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Three CDs. Banquet - Underground Sounds of 1969, is a clamshell boxed set which gathers together nearly four hours of music from 1969, a year that saw a huge progression in both musically and socially. It was a fine year for creativity in British album-based rock, embraced by the emerging counter-culture. Musical stylistic influences such as psychedelia jazz, blues, hard rock, folk and even classical music melded, all of which championed by "underground" figures of the day such as DJ John Peel on his BBC Radio One show Top Gear and by publications such as International Times and Oz. 1969 also saw bands that would go on to achieve success and influence in the 1970s such as Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Barclay James Harvest, Edgar Broughton Band, Free, Family, Genesis, Strawbs, Van Der Graaf Generator, Man and Yes begin their rise to prominence. Aside from featuring better known acts such as Jack Bruce, Thunderclap Newman, Procol Harum, Moody Blues, Taste, Fairport Convention, Colosseum, Michael Chapman and The Jeff Beck Group, this compilation also features lesser-known acts that produced fine work of a wide breadth such as Eyes of Blue, East of Eden, Blodwyn Pig, Locomotive, Mighty Baby, Pete Brown and The Deviants. This collection celebrates a creative period when rock music was evolving into something altogether more serious, moving away from the single as medium to give way to the dominance of the album. Open your ears to Banquet - Underground Sounds of 1969.

1. Beyond and Before - Yes 2. In the Beginning - Genesis 3. Afterwards -Van Der Graaf Generator 4. Northern Hemisphere -East of Eden 5. All Night Drinker -Fat Mattress 6. The Future Hides It's Face - Man 7. After the War - Eyes of Blue 8. Mr. Armageddon (Single Version) - Locomotive 9. Poor Wages -Barclay James Harvest 10. Meet on the Ledge - Fairport Convention 11. Where Is This Dream of Your Youth? - Strawbs 12. Shield - Deep Purple 13. Egyptian Tomb -Mighty Baby 14. The Week Looked Good on Paper - Pete Brown ; 15. His Battered Ornaments 16. Bad Scene -Ten Years After 17. Born on the Wrong Side of Time - Taste 18. Billy the Monster -The Deviants 19. Magician in the Mountain - Sunforest 20. Walking in the Park - Colosseum 21. Oh Well (Part One) -Fleetwood Mac 22. House Without Windows -Mighty Baby 23. Austin Osmanspare - Bulldog Breed 24. Better By You, Better Than Me - Spooky Tooth 25. Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune - Jack Bruce 26. Trouble on Double Time - Free 27. A New Day Yesterday -Jethro Tull 28. Rice Pudding -The Jeff Beck Group 29. A Salty Dog - Procol Harum 30. Brother Thrush -Barclay James Harvest 31. A Sailor's Life -Fairport Convention 32. Banquet - Audience 33. Gypsy - Moody Blues 34. Paint It Black - Jody Grind 35. Rainmaker - Michael Chapman 36. No Mule's Fool - Family 37. Evil - Edgar Broughton Band 38. The Lady Rachel - Kevin Ayers 39. Chasing Shadows - Deep Purple 40. Flight - the Climax Blues Band 41. Living Life Backwards -Pete Brown ; Piblokto! 42. Kings and Queens -Renaissance 43. Stone Circle - Third Ear Band 44. Who Do You Love - Juicy Lucy 45. Theme for An Imaginary Western - Jack Bruce 46. Sing Me a Song That I Know- Blodwyn Pig 47. Something in the Air - 48. Thunderclap Newman 49. One Way Glass - 50. Manfred Mann Chapter Three 51. Walking Down Their Outlook -High Tide 52. The Kettle - Colosseum 53. Notting Hill Gate 54. (Single Version) - Quintessence 55. Spunk Box- Man 56. Survival - Yes