin Kjellberg | Gary Betts |
| Fergus Cubbage | Bill Whittaker | Aaron Steelman |
| Lind | Mark James Lang | Steve Rode |
| John Parry | John Cowan | Miguelbass |
| Fred Barringer | Rachel Hadaway | Dem |
| Steve Moss | Douglas Caldwell | Steve Perry |
| David Phyrillas |
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One reply on “The Syn Deep Dive Part 2 – Early Songs – 741”
Hi Chaps,
Thank you for this latest installment of The Syn Deep Dive.
I thought I was very much aware of their output , but it appears not . After listening to your comments
I finally purchased the ” Flowerman …Rare Blooms from The Syn ” CD. Most of the material I was fairly familiar with, but the Narsquijack stuff I knew nothing about.
That proposed ” More Drama ” tour around the time could have been quite interesting.
Keep up the good work.