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Sir Lemming posted:This is from the new Flying Colors that came out last week and it is Toto AF I liked the first album but the second was a dud for me so I am fine with this. It really is just a tighter debut.
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Kevin Palpatine posted:exercising to prog, lol. don't trip over your feet when it switches to 7/8 Prog is perfect for exercise. 3 songs and your hour workout is done.
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Kevin Palpatine posted:exercising to prog, lol. don't trip over your feet when it switches to 7/8 Lol- I was hoping to use the new Alcest but it was a touch too short at 42 minutes. Leprous came in just long enough for run and cool down. Really good btw Edit- Alcest woulda been great though. Running through a foggy cemetery as dawn break to that would’ve been super cool
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Bench Pressing to the Dance Of Eternity is how I ended up with one extremely swole arm and one arm microscopically thin
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Just got the Zonder Wehrkamp album and it's... Kind of disappointing. It lacks the more upbeat and riff-driven parts that ground and give direction to Fates Warning and Shadow Gallery albums. This leaves me cold.
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tote up a bags posted:Bench Pressing to the Dance Of Eternity is how I ended up with one extremely swole arm and one arm microscopically thin Is that what you tell people?
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XBenedict posted:*opens wallet, empties all monies* My friend Markus is playing touch guitar on this Devin Townsend tour, he says the band is amazing. Here next month so will give review
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I'm seeing Devin and Haken in Cardiff at the beginning of December, very excited. I bought the tickets before finding out Haken were supporting and it made me twice as excited.
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Rust Martialis posted:My friend Markus is playing touch guitar on this Devin Townsend tour, he says the band is amazing. Here next month so will give review Aw you're good friends with Markus? He has an amazing discography himself. Always glad to see touch guitar get more exposure so hopefully more info and decent prices can happen haha. Maybe I'll buy a touch guitar when I finish my Ph.D.
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New Flower Kings did you say? It’s a bit poppier than I like, but I’ll hope that the rest of the album is better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTG_poL6WVM
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Well, this certainly is something: Thank You Scientist - Party All the Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EJ4uakszWc Also probably going to Prognosis festival in The Netherlands next year Some highlights: KATATONIA ANATHEMA LONG DISTANCE CALLING SONS OF APOLLO
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It's the 45th anniversary of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway today! I somehow never get tired of this album despite it being my most listened to of Genesis' discog. Part of me wishes they had made more like it but it's the perfect capstone for the end of the Peter Gabriel era. iirc Tony Banks was not a big fan of this album, but it's some of his strongest work. I love every rapidfire synth and organ solo.
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Turambar posted:Well, this certainly is something: Hot drat I need to try and align a business trip with this and go - don't sleep on Bruce Soord (of The Pineapple Thief), I saw him last year and he was pretty great. Voyager's new album is also pretty good (their Leprous / Haken / Caligula's Horse influences got a bit too strong but still solid) and Enslaved put on a good show too.
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Sourdough Sam posted:It's the 45th anniversary of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway today! I somehow never get tired of this album despite it being my most listened to of Genesis' discog. Part of me wishes they had made more like it but it's the perfect capstone for the end of the Peter Gabriel era. Like most double albums, it really needed to be edited down to two or three sides, imo.
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hexwren posted:Like most double albums, it really needed to be edited down to two or three sides, imo. That's true. There are a handful of songs I have no problem skipping every time. "Counting Out Time" being the repeat offender. Even certain songs that I like don't need to be as long as they are. The first and last 20 minutes of the album are my go-to.
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Sourdough Sam posted:There are a handful of songs I have no problem skipping every time. "Counting Out Time" being the repeat offender (is that song actually autobiographical because I don't want to Google it and spoil the hope that it is)
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Seeing Devin Townsend and Haken tonight, my first big gig in decades. Hoping I don't get too much off the albums between Ghost and Empath (which was a massive return to form IMO), but I'm sure I'll enjoy it whatever they play. Haken can play anything, I don't think they've put out a sub par album yet.
