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Gimmedaroot posted:I pre-ordered that mega set. Its about $140 from Burning Shed, $120 from the US branch of DGM, but their service is notoriously bad/slow, so I got it from Burning Shed. There's gonna be lots of crazy improv jams with Jamie Muir, and I couldn't pass that up. That said, there will still be the cheaper $20 cd/dvd-a set for the casual fan/newbie. Wow, I didn't even think to check Burning Shed for a pre-order. I that that blurb was implying that it wasn't available yet, and they were just teasing us! I just ordered it from Burning Shed as well - though I had to call my credit card company because they auto-red flagged my account because they counted this (rightly, I suppose) as an "unusual purchase". $140 is definitely worth it!
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Prog Doctor posted:Wow, I didn't even think to check Burning Shed for a pre-order. I that that blurb was implying that it wasn't available yet, and they were just teasing us! I just ordered it from Burning Shed as well - though I had to call my credit card company because they auto-red flagged my account because they counted this (rightly, I suppose) as an "unusual purchase". $140 is definitely worth it! The blurb was from SWHQ's Headphone Dust store which still doesn't have a price, Burning Shed announced it a few days later in their newsletter. Headphone Dust isn't usually any cheaper though.
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Hey guys, You may remember a few months back I posted some of my bands demos and got some great feedback. Just wanted to give you an update. We re-recorded some of the parts using some of the criticism you guys provided, and had our stuff mixed by Thaddeus Corea (son of the legendary Chick Corea). Here is the product of that process: http://soundcloud.com/metamusique/escape-velocity But the best news is this: we submitted it to Prog Rock Magazine, and they are going to include it on an unsigned artists compilation CD to be handed out the first annual Progressive Music Awards, and included in a special edition of the magazine itself covering the awards show. Your input was really helpful and was definitely a factor in getting our track in shape to be submitted. Thanks goons!
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Here's a fantastic 5 part series on prog in Slate written by Dave Weigel: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/...the_1970s_.html
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Aug 23, 2012 11:54
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A 25 minute punk/prog semi-improvised parody of Tarkus. Except instead of an armadillo tank, it's a boner tank: http://soundcloud.com/penguindf12/sets/roving-boner/ The artist names crack me up. (This is not me, by the way)
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I was wondering if any Genesis fans knew any details about Phil Collins taking over on vocals when Peter Gabriel left. I don't think he sang on any of the previous albums. Did they audition other singers first? Did he just up and tell Mike & Tony, "hey I can sing by the way"? Anyone know?
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Aug 28, 2012 16:07
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He sang lead on "More Fool Me" and I think had some vocal parts on at least one other song.
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Aug 28, 2012 16:41
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Seventh Arrow posted:I was wondering if any Genesis fans knew any details about Phil Collins taking over on vocals when Peter Gabriel left. I don't think he sang on any of the previous albums. Did they audition other singers first? Did he just up and tell Mike & Tony, "hey I can sing by the way"? Anyone know? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(band)#1976.E2.80.931977:_The_four-man_era
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Misogynist posted:Wikipedia sure does Excellent, thanks!
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So Beardfish have a new album out (The Void) and it's pretty cool. I'm still really trying to get into it and it doesn't convince me quite as much as most of their older stuff on first listen. They seem to have gone more to the heavier end of the spectrum. But check it out!
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StarsDie.com posted:Porcupine Tree ‘Octane Twisted’ 2CD/DVD to be released November 5th According to setlist.fm the setlist for that night was: quote:First Set: The Incident Colour me excited, I missed The Incident tour and I hear it's incredible live, I am so excited to be getting anything fresh out of PT. Also, Stars Die is pretty much one of my favourite songs ever, hope that makes the cut 
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Did ELP audition a bunch of drummers for their 1986 album, or just ones whose last names started with P? Serious question. If Phil Collins going would it be Emerson, Lake, and Phil?
