Saga - Humble Stance

Sunday, time for a classic.

"Humble Stance" is a tune by the Canadian progressive rock band SAGA. Taken from the first studio album and was originally released 8 April 1978.

SAGA was are from Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Jim Crichton and Welsh-born vocalist Michael Sadler were the principal songwriters. The band had numerous line-up changes over the years. Ian and Jim Crichton were the only two original members who appeared on every album. Sadler appeared on every release, apart from the 2009 album "The Human Condition". Keyboardist Jim Gilmour was with the band from 1979, making his debut on the album "Silent Knight". Drummer Steve Negus performed with SAGA until 1986. The lineup was supplemented by many session musicians and live performers from the late 1980s to the late 2000s.

SAGA have been awarded gold and platinum albums worldwide and have sold more than eight million albums.

"Humble Stance" is one of only few songs on which Michael Sadler plays bass guitar, while Jim Crichton plays keyboard chords. As it is a regular part of the live setlis - unlike "It's Time" or "No Stranger", which also feature the same constellation - fans usually know that SAGA are going to start playing "Humble Stance" as soon as Sadler takes over Jim's bass guitar.

2017 marked SAGA's 40th anniversary. The band that has combined hard rock, progressive rock and pop like no other celebrated their anniversary with a tour around the globe, saying thank you and farewell to the fans… for now. Now, one year later, the exciting live recording "So Good So Far - Live At Rock Of Ages" sees its release. SAGA's performance video for the song "Humble Stance" can be seen below.

Featuring the most iconic of songs that SAGA has been known and loved for by fans for more than 40 years, "So Good So Far" delivers the epitome of the band's long and proud history — all recorded at the Rock Of Ages festival in Seebronn, Germany in 2017 on both audio and video. SAGA, the headliner of the evening played, an energetic one-and-a-half-hour set in front of thousands of festival goers, featuring the best of 21 SAGA studio albums with classics such as "On The Loose", "Humble Stance", "Wind Him Up" and "Don't Be Late".

SAGA has a very special history with the legendary Rock Of Ages festival in Seebronn, Germany. Founder Horst Franz invited us to perform for the very first one in 2006! Fast forward to 2017 — SAGA returns to the coveted Saturday night stage by special request, celebrating the band's 40th anniversary with our 'Final Chapter' tour".

Today's tune "Humble Stance" taken from the first self titled studio album. But I have picked the live version from "In Transit" for today. This clip is filmed live at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany, December, 1981.



This clip is taken from the live album "So Good So Far - Live At Rock Of Ages", filmed live at ROCK OF AGES festival in Seebronn, Germany 2017.



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Feb 18, 2020 - Copenhagen - Denmark - Amager Bio
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Feb 29, 2020 - Pratteln - Switzerland - Z7
March 1, 2020 - Stuttgart - Germany - Im Wizemann (Halle)
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March 5, 2020 - Suhl - Germany - Congress Centrum Suhl
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March 7, 2020 - BitBurg - Germany - Stadhalle
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March 11, 2020 - Saarbrucken - Germany - E Werk
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March 14, 2020 - Enschede - Netherlands - Metropool
March 15, 2020 - Wetzlar - Germany - Event Werkstatt SOLD OUT
March 27 - April 1, 2020 - Cruise to the Edge - Pearl, Miami, Florida USA
June 5, 2020 - Sölvesborg, Sweden Rock Festival
June 7, 2020 - Bassum - Germany - Open Air
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June 21, 2020 - Munich - Germany - Olympiahalle - with FOREIGNER & The New Roses
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July 17, 2020 - Bronnoysund - Norway - Rootsfestivalen
July 18, 2020 - Spalt - Germany - Lieder Am See (with Deep Purple & The Hooters)
July 20, 2020 - Freiburg -Germany Zelt Musik Festival
July 21, 2020 - Tuttlingen -Germany - Honbergsommer
July 22, 2020. - Koblenz - Germany - Festung Ehrenbreitstein

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November - Sekunder (förvandlas till år)

 

During the show of Abramis Brama at Debaser Slussen last Saturday, did they invited up one guest on the stage, it was none other than Björn "Binge" Inge, who according to Abramis Brama´s statement, that he was the one who were behind the band,inspired them, pushing them forward to continue recording new materials and keep the flag flying. This was a very pleasant surprise . Ran in to "Binge" after the show, who told me about his new band "Mårran" that soon will be releaseing their debut album. This will be very interesting to listen to. So today we serve you guys a tune from a classic "Binge" band.

November is a Swedish rock band formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1969 by Christer Stålbrandt,
Richard Rolf and Björn Inge. Their music was partly inspired by American acid rock, but heavy and blues based like a mixture of Cream, Mountain and Led Zeppelin. November started in 1968 at Tegelhögen, a youth club in Vällingby (a Stockholm suburb). At this club Christer Stålbrandt and Björn Inge played together with two friends as The Imps. After a few months Stålbrandt left the group to form a new group called Train. Björn Inge joined shortly after. Train also included Snowy White on guitar. In the early autumn of 1969 Snowy decided to return to his native homeland, England, and Richard Rolf joined as their new guitarist.

On November 1st, 1969 they supported Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac at the Que-Club in Gothenburg, and therefore they decided to call themselves November.

November was one of the first Swedish rock bands with Swedish lyrics. Most of the lyrics were written by Stålbrandt, influenced by the 60's flower power movement. Despite the Swedish lyrics, November was quite popular in England. While touring in England the lyrics was often translated to English, the crowd, however, insisted on the band performing with Swedish lyrics.

November recorded three albums which all reached high places on the Swedish charts. After their last concert at club Domino on New Year's Eve 1972 the band split up and had up until 2007, only performed once, namely during the release party for the CD November-Live 1993 (recorded on tour in 1971) on 30 Nov 1993.

Christer Stålbrandt moved on starting the group Saga, Björn Inge joined jazz rockers Energy, and Richard Rolf was one of the forming members of Bash and later on joined Nature.

Here is some pictures of "Binge" in action at Debaser Slussen, with Abramis Brama.

Today's tune "Sekunder" is taken from November's first album, "En ny tid är här..." ("A new era is here)". The album was released in summer 1970 at the record company Sonet and became a sales success, with 8 weeks on "Kvällstoppen". The song "Mount Everest" was released as a single and was two weeks on the Top Ten list. To sing hard rock in Swedish, it was basically just Pugh Rogefeldt that done that before November.

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Discography
Album

* En ny tid är här... LP Sonet Records (1970)
* 2:a November LP Sonet Records (1971)
* 6:e November LP Sonet Records (1972)
* Live CD/LP Sonet Records / Mellotronen Records (1993)

Singles and EP´s

* 1970 - Mount Everest/Cinderella
* 1971 - Mount Everest/Nobody's Hand to Hold
* 1971 - Tillbaks till Stockholm/Sista resan
* 1971 - Men mitt hjärta ska vara gjort av sten/Mouchkta (Drömmen om Malin)


More info @

Official November MySpace
Official Püssy a Go Go Blog

Listen to ”November - Sekunder (förvandlas till år) - Original Version 1970" on Spotify here!

Listen to ”November - Sekunder (förvandlas till år) - Live Version 1993" on Spotify here!

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