Group 1850 — Live On Tour 1976 (Netherlands, Progressive-Jazz Rock)

Group 1850 — Live On Tour 1976 (Netherlands, Progressive-Jazz Rock)

Group 1850 "Live" is not as spacey or psychedelic as the self-titled platter but is still very good all the same thank you. Fantastic guitar work by Daniel van Bergen and Dave Duba and Peter Sjardin's organ playing once again are up front and well played
Groep 1850 (also known as Group 1850) was a Dutch psychedelic rock band that was founded in 1964 in The Hague. The band, despite never achieving success outside the Netherlands, are now considered one of the most innovative acid rock bands from the era. The history of GROUP 1850 (aka GROEP 1850) starts from year 1964 from the band called THE
KLITS. There were several changes in the line-up's during the the decade their career lasted, only Peter Sjardin remained as the permanent member of the band. Their first public performance with the name GROUP 1850 was in the Scheveiningen Casion in March 1966. The band, despite never achieving success outside the Netherlands, are now considered one of the most innovative acid rock bands from the era.
Their gigs gave them attention in the underground scene, and some single releases and radio airplay in Holland followed. In September 1967 they warmed up MOTHERS OF INVENTION at the Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, and their first longplayer "Agemo's Trip to Mother Earth" (1968) has been stated as the first Dutch concept LP. Their debut album, Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth, appeared in late 1968. In The Netherlands its sleeve had a 3-D image on the cover, and came with a pair of 3-D glasses. A UK release (also on Philips) did not help the band gain a footing outside the Netherlands, and Philips dropped them soon afterwards.

Their next album, Paradise Now, appeared on the Dutch Discofoon label in 1969 and was only
marginally less acid-influenced than its predecessor. Acid rock elements are clearly present in their first albums from the end of 1960's, and PINK FLOYD's "Saucerful of Secrets" album has surely been an innovator for them, like to so many other spaced out groups.

Their music isn't an exact copy of their innovator's sound though, as there is a wide spectrum of
different styles merged to the band's music in custom of psychedelia's artistic freedom. The overall feeling of the band's early music is nonrelaxed but not very aggressive, probably pleasing the fans of music describings a cosmic journey within one's mind.

The career of the band continued with both inactive and active periods and with continuous changes in
the personnel. Musically maybe the most important event was release of the album "Polyandri" in year 1974. Their mostly instrumental music grew to a larger scope containing strong musical elements.

In the same year the keymembers of the GROUP 1850 performed with the name ORANGE UPSTAIRS
(Oranje Boven). The released one album with this name and then changed back to GROUP 1850. The band broke up in 1975, and the members went to join other