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	Welcome to The Vocal Athlete
		The band's break-up in 1971 meant their final release had been a live album which was rated as one of their finest offerings - and it is perhaps fitting that they should have kicked off the return of Colosseum with another live effort.
		Setting up Colosseum was the next move, the plan to fuse jazz and rock leanings and to allow individual talent to flourish within a band framework.
		Everybody in the band is very different, each character has his own unique contribution to make in one way or another, and now with Barbara in the band there's another, more lyrical side to Colosseum emerging.
	www.temple-music.com /tm05on/html/colosseum/colosseum.html (1427 words)

	Colosseum: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Colosseum's name was derived from a colossus (A person of exceptional importance and reputation) (a 130-foot or 40-metre statue) of Nero nearby.
		The entire base of the Colosseum was equivalent to 6 acres (160,000 m²).
		The Colosseum was in continuous use until 217 (additional info and facts about 217), when it was damaged by fire after it was struck by lightning (The flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/colosseum.htm (1110 words)

	Colosseum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The construction of the Colosseum began under the rule of Emperor Vespasian in AD 72 and was completed by his son, Titus, in the 80s AD.
		The Colosseum was in continuous use until 217, when it was damaged by fire after it was struck by lightning.
		Bird migration, flower blooming, the growth of Rome that caused the Colosseum to not be on the outside skirts of the city anymore and deliberate transport of species are other ways to clearify the wide stream of plants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colosseum (1547 words)

	Romeguide:Colosseum - Flavian Amphiteatre
		The Colosseum was big enough to hold the whole population of a town--as many as 50,000 people would sometimes spend the whole day there watching sports.
		The Colosseum is eliptical, sitting on a NW to SE axis.
		There was no roof on the Colosseum, but in the summer great canvas sheets were rigged to the top to form awnings that kept the sun off everyone inside.
	www.romeguide.it /MONUM/ARCHEOL/colosseum/colosseum.htm (656 words)

	The Dinosaur Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Colosseum - Three Score and Ten, from "Daughter of Time" in 1970, their third album, and the second album to feature the "classic" line up of co-founder, leader and drummer Jon Hiseman, keyboard player Dave Greenslade, guitarist/vocalist Clem Clempson, bassist/vocalist Mark Clarke, sax player Dick Heckstall-Smith and vocalist Chris Farlowe.
		Colosseum are also the subject of this week's Dino Quiz and a copy of their latest studio album, "Bread and Circuses", is the giveaway prize.
		The band were up there with Calico, The Marshall Tucker Band, Lost Gonzo Band, etc, and certainly did their bit in establishing the country rock scene as a musical force to be reckoned with.
	www.dinosaurdays.co.za /261100/d261100.htm (3114 words)

	Dave Matthews Band Tickets - Dave Matthews Band Concert Tour Schedule Show Tickets Broker
		Background: Dave Matthews Band is an American jam band, originally formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991 by bartender Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, Leroi Moore, who plays a wide variety of instruments from the saxophone to the flute, violin player Boyd Tinsley and the drummer Carter Beauford, whom Dave all met in Charlottesville, Virginia.
		It's perhaps more accurate to state that the band's music and that of the many bands influenced by it is a breakaway sub-genre of jam band.
		Drummer Carter Beauford's sarcastic jibe that the band had "charts and everything" ready for them shines light on a session where the band, which had in the past collectively composed its music, was turned into a backing band for Matthews with no creative input.
	www.ticketspecialists.com /concert/dave_matthews_band_tickets.htm (1743 words)

	Get Ready to ROCK! Review of CD album by jazz rock band Colosseum called Live Cologne 1994
		Colosseum belong in the category of the short-lived but quite influential bands.The band was formed on September 1968 and decided to call it a day for the first time on November 1971.
		The quality of the recording is not questionable to all of you acquainted to the band.
		But most importantly this gig was part of the reunion tour of the band, which is at the studio as we speak mixing their new album.
	www.getreadytorock.com /reviews/colosseum1.htm (339 words)

