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John Wetton just got married, still fighting off cancer and sepsis. Best wishes to both of them, John's looking a bit rough. :/ https://twitter.com/arkangel2605/status/803988408855130113
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Dec 2, 2016 22:01
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jesus, poor guy. i didn't know he was sick
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what's everybody's favorite asia track? mine's rock and roll dream or holy war or alibis. drat good band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3jqCh2lT-c
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zh1 posted:what's everybody's favorite asia track? mine's rock and roll dream or holy war or alibis. drat good band
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Early stuff, probably One Step Closer, later stuff, probably Parallel Worlds. But that first record is basically impeccable.
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Dec 6, 2016 00:16
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You framed an Asia poster?
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I have the record with heat of the moment on it. Is that a good one? I don't think I've listened to it besides that song.
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BigFactory posted:I have the record with heat of the moment on it. Is that a good one? I don't think I've listened to it besides that song. Yeah, that's the first one. Heat of the Moment is super-representative of the rest of it. Like, don't expect a free-form journey to outer space, it's a record of four prog guys writing verse-chorus-verse pop tunes with occasionally overblown lyrics. But I love it anyway.
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Dec 6, 2016 12:42
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Welp, Greg Lake passed away.
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poo poo, that's a bummer.
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RIP guy that Kanye sampled, making nerds everywhere extremely mad online. But seriously, ELP were great and, while Lake era KC is actually nowhere near my favorite, he was their best singer. And his vocals on Schizoid Man are one of many reasons why it's one of my favorite songs ever--to say nothing of his fantastic bass playing.
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well on the positive side if you believe in ~Heaven~ the original members of Emerson Lake and Powell are all jamming out there now
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Earwicker posted:well on the positive side if you believe in ~Heaven~ the original members of Emerson Lake and Powell are all jamming out there now Carl Palmer's going to lock himself away for the next few weeks to see if he can sit out what's left of 2016.
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JAMOOOL posted:everything about that album is all wrong and that's why I love it Yeah, Lizard may be my favorite King Crimson album. I remember hating it when I first heard it but it grew on me quickly.
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Henchman of Santa posted:RIP guy that Kanye sampled, making nerds everywhere extremely mad online. Came in here to see what you guys were saying about Greg Lake. What a lovely year it's been. I was hoping that maybe he'd do a reunion with KC at some point now that Fripp has finally gone nostalgic, but I guess that will never happen.
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TheChaosPath posted:You framed an Asia poster? It's funny because I have framed Roger Dean album cover posters (Yes, ABWH and Steve Howe) in my apartment and when that movie came out my friends immediately started making fun of me.
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I didn't even realize that was supposed to be a reference, I just assumed I missed a post somewhere. I've been bummed about Lake, of course. His solo side of Works v. 1 is possibly one of my favorite album sides ever, just this over-the-top orchestral pop with super-proggy lyrics. Oddly enough, there was a brief period where Wetton was out of Asia where Lake fronted them, tying the strings on the two previous conversation threads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H65D4u6zIiY
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Allen Wren posted:I didn't even realize that was supposed to be a reference, I just assumed I missed a post somewhere. I had just stumbled across this video the other day looking at old Greg Lake stuff and I was kind of taken aback by Downes' extremely ridiculous setup here, he's got what 8 keyboards all in a row, all of them facing away from the audience and the rest of the band so that he has to constantly run between them and also always be twisted around so he can see what everyone else is doing... why?
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Wasn't Emerson's keyboard setup completely ridiculous too? Or was that just the size of the drat thing?
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X_Toad posted:Wasn't Emerson's keyboard setup completely ridiculous too? Or was that just the size of the drat thing? The monster moog https://youtu.be/NpgS9prNZT4
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X_Toad posted:Wasn't Emerson's keyboard setup completely ridiculous too? Or was that just the size of the drat thing? But Downes rig is consistently facing away from the audience, which just seems... rude? And this is coming from someone who defended Fripp when he was deilluminated onstage in 2003
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Noise Machine posted:But Downes rig is consistently facing away from the audience, which just seems... rude? also weird to be facing away from his bandmates, it's just a really bizarre configuration Emeron's Moog setup is just large but his actual stage setup is pretty normal for a keyboardist using that many keyboards. that Asia set is the only time I've seen them lined up along the top of the stage like that, like they're out for a garage sale or something
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this is so great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vFw1b-oI4w
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I think the thing with Downes' setup there is pure stagecraft - he wants the audience to SEE all these crazy keyboards he's got and to see him running between all of them, and for the audience to go "oh, that sound is that synth," or "oh, hey, there's the minimoog," etc. Also, that may or may not have been his normal touring configuration, this was a TV event, broadcast by satellite to the US and UK. hexwren fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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Allen Wren posted:I've been bummed about Lake, of course. His solo side of Works v. 1 is possibly one of my favorite album sides ever, just this over-the-top orchestral pop with super-proggy lyrics. I love ELP but man, this is absolutely the first time I've ever heard this take
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John Wetton looking a bit better, RF posted a pic of them smiling at camera on FB... so hopefully he's improved.