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If I remember correctly, they asked Carl, but he was busy with Asia and couldn't get the time. They joked about auditioning guys whose surnames started with P but the evidence suggests it was coincidence that the acronym remained the same. And, really, it's not like Cozy Powell was some no-name off the street.
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They certainly had some strong P's to select from: Emerson, Lake and Peart Emerson, Lake and Portnoy Emerson, Lake and Pridgen Emerson, Lake and Perkins Emerson, Lake and Paice
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Cory and Trevor posted:They certainly had some strong P's to select from: Man, talk about missed opportunities. Emerson, Lake, and toddler Thomas Pridgen hitting all those drums, having a great old time.
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It's unlikely considering how tiny the festival is (usually 200-250 in attendance), but anyone else going to ProgDay tomorrow/Sunday? It's the longest-running progressive music festival in the world and is held on a farm in the middle of nowhere in Chapel Hill. I've been going with my dad every year since 2002, and it's always great.
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Optimum Gulps posted:It's unlikely considering how tiny the festival is (usually 200-250 in attendance), but anyone else going to ProgDay tomorrow/Sunday? It's the longest-running progressive music festival in the world and is held on a farm in the middle of nowhere in Chapel Hill. I've been going with my dad every year since 2002, and it's always great. It's an interesting festival - I remember going 10 or so years ago when Pain of Salvation was playing there (their first show in the US). Me and some friends seemed to be the only ones there who knew about them. We spent about 30 minutes chatting with them around a picnic table. It was also pretty sad to see the 30 or so people in the crowd, sitting down, during their set. We were guilty of it as well. Didn't want to stand up in front of everybody...
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Rollersnake posted:Man, talk about missed opportunities. Emerson, Lake, and toddler Thomas Pridgen hitting all those drums, having a great old time. Including Pridgen was totally Trevor's idea.
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So this year's Levin/Belew/Mastelotto band camp (http://threeofaperfectpair.com) was last week and I went again, 2nd year. It was different right off the bat - this year ony had 55 or so attendees, and 3/4 or so were returning campers, so on the first afternoon, the vibe was a lot more relaxed as Tony, Adrian and Pat both had last years positive experience under their belts, as well as seeing mostly known faces. Some great people from last year didn't show up, but some of the new people were cool as hell - Mike from New Zealand came all the way to Woodstock to get a 1-on-1 session and jam with Tony Levin on bass. He kicked rear end in the late night jam sessions. First day was meet-and-greet, with a trio session in the barn playing various pieces (hard to do Crimson as a trio - you're missing Robert, after all). Then a jam session and drinking. Tuesday was classes/sessions, and a band practice with Markus Reuter (who's Guitar Craft trained and in Tony's Stick Men trio with P@) as the needed 4th. The annual camp jam session this year was Thrak, so the drummers, basses and guitarists split up to learn the intro and ending sections. Tony wrote out the main melody in 5/4 by hand, as did John C, a camper - I play trumpet so I had to transpose it into B-flat, which was easy enough with Sibelius on my laptop. So we learned it and playing 5/4 and 7/4 as an ensemble (using the term loosely). Dinner, more jams, more drinking. I remember Money being player with P@ jamming with Marco on bass - this was after Marco Machera (a really cool guy who has had P@ play on his own CD) was invited up to play bass on Red with the quartet. There's video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luX-AMQcu6k - that's in the main 'barn' performance area. I pop up in the video - Stan, who was my roomie, is seen playing 16th notes on the high hat during the video too. Weds was more classes, Adrian teaching how to play Frame by Frame and Three of a Perfect Pair, Tony doing 1-on-1's with bassist/stickists. Pat did drum classes, and we all went 'huh?' when a new guy popped in to check out camp - Butch Trucks, the drummer from the Allman Brothers, showed up to see if he might run a camp. Butch told a few stories... (and then on Thursday, Jack DeJohnette showed up too!) Julie Slick and Tobias Ralph also showed up Weds PM, and so we had a full-double trio session. Adrian even played Matte Kudasai, for the first time in about 15 years, live. Weds night was the ThrakJam, with guest drummer Butch Trucks sitting in with the 50-odd of us. He was later quoted as 'it was a catastrophe wrapped in a trainwreck' or thereabouts.  