UK prog legends Mild Massive have shared a brand spanking new promotional video for the Steven Wilson remix of Betcha Concept We Could not Do It which you’ll be able to watch beneath.
The observe is, in fact, taken from the band’s 1977 album The Lacking Piece, of which a brand spanking new Steven Wilson remix was once launched previous this yr. A brief sharp surprise of uptempo rock, it is frequently observed because the band’s riposte to the punk rock that was once raging round them on the time.
The Lacking Piece is is frequently cited via fanatics as the beginning of the band’s shift against more practical, much less complicated song which was once much more obvious on their ultimate two albums, 1978’s Massive For A Day and 1980’s ultimate studio album Civilian.
“It was once attention-grabbing, wasn’t it?” Kerry Minnear advised Prog Mag previous this yr when he reappraised The Lacking Piece with fellow band individuals Gary inexperienced and John ‘Pugwash’ Weathers. “As a result of I feel it was once Ray [Shulman, bassist, who died in 2023] who were given into punk slightly early. I feel there was once one thing about punk that appealed to him.
“It had uncooked power and it didn’t wish to have truly completed taking part in to keep in touch, and that’s truly slightly a valuable factor in itself. We knew the type of historical past we had, and in some way it was once one of those a straitjacket as a result of we felt we had to be suave or a little bit unpredictable, so there can have been a slight insurrection occurring.”
The band have additionally created movies for Reminiscences Of Previous Days and Two Weeks In Spain either one of which function on The Lacking Piece.
Get The Lacking Piece.
