{"id":3816,"date":"2022-07-17T13:28:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2022-07-17T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T13:29:31","slug":"nektar-down-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/2022\/07\/17\/nektar-down-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Nektar-Down To Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"305\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Down_to_Earth_Nektar_album_coverart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3817\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Down_to_Earth_Nektar_album_coverart.jpg 305w, http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Down_to_Earth_Nektar_album_coverart-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><figcaption>This is their fifth album from late 1974. This is one I had on cassette. Not sure when In bought it,probably sometime in the 80&#8217;s. I bought this used album about ten years ago. Another concept album with songs dealing with life in a circus. Hawkwind associate Robert Calvert plays the Ringmaster introducing some of the songs in a heavy German accent. The music is less Progressive than their other records.more basic Rock. &#8220;Astral Man&#8221; is about a high wire artist while the instrumental &#8220;Nelly The Elephant&#8221;,the most Progressive sounding track , with its bass,guitar,and organ sounding very Pink Floyd-like. &#8220;Show Me The Way&#8221; and &#8220;That&#8217;s Life&#8221; are great songs although certainly not progressive. &#8220;Fidgety Queen&#8221; and &#8220;Oh Willy&#8221; are Rockers and &#8220;Little Boy&#8221; is a nice acoustic number with backing vocals by P.P. Arnold,the American singer. A good record but I prefer the more Progressive A Tab In The Ocean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.redaem.com\/divad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}