LOTS more jams, of really amazing quality. More drinking. Sitting on the front lawn around 1 am with Adrian, Pat, Steve (our scottish Mel Gibson lookalike), and others, under brilliant stars, drinking and relaxing and joking... Thursday was slower - the gear was packed up and shipped to Bearsville Theater for the evening's concert, so there was a long talk session in the barn, more bass/stick sessions, and eventually we wore the afternoon down, got on the road to the concert, and were entertained with almost 3 hours of music - Stick Men, Adrian Belew Power Trio, and then a Crimson set as an encore. Back to camp, then this year people remembered to bring booze, so we set up a campfire/bonfire, and talked and drank and smoked and drank and laughed. I'd brought two bottles of Absolut Citron this year after being the only one who had booze left the last night of camp LAST year. We made it to around 4 am before the wood ran out, but Pat and Adrian stayed up with us til about the end - Pat finally wandered off in search of water in the dark, and Marco and I walked back to the building we both had rooms in. Friday morning was breakfast (odd most people showed up later on), then a big photo session on the lawn, then wandering off slowly to cars and buses. You can go for about $1000 if you camp, a shared double isn't much more. It's insane amounts of fun. Adrian tells great stories about Zappa and Crimson and Bowie and Talking Heads and other stuff. After the concert he was electric with excitement - it's amazing to see how much a guy like him still feeds off the fun of playing. There's a ton of pics and videos about. It was a gas, and I hope they keep doing it.
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Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited Part II. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtx_N7fjk8 Featuring Steven Wilson, Mikael Åkerfeldt and more. I wasn't really impressed with the first one, but I'll still get this because I'm a shameless Genesis and Steven Wilson fan. The small teasers in the video make it sound more like new recordings of the old songs, rather then the "re-imagenings" on part 1.
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After almost 20 years Anglagard has finally released a new album, Viljans Öga. Anyone got a hold of it yet? I'm sorely tempted.
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Steven Wilson posted:Another quick reminder about this Thursday's world premiere of my new concert film 'Get All You Deserve', directed by Lasse Hoile. Following the screening there will be a Q&A where I'll do my best to answer any questions you may have about the film and the tour. Tickets are available from the Prince Charles Cinema website (link below) - a few special friends are in town and will also be attending. The film will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on 24th September. Later this month I will be in Los Angeles starting the recording of the follow up to Grace for Drowning, this time with my live band, which now includes latest addition, guitarist extraordinaire Guthrie Govan. The legendary Alan Parsons will be overseeing the recording process, and Lasse will also be there to film us at work on the album - we'll be bringing you exclusive video footage via the official Steven Wilson YouTube channel once things are underway.
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I'm curious to see how this Steven Wilson shred guitar album pans out.
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I had the privilege of listening to the upcoming Epicloud by Devin Townsend. Maybe I didn't listen to it enough times, but I'm pretty disappointed. Deconstruction was great and funny, but Epicloud looks just dumb. http://youtu.be/9qNlDAU5Y5A (probably the best track, though.)
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teen bear posted:Did anyone see the mini-KC tour with Dream Theater this summer? How was it? From a while back but I just saw this post. I saw them in LA, it was rather underwhelming, but it was mainly because their sound and mix was awful. The bass completely overwhelmed everything else, couldn't make out any other parts aside from drums. Seemed like they were having a blast though, Portnoy came out for a song and so did Danny Carey from Tool for some reason.
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DukAmok posted:From a while back but I just saw this post. I saw them in LA, it was rather underwhelming, but it was mainly because their sound and mix was awful. The bass completely overwhelmed everything else, couldn't make out any other parts aside from drums. Seemed like they were having a blast though, Portnoy came out for a song and so did Danny Carey from Tool for some reason. Yeah they had a blast, there were shows they didn't get much chance for a sound check; the tour was talked about at some length at camp. There were some great shows, and some 'meh' shows - one in a casino in Atlantic City at the end was apparently really poorly attended. Plus Tool and KC toured together in 2001.