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il_cornuto posted:Seeing Devin Townsend and Haken tonight, my first big gig in decades. Hoping I don't get too much off the albums between Ghost and Empath (which was a massive return to form IMO), but I'm sure I'll enjoy it whatever they play. Haken can play anything, I don't think they've put out a sub par album yet. If you hang around and Markus comes out, tell him "hi from Copenhagen". Enjoy the Hawaiian shirts
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I've been checking out more prog and was really surprised with Peter Gabriel's Up. The creativity and ambition of that album make it a classic in my eyes. After that I checked out Bittersweet from David Rhodes (a guitarist who frequently worked with Gabriel) and that is a pretty solid album. It's definitely a guitarist's prog album but I mean that in a good way. Good guitar up and down the record. By the way has anyone checked out that grand Odyssey: The Greatest Tale album? I gave it a skim but wasn't feeling it. I just think it's impressive that a handful of prog bands came together and made a nearly four hour album.
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DoubleCakes posted:By the way has anyone checked out that grand Odyssey: The Greatest Tale album? I gave it a skim but wasn't feeling it. I just think it's impressive that a handful of prog bands came together and made a nearly four hour album. I praise the idea, but the band lineup was pretty average. Edit: If you want a better example of this kind of thing, I would recommend trying to find "Peter and the Wolf", a prog collaboration featuring the likes of Phil Collins, Bill Bruford, Manfred Mann, Stephane loving Grapelli, Garry Moore, Andy Pyle, Brian Eno, just to name a few. If you can find a copy, it's a great add to any collection.  Edit 2: Someone was kind enough to put it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTsbzf7uQDs XBenedict fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Dec 5, 2019 |
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Something I really like which I've pretty much only seen prog bands do is release re-imagined versions of their material. This year I got really into OSI and have been listening to their first 3 albums a lot, and I just figured out that they have an EP called Re: Free which takes 3 songs from Free and just completely re-writes them as if they were new songs. I was really happy to find that out. I've also listened extensively in the past to Cynic's Re-Traced which does the same with songs from Traced in Air and Tesseract's Perspective, an acoustic-with-drums rendition of One. Any other bands/albums I should check in that vein? I guess a comedy option would be Futile Bread Machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4EH52v7tVI
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Although I’m not a big fan of the concept, I have to admit that Pain of Salvations newest version of Stress is pretty awesome. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xBTNe73KhG8
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Acquired the Gentle Giant "Unburied Treasure" boxed set which comes with all the studio albums and an absurd number of live recordings (admittedly a chunk of which are based off audience recordings, but still) and a really nice selection of extras. (Particularly exciting: you get the full tapes from the four concerts which fed into the Playing the Fool live album, so there's that.)
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Is there a good amount of live material from Interview in listenable quality then? Edit: Durr, missed the tracklisting. A few performances of Interview and Timing, at least. I'm interested in that Power and the Glory-era performance of Mister Class and Quality? though. One of the weakest tracks on Three Friends, but still, I didn't know they'd performed it live at all. Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Dec 8, 2019 |
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Having rearranged the CDs in my box to go in chronological of recording, I'd say that the bulk of the live material spans the period from Octopus to post-Interview (so 1972 to 1976). Naturally, the early days of the band are quite sparsely represented (though the 1971 gig is supposed to be in quite good audio quality at least), and then things seem to tail off very suddenly once you hit 1977, with only two live concerts (three if you include the Pinewood rehearsals) from that period in the set. Which is a little sad but doesn't seem entirely unfair given that the band seemed to be on the wane at that point. As far as specifically Interview-era stuff, like I said you get both Playing the Fool in its original configuration and the complete tapes (such as they are) from each show. (Don't be fooled by Breakdown In Brussels not being listed on the live Brussels tape - that was apparently midway through Timing, when they had a power outage which killed the non-acoustic instruments; all the tracks which are on Playing the Fool also appears on the disc for the original concerts in their original contexts, which is pretty sweet.) Plus there's the Pinewood rehearsals, which I guess also count as Interview-era.
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Well, I said I'd post when news broke, but here you go, Introduction to Guitar Circle is open for registration. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3156737331008942&id=100000181177250 https://robertfrippsguitarcircle.com/ I was hoping to attend but am highly ambivalent at best now.
