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02-11-2005, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by jerry I agree about David Sancious!! Most people know him for playing keyboards........but he also is a monster guitar player, check out Stanley Clarke's 'Journey To Love' album sometime.
Smokin'  | Yeah, David Sancious' band is pretty smokin' too. Gerry Carter on drums, and Gerald Carboy on bass, probably one of the world's greatest unknown bass players. The man is a monster with a fretless. 
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02-11-2005, 03:27 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: 287,10,202,80 | | | +1 for Relayer |
02-12-2005, 01:50 PM
| | Reggae Loving Honkey | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Poulsbo, WA | | | Rush - Hemispheres (probably my favorite album of all time)
Rush - Caress of Steel (very underrated album, IMO. "The Fountain of Lamneth" rules)
Yes - Close to the Edge
Dream Theater - Metropolis Part II: Scenes From a Memory |
02-12-2005, 03:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Edmonton AB | | | Yeah, now that you guys have mentioned Caress Of Steel, I'd have to agree - Bastille Day and The Necromancer are enough to secure CoF's classic status! Not a big fan of Fountain or Lakeside Park, but I Think I'm Going Bald is pretty cool musically.
If they remastered CoS again, could you imagine how awesome songs like BD and TN would sound? They could make a pretty solid heavy metal album! |
02-13-2005, 01:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The black hole of Cygnus X-1 | | | I think its funny how the Caress of Steel tour was called the Down the Tubes Tour by Rush. They were really having a hard time with the music business and they were truly wondering if it was going to be an exercise in futility. They were ready to pack it in, then BAM...2112! The people start to respond. It just goes to show that even the greats and the truly elite among us have the same doubts that we do about this very enigmatic industry.
Caress of Steel is a very dynamic album and features my favorite Alex solo...the climax of Return of the Prince...that is a very powerful solo indeed and gets me everytime! |
02-13-2005, 05:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | I think this qualifies actually: Mr. Bungle - California
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02-17-2005, 03:22 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA | | | From the heyday of prog, the have a nice day 1970's:
Yes: Fragile, Close to the Edge, Relayer
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery
Jethro Tull: Thick As A Brick, A Passion Play
Genesis: Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
King Crimson: Starless and Bible Black, Red
Frank Zappa: One Size Fits All (particularly the songs Inca Roads, Florentine Pogen and Andy - you gotta love those accents in Andy. Chester Thompson said that playing drums in Weather Report was a relative breeze after being in Zappa's band for that recording.)
Kansas: Song for America, Masque
How did the decade that gave us such bad TV--not to mention white boy 'fros--produce such challenging music? Go figure.
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02-26-2005, 04:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: England | | | Hmmm, 7? :
Frank Zappa : Roxy and Elsewhere (I think the bass playing on this is perfect! Complex and adventurous without stepping into the masturbation zone, also Napoleon Murphy-Brock is funny as hell and Zappa's best frontman)
Wigwam : Fairyport (INSANE Finnish 70s progressive rock with added lunatic jazz / "whimsical" bits
Van der Graaf Generator : Still Life - which leads us nicley to :
Still Life : Still Life (esoteric sounding guitarless English band)
Hawkwind : Space Ritual (the only 3 chord progressive rock band! THE stoner album)
Genesis : Selling England by the Pound (bit of an old chestnut but a classic I think!)
Camel : Mirage (mellow and lovely) |
02-26-2005, 05:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Marley's Ghost +1
Please try not to be tainted by Phil's solo stuff. The orignal Genesis with Gabriel were arguably the epitome of Prog Rock. And Brand X was amazing. Phil was one of the premier drummers in rock! | Couldn't agree more!
I was hesitant about checking out Genesis as their pop stuff was so heinously toxic! But I was pleasantly suprised when I heard what Phil can (could?) do on the traps!
It's sad that so many 70s bands lost their way in the plastic wilderness of the 80s mainstream!  |
02-26-2005, 05:11 AM
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Originally Posted by page I definitely have to check them out. Theyll go on my list of Prog bands to check out along with Tortoise and Mogwai. Anyone know those two bands??? | Not too familiar with Tortoise but Mogwai are great! I find their music to have a stark, crystaline beauty (with occasional eruptions into violence) try to find Mogwai Young Team or Come On Die Young (that's my favourite)
I'm sure the little Scottish dudes would be pissed off at being described as prog though!  |
02-26-2005, 02:46 PM
|  | Now With More Metal! Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Harte fjord, CT | | | You know, I don't think anyone's mentioned the Moody Blues. I think my favorite album by them is 'In Search of the Lost Chord'. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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