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is inducting Yes and ELO. The lineup going in for Yes is from Union, which means no Peter Banks. Which sucks, as Banks was so instrumental to helping them get off the ground. Time and a Word has become one of my favorite Yes albums (though Banks hated the orchestra).
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Wheat Loaf posted:Asked in Recommendation Thread but thought I'd ask here as well if that's okay: can anyone recommend me any 1970s style progressive-ish rock on the more jazz/funk/fusion/R&B end of the spectrum? Pretty much anything by Brand X.
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New Pain of Salvation just got released and is really good. I've been turned off from them since BE but the new album slays. It has a lot of their old Remedy Lane-era complexity and heaviness but with more raw grit. Much better than the Road Salt albums which I listened to once and forgot about. I guess Daniel had a near-death experience with a flesh eating bacteria so it's a concept album related to that experience. Have a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_qZpLgvdOI
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Hawklad posted:New Pain of Salvation just got released and is really good. I've been turned off from them since BE but the new album slays. It has a lot of their old Remedy Lane-era complexity and heaviness but with more raw grit. Much better than the Road Salt albums which I listened to once and forgot about. I guess Daniel had a near-death experience with a flesh eating bacteria so it's a concept album related to that experience. Have a video: It's definitely an improvement on the forgettable Road Salt albums, and a big one on Scarsick (not my Perfect Element pt II, Daniel!) A bit more chuggy than I expect from PoS. I loved the guitar and piano riffs on the first 4 albums, the keys are almost invisible on this one when combined with the rest of the band which leaves the production feeling quite stark especially when there's such little melodically going on with the guitars most of the time. There's some BEish reverby piano and classical instrument bits, which are pretty ok. There aresome good PoS rhythms in there, though, which I guess is a trademark. Not a fan of the new second vocalist (Ragnar I think?) but overall it's the best Pain of Salvation since BE (not a high bar, granted) and worth a listen.
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I actually enjoyed both Road Salts and Scarsick, while everything before BE is kind of a forgettable blur of dodgy rhythms to me. Not sure what to expect from this album reading the thread. Reasons sounds reasonably good, and I'll definitely give the rest a listen soon.
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The new PoS is a nice blend of their old and new stuff. But its emotional content is easily on par with anything from their entire catalog. If anything it's even more effective because its themes are things that everybody has to deal with.
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I always assumed that pain of salvation was bad Christian rock like Spock's beard only with dream theater as a major influence instead of genesis or whatever.
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BigFactory posted:I always assumed that pain of salvation was bad Christian rock like Spock's beard only with dream theater as a major influence instead of genesis or whatever. They do have religious or rather spiritual themes in their music, but as far as I know Gildenlöw is not religious himself. And I don't think they are very similar to DT.
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The only album by Pain of Salvation I've been able to get into has been Remedy Lane, but I REALLY like it. Be is okay and I don't mind the philosophy 101 lyrics because I expect that shenanigans with prog, but I think it could've been half as long.BigFactory posted:I always assumed that pain of salvation was bad Christian rock like Spock's beard only with dream theater as a major influence instead of genesis or whatever. Nah, just an unusually Christian sounding band name. I think Europeans aren't as immediately repulsed by religiousy words because they've generally never had the US's (and to a lesser extent UK's?) weird evangelical Christian youth group/music/film culture.
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Paladinus posted:They do have religious or rather spiritual themes in their music, but as far as I know Gildenlöw is not religious himself. And I don't think they are very similar to DT. I think they don't have a high opinion about organized religion in general, Mrs. Modern Mother Mary being an example. The first album, Entropia, is the closest they get to DTs style, but the rest is less... show-offy.
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