	Dead Romans: Virtual Walkthrough of the Colosseum and Forum Romanum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For all its beauty, the Colosseum was also a marvel of ergonomics and efficiency; it is estimated that 50,000 people could enter and be seated in 15 minutes.
		Once inside the Colosseum, spectators reached their seats by climbing one of 16 staircases positioned at regular intervals along the circumference of the building.
		The Colosseum was used regularly for almost 400 years and has suffered through earthquakes, neglect, and the pillaging of popes who took its marble for their own buildings.
	www.deadromans.com /walk (1683 words)

	Colosseum: Buildings
		He forbade the use of the Colosseum as a quarry and consecrated the building to the Passion of Christ and installed Stations of the Cross, declaring it sanctified by the blood of the Christian martyrs who perished there (see Christians and the Colosseum).
		In 217, the Colosseum was badly damaged by a major fire (caused by lightning, according to Dio Cassius[4]) which destroyed the wooden upper levels of the amphitheatre's interior.
		The legacy that the band left behind them were four tremendous albums and a host of great memories for anyone who had seen the band on stage.
	www.lycos.com /info/colosseum--buildings.html (544 words)

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		That winter the band are in the recording studio recording their first album.
		Colosseum's First US release "The Grass is Greener" was essentially so much of the Valentyne Suite with additional tracks plus Litherland's guitar work was overdubbed by Clempson who had joined the band after Litherland left.
		Colosseum's first studio album for a long time "Bread and Circuses" is released this year.
	members.lycos.co.uk /Greenslade/id25.htm (1085 words)

	020400 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		COLOSSEUM II Colosseum 2 - Am I, taken off " Electric Savage", their second album, released in 1977.
		Colosseum 2 was the brainchild of Jon Hiseman, one of the world's best and most respected drummers.
		We've already extensively covered this stunning band elsewhere in these pages in the past few months, but we featured them on the show again this week as a tribute to one of rock music's greatest drummers, Cozy Powell, who was killed in a motor car accident on April 5th, 1998.
	www.dinosaurdays.co.za /020400/d020400.htm (1746 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Punk band flees air rifle attack
		Punk-metal band A have been shot at with an air rifle as they left a performance and were forced to escape in a car.
		A spokesman for the band said the suspected shooter had been harassing A members as they prepared for their gig.
		Members were pelted with bricks as their tour bus pulled into the club and a pair of youths pulled a knife on their driver when he caught them trying to break into the vehicle.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/entertainment/2012004.stm (313 words)

	Pokémon Colosseum Preview - GameCube News at GameSpot
		Pokémon Colosseum will give fans a full RPG experience in addition to the battling they crave.
		Pokémon Colosseum offers a darker premise that presents an interesting contrast to the typically lighter touch of the GBA games.
		You'll be cast in the role of a teenaged member of a gang who starts the adventure by staging a spectacular prison break for his two trusty Pokémon, Umbreon and Espeon, from the confines of a gang hideout in the arid Orre region.
	www.gamespot.com /gamecube/strategy/pokemoncolosseum/preview_6091502.html (1057 words)

	Ollie Halsall - Tempest Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Visually too the band are impressive, with some good lighting effects, and Clarke bent over his instrument, his hair bursting from his skull, as if somebody had put a hatchet right down the middle.
		Paul Williams recently split from the band because he was finding less and less to do in this department, but really what Tempest lose on the roundabouts they gain on the swings, for they are travelling in a direction which will ultimately eliminate vocals altogether.
		Above all, the main failing of the band is their inadequacies as songwriters and singers.
	members.aol.com /PattoFan4/miscTempest.htm (2428 words)

	Colosseum
		Judging by that album, you'd never guess that Colosseum as a band would be anything different from your average modern jazz outfit, going wank-wank all over the place and almost always sounding the same (okay, maybe not, but I'm not exactly addressing the seriously jazz-trained public here).
		Colosseum's debut doesn't exactly smash your head against the wall, but that's mainly because when Hiseman, Heckstall-Smith, Greenslade, Reeves and Litherland got together, they didn't exactly have a lot to say to the world.
		As every democratic band at the time, they prefer not to let any single player overshadow the others, although at times I mourn that Litherland's guitar playing is too much subdued in favour of the sax and organ, but heck, that's jazz-rock for you.
	starling.rinet.ru /music/colosseo.htm (5092 words)

