Best Prog Rock?

[bassmike2010]

Oh God YES. Annie Haslam and David Camp. Live at Carnegie Hall is a Must Have.
Girl I was dating at the time gave me the Carnegie Hall double album.
Saw them in in Philadelphia in a dinner theater headlining with Al Di Meola. I was never the same after that.

 

[jerry]

Oh God YES. Annie Haslam and David Camp. Live at Carnegie Hall is a Must Have.
Girl I was dating at the time gave me the Carnegie Hall double album.
Saw them in in Philadelphia in a dinner theater headlining with Al Di Meola. I was never the same after that.

They re-released the Carnegie Hall album remastered last year and it's excellent. They were big on the east coast when I was young, but I don't know if the rest of the country was down with them. Very overlooked band. IMHO

 

[bassmike2010]

They re-released the Carnegie Hall album remastered last year and it's excellent. They were big on the east coast when I was young, but I don't know if the rest of the country was down with them. Very overlooked band. IMHO

I first heard them working at an FM station in college. We had access to many Progressive promotional releases, vinyl. I don't know about the East Coast thing I was in the South. Dixie Dregs Stanley Clarke and Gino Vannelli came to our school. Lot of the female fronted and Nordic bands give a nod to Renaissance. Very positive and symphonic at times but always with a strong hook and movement based composition. Their later stuff became more commercial and sometimes Rock ish but still very palatable.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Agreed. Some otherwise Ambient albums can yield curiously commercial tracks.

I hope you're not suggesting that Robert Fripp's Exposure album is "otherwise Ambient"

Oh God YES. Annie Haslam and Jon Camp. Live at Carnegie Hall is a Must Have.

fixed it for you

I saw Renaissance live at The Felt Forum in NYC in 1975, the tour just prior to the one that yielded the Live at Carnegie Hall album. What a stunning band!

 

[The Czar]

The best thing on Fripp Exposure (imo) is the song Breathless.
Narada Michael Walden on drums is always amazing

 

[DrMole]

Oh God YES. Annie Haslam and David Camp. Live at Carnegie Hall is a Must Have.
Girl I was dating at the time gave me the Carnegie Hall double album.
Saw them in in Philadelphia in a dinner theater headlining with Al Di Meola. I was never the same after that.

Just listened to first 15 min or so-
Fantastic.
I was three when this was performed, yet it resonates with my musical self.

Also, a fine reason to pursue more effects for the collection.
Spectrum filter coming soon; despite protestations from other "adult" household member

 

[TH63]

This^
That you didn’t know any band on my list, yet include ELO in your poll, speaks volumes. I would understand that you included Dream
Theater and Tool to not be stuck in just the classic era, but then, where is Marillion, Porcupine Tree, Mars Volta...Spock’s Beard, even? When exactly was this first vote, and who determined it? Wouldn’t it stand to reason that anyone’s ‘best’ be a favorite?

I agree porcupinetree could be on that list. They're one of my favorites.

 

[bassmike2010]

I hope you're not suggesting that Robert Fripp's Exposure album is "otherwise Ambient"

Some parts. He has a history of creating soundscapes.
am·bi·ent mu·sic
noun
noun: ambient music

1. a style of gentle, largely electronic instrumental music with no persistent beat,
2. used to create or enhance a mood or atmosphere.

fixed it for you

Much obliged. Voice to text.

I saw Renaissance live at The Felt Forum in NYC in 1975, the tour just prior to the one that yielded the Live at Carnegie Hall album. What a stunning band!

My show was '78.

 

[Michedelic]

Here’s some interesting thoughts from Chairman Bob...
The Crimson King Seeks a New Court
I can remember a time, before it was used to label a codified genre, when “progressive” and “underground” were interchangeably used to describe all the music that you would hear on the then new free-form FM radio rock stations of the golden years between ‘67 and ‘71, meaning it was beyond Top 40 pop.

 

[Richland123]

Anybody for Crack The Sky?

 

[Richland123]

Automatic Man

 

[Jeff Scott]

Oh God YES. Annie Haslam and David Camp.

Er, Jon Camp.

I saw them in 1979 when they were touring Azure D'Or. And, saw Annie with her current line-up last Novemeber, 39 years after seeing the original classic band (not the Relf one).

 

[Richland123]

Ambrosia did some prog stuff.

 

[bassmike2010]

Here’s some interesting thoughts from Chairman Bob...
The Crimson King Seeks a New Court
I can remember a time, before it was used to label a codified genre, when “progressive” and “underground” were interchangeably used to describe all the music that you would hear on the then new free-form FM radio rock stations of the golden years between ‘67 and ‘71, meaning it was beyond Top 40 pop.

Thank you. Very enlightening.

 

[bassmike2010]

Er, Jon Camp.

I saw them in 1979 when they were touring Azure D'Or. And, saw Annie with her current line-up last Novemeber, 39 years after seeing the original classic band (not the Relf one).

Yeah this is definitely TalkBass...

 

[Btbp]

Music for Airports was Eno's first deliberately ambient record.

Don't want to continue down an Ambient path on a Prog thread, but, that's not my understanding, instead that it was Discrete Music (which happened to be my 1st Eno album) when he was laid up with an injury. You did however indicate 'deliberate'.

 

[LBS-bass]

Don't want to continue down an Ambient path on a Prog thread, but, that's not my understanding, instead that it was Discrete Music (which happened to be my 1st Eno album) when he was laid up with an injury. You did however indicate 'deliberate'.

My memory of it could be faulty, too. Sometimes I look things up to make sure I'm remembering correctly, and sometimes not. I'm in a hurry right now so I'll have to look later.

 

[Btbp]

They re-released the Carnegie Hall album remastered last year and it's excellent. They were big on the east coast when I was young, but I don't know if the rest of the country was down with them. Very overlooked band. IMHO

Not overlooked in my world, since hearing them on Don Kirshner when Ashes Are Burning came out, was hooked. It was then an alternate Rick thing to Squire to learn and play, but as well, to listen, which I still do (and was again just last week). And another Taurus pedal user.

That's great news about the remaster, didn't know. I was thinking about why oh why didn't they video the Carnegie Hall shows.

 

[Sid Fang]

Don't want to continue down an Ambient path on a Prog thread, but, that's not my understanding, instead that it was Discrete Music (which happened to be my 1st Eno album) when he was laid up with an injury. You did however indicate 'deliberate'.

You are correct that Discreet Music (not Discrete) came out before Music for Airports, and was arguably his first ambient music release, but I don't believe he called it "ambient" at the time. He made a reference in the liner notes to being inspired by Eric Satie's desire to create music that would "mingle with the sound of knives and forks at dinner" (if I remember the quote correctly).

 

[Btbp]

Anybody for Crack The Sky?

The Carey era or Joe era? Both killer bass players.

I posted about CTS (and Ambrosia, same album) a couple times in this thread.

Saw them in a bar when Photoflamingo came out, only a few feet away. I was so impressed with Carey's sound, his natural P Bass had some processing on it that just sounded so modern to me at the time, it was indescribable. Probably rack mount compressor, preamp and Lexicon.