{"id":1677,"date":"2008-09-09T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T04:08:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-09T00:08:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T00:08:16","slug":"for-those-of-you-who-had-to-ask-roy-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/for-those-of-you-who-had-to-ask-roy-harp\/","title":{"rendered":"For Those of You Who Had to Ask: Roy Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yes, I’ve long been curious to hear this Roy Harper<\/a><\/strong> guy. Although I only learned to love Led Zeppelin in my early 20s and although I’ve yet to be anything more than fascinated by the emotional sludge of Classic Pink Floyd<\/strong>, those bands were huge during my formative rock years, and I couldn’t help but feel like I’d missed out on the rock nugget that was Roy Harper. It seems like a lot of you have yet to hear this guy as well, so take your hat off, have a cigar, and check him out as I check him out for the first time.<\/p>\n

I found this rare 1966 recording, his first single, on a compilation called The Best of Strike Records<\/em>. It’s pretty cool, as is the entire compilation.<\/p>\n

Roy Harper, “Take Me Into Your Eyes”<\/a><\/strong>
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\nHere’s a track from Harper’s “legendary” and recently re-released Stormcock<\/em> album. This seems more like the kind of stuff that would make him a friend of Zeppelin and the Floyd.