'90's vs '80's

[K Henderson]

Andy Gee declares...

>late-lamented progsters Tamarisk
>somewher in there too - we even had the space-rock band Big Amongst
>Sheep playing outside of a venue in Sheffield in a car park using their
>own generator!!

Well, ok, I know about BAS now, as their stuff was bootlegged onto CD-R last
year, and I ended up with a copy.  Was surprised I'd never heard of them before.
Tamarisk is completely unfamiliar.  Progsters as in 'neo'?

>The '80's were more extreme than the '90's - the pop was either great or
>pathetic, the metal mostly average and the underground buried so deep
>you had to have a degree in archaeology to find it - but it was there
>and, given time, I could give you a list of easily 100 great groups of
>the '80's - good music is always around - you've just got to know where
>it is and how to find it.

OK, so what *were* the space/psych groups from the 80s (other than BAS) that
never found an audience around the world?  Pick the handful you liked best,
and give us a short description if you would.  I liked BAS enough to wonder
if there truly were some others.  I guess other than HW, F&R, and the
Hawkfan 12 bands (UZero and the like), the early 80s is a gigantic hole for
me.  (Well, Eloy did some decent stuff too.)  But it wasn't then until TAT
('88?) and the discovery of Ozrics, Tubliah Dog, etc. that I realized there
would be others appearing in the mists.

And finally, can any of this stuff still be found?  Or has any of it
appeared officially on CD?

Anxious to know...Keith H. (FAA)