One of my all-time faves... Mother Russia by Renaissance

[TorchTheWitch]

Annie Haslam is awesome. I hadn't known it before, but she always performed in bare feet though I have no idea why.

[HarveyDarkey]

1. Are they also sculptors?

Mother Russia Statue ... or Mother Russia VOLGOGRAD, Russia Completed in 1967

[TorchTheWitch]

2. why, yes! Annie made that sculpture with her bare feet!

Not sure about the dry cleaning bill for whatever gown she was wearing at the time though.

[TorchTheWitch]

3. ooooo! I found Carpet of the Sun from the same concert...

Man, this brings back such memories! Camping in the White Mountains stoned as hell and lost in a forest two trees thick in the wee hours of the morning in the pouring rain... laughing our asses off at the prospect of our bodies being found weeks later and speculation over how we perished for not managing to find our way out of a two-tree forest. Good times.

[hifiguy]

4. Love, love, love that band.

Saw them at a large club back in '76 and struck up a conversation with fellow bassist Jon Camp. He invited me backstage when Renaissance returned to a theater in town a few months later. Exceedingly nice people, each and every one.

No other female rock singer, with the possible exception of Ann Wilson in her heyday, had the sheer technical vocal firepower that Annie Haslam brought to bear. When I met her I was shocked at how tiny she was - maybe 5'3" and quite slim. Where that gigantic voice came from I couldn't figure out.

[forestpath]

5. Been a Renaissance fan since 1976...

when I got their live double album. My favorite song of theirs has always been Ocean Gypsy.

IIRC from an appearance of theirs on the Mike Douglas Show eons ago, Annie Haslam is deaf in one ear.

[TorchTheWitch]

7. Ocean Gypsy - same concert...

Just for you!

[forestpath]

8. Ahhhh.....thank you!

[lastlib]

6. YES!!! I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

Never knew much about Renaissance as a group. But heard this on a late-night radio show while in college, and fell in love with it!

[bif]

9. I still have a bunch of their LPs.

Loved that group.

[tinymontgomery]

10. I like their "Prologue" album the best