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Hawklad posted:No discussion of the new Steven Wilson? Just got it in the mail last week, still digesting it. I loved the new album but it took maybe 4 listens before it "clicked." Then I listened nonstop for a few weeks so now I have to give it a break.
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Hawklad posted:No discussion of the new Steven Wilson? Just got it in the mail last week, still digesting it.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I listened to it once the week it came out and never felt the desire to listen to it again. same. Funnily enough I had a dream last night that involved me coming to like it. If only
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Apr 14, 2015 02:14
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Listen to it again; it is literally an album that grew on me after a few listenings to the point I quite like some of it now, whereas I didn't first time through.
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Apr 14, 2015 02:51
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Yeah, definitely give it multiple listens. You'll find more to like about it with each time through. I had it rocking in my car for a few weeks and the only real bummer of a song is track 4, which Is the only track I couldn't get into. The spoken word thing is really dumb in this instance. But HCE as a whole is his best since Insurgentes. Guthrie and Marco really tore it up on this album, and that female vocalist was fantastic! Insurgentes is still his best solo album by a fair margin, but HCE reaffirmed my faith in Steven as a solo artist. RTRTS was pretty great, but with only six tracks, there wasn't much too it. I found GFD to be pretty lame. There were some cool riffs, but a lot of the songs just seemed to go nowhere, and the jazzy solos went on for far too long. A fair number of those songs seemed to never have graduated from the demo stage (as far as songwriting/arranging are concerned). But the production on every one of his albums has been stellar. Prog Doctor fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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Apr 14, 2015 04:04
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Prog Doctor posted:Yeah, definitely give it multiple listens. You'll find more to like about it with each time through. I had it rocking in my car for a few weeks and the only real bummer of a song is track 4, which Is the only track I couldn't get into. The spoken word thing is really dumb in this instance. But HCE as a whole is his best since Insurgentes. Guthrie and Marco really tore it up on this album, and that female vocalist was fantastic! I agree, RTRTS was great but I wanted more songs. I do love Raider II though, and a couple other songs off GFD, but HCE is great. Perfect life isn't my favorite either but my friend who isn't as into prog loves it. Routine is really amazing.
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Apr 14, 2015 04:15
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Chalk me up as another person who took a couple listens to go from "this is ok" to really liking Hand Cannot Erase.
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Apr 15, 2015 15:44
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I like HCE better than his other stuff now, it definitely grows on you. Home Invasion / Regret #9 is the highlight of the album for me. I really like Guthrie and Marco on their own, but think that Steven pulls out the best from them so I hope they continue working together.
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Apr 17, 2015 15:40
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Got Gavin's new 're-imagining' of several PT songs in a 'big brass' sound on CD/DVD and vinyl today. Not liking it. vvvv go listen to his video of Hatesong/Halo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9PCreC7Lfk Rust Martialis fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Apr 18, 2015 |
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Apr 17, 2015 22:17
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why not? i've been curious about that album
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Apr 17, 2015 23:56
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I've been listening to it almost non-stop since Tuesday. I love it! And while, technically, most of what Gavin plays isn't really jazz drums - it's a lot like listening to late 60s/early 70s Don Ellis albums, and also a bit like Grand Wazoo.
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Apr 18, 2015 04:11
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 It's been said before, but Wolflight is the best album cover.
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Apr 20, 2015 15:05
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Apr 28, 2015 01:58
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Crimson announced a ten show tour of Canada for November. Quebec, montreal, toronto, calgary, vancouver.
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May 20, 2015 02:04
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I have always wondered why King Crimson has been so strict with it's discography showings. Not a single Court of Crimson King video to be seen on youtube. Also has there been any sort of resurgence in this really tasteful genre?
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May 20, 2015 05:58
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Chris Squire has a rare form of leukemia Yes will still tour with Billy Sherwood on bass.
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Grouchio posted:I have always wondered why King Crimson has been so strict with it's discography showings. Not a single Court of Crimson King video to be seen on youtube. Robert.
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Rust Martialis posted:Crimson announced a ten show tour of Canada for November. Quebec, montreal, toronto, calgary, vancouver. Apparently tickets don't go on sale until Friday. Where did goons get their US tour tickets? They don't seem to have an official website, so I assume maybe through ticketmaster...?
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May 21, 2015 06:33
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Marklar posted:Chris Squire has a rare form of leukemia and John Wetton posted on his twitter he just went in for two unknown-yet-important surgeries. Bad times for prog bassists.
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Seventh Arrow posted:Apparently tickets don't go on sale until Friday. Where did goons get their US tour tickets? They don't seem to have an official website, so I assume maybe through ticketmaster...? Presale code for Toronto is ELEMENTS. Don't sit in the front rowes if they repeat the 'drummers in front' unless you like admiring drum kits to the exclusion of seeing Fripp and the back row.
