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Title: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: TomSea on December 30, 2016, 01:40:27 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAPFbQVMgs
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin on January 13, 2017, 02:48:58 pm
Annie Haslam could sing her ass off.
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 13, 2017, 02:55:43 pm
A Prog Rock thread? WTF?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTj505AvO5E
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: corbe on January 14, 2017, 02:17:12 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPM1ifkOQ9s&index=7&list=RDEMx1njcnsnwDzIE6xI5SHaFQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPM1ifkOQ9s&index=7&list=RDEMx1njcnsnwDzIE6xI5SHaFQ)
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: DB 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
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Wingnut 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.

 (http://jeffboule.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/parsons-robot-35.jpg)

Loved A Parsons Project.   Ambrosia was good late night play also when we came down from the stoop bongs.   
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: DB 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
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: dfwgator 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
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: dfwgator 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
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin 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
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: dfwgator 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.
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Suppressed on January 31, 2017, 05:14:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tam3O2VaJN8
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: dfwgator on January 31, 2017, 05:18:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tam3O2VaJN8


Now THAT is a great album!!!   
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Suppressed on January 31, 2017, 07:26:43 pm

Now THAT is a great album!!!

Glad I'm not alone here!
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Suppressed on February 01, 2017, 01:51:57 pm
John Wetton has died...

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7676211/john-wetton-dead-singer-bassist-king-crimson-asia
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin 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
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin 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.

Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Frank Cannon 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
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Suppressed on February 03, 2017, 05:33:38 pm
Dark Side of the Spoon
(http://i.imgur.com/qUhB8Jb.jpg)
Title: Re: Prog Rock Thread
Post by: Maj. Bill Martin 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

@Frank Cannon

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.