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Format Details: CD
Release Date: 31 October 2025
Label: Mig Music
Packaging Type: EcoPak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 885513910523
Genres: Rock Southern Rock
Description
For fans of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Wishbone Ash, Nektar - A great Rockpalast performance from WDR Studio L in Cologne on April 17, 1975, with the core MAN lineup: Micky Jones, Deke Leonard, Martin Ace, Terry Williams (liner notes by Martin Ace (from 2025) and Deke Leonard (from 2014) - reissue of the CD/DVD released in 2014 with new artwork and remastered sound - musical legacy of one of the great British guitar bands MAN, along with Pink Floyd, was one of the co-founders of progressive rock in the UK in 1968.
Seven years after their formation, MAN from Wales performed at Rockpalast on April 17, 1975, with a set lasting just under an hour. At Studio L in Cologne, MAN, then consisting of the three founding members Micky Jones (vocals, guitar), Deke Leonard (guitar, vocals, keyboard, harmonica), Terry Williams (drums, vocals), and Martin Ace (bass, vocals - with the band since 1970), played six songs. What was impressive about MAN was their musical "live" performance with their very own "Welsh" mix of rock, blues, country, folk, and a good dose of West Coast rock. Nevertheless, influences from (distant) Grateful Dead, but above all from the Californian Quicksilver Messenger Service, are unmistakable and also intentional.
In 1975, "Maximum Darkness" was released, the Welsh band's magnum opus, their collaboration with Quicksilver's master guitarist John Cippolina. MAN also opened their set in Cologne with "7171 - 551" from "Maximum Darkness."
Martin Ace recalls: "We were rehearsing at Sausalito Heliport (San Francisco) and John Cipollina came by at that time. We jammed together. We then played with John in Sacramento and at Winterland in San Francisco, and the others asked me if I wanted to join them on an already booked tour of Germany, which included a Rockpalast TV show in Cologne. So when we arrived in Cologne, we were pretty well rehearsed, and I hope you can feel that in this performance."
Even before the release of the highly acclaimed 1976 LP "The Welsh Connection," there were again differences of opinion within the band. The album "All's Well That Ends Well" was recorded during the farewell tour of 1977 through the USA, Europe, and North Africa. From 1983 onwards, there were several attempts to reform MAN, but they never managed to match the success and quality of the 1970s. Drummer Terry Williams made rock history with Rockpile and Dire Straits from 1978 onwards, Deke Leonard released solo albums (including the highly acclaimed "Iceberg") and published books about the world of rock music. He died in 2017, Micky Jones had already passed away 7 years earlier. Martin Ace still tours with the second generation of MAN and releases records.
Tracklisting
MAN
Jurgen Pluta
Cravinkel
The Rubinoos
Earth Quake
Ego On The Rocks
The Jeremy Days
Ton Steine Scherben
Man
Man
Man
Man
Man
Man
MAN
