Prog Rock

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.

it actually exists. it's actually pretty good.

Area/Demetrio Stratos: C or D

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.

Prog that rocks...

Alan Parsons Project "Stereotomy" (leans towards pop)
Alan Parsons "Try Anything Once" (absolute rock masterpiece)

Anyone watching the prog rock BBC archive footage, followed by documentary this evening?

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

Stuck this on in the background, we're gonna probably play Scrabble

Nice barnet, Moody Blues frontman.

Hardcore flute action, yes it's the Tull!

Wishbone Ash sound like Polvo!

But look like Creme Brulee.

Hang on, I didn't think any of this kicked off till 10pm? For fuck's sake.

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!

Ah, right. Bugger, missing the archive footage, then (and still up to eyes with work and reluctanct to give up just yet. Tits).

:-( sorry! First capes sighted too...

have any of these put in in an appearance on the archive footing of the show

John Peel / Alan Freeman / Tommy Vance

...and whispering Bob Harris

Not yet, but Jimmy Saville did one of the intros.

Hmmm Emerson Lake & Palmer suck the big one, sadly.

Soft Machine a lot better!

lol Bob Harris!

does Bob Harris look like a long haired hippy?

love Caravan.

i bet Comus are too obscure for this program

any sign of the van der graaf generator yet?

Harris looking well groomed. Genesis now, I think.

radiohead

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Live Bern 1975

Robert Wyatt on the documentary :-)

I'm watching the arse end of Big Brother and taping the start of the doc.

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.

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. :)

lol you so cool prog rock and Scrabble!

i know right it's totally happening here

at least King Crimson are sounding pretty good.

Jonathan Coe reckons Crimson is "progressive rock at its most melodic" Geir to thread!

Or actually on second thoughts...

uugh "thoroughbred musical statement" fuck you ELP guy.

Swallowing the "punk year zero" myth wholesale. Bit of a shame, except for Wyatt being reasonable and funny!

Yeah, that Wizrd record is really good!

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

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

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.

Loving the first Cairo album, they get compared to ELP a lot but I think I like Cairo more!

i think they really mean it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVbXHQ47YB0

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