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DukAmok posted:From a while back but I just saw this post. I saw them in LA, it was rather underwhelming, but it was mainly because their sound and mix was awful. The bass completely overwhelmed everything else, couldn't make out any other parts aside from drums. Seemed like they were having a blast though, Portnoy came out for a song and so did Danny Carey from Tool for some reason. Wait, what? Portnoy was at a recent DT show? How was that not news?
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Nenuphar posted:I had the privilege of listening to the upcoming Epicloud by Devin Townsend. Maybe I didn't listen to it enough times, but I'm pretty disappointed. Deconstruction was great and funny, but Epicloud looks just dumb. Listening to the album right now, and I'm not seeing it. Although I was incredibly disappointed by Deconstruction at first because of how much he built it up and how drat good Sumeria was. This isn't bad at all! Edit: Finished the album. It's a bit shorter than normal Devy fare but other than that it's pretty good. If you liked Addicted you're going to like this. The final song "Angel" and "Save Our Now" are my favorites. iamathousandapples fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Sep 7, 2012 |
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Rollersnake posted:Danny Carey played on Adrian Belew's album Side One, so there is some history other than KC and Tool touring together. What should have been the greatest power trio in rock history - Belew, Carey, Les Claypool - was a little underwhelming, in my opinion. I would've liked to hear more from them, but at the same time, the couple of tracks of Side One didn't blow me over.
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WaffleStomp posted:Wait, what? Portnoy was at a recent DT show? How was that not news?  Force of habit. I meant Mangini.
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BigFactory posted:What should have been the greatest power trio in rock history - Belew, Carey, Les Claypool - was a little underwhelming, in my opinion. I would've liked to hear more from them, but at the same time, the couple of tracks of Side One didn't blow me over. Any band that has Les Claypool is going to sound like other dudes AND Les Claypool, rather than Les trying to blend into the group. I feel kinda the same way about Adrian sometimes but he has the musicality to rope it back and still do his thing in a group setting (EG when he was touring with Talking Heads)
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The mention of Adrian Belew reminds me of my favourite prog video, a live version of Thela Hun Ginjeet he did when he was in King Crimson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1dJ-z6rJd8 I like it way better than the album version.
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Seventh Arrow posted:The mention of Adrian Belew reminds me of my favourite prog video, a live version of Thela Hun Ginjeet he did when he was in King Crimson: One afternoon in camp I was sitting next to Frazza and he played me the plain audio from AB's trek about London, sans music you can hear the traffic noises and AB saying 'this is a dangerous place.... he had a gun in his hand' etc. Was oddly cool as hell.
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It would be neat if he released that tape. I've always been curious about it. That said, I've grown so tired of the monologue in Thela Hun Ginjeet from repeated listens that I can hardly bring myself to listen to the song anymore.
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BjornOfBorg posted:So Beardfish have a new album out (The Void) and it's pretty cool. I'm still really trying to get into it and it doesn't convince me quite as much as most of their older stuff on first listen. They seem to have gone more to the heavier end of the spectrum. But check it out! This album needs more love, It's my album of the year so far and I can't stop listening to it.
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Rollersnake posted:It would be neat if he released that tape. I've always been curious about it. Imagine sitting in a class of twenty guitarists all learning how to play 'Frame by Frame' from Adrian for an hour and a half. Then imagine how tired you can get of a song. ;-) e: same for TOAPP
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a medical mystery posted:After almost 20 years Anglagard has finally released a new album, Viljans Öga. Anyone got a hold of it yet? I'm sorely tempted. I got the signed CD and the limited LP version. If you like Änglagård you'll probably like this one. The reviews have been overwhelmingly positive.
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