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Prog Rock Thread
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Re: Prog Rock Thread
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2017, 02:48:58 pm »
Annie Haslam could sing her ass off.

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« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2017, 02:45:50 am »
I've got essentially everything Renaissance has done on CD including Annie Haslam's solo efforts (I also have the original vinyl versions). I have several CD's by Illusion which had some of the same members. I've been a big fan since the mid 70's.

Ambrosia's first album was also a great progressive rock effort engineered by Alan Parsons. High quality very good headphone music. Unfortunately YouTube's quality doesn't reproduce this very well.

A classic:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i8bmI9LMmY

One of my all time favorite songs:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rPk6DIqOac

and another with pipe organ - not something you hear in rock very often:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FvyVkfM8aA

Progressive/psychedelic music with the Jabberwocky spoken starting at about 2:30:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-TYPObvSHo
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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2017, 02:57:19 am »
I've got essentially everything Renaissance has done on CD including Annie Haslam's solo efforts (I also have the original vinyl versions). I have several CD's by Illusion which had some of the same members. I've been a big fan since the mid 70's.

Ambrosia's first album was also a great progressive rock effort engineered by Alan Parsons. High quality very good headphone music. Unfortunately YouTube's quality doesn't reproduce this very well.

A classic:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i8bmI9LMmY

One of my all time favorite songs:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rPk6DIqOac

and


www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FvyVkfM8aA

Progressive/psychedelic music with the Jabberwocky spoken starting at about 2:30:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-TYPObvSHo

When I was a DJ doing the 11 to 5am slot in the mid 70's we played a lot of I robot.

 

Loved A Parsons Project.   Ambrosia was good late night play also when we came down from the stoop bongs.   

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Re: Prog Rock Thread
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2017, 03:08:17 am »
A Prog Rock thread? WTF?

Well that was unexpected, I liked that, thank you.

You might like this, particularly the track "Unorthodox Behavior". It is very well made music:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWnMJfHjAq8

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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2017, 03:41:34 am »
Well that was unexpected, I liked that, thank you.

You might like this, particularly the track "Unorthodox Behavior". It is very well made music:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWnMJfHjAq8


This was pretty much Genesis without Tony Banks.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1DGL_gkDBs

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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2017, 03:44:35 am »
Before "Mike and the Mechanics",  Mike Rutherford put out this gem.   



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd7gRmpqmmQ

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« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2017, 05:16:00 am »

This was pretty much Genesis without Tony Banks.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1DGL_gkDBs

How about Genesis without that pop sellout Phil Collins?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5XhDHJNuyXw

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« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2017, 06:02:25 am »
How about Genesis without that pop sellout Phil Collins?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5XhDHJNuyXw

A Trick of The Tail and Wind & Wuthering are my favorite Genesis albums,  at that time, Phil hadn't started writing yet.

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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2017, 05:14:35 pm »
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2017, 07:26:43 pm »

Now THAT is a great album!!!

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« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2017, 04:38:25 am »
Before "Mike and the Mechanics",  Mike Rutherford put out this gem.   



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd7gRmpqmmQ

@dfwgator

I had that album.  Here's another in the same vein that I also had -- with even worse singing:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj9BT4qSSAE

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« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2017, 04:48:43 am »
John Wetton has died...

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7676211/john-wetton-dead-singer-bassist-king-crimson-asia

At least the writer of that article had the good sense and taste to list King Crimson before Asia.

I was never a fan of his singing, but his bass playing when paired with Bill Bruford in King Crimson was outstanding.  Fripp called them a "flying brick wall", which was pretty apt.  Last song on the last album he made with them:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfR6_V91fG8

And here's my favorite KC straight improv with some monstrous bass licks from Wetton -- Bruford just started, and everything from there on was completely on the fly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ3UnGQCT1E

Suck on that, Asia.

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« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2017, 05:01:23 am »
How about Genesis without that pop sellout Phil Collins?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5XhDHJNuyXw

After Peter Gabriel the last real album Genesis put out was Trick of the Tail. The rest of their stuff was Top 40 urine.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJIVuinJlsU

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« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2017, 05:33:38 pm »
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Re: Prog Rock Thread
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2017, 02:27:36 pm »
After Peter Gabriel the last real album Genesis put out was Trick of the Tail. The rest of their stuff was Top 40 urine.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJIVuinJlsU

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There is a Genesis tribute ban called The Musical Box that does note for note recreations of Gabriel-era Genesis shows.  Phenomenally good, and even Gabriel himself has seen them.  Steve Hackett and Phil Collins (drums only) have sat in with them in a show before.  If you like that music, they are very well worth seeing -- they tour all over the world.

I saw them do a Lamb tour, and also a Foxtrot tour.  Great shows.