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| St. Elmos Fire was a band from Cleveland, Ohio who played in the early 80s. This was a combination destined to make this a short-lived band, but while they were together, they made some pretty good music. The roots of their style were definitely in Lizard-era King Crimson, but their branches stretched out into lots of new territory.
They have two CD releases available. Splitting Ions in the Ether is their first. This is a live album of a concert recorded in 1980. Some of these tunes were put out on a limited-edition EP entitled Live at the Cleveland Agora, but they were remastered for CD in 98 and also contains some additional tunes. Some of the guitar work actually anticipates King Crimsons 1981 release Discipline, with its sequencer-like arpeggios. The tunes are mostly instrumental with a couple of exceptions, and except for the 2 bonus tracks, this CD is mostly a recording of a single St. Elmos Fire concert. This concert featured excellent technical guitar work, good synth parts, and fairly drips with Mellotron in most of the songs. I wish I could have been there ... this is some excellent material. |
|  | NEWS | · Sunday 10.01.2005
Bassist Paul Kollar has since told me that this song was supposed to be a joke. Read more | | | · Sunday 02.01.2005
The band was idiosyncratic, offbeat and humorous, eschewing the standard stage "uniforms" of the times and opting instead for an eccentric assortment of what looked like Oxfam cast-offs. | | |
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