Nektar review...

[Gary Davis]

At 05:00 AM 9/25/04 -0400, Keith wrote:

>Surprises are that Taff Freeman isn't with them suddenly (no explanation,
>and no word if it's permanent), and that they have done what I was hoping
>and have added "The Dream Nebula" into their live set!  Now only if they
>were to come back to DE/CH so I could hear it for myself.

That was definitely a surprise to me, too.  I've had an advance promo of
their new album, Evolution, for a few weeks now and Taff is all over that.
So I expected him to be part of the tour.

But I heard somewhere that he was unable to tour because of an illness in
the family, his wife I think.  So I'm not viewing this as Taff having
departed the band.

But getting back to Evolution, having lived with it for a couple weeks now I
have to say Nektar fans are really going to be happy with this one.  The
band had spent a lot of time remastering their back catalog before making
this album as well as a significant amount of touring.  And having relived
their classic catalog like that most definitely effected their mindset in
recording Evolution.

Bottom line is it really has that 70's sound to it and much more of a
classic Nektar sound than was in evidence on Prodigal Son.  I'm already
starting to see high praises for it on the net.

Gary

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