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#197,983
JJR58 said:
Now motorcycles, that’s my game.
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Moto GP races are always fun to watch!

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PhR75 said:
I remember being quite shocked when I watched Magma's 1981 Bobino concert from a VHS for the first time. I loved their 1975 double live album and this "space soul" phase was a bit different to say the least.
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Magma was early theatrical prog-rock similar in some ways to Genesis, but from France. Christian Vander was a talented "super-percussionist" (in the mold of contemporaries Billy Cobham, Lenny White, Ronald Shannon-Jackson and a couple others) - they did their Magma thing 100%. Their place in music history can't be denied.
 
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JIO said:
Magma was early theatrical prog-rock similar in some ways to Genesis, but from France. Christian Vander was a talented "super-percussionist" (in the mold of contemporaries Billy Cobham, Lenny White, Ronald Shannon-Jackson and a couple others) - they did their Magma thing 100%. Their place in music history can't be denied.
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Other prog rock bands made concept albums, Magma was a concept band. They indeed created a whole genre (zeuhl) and had various off-shoots like the excellent Weidorje or solo albums by Patrick Gauthier and Jean-Philippe Goude. The growling bass sound was created by Jannick Top who tuned his bass like a cello (but octave lower). If Magma's heavy and repetitious sidelong tracks get a bit too heavy I can heartily recommend especially "Drones" (1980) by Jean-Phillippe Goude. It's got zeuhl but also more fusion or even ECM-esque stuff.

BTW, Vander's hero is John Coltrane and Elvin Jones gave him some lessons when he was a kid. I saw Magma in Helsinki in 2017 and it was a superb performance.
 
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PhR75 said:
Other prog rock bands made concept albums, Magma was a concept band. They indeed created a whole genre (zeuhl) and had various off-shoots like the excellent Weidorje or solo albums by Patrick Gauthier and Jean-Philippe Goude. The growling bass sound was created by Jannick Top who tuned his bass like a cello (but octave lower). If Magma's heavy and repetitious sidelong tracks get a bit too heavy I can heartily recommend especially "Drones" (1980) by Jean-Phillippe Goude. It's got zeuhl but also more fusion or even ECM-esque stuff.

BTW, Vander's hero is John Coltrane and Elvin Jones gave him some lessons when he was a kid. I saw Magma in Helsinki in 2017 and it was a superb performance.
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I clearly need to expand my music library. I didn’t recognize one single name you mentioned, and I’m a prog rock lover.:wideyed:
 
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