Around the same time that IRS Records started their No-Speak label, Capitol decided they would do something similar and created the Cinema label. Unfortunately, the label wasn’t around very long, never making it past the first batch of 5 records (and a sampler). The best of the bunch was this album by Pete Bardens, Seen One Earth It was the 5th solo record from the Camel keyboardist – a concept album based on Tom Wolfe’s book, The Right Stuff. Seen One Earth is a wide-screen, deeply involving, aural excursion. Like a film, it progresses from the dawn of mankind (“Seascape,” “Man Ali… read more
Around the same time that IRS Records started their No-Speak label, Capitol decided they would do something similar and created the Cinema label. Unf… read more
Around the same time that IRS Records started their No-Speak label, Capitol decided they would do something similar and created the Cinema label. Unfortunately, the label wasn’t around v… read more
Pete Bardens (Peter Bardens), keyboard player and singer: born London 19 June 1945, died Malibu, California 22 January 2002. The name of Peter Bardens is best known from the success of Camel, the progressive rock group he led in the early 1970s. The keyboard player's greatest influence on the British music scene, however, took place in the previous decade, when he was a formative member of London's art school R&B scene and a figure of irrepressible spirit and energy. The son of Dennis Bardens, a writer of mystery novels and biographies, he was born in London in 1945, … read more
Pete Bardens (Peter Bardens), keyboard player and singer: born London 19 June 1945, died Malibu, California 22 January 2002. The name of Peter Bardens is best known from the success of Cam… read more
Pete Bardens (Peter Bardens), keyboard player and singer: born London 19 June 1945, died Malibu, California 22 January 2002. The name of Peter Bardens is best known from the success of Camel, the progressive rock group he led in the e… read more