Dave Greenslade

Dave Greenslade ( born January 18, 1943 in Woking, Surrey, England ) is a British keyboard player.

Life and work

Greenslade was known for his membership in the jazz-rock band Colosseum, for which he composed the Suite Valentyne Suite. After the end of the band in 1971, he worked as a session musician and his own band projects with keyboardist Dave Lawson, drummer Andy McCullough and bassist Tony Reeves.

Greenslade has become known primarily for its lavish double album The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (1978 ), which he designed together with the fantasy artist Patrick Woodroffe ( imaging ). Woodroffe had The Pentateuch as a book already completed and asked Dave Greenslade, for whose band Greenslade he had some years previously designed a record cover to write music for it. The result of this collaboration, the most ambitious attempt at a Gesamtkunstwerk in Progressive Rock, appeared as ornate gatefold album with a 50-page book part that a sci-fi story of creation in a specially developed pictographic writing ( with translation into English) and numerous illustrations Woodroffes contained, while the music of the corresponding plate ( submerged ) extraterrestrial civilization offered. The album was released with a circulation of 50,000 and is now a collector's item. In the 1990s, it was re-released in CD format, with complete, but on a reduced part of the book.

Greenslade was also a member of Chris Farlowes Thunderbirds and Jon Hiseman Colosseum and is the founder and namesake of the group Greenslade.

Albums

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• Dave Greenslade at Allmusic (English)
• Informative Greenslade site

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