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December 8, 2014

GLASS HAMMER / LIVE AT NEARFEST 2004

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GLASS HAMMER – Live And Revived - 1997

GLASS HAMMER – Live And Revived

Symphonic Prog • United States

Live Album, released in 1997

This is the 3rd release from Glass Hammer and was a limited-edition of 1000 copies. The contents are live rehearsal tracks from "Perelandra" and "Journey of the Dunadan" and unreleased material from the period just following the release of Journey.

Tracks Listing:

1. Domain Walls 4:26

2. Interlude 0:07

3. Something's Coming 3:24

4. Interlude 0:09

5. Song of the Dunadan 8:45

6. Interlude 1:09

7. Time Marches On 10:38

8. Throw It Away 4:00

9. Stranger from the Sky 4:54

10. The Wind 3:04

11. True Love 3:45

12. Somewhere Out There 5:45

13. Hearts 4:02

14. Science Fiction 7:28

Total Time: 61:36

Musicians:

Fred Schendel,-lead and backing vocals, keyboards, guitars, organ, memory moog, hand kazoo, fuzz keys, percussion programming;

Steve Babb,-lead and backing vocals, keyboards, bass guitar, percussion programming, synthesizers;

Walter Moore,-backing vocals, drums;

David Carter,- backing vocals, guitar;

Michelle Young,-backing vocals, keyboards, clarinet, yacking;

Kenny Page,-Bell synthesizer;

Piper Kirk,-additional backing vocals;

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GLASS HAMMER / ON TO EVERMORE - 1998

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GLASS HAMMER / THE INCONSOLABLE SECRET

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GLASS HAMMER / IF (2010)

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GLASS HAMMER / LEX REX - 2002

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GLASS HAMMER / JOURNEY OF THE DUNADAN

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GLASS HAMMER / PERELANDRA

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GLASS HAMMER / SHADOWLANDS

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GLASS HAMMER / THREE CHEERS FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED

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GLASS HAMMER / CHRONOMETREE

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December 6, 2014

GLASS HAMMER - ODE TO ECHOE

GLASS HAMMER
''ODE TO ECHOE''
2014
52:59

1 - Garden Of Hedon (Shikoh, Schendel, Babb, Groves) 6:55
2 - Misantrog (Schendel, Groves) 9:56
3 - Crowbone (Schendel, Robert Low) 7:20
4 - I Am I (Babb, Schendel) 8:08
5 - The Grey Hills (Babb, Groves) 4:43
6 - Porpoise Song (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) 3:33
7 - Panegyric (Schendel) 4:10
8 - Ozymandias (Babb, Groves) 8:10
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Fred Schendel - Keyboards, Guitars, Backing Vocals
Steve Babb - Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Kamran Alan Shikoh - Electric, Acoustic & Classical Guitars, Electric Sitar
Aaron Raulston - Drums
Carl Groves - Lead Vocals
Jon Davison - Lead & Backing Vocals****[Now lead singer for YES]
Susie Bogdanowicz - Lead & Backing Vocals
Featuring:
Walter Moore - Vocals
Michelle Young - Vocals
Randy Jackson - Lead Guitar & Backing Vocals On "Crowbone"
Rob Reed - Piano & First Mini-moog Solo On "Misantrog"
David Ragsdale - Violin On "Crowbone"

BIOGRAPHY
By ProgArchives, Wikipedia, Sound Resources
Glass Hammer is a symphonic-progressive rock band from the United States. They formed in 1992 when multi-instrumentalists Steve Babb and Fred Schendel began to write and record Journey of the Dunadan, a concept album based on the story of Aragorn from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. To their surprise, the album sold several thousand units via the Internet, The QVC Shop-At-Home Network and phone orders, leaving Babb and Schendel convinced that the band was a project worth continuing.

While many musicians have appeared on Glass Hammer albums over the years, Babb and Schendel have remained the core of the band. Both play a variety of instruments, but Babb mainly concentrates on bass guitar and keyboards while Schendel plays keyboards, various guitars and drums until the addition of live drummer Matt Mendians to the studio recording band in 2004. They also sing, although a number of other vocalists have also handled lead vocal duties including Michelle Young, Walter Moore, Carl Groves, Susie Bogdanowicz and Jon Davison. Worthy of mention, Yes vocalist Jon Anderson provided backup vocals on two songs from 2007's Culture of Ascent.

Lyrically, Glass Hammer is inspired mostly by their love of literature (most notably Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and John Krakauer) and Babb's love of Victorian prose and medieval mythology.

Musically, they lean towards 70's driven symphonic rock, with strong keyboard orientation; specifically Hammond organs in the tradition of ELP. They have a superb melodic flow to the music they make, encapsulating real power and dynamics without ever becoming overpowering. Their most apparent influences are Yes, ELP, Genesis, and, to a less noticeable extent, Camel. While Glass Hammer have, for the most part, combined those influences into a characteristic style of their own, they made much more direct references to the aforementioned bands on their 2000 album Chronometree and the 2010 release If. Without a doubt, GH remain one of the most popular groups in the progressive rock genre. All the albums are very conceptual, and there is great musicianship overall.

Current band members include co-founders Steve Babb (bass guitar and keyboards), Fred Schendel (keyboards and guitar) along with Alan Shikoh (guitar) and lead vocalist Jon Davison.

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June 14, 2011

GLASS HAMMER