You may well be correct, I didn't research anything in my statement, it was simply off the cuff, so to speak.
EDIT: According to Wikipedia, the Progressive Rock genre evolved from the Psychedelic Rock genre.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock
I have a friend, one of the guys I used to smoke with, who is really into "The Canterbury Movement" a sub-genre of prog, has anyone here had any experience of this style, only artist that I'm familiar with is Steve Hillage?
It is certainly a lot more understandable than "Chinglish" The language of choice for literature you get with Items exported from China!
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I really enjoy several albums from a band called Camel, which I believe is lumped in with the Canturbury sub-genre. I got into them because Mikael Akerfeldt, frontman for the group Opeth, made an offhand comment about how one of his songs was a knock-off of a Camel song.
Opeth themselves started out as Swedish Death Metal, but have over the years evolved into what can only be described as "progressive". Some of this was probably influenced by Akerfeldt's friendship with Steven Wilson, of Porcupine Tree fame (and also a progressive geek if there ever was one). Porcupine Tree never really touched me where I want to be touched, but I really enjoy Wilson's latest, "The Raven that Refused to Sing". I got it on bluray, which has several different mixes. One is 5.1, but I haven't even listened to that, since I don't have a 5.1 system. But it includes a 24/96 LPCM mix, which sounds exquisite to me.
Back to Opeth: Pink Floyd fans might enjoy the album "Damnation", which is anything but metal; rather, very mellow, melodic soft rock.
Canterbury would lead one to Caravan, Hatfield and the North, Gong, Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Egg, National Health, and branches and twigs from that tree. A lot of really great stuff. For me, Gong / Hillage is the pinnacle, but that is me. I'd have to look it up, but it seems like Ozric Tentacles is the next generation Canterbury. Edit: Ok, I looked it up, doesn't look like Ozric is considered Canterbury. I still think they lean in that direction. http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=12 Edit again: Just for fun, and I haven't formally done this, take Robert Wyatt and see how many directions that leads in. I think I will try that.
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I was 6 in 1973 but would accept being a few years older now to have seen ELP then. I have a very dog eared copy of that album...more then a few were rolled on that one.
One of my favorites from days gone bye, especially "In the land of Grey and Pink" definitely goes with a fattie or a hash pipe.
Others I liked from the same era. McDonald and Giles, Strawbs, Traffic Shootout at the Fantasy Factory and Low Spark of High Heeled Boys), Starcastle, Triumvirat, early Genesis, Yes, ABWH, and Rick Wakeman
Jim, one album that I will recommend to you that nobody else will.
Amazon.com: The Lodge: Lodge/Smell Of A Friend: Music
The Lodge, "Smell of a Friend". A bit rockish, but the track "Old Man's Mood" is worth the entry fee. I think it is an incredibly great album, that rewards repeated listening. The song called "The Song" is fantastic. I can send it to you if you desire. I don't know about your domestic environment, but headphones are handy when things are a little esoteric/unknown. At least they are at my place. 33K songs, of which I can listen to 300 or so with the wife.
Amazon.com: The Lodge: Lodge/Smell Of A Friend: Music
The Lodge, "Smell of a Friend". A bit rockish, but the track "Old Man's Mood" is worth the entry fee. I think it is an incredibly great album, that rewards repeated listening. The song called "The Song" is fantastic. I can send it to you if you desire. I don't know about your domestic environment, but headphones are handy when things are a little esoteric/unknown. At least they are at my place. 33K songs, of which I can listen to 300 or so with the wife.
I saw them both, and each was the second time I saw each band. I saw Tull after Benefit was released, and ELP after Pictures at an Exhibition. Then both again in 1973 - 74.
Our music collections and tastes are mutually exclusive. The basement "man cave" I am in the process of constructing is going to need some serious soundproofing.
I was simply too high at the "Triumvirat" "Illusions on a Double Dimple" gig. Blonde Lebanese W*A*S*T*E*D. Strawbs and David Cousins, mmmmm.
Had to look up ABWH, you mean the actual Yes instead of those other guys.
Listened to Six Wives and Journey to the Center of the Earth a lot. Don't know Starcastle. I'll look them up.
Starcastle was a US based Yes clone, sort of what Triumvirat was to ELP. They had 2 albums I believe that were good, then a tour bus crash sidelined the band for a long while. One of the members had a broken back. Later work wasn't as good.....or my tastes had changed. I still drop "Fountains of Light" on the turntable every once in a while. Not sure how much of their stuff made it to CD.
I think i might have said earlier, but I'll repeat for the same of those of us with poor short vterm memories! I have seen Ozric Tentacles twice at vthe height of my smoking days, circa 1995. I can tell you there was a fair bit of heady smoke in those venues! I'm worried that I may have sold my one Ozrics CD, Erpland at a time when I was strapped for cash. 😡
Are they still active does anyone know?
Another one I'd forgotten about, some of the songs on that album were so inspirational, BTW was the album just called "ABWH?"
Gordon.
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Will the real Yes please stand up. The last time I saw "Yes" the keyboard player was Adam Wakeman....Rick's son. In the 80's? there was a tour with all 8 of them on stage at once. Didn't go to that one.
In my opinion the best Yes concerts were the early ones....Tales from Topographic Oceans was awesome.
I agree, the early YES stuff was the best up to around and including. ,going for the one
Have any of you heard the recent Yes stuff? I'm not sure what to make of it.
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Yes, for about 3 or 4 stops on their tour they used the Yes name....at the same time that the other Yes was touring. Then record label lawyers put a stop to that and ABWH was born. They carried on their independent tours until the lawyers all got rich, and then there was a short tour with all 8 players. Don't remember it coming to South Florida.
Thanks, I reckon its something I'll never forget.🙂
I really need to shut up shop soon, were supposed to be going out later today ( Saturday ) and I'll be grumpy if I don't get sufficient sleep!
Gordon.
I had to verify some of my old memories with Google. The ABWH tour that brought the lawsuits was called "An Evening of Yes Music" which was recorded live and released as an album resulting in legal action. After all the lawyers were happy, everyone involved got together and toured. This was the Union tour, and album.
The tour with Ricks son was 3 or 4 years ago. The music was mostly old stuff. I haven't heard anything since.
The tour with Ricks son was 3 or 4 years ago. The music was mostly old stuff. I haven't heard anything since.
The stuff I've heard has a new singer, not Jon Anderson, though I can't remember his name. It was strange to hear yes type music with a very different singer, I couldn't quite get into it, though it wasn't terrible.
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