	Colosseum DVDs and DVD Audio Disks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In spite of Jon Hiseman's reluctance to reform Colosseum, in the early nineties the spate of band reissues generated new interest in the band.
		Combining compelling narrative with state-of-the-art computer graphics and high-quality drama reconstruction, this production throws new light on the way gladiators really fought and trained, and reveals that many of them were the superstars of their age.
		Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story revolves around the true story of Verus, who rises from slave to star gladiator, but who faces the ultimate challenge in one of the very few gladiatorial fights that was recorded and described contemporarily.
	www.fattvideos.com /DVDs_by/2117/COLOSSEUM (226 words)

	Colosseum: Valentyne Suite (1969) Music Reviews - UK - Hippyland
		Colosseum, like Fleetwood Mac, was a band that evolved out of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
		The band consisted of saxist Dick Heckstall-Smith, guitarist and vocalist James Litherland, bassist Tony Reeves, organist Dave Greenslade, and drummer Jon Hiseman.
		Especially "Colosseum Live" from 1971, dont be put off that it is a live album, just listen to it and be amazed at the musicanship.
	www.hippy.com /php/review-298.html (706 words)

	Colosseum II - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		The mandate this time, however, was not the jazz- and blues-inflected rock of the original band, but a full-tilt journey into hyperkinetic jazz fusion that stretched the players about as far as they could go.
		The band proceeded to play and record with a passion for three years or so, before running out of steam.
		Andrew Lloyd Webber used the band for Variations, a composition for his brother, Julian Lloyd Webber.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,416597,00.html (308 words)

	John YOUNG - GREENSLADE - A Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The first professional band they were in was together was 'John Hiseman's COLOSSEUM' and they, along with Jon Hiseman (drums), Dick Heckstall-Smith (sax) and James Litherland (guitar), formed the initial group in 1968 London.
		Two years after the band formed and before the next album, Tony left (to become Creative Director of the Greenwich Gramophone Company) and was replaced by Mark Clarke in September 1970.
		The final release before Colosseum folded for the first time in October 1971 was the double live album 'Colosseum Live', released in June 1971 on the newly formed Bronze label.
	www.youngjohn.co.uk /greensladebio.html (2239 words)

	Rock Ahead: Angel Air Records - classic rock DVD, reissues and new recordings - reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Formed by John Hiseman in 1968 Colosseum were a popular draw on the live circuit and released three excellent albums until they split in 1971.
		The main part of this DVD is a record of the bands concert in Cologne in Germany in 1994 and to all intents and purposes it was as if the band had never been away.
		The band excels on the tightly arranged pieces and the vocalists seem to enjoy themselves throughout.
	www.themusicindex.com /rockahead/reviews/angleair_dvd.htm (1225 words)

	COLOSSEUM Colosseum Live reviews and MP3
		Colosseum can surprise, can personalize, can make it colloquial or can play be heart something known for the mind and for the gust of a inter-septic trust.
		Colosseum Live, broadcast for a complete and intrinsic taste, pretends the passion of one knowing the band’s best music language and most intensive desire, also showing what three albums, some classic turnups and, otherwise, the single-hearted reverie of the style’s concussion has lead: music de beaute and superior jazz talent.
		Why the band chosen to be a cicadae and extinguished project-moray after this last 1971 corner, is a sad idea to be an aftertaste of repeated chords and so few awakenings.
	www.progarchives.com /album.asp?id=4190 (3801 words)

	LET IT ROCK - Clem CLEMPSON interview
		All of the bands that I loved and admired at that time had something in common, which was that they were retaining the essential feeling of the blues whilst developing the music in their own particular way.
		COLOSSEUM were certainly up amongst this elite collection of excellent musicians, and it was a very great thrill to be invited to play with them.
		Originally, there was always this pressure to keep creating more material and to go on being inventive, and that's what destroyed the band in the end, because Jon was the leader of the band and he felt that it was his duty to drive us creatively, although Jon wasn't really a composer himself.
	dmme.net /interviews/clem.html (6195 words)

