 | Socrates Drank The Conium (Live 1999) Starvation Socrates (as the somewhat ponderous name is often abbreviated) began its career in the clubs of Athens. Most prominent of these was the popular Kyttaro. They were present at a number of other locations in and around Victoria Square in Athens. Apart from playing many original songs at gigs, Socrates often covered Jimi Hendrix songs, none of which were featured on any studio releases. However, a thirteen-minute cover of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones found its way onto their 1972 album Taste of Conium. The guitarist, Yannis Spathas, favored a mid-1960's sunburst Fender Stratocaster, a Candy Apple Red Roland GR-505 guitar synthesizer and a black Gibson Les Paul Custom as his instruments, Antonis Tourkoyorgis played a mid-1970's natural ash-bodied Fender Jazz Bass and sang, while several drummers were used throughout the live shows and recording sessions. As a whole, the three-piece outfit resembled that of Cream: counterparts Spathas and Clapton, singer/bassists Tourkoyorgis and Bruce and drummers Boukouvalas and Baker. In 1974, Socrates went through a change in stylistic direction with "Phos" which was produced by Vangelis and featured his contribution on many tracks. Phos was mostly reworkings of older songs by Socrates. During 2006 Socrates reunited in an extended form (featuring keyboards and a second singer) to do several shows around Athens. |
 | The Socrates Experience! Socrates (a.k.a. Socrates Drank The Conium) will probably never get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But while other groups were becoming well known in the free world, this Hendrix-style blues band was playing to standing-room-only crowds in a small club in Athens, during Greece's military dictatorship, a period when even Rolling Stone albums were hard to find, and for a time illegal. Socrates was Yannis Spathas and Antonis Tourkoyorgis on guitar and bass respectively. During the period that they were playing in the Kitarro Club they went through several drummers including George Trantalidis, all of them terrific. In Athens during the early seventies, when the 1967 military dictatorship was still in control, there were a number of rock clubs in the area around Victoria Square and in the Plaka. Poll and Morka played at the Elaterion. Socrates and Exidaktilo played at the Kitarro.Musicians loved Socrates. Even Savopoulos used to go hear them. What made them so remarkable was the guitar playing of Spathas. If you liked the way Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen play you will love Spathas and if you play guitar yourself you will wonder "If this was thirty years ago and he is still playing how good must he be now?" Socrates still plays. They are again a three-piece with Spathas and Tourkogiorgis joined by -Makis Gioulis, a fine drummer in the traditon of the band. Asteris Papastamatakis plays keyboards on some material and a female vocalist named Markela Panagiotou, harmonizes and does duets with Tourkogiorgis and sings a couple songs on her own. LIKE WHAT U HEARD? SUBSCRIBE IF YOU WILL FOR MORE EXCELLENT MUSIC |
 | Historia Rock 70s Aqui podeis ver un video de uno de las mejores canciones de cada año de la decada de los 70. Del 70 al 79. PD: vereis un error el del 71 aparece una imagen del tema del 79 |
 | ΠΕΛΟΜΑ ΜΠΟΚΙΟΥ "ΟΙ ΜΑΓΟΙ" - 1970 - PELOMA MPOKIOU "OI MAGOI" ΠΕΛΟΜΑ ΜΠΟΚΙΟΥ - Από τα ιστορικότερα γκρουπ του Ελληνικού Ροκ, σε ένα από τα πιό δυνατά και αντιπροσωπευτικά τραγούδια τους. Παρμένο από κινηματογραφική ταινία, όμως θα μπορούσε θαυμάσια να αποτελεί από μόνο του ένα πάρα πολύ καλό βίντεο κλιπ της εποχής του... |
 | Socrates-Starvation Live in Athens 2005 Socrates Drank the Conium is a Greek progressive/blues rock band that was active in the early 1970s. Their sound was reminiscent of other such bands of the approximate period like the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Jeff Beck and some of the more progressive, experimental works of Black Sabbath. Their categorization as "progressive" can be attributed mainly to their abundant use of less-than-conventional time signatures. The Group would go through many lineup changes throughout the years, but the two core members have remained: guitarist Yannis Spathas and bassist/singer Antonis Tourkoyorgis History Socrates (as the somewhat ponderous name is often abbreviated) began its career in the clubs of Athens. Most prominent of these was the popular Kyttaro. They were present at a number of other locations in and around Victoria Square in Athens. Apart from playing many original songs at gigs, Socrates often covered Jimi Hendrix songs, none of which were featured on any studio releases. However, a thirteen-minute cover of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones found its way onto their 1972 album Taste of Conium. The guitarist, Yannis Spathas, favored a mid-1960's sunburst Fender Stratocaster, a Candy Apple Red Roland GR-505 guitar synthesizer and a black Gibson Les Paul Custom as his instruments, Antonis Tourkoyorgis played a mid-1970's natural ash-bodied Fender Jazz Bass and sang, while several drummers were used throughout the live shows and recording sessions. As a whole, the three-piece outfit resembled that of Cream: counterparts Spathas and Clapton, singer/bassists Tourkoyorgis and Bruce and drummers Boukouvalas and Baker. In 1974, Socrates went through a change in stylistic direction with "Phos" which was produced by Vangelis and featured his contribution on many tracks. Phos was mostly reworkings of older songs by Socrates. During 2006 Socrates reunited in an extended form (featuring keyboards and a second singer) to do several shows around Athens. Members (founding and other) * Antonis Tourkoyorgis - Bass guitar, vocals * Yannis Spathas - Lead guitar, Guitar synth * George Trantalidis - Drums * Elias Boukouvalas - Drums * Gus Doukakis - Guitar (1973) * Makis Gioulis - Drums * Asteris Papastamatakis - Keyboards * Markella Panagiotou - vocals [edit] Discography * (Appears on) Live at Kyttaro[2] - 1971 * Socrates Drank the Conium - 1972 * Taste of Conium - 1972 * On The Wings - 1973 * Phos - 1974 * Waiting for Something - 1980 * Breaking Through - 1981 * Plaza - 1983 * The Original Singles - Compilation released 2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates_Drank_The_Conium |
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 | Scorpions 1972 w/ Michael Schenker Some very vintage footage of the Scorps with a 16 year old Michael Schenker on guitar. You can barely recognize Klaus - but it's him! |
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