― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Vitalski: It's an obvious answer but do you have Yes' Fragile? The second side is a goldmine. Side 2 opens with the first drum and bass track evah! Also check out the intro to "Heart of the Sunrise" and "The Fish" and the basslines to "Long Distance Runaround" and "Roundabout". Neil Peart is another obvious choice.
I find Inner Mounting Flame more or less unlistenable once I got past how virtuosic it is.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Return to Forever (w/diMeola), for ex., sounds more like emotionless showmanship to me. Fun in some ways, in no way deep like Mahavishnu.
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw them in Lowell at the Paul Tsongas Arena last weekend (the last gig of this leg of their tour; I think the one right after MSG), which they were videotaping I believe for a PBS special and later a DVD release. They played The Beatles' "Every Little Thing" (an early cover of theirs, but very much revamped) as an encore instead of "Soon", plus "Starship Trooper" as the final closer. Great versions of "And You and I", "Ritual", "Turn of the Century"...
Minuses: They did a shuffle-blues acoustic version of "Roundabout" (like Clapton did for "Layla" on his Unplugged)--sounds too cheezy to me. Dean's inflatable set looked very (ahem) Stonehenge like.
That aside, I continue to be amazed at what a great show these guys still put on, since they're all like 55-60 years old. Plus, the a/c that night was non-existent, so it was like 85-90 degrees on stage the entire time for them.
― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― chaki_burger (chaki), Friday, 21 May 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 22 May 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 22 May 2004 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link
it actually exists. it's actually pretty good.
― (Jon L), Monday, 24 May 2004 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― earlnash, Monday, 24 May 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― chaki_burger (chaki), Monday, 24 May 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Area/Demetrio Stratos: C or D
― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Rustic Hinge's [recorded 1970, not released until '88, former Arthur Brown sidemen, almost certainly the first Trout Mask Replica-disciples] is excellent but you'll probably never find it. ― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Prog that rocks...
Alan Parsons Project "Stereotomy" (leans towards pop)Alan Parsons "Try Anything Once" (absolute rock masterpiece)
― jigue (jigue), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― doug watson (solid air), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyone watching the prog rock BBC archive footage, followed by documentary this evening?
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
answer to original poster's question -- Triode On n'a pas fini d'avoir tout vu (with proto-disco flutes!). it played between almost every outside set at terrastock in june and had people a little wiggly
― kamerad, Friday, 2 January 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Stuck this on in the background, we're gonna probably play Scrabble
― REMOVE THEIR EARS (country matters), Friday, 2 January 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice barnet, Moody Blues frontman.
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Hardcore flute action, yes it's the Tull!
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Wishbone Ash sound like Polvo!
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
But look like Creme Brulee.
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Hang on, I didn't think any of this kicked off till 10pm? For fuck's sake.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Friday, 2 January 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
An hour of archive footage with what seem to be Steve Wright penned glib captions, followed by the docu, in which Rick Wakeman will no doubt be aloowed to drone on.
Pretty entertaining so far though!
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, right. Bugger, missing the archive footage, then (and still up to eyes with work and reluctanct to give up just yet. Tits).
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Friday, 2 January 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
:-( sorry! First capes sighted too...
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
have any of these put in in an appearance on the archive footing of the show
John Peel / Alan Freeman / Tommy Vance
― djmartian, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
...and whispering Bob Harris
― djmartian, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Not yet, but Jimmy Saville did one of the intros.
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmmm Emerson Lake & Palmer suck the big one, sadly.
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Soft Machine a lot better!
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
lol Bob Harris!
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
does Bob Harris look like a long haired hippy?
― djmartian, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
love Caravan.
― get that pion down you son (Frogman Henry), Friday, 2 January 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
i bet Comus are too obscure for this program
any sign of the van der graaf generator yet?
― djmartian, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Harris looking well groomed. Genesis now, I think.
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
radiohead
― get that pion down you son (Frogman Henry), Friday, 2 January 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Live Bern 1975
― djmartian, Friday, 2 January 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Robert Wyatt on the documentary :-)
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm watching the arse end of Big Brother and taping the start of the doc.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Friday, 2 January 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty good set of talking heads thus far. Some of the usual "greatest era" stuff, although most contrbutors seem to be able to analyse things a bit more than that.
― Neil S, Friday, 2 January 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Scored 321 in a 3-player game against hapless gf's mum (142) and gf (120), who won last night's triple-header and incurred the fitting response. I am the GODLIEST, she the BARMAID. Bam. All this to a lovely soundtrack too. :)
― REMOVE THEIR EARS (country matters), Friday, 2 January 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i love when VDG gets all chessed out
― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2024 21:56 (one week ago) link
I love Pawn Hearts but agree that the cover art is horrible. Also the gatefold is arguably worse, with the four of them goofin' around with Nazi salutes. Didn't age very well, that.
― sawdust lagoon, Monday, 8 April 2024 22:04 (one week ago) link
The live album has not a bad cover and "Still Life" is better than OK-ish.
― Hunky Tory (Tom D.), Monday, 8 April 2024 22:19 (one week ago) link
WFMU's prog show "It's Complicated" (Monday evenings, next show in 35 min.) is a decent place to make new discoveries -- https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/GX
― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Monday, 8 April 2024 22:26 (one week ago) link
So this is the guy that designed the cover.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Whitehead
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 April 2024 22:33 (one week ago) link
OK @ that wire sculpture of Lennon
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 April 2024 22:34 (one week ago) link
young robert wyatt tardises into the super furry animals after gruff quits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNAiWrzomUk
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 19:41 (one week ago) link
Yeah, that Wizrd record is really good!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 20:01 (one week ago) link
glad you like it, definitely my prog discovery of the year thus far
speaking of VdGG I'm revisiting the 1st album, kinda funny to hear them before they figured their sound out, especially since on "Octopus" they seem to figure it out all at once. what a monster of a track that is. but "Aguarian" is the best track I think
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 03:14 (one week ago) link
A recent and really excellent discovery, should maybe be on a Krautrock thread, but belongs here as well I feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh8D0U-lfwY
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 21:28 (one week ago) link
Funnily enough I was listening to that album last week. I like the track "Big City" but that's it. Stretching the concept of Krautrock to breaking point there. Their second album is probably better.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 21:32 (one week ago) link
Loving the first Cairo album, they get compared to ELP a lot but I think I like Cairo more!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 14 April 2024 01:19 (five days ago) link
i think they really mean it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVbXHQ47YB0
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 20:41 (two days ago) link
I think this is the right thread.
My friend did this. She's into uhhh The Mars Volta and Cardiacs and other good stuff. It's amazing and I say that with as little bias as I can muster. Leafy and frogbs can vouch for her too
https://april1830.bandcamp.com/album/the-adventures-of-space-pig
― imago, Thursday, 18 April 2024 11:05 (yesterday) link