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May 21, 2015 21:39
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Rust Martialis posted:Presale code for Toronto is ELEMENTS. Don't sit in the front rowes if they repeat the 'drummers in front' unless you like admiring drum kits to the exclusion of seeing Fripp and the back row. Yeah, I see that the presale has ended - thanks anyways! I'll just check it out at 10:00 and hopefully all the seats don't sell out too quick.
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May 22, 2015 06:42
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May 22, 2015 15:36
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is this how people dance at king crimson concerts these days
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May 22, 2015 20:35
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Grouchio posted:Also has there been any sort of resurgence in this really tasteful genre? I think the genre is less frowned upon now (even pitchfork gave a reissue of Close to the Edge 9/10 a while back) but I don't think the golden age of prog sound is going to come back like post-punk did anytime soon. Though the way I see it 70s prog was a specific style from a specific time but progressive rock lives on in any band that pushes the envelope. Rehashing marrying Romantic composers to rock ad nauseum isn't, well, progressive.
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May 23, 2015 05:15
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Leprous' new album has a few great tracks. I've only given the album a few listen, but this is the track that stood out the most: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk8pDqW-dI4
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May 23, 2015 14:13
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I'm listening to the weird album Terry Bozzio and Billy Sheehan did together, so I just looked up Bozzio and found out that he played drums on a KoRn album. I need somewhere to express my disbelief and confusion.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I'm listening to the weird album Terry Bozzio and Billy Sheehan did together, so I just looked up Bozzio and found out that he played drums on a KoRn album. I need somewhere to express my disbelief and confusion.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I'm listening to the weird album Terry Bozzio and Billy Sheehan did together, so I just looked up Bozzio and found out that he played drums on a KoRn album. I need somewhere to express my disbelief and confusion. I will use any excuse to post this. The guy playing drums is Bozzio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d1lQxreiFQ
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Grouchio posted:Also has there been any sort of resurgence in this really tasteful genre? Not sure if they've been discussed in this thread yet, but I've really been enjoying Flying Colors. They're somewhat of a "supergroup" including Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Steve Morse (occasional guitar player for Deep Purple and Kansas) and some other guys I don't know much about. Their second album ("Second Nature ") is especially good. It strikes just the right balance between showoffy prog noodling and straightforward, almost hair-metal-ish bombast. They use tricky tempos and chord changes where it counts, but not at the expense of good, solid, memorable songwriting. It's definitely the freshest thing to come out of the Morse/Portnoy camp in the last decade or so. (The first album is good too, but has more weak points where they seemed to hold back a little too much from progging out.) I think it's on all the streaming services if you want to listen.
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Flying Colors is a fantastic band. I was hooked from the moment I heard "Blue Ocean," but their latest album is great too - "Mask Machine" was a good choice for a single. I hope I get to see them live. The only other supergroup I've ever really been interested in is Them Crooked Vultures and it really doesn't look like they're going to do anything again. Interesting trivia: Steve and Neal Morse are not, in fact, related.
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Chocobo posted:Leprous' new album has a few great tracks. I've only given the album a few listen, but this is the track that stood out the most: I'm really digging the new album. It's a nice departure from their other stuff and everything about it is really impressive. I think Moon is my favourite track at the moment.
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Seventh Arrow posted:"Mask Machine" was a good choice for a single. It also holds the title of best Muse song in years, even though it's not by Muse.
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The Steven Wilson gig in LA on June 13 will be live streamed on Yahoo: https://screen.yahoo.com/live/event/steven-wilson
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Iucounu posted:The Steven Wilson gig in LA on June 13 will be live streamed on Yahoo: Ill be there!!  Really looking forward to this show. The reviews have been really good. Wilson is such a perfectionist. He apologizes for using a taped recording of Katherine Jenkins on "Perfect Life".
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After Amazon dropped the ball hard, I finally have my copy of "Live At The Orpheum" on vinyl.
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Chocobo posted:Leprous' new album has a few great tracks. I've only given the album a few listen, but this is the track that stood out the most: Thanks for the recommendation, I'm enjoying it a lot. Triumphant is probably the track I'm listening to most at this point. I hadn't listened to Leprous at all before now. The drummer and vocalist are both really good.
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So I caught the Steven Wilson gig in Mesa yesterday. It was by far the best show I've ever seen. If you get a chance to catch the tour you really should, it was incredible.
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Last day of Guitar Circle 2015 camp here in rural Hope NJ with Robert Fripp directing. We leave tomorrow AM and I'll put a trip report together about camp, playing guitar the first time ever with RF standing telling me what to play, some views expressed here, etc.
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Iucounu posted:The Steven Wilson gig in LA on June 13 will be live streamed on Yahoo: This is starting now, just a reminder
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Fantastic!! Unfortunately, due to time zones not working in my favor, I can't stay awake for the full thing. But this band is great! Who are the new drummer and guitarist? What happened to Marco and Guthrie?
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