{"id":2020,"date":"2017-02-03T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/other\/loving-awareness\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T22:25:12","slug":"loving-awareness-by-shiloh-noone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/reviews\/loving-awareness-by-shiloh-noone\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radio Caroline had reached Haight Ashbury spaces and decided to promote O’Rahilly’s new concept of “LA” (Loving Awareness), a far-eastern inspired philosophy of love and peace. Many stations were embarrassed at the idea of promoting love and peace on air, but Deejay Tony Allan developed a cult following among listeners as he also combined his promotion of “Loving Awareness” with his deep knowledge of music, and rich radio voice. In 1974, O’Rahilly set up a group called The Loving Awareness Band<\/strong>, comprising ex Skip Bifferty<\/strong> guitarist John Turnbull<\/strong>, ex Unknowns \/ Animals\/ The Chosen Few<\/strong> keyboardist Mick Gallagher<\/strong> also a former member of Skip Bifferty<\/strong> and Bell and Arc<\/strong>) combined with ex Living Daylights \/Greatest Show On Earth\/ Fuzzy Duck<\/strong> bassist Norman Watt-Roy<\/strong> and drummer Charlie Charles<\/strong>. In 1976 The Loving Awareness Band<\/strong> released their only album, Loving Awareness on \u2018More Love Records\u2019<\/em> (ML001), a label set up by O’Rahilly. The album was heavily promoted on the station, and was re-released by the \u2018Caroline\u2019 organisation in 2006 on CD with a replica of the original sleeve. The bulk of the album was bass centered around Norman Watt Roy\u2019s<\/strong> mighty slams, in particular \u201cFree Your Soul\u201d later the bass riff to be added to “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”. The Beatle<\/strong> vibe was so evident in \u201cThe Vibes Inside\u201d and \u201cVoice Of Love\u201d ,so George Harrison<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Loving Awareness<\/strong> were the hidden Beatles<\/strong> next to some ex Beach Boys<\/strong> called The Flame<\/strong> and so beautiful they were. The Lennon<\/strong> styled \u201cI Like What I Like\u201d, man it must have been a Beatle <\/strong>on the high seas. Loving Awareness<\/strong> also pulsated with a number of instrumental minimalist contributions perhaps in ode to Harrison<\/strong>\u2019s early Wonderwall <\/em>endevours, Sitar spiced \u201cExistence\u201d, instrumental \u201cLove You To\u201d, the lavish \u201cNo other\u201d and \u201cClose the\u201d. The band broke up in 1977, Watt-Roy <\/strong>and Charles<\/strong> played on ex Kilburn & the High Roads<\/strong>\u00a0 Ian Dury’s<\/strong> New Boots and Panties!!.<\/em>Turnbull <\/strong>and Gallagher <\/strong>joined them on the Stiff’ tour, along with Ian Durie<\/strong> forming The Blockheads.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added:<\/b> May 2nd 2011
\nReviewer:<\/b> shiloh noone<\/a> | See all reviews<\/a> by shiloh noone
\nCategory:<\/b> Music<\/a>
\nScore:<\/b> \"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"
\nRelated Link:<\/b> Seekers Guide To The Rhythm Of Yesteryear<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radio Caroline had reached Haight Ashbury spaces and decided to promote O’Rahilly’s new concept of “LA” (Loving Awareness), a far-eastern inspired philosophy of love and peace. Many stations were embarrassed at the idea of promoting love and peace on air, but Deejay Tony Allan developed a cult following among listeners as he also combined his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}