Dave Greenslade
Dave Greenslade (born January 18, 1943 in Woking, Surrey , England ) is a British keyboardist .
Life
Greenslade became known through his membership in the jazz rock band Colosseum , for which he composed the Suite Valentyne Suite . After the band ended in 1971 he worked as a session musician and his own band projects with keyboardist Dave Lawson , drummer Andy McCullough and bassist Tony Reeves .
Greenslade is best known for his lavish double album The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (1978), which he designed together with the fantasy artist Patrick Woodroffe (illustration). Woodroffe had already finished The Pentateuch as a book and asked Dave Greenslade, for whose band Greenslade he had designed a record cover a few years earlier, to write music for it. The result of this collaboration, arguably the most ambitious attempt at a total work of art in progressive rock , appeared as an elaborate gatefold album with a 50-page book section, a science fiction story of creation in a specially developed pictographic font (with translation into English) and numerous illustrations Woodroffes contained, while the record offered music of the corresponding (lost) alien civilization. The album was released with a circulation of 50,000 and is now a collector's item. In the 1990s it was re-released in CD format, with a complete but reduced book section.
Greenslade was also a member of Chris Farlowes Thunderbirds and Jon Hisemans Colosseum and is the founder and namesake of the Greenslade group .
Albums
- 1973 Greenslade
- 1973 Bedside Manners Are Extra
- 1974 Spyglass Guest
- 1975 Time and Tide
- 1976 Cactus Choir
- 1979 The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
- 1994 From the Discworld
- 1999 Going South
- 2000 Large Afternoon
- 2001 Live - The Full Edition
Web links
- Dave Greenslade at Allmusic (English)
- Informative Greenslade website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greenslade, Dave |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British keyboardist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woking, Surrey , England |