	ProgressoR - Detailed Reviews - Colosseum - 1978 - "Wardance"
		Beginning from 1976, the band is named Colosseum-2, but I can't imagine this reincarnation of the legendary drummer and producer Jon Hiseman's Colosseum as a separate project.
		Well, the leader of the band Hiseman from then on has played just a second part in the composition of the pieces, but a study of the original style was fully unharmed and even improved.
		The relentless beautiful interplays between Moore and Airey as well as all the arrangements and improvisations, including jazz, are composed, in contradiction to pure jazz, where improvisation is just a state of mind.
	www.progressor.net /review/colosseum_1978.html (776 words)

	ORDER - Online Information article about ORDER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Above the architrave was the frieze, divided into triglyphs, so called because they are divided into three bands by t w o vertical grooves, and metopes or spaces between the triglyphs.
		In the Colosseum I I1111'1 111uululI fIluw11111 I I.111uuuweuyi fFlIF uIU IumIi1uu there were three storeys pierced with arcades, with the Corinthian order on the third storey, and a superstructure (added at a later date) without an arcade, and decorated with Corinthian pilasters only.
		With an intercolumniation of 6 diameters, the arcades are wider and a lighter effect is obtained, and this is the proportion in the Colosseum.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ORC_PAI/ORDER.html (6984 words)

	The Music Index - Greenslade - progressive rock - biography
		Reeves left the band to be replaced by Martin Briley for a U.S. tour.
		After the band split, Dave Greenslade collaborated with fantasy artist/writer Patrick Woodroffe in a lavish and expensive concept double album, The Pentateuch Of The Cosmogony in 1979.
		In 1999 Dave Greenslade produced an album of live tracks recorded between 1973 and 1975, and in 2001 there was the release of "Large Afternoon", the first "new" Greenslade album since the seventies.
	www.themusicindex.com /commerce/pages/html/greenslade_bio.htm (247 words)

	PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY KEITH "MUZIKMAN" HANNALECK
		Three years does not seem like a long time and it is not by any band's standards, but it is if you make it count.
		This band made it more than count; they prepared musical inroads for an entire genre on the cusp of incredible changes and development.
		There were other bands traveling in the same direction but few that could produce such excellent compositions as this group did.
	www.progressiveworld.net /colosseum.html (507 words)

	CMT.com : Colosseum : Biography
		The title track of Valentyne Suite, a 17-minute composition, pushed keyboardist Dave Greenslade to the forefront of the band and into the spotlight of progressive music, a position he was increasingly uneasy with over the years.
		Colosseum began to undergo personnel shifts with their third album, Grass Is Greener, with everyone calling it quits upon the departure of Greenslade in 1971.
		In 1975, Hiseman formed Colosseum II, but this time the mandate was firmly jazz fusion.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/colosseum/bio.jhtml (197 words)

	Colosseum
		The band were touring all over Europe and were acknowledged as one of the most exciting and original acts on the circuit.
		Mark Clarke and Dave 'Clem' Clempson had replaced Reeves and Litherland on bass and guitar/vocals respectively but as the band entered the studios to record their third album something was missing.
		The band featured one of the most powerful array of musicians ever assembled, but Jon Hiseman felt that Colosseum had always lacked a powerful vocalist, therefore Dave Greenslade recommended he ask Chris Farlowe down to the studio.
	www.cannygigs.com /Colosseum.htm (1484 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Colosseum - The Complete Reunion Concert [1994]: Online DVD Film Rental by Post UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Led by drummer Jon Hiesman, Colosseum were at the forefront of the jazz-rock scene at the end of the 1960's.
		It persuaded me to see the band live last year, and my God I was not disappointed...Barbara Thompson was standing in for the late Dick Heckstall Smith and it was as if 1970 had returned, if anything with a greater togetherness.
		I followed Colosseum for the full three years of their existence and still have all the vinyl albums, so what a revelation to see actual footage of a great band, performing their own style of music in a more comfortable and professional manner.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Colosseum-Complete-Reunion-Concert/dp/rentals/B000083EFR (1806 words)

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