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What do I need here, some ISB? Comus? Wicker Man OST? Some prog?

― Keith C (lync0), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Sub-Rainbow heavy metal, "battle metal" and suchlike, I would have thought. Not prog.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

http://sydsyd.hp.infoseek.co.jp/SEVEN/7JPG/progre/Bo_Hansson_1970.JPG

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

that's Bo Hansson btw

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

WHYSP

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

cromagnon. esp disk stuff to thread.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

metal : fantasy :: prog : sci-fi

― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

select cuts from Led Zep III and IV

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Bo Hansson's Magician's Hat is good, too.
This one is basically a tribute to Lord of the Rings:
http://www.hapna.com/H.5-500x500.jpeg
Keyboard and Drums.
I don't have to mention Tyrannosaurus Rex, do I?

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Third Ear Band - Macbeth

Attic Thoughts is another good Bo Hansson album.

I think I'm the only one here who likes Queen II but you can't go wrong with songs like "Ogre Battle" and "Fairy Feller's Master Stroke."

In the vein of ISB & Comus also check out Dr. Strangely Strange, COB and some solo John Renbourn.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

And Gong is more like space gnomes mushroom visions but they fit in pretty well with the other whimsical wizardy stuff. The Radio Gnome trilogy plus Camembert Electrique and Magick Brother are all worthwhile.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hiddenvision.com/images/elves_cd.jpg

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Are any of the bands named Gandalf any good?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Y'ALL HEARD FINNTROLL?

― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Old David Munrow early music LPs are worth picking up as well. I think his music was a big influence on a lot of the hobbity british folkies in the 60s.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

xpost - i've been meaning to get this for a second

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f358/f35890w60jy.jpg

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Yeah that Gandalf album is something that I always pick up and then put back.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

hey, it's on grammy.ru, i'll dl and send you a zip file in the next few days

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

The only music act called gandalf I can think of is an Austrian new age music artist who is pretty terrible.

are any Gong fans here aware that Hillage did a gig with them quite recently?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Jason.

Looking at allmusic, there's another band called Gandalf the Grey which must be the other one I was thinking of.

are any Gong fans here aware that Hillage did a gig with them quite recently?

No, are they still any good? Doesn't Daevid Allen do some kind of weird new age mystical workshops now?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

my friend just today offered me his copy of Gong's "You (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 3)" because he wasn't feeling it

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

i love 'you'!

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

i love you too, chaki

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

anyone have a copy (mp3?) of "Bambooji" from 75's Shamal??? it's a sample that i've wanted to hear for a long time.

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

"You" was the one that got me into Gong but now I actually prefer the pre-Hillage stuff. Solo Hillage albums like "L" and "Fish Rising" are kind of fun though too and of course feature the mighty T.O.N.T.O.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Woah, I just listened to Fish Rising again for the first time in an aeon. Fuck yeah!

Sorry to divert from the wizardry at hand but this thread made me get all Canterbury'd out this morning.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

Now it's on to Gentle Giant -- Canterbury and medieval. Pantagruel's Nativity!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

i've been listening to a bunch of Gentle Giant lately. been meaning to start an ILM thread, but fuck it.

i got their first one recently and it's such a different sound from The Power & the Glory (which i've had for years). the first one is jazz rock, but not super angular and weird. also got Octopus recently but haven't listened to it enough. surprisingly, it sounds like a mixture of those two albums. hard rock, but w/the weird proggy melodies

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

walter, I knew this thread would be your cup of tea

I've really been tripping out on "Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" and "5000 Layers" the last couple of days. I know they are not the most extreme sorcerer records, but just that they mention the minatour in that one song got me thinking about the crossover between british folk & fantasy, and where else that leads.

xpost

― Keith C (lync0), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

http://chocoreve.blogspot.com/2005/10/history-of-uk-underground-folk-rock.html

two cds. full download

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Weird jaxon, I think I have the opposite Gentle Giant albums from you (Acquiring the Taste, Three Friends, Free Hand, In A Glass House).

Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is one of my favorite albums of all time (though 5000 layers has a better sleeve). The first ISB and Wee Tam & The Big Huge are also good and even their later stuff is decent.

That underground folk comp looks great.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

you guys are forgetting something: genesis

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was trying to forget.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Also if ISB = The Shire then Magma = Mordor.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

all early genesis is awesome.

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

xpost - i don't get the prog love for early genesis. just seems kinda boring

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

maybe i just have the wrong albums?

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

i have Nursery Cryme & Trespass

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

if you don't like those, then don't sweat it

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

selling england by the pound is the one for me. that album sold me on genesis FOR LIFE. STEVE HACKETT FUCKIN GREAT LICKS.

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Here's what you need - The Medieval Baebes.

http://radiorivendell.com/images/composers/medieval_baebes.jpg

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

if you don't like those, then don't sweat it

you mean i'll never get it? or those are bad ones to judge from?

also, i haven't listened to them all that many times.

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Also, Rush - "Rivendell".

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

And "The Battle Of Evermore".

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

you mean i'll never get it?

those two are my favorite genesis. I dunno, check 'em out again, I still kinda like them. selling england & lamb lies down too. I got into Genesis in high school tracing backwards from Gabriel solo records, but never really checked out Yes, Anderson was too scary.

My friend Tom bought a hilarious Gentle Giant concert DVD, we were way into it, they're all unbelievably strange looking, the drummer is psychotic, they're a hard band to figure out

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

van der graaf really were the redheaded stepchildren of prog.

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

I bought a Peter Hammill solo album the other day and was bummed when I realized that I already had it. But earlier today I looked inside the jacket and crammed way in there was a napkin signed by Peter Hammill!

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

thats fucking awesome!

― howell huser (chaki), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Medieval Baebes = rawr

― Keith C (lync0), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

I bought Selling England out of a bargain bin last weekend. I dunno, I still haven't gotten into them. I love Yes and King Crimson, though.

― Keith C (lync0), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

I love Genesis, but there is just about 0 medieval stuff, ogres & fairies etc. A bit of it is kind of golden bough-ish.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

jaxon, get 'three friends' by gentle giant. i think its better than octopus

― amon (eman), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

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