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From Garry Beers / INXS / AshenMoon.. Re Chris Squire..

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Btbp said:
So when Prog as we knew it fizzled out (commercially, anyway, for the rest of it never did and never will) in the early 80s there was a lull before a resurgence, probably fueled by the lack of Prog when the likes of ELP and Genesis went Pop or Mainstream at least, but in the background bands like Marillion and IQ and Steve Hackett stayed the the course until Neo Prog came into being. For me the last Prog album was Eddie Jobson's Zinc/Green album, which is great.

I'll just throw out a few Neo Prog bands, there are so many of them.... The Flower Kings, Transatlantic, Spock's Beard, Arena, Kino, The Tangent (help me out here, there are many and I'm drawing a blank).

I found this great music when I had just moved from Japan to Singapore, and regretted the move (at that time, I later came to really like SG), hated my job, disliked my boss and coworkers and new company, missed Japan and my friends and the surf there and my then GF now wife who was still there, and was in a really dark place. I found Canvas Productions web radio, which was a lifesaver, and from that learned of those bands I mentioned and more.

It was like rediscovering Prog and it was just what the doctor ordered. Plus there were epic gems to be found, on the order of Close To The Edge, Trilogy, Wind And Wuthering, etc. with new things like The Great Nothing, The Odyssey, I Am The Sun. Imagine finding new stuff that hit like Siberian Khatru or Supper's Ready or On Reflection did back in the day....
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That some great info there, and a great part life story. Thanks for sharing all that.. I'll check those artists out.
GGB
 
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garrybeers said:
Looks great, does he still make these?
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IIRC, Dale made four of those pickups from parts he had and some donor parts from other people. I have not been in contact with Dale in many years, and I did not buy the pickup from him; it was on ebay by another person I knew from the Rick Resource Forum years ago. I have no idea where the other three are, but I no longer have a Rick that one could go into as I have a couple of 4004 Laredo models (I had two other 4004s over the years, another Laredo, and a Cii). Here are the two I currently own.

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garrybeers said:
That some great info there, and a great part life story. Thanks for sharing all that.. I'll check those artists out.
GGB
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To make it easy, and since it got me hearing these for the first time in a while:

Dave Mero's deliciously overdriven modded Rick throughout, and with Taurus pedals at the end section
part Kansas, part Beatles, part Gentle Giant, with Squire mixed in


Get past the Simpson's-y 3+minute intro for an epic that is part Kansas, part Rainbow, with Sir Russell shining vocals and Michael Romeo's complex compositional genius, with hard rock pop song anthem at the end




Part Tull, gritty fretless bass that works well in a Prog context


Almost picks up where Genesis Seconds Out era left out, almost in part a homage musically to Supper's Ready

Might take a couple listens to achieve epic status, they did for me anyway, years later these all still give me goosebumps.
 
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Btbp said:
To make it easy, and since it got me hearing these for the first time in a while:

Dave Mero's deliciously overdriven modded Rick throughout, and with Taurus pedals at the end section
part Kansas, part Beatles, part Gentle Giant, with Squire mixed in


Get past the Simpson's-y 3+minute intro for an epic that is part Kansas, part Rainbow, with Sir Russell shining vocals and Michael Romeo's complex compositional genius, with hard rock pop song anthem at the end




Part Tull, gritty fretless bass that works well in a Prog context


Almost picks up where Genesis Seconds Out era left out, almost in part a homage musically to Supper's Ready

Might take a couple listens to achieve epic status, they did for me anyway, years later these all still give me goosebumps.
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I’ve been going back and really enjoying IQ but was quickly reminded why I haven’t listened in years. The lyrics.
 
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Btbp said:
To make it easy, and since it got me hearing these for the first time in a while:

Dave Mero's deliciously overdriven modded Rick throughout, and with Taurus pedals at the end section
part Kansas, part Beatles, part Gentle Giant, with Squire mixed in


Get past the Simpson's-y 3+minute intro for an epic that is part Kansas, part Rainbow, with Sir Russell shining vocals and Michael Romeo's complex compositional genius, with hard rock pop song anthem at the end




Part Tull, gritty fretless bass that works well in a Prog context


Almost picks up where Genesis Seconds Out era left out, almost in part a homage musically to Supper's Ready

Might take a couple listens to achieve epic status, they did for me anyway, years later these all still give me goosebumps.
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Excellent, I will give these a listen... it would be good to find some "new" music to listen to. Listening to Yes, Genesis etc is like hanging out with an old friend and I'm always discovering more "stuff" everytime.
 
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Gary, have you seen any of Steve Hacketts Genesis Revisited tours? We went to one in November '19; it was the 40th anniversary of Spectral Mornings so they performed the whole album. Then, Genesis Revisited performed the complete Selling England by the Pound album. Amazing show. Jonas Reingold played bass on the tour. After SEBTP was over, they performed "Dance on a Volcano""Los Endos" from Trick of the Tail.
 
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Jeff Scott said:
Gary, have you seen any of Steve Hacketts Genesis Revisited tours? We went to one in November '19; it was the 40th anniversary of Spectral Mornings so they performed the whole album. Then, Genesis Revisited performed the complete Selling England by the Pound album. Amazing show. Jonas Reingold played bass on the tour. After SEBTP was over, they performed "Dance on a Volcano""Los Endos" from Trick of the Tail.
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I have not seen or heard of those shows- sounds great...Who sings?
 
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garrybeers said:
You know , it's not quite got Chris's wow factor in sound and overall perfect note placement but Rutherford was/is a great player.
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I don't know that Mike is underrated, but I don't hear much chatter about him. I've always found his bass playing melodic and 'serving the song' in unique ways. It's always a joy to hear a well-played Ric. :cool:
 
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garrybeers said:
I have not seen or heard of those shows- sounds great...Who sings?
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I don't know the name of the main singer (Steve sings, too, on some songs). This video is from a few months before I saw them.



garrybeers said:
You know , it's not quite got Chris's wow factor in sound and overall perfect note placement but Rutherford was/is a great player.
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One of my absolutely favorite Genesis songs! They performed it when I saw them the first time (April 14, 1973). :bassist:
 
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Jeff Scott said:
I don't know the name of the main singer (Steve sings, too, on some songs). This video is from a few months before I saw them.



One of my absolutely favorite Genesis songs! They performed it when I saw them the first time (April 14, 1973). :bassist:
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Nad Sylvan is the lead singer. I saw the same show/tour as Jeff, all band members were excellent.
Edit- of course I would post a pic that doesn’t have Nad in it! :laugh:
 
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Btbp said:
@garrybeers - a question I've had since the early 80s - what is the story behind Golden Playpen?
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It's Michael philosophising about a club- I think it was in Brisbane - might not even have been a real place. Great song- One of my fav basslines of mine. Steinberger fretless doing these harmonic slide things.
It's funny, I used to put the Swing LP of at 45rpm's on my turntable to listen to Playpen really fast- it's like a perfect, crazy pop song..
 
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