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Rust Martialis posted:I was hoping to attend but am highly ambivalent at best now. Why's that? Is something different this year?
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teen bear posted:Why's that? Is something different this year? I know the people running it, they're really wonderful Crafties, and they were in it, many of them, from almost if not Day 1. I joined Guitar Craft very very late, but the aspect of GC I enjoyed the most was the fact the courses were self-staffed. You went, and you did everything from playing music to cooking and serving the food to cleaning the place, it was 'everyone shares the work' in a soft of Gurdjieffian/Bennett sense of The Work is important. In the early days, there weren't beds or always hot water (well before my day). You were part of the team, and your contribution was just as important as the music. No food = no music! Also, for those from less affluent countries there were discounts for the course, so there were always a lot of people from Mexico, Argentina, or Chile even in the US courses. It was affordable to actual musicians. It was a big extended family. This is something else. I might still go, but I currently lack an Aim. Aim is important. Sorry for the pseudo-Crafty crap. It will be an amazing opportunity to see things up close, hear from Robert, etc. He's a truly wonderful, kind man, and it has been a privilege to know him even tangentially.
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Sir Lemming posted:This is from the new Flying Colors that came out last week and it is Toto AF I caught Flying Colors on their recent tour, and they were incredible! I think their new album encompasses a wider variety of genres than their previous two, and I have more appreciation for it after hearing it performed live. Casey McPherson told a great story about how his experiences rescuing people trapped by the flood in Atlanta inspired You Are Not Alone. I discovered Flying Colors and some other great prog bands through listening to Spock's Beard from a recommendation on this forum maybe 15 years ago. I immediately bought Snow after reading that it was similar to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. My Dad was always a fan of 70s prog and Snow convinced him that the genre wasn't dead, and we've been prog gig buddies ever since!
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I saw a post on a prog FB group about what he thought were the best albums of the year. I have no idea how good or bad they are but it gives me lots to listen to!quote:Here is my take on the best Prog albums of 2019
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Seventh Arrow posted:I saw a post on a prog FB group about what he thought were the best albums of the year. I have no idea how good or bad they are but it gives me lots to listen to! Lots of good bands on that list! I can recommend those two new Neal Morse albums. Plus Similitude of a Dream, which is a sequel to The Great Adventure (both double albums, good old prog eh?) I find The Prog Report podcast and MOROW radio helpful for discovering new music.
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Seventh Arrow posted:I saw a post on a prog FB group about what he thought were the best albums of the year. I have no idea how good or bad they are but it gives me lots to listen to! The Flower Kings album was fantastic, but the Big Big Train album was probably the best of the lot. I can confirm that the Eloy is fantastic as well. DOT is the best DT album in years, and Steve Hackett is the King. The Yes album is pretty good, but nowhere near that good.
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What prog gigs are y’all excited for in 2020? This is what I have so far: IQ - I actually haven’t yet heard their new album, but if it’s as dark and weird as the rest of their stuff I’m sure it’ll be great. The Watch - If you’re a Genesis fan and haven’t heard of this band, go listen to them right now and get yourself to one of their gigs if you can. They often do shows that consist of full Genesis albums/tours and their original stuff is seriously underrated. Jethro Tull - I’ve seen them/Ian Anderson several times and it’s always a good show. I have my favourites but I literally don’t care what they play from their back catalogue as it’s all good.
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I gave Mystery another shot but still didn't like them. Chalk them up as a prog band I won't ever get into. My latest sortie was The World Is A Game which had some cool bits but was mostly a bore. Ah well! I also checked out The Flower Kings' Desolation Rose which I didn't like much either but Sleeping Bones was a killer track. In good prog news I listened to The Death Defying Unicorn from Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken and that's one of the most impressive prog releases I ever heard. It's very ambitious but competent enough to reach those ambitions. I was already familiar with Zs going into their early work. Now they're more of an experimental rock, noise rock, avant-jazz band but their 2007 album Arms is probably their proggiest and out of all their early material (pre-New Slaves) that album does the most for me. I don't know what exactly about Zs makes their style of brutal prog so palatable but they're really doing it for me.
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