''Fools Meeting'' is an album by

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with the British

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band

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, founded in the late 1968. The band was one of the wellsprings of the progressive rock

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. ''Fools Meeting'' was their only album, originally released on vinyl in 1970. A CD re-release with additional tracks was released by

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Track listing

#"Blind to Your Light" - 5:05 (Carol Grimes, Phil Miller) #"Miserable Man" - 8:28 (words — Carol Grimes, music — Delivery) #"Home Made Ruin" - 3:23 (Phil Miller) #"It Is Really the Same" - 5:44 (

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) #"We Were Satisfied" - 4:02 (Phil Miller) #"The Wrong Time" - 7:50 (Carol Grimes, Delivery) #"Fighting It Out" - 5:48 (Phil Miller) #"Fools Meeting" - 5:27 (Carol Grimes, Delivery) Additional tracks on the CD: #"Harry Lucky" (Single A-side) - 3:41 (words — Pip Pyle,

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; music — Steve Miller) #"Home Made Ruin" (Single B-side) - 2:56 #"Is It Really The Same?" (live in London, late 1970) - 5:19 #"Blind to Your Light" (live in London, late 1970) - 5:29 #"One for You" - 7:43 (from the Coxhill-Miller album, with

Richard Sinclair Richard Stephen Sinclair (born 6 June 1948) is an English progressive rock bassist, guitarist, and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene. Biography Born in Canterbury, England, both his father (Dick Sinclair) ...

) - 7:43 (Steve Miller)

Personnel

- vocals, lyrics *

Phil Miller Philip Paul Miller (22 January 1949 – 18 October 2017) was an English progressive rock/jazz guitarist and a central part of the Canterbury scene. He was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is ...

- guitar, lyrics * Steve Miller - piano *

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- bass *

Pip Pyle Phillip "Pip" Pyle (4 April 1950 – 28 August 2006) was an English-born drummer from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who later resided in France. He is best known for his work in the Canterbury scene bands Gong, Hatfield and the North ...

- drums with: *

Lol Coxhill George Lowen Coxhill (19 September 1932 – 10 July 2012) known professionally as Lol Coxhill, was an English free improvisation, free improvising saxophonist. He played soprano saxophone, soprano and sopranino saxophone, sopranino saxopho ...

- saxophones * Roddy Skeaping - viola track 2 * Richard Sinclair - bass track 13

References

{{Authority control 1970 debut albums Carol Grimes albums Delivery (British band) albums B&C Records albums 1970 collaborative albums Cuneiform Records albums albums recorded at Morgan Sound Studios