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Posted: October 22 2014 at 10:15
^Absolutely true! Beck is one of the true "better seen live" performers that I've had the pleasure to witness in a small venue. I've had a quick chat with him about his early albums and he seems really sincere and humble, too.
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Posted: October 22 2014 at 08:57
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^Awesome! Time to start digging out my Beck collection. Thanks Doc.
You are welcome....saw Beck in 1974-75 (?) in Chicago with BOC opening up for him. Then around 2000 also with Santana on the same ticket. Always fun to watch him play his guitar.
I used to listen to a good deal of Traffic, Neil Young , Steely Dan, Nick Drake, BOC, among many others.
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Posted: October 20 2014 at 13:30
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Dire Straits, yes, take this Private Investigations piece as a nice example. When it comes to personal tastes, I actually love their whole On Every Street album. Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, perhaps? ABBA (geniuses!), Brothers Gibb sometimes, Faith No More (great band's name, innit), bits from Pet Shop Boys (surely West End Girls, but how about This Couldn't Happen Here too? Lovely, moody piece). Queen (purely progressive, symphonic Innuendo), Deep Purple (Child in Time, Perfect Stranger - sweet), Led Zeppelin (Kashmir, no need to say more) - they all might already be considered quite proggy, so maybe there is not even any need to mention them here. Pretenders. The Pretenders. Chemical Brothers, Prince by all means, why not The Smiths? Public Service Broadcasting, Goldfrapp.. It feels sometimes you may find progressive reminiscences nearly everywhere.
Great list Darious. No doubt a lot of our tastes run toward more proggy material, but it would not surprise me if some early rap groups are going to be mentioned also.
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Posted: October 20 2014 at 09:33
^No doubt the Doors were great but they are listed as Proto prog in PA, so people like me might be giving them a pass and going on to other nonlisted groups.
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Posted: October 20 2014 at 07:28
^Why no one have mentioned The Doors? What an impressive style they had! Impressed also with some Jim Morrison's live performances that I watched some times. 'Strange Days' and 'When The Music Is Over' are amongst my favourites, btw I think 'Strange Days' could have fit perfectly as one of the soundtracks of that stunning film 'Pulp Fiction' , even better than that other famous track I knew when watched this film but don't recall its name.
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Posted: October 20 2014 at 03:46
Dire Straits, yes, take this Private Investigations piece as a nice example. When it comes to personal tastes, I actually love their whole On Every Street album. Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, perhaps? ABBA (geniuses!), Brothers Gibb sometimes, Faith No More (great band's name, innit), bits from Pet Shop Boys (surely West End Girls, but how about This Couldn't Happen Here too? Lovely, moody piece). Queen (purely progressive, symphonic Innuendo), Deep Purple (Child in Time, Perfect Stranger - sweet), Led Zeppelin (Kashmir, no need to say more) - they all might already be considered quite proggy, so maybe there is not even any need to mention them here. Pretenders. The Pretenders. Chemical Brothers, Prince by all means, why not The Smiths? Public Service Broadcasting, Goldfrapp.. It feels sometimes you may find progressive reminiscences nearly everywhere.
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Posted: October 19 2014 at 17:29
The earliest music I truly enjoy is the Beatles. I've heard some old blues stuff that's pretty neat too, but I've never really connected with the blues in the same way. Orchestral ("classical") composers likewise occasionally push my pleasure buttons, but I RARELY look to them for real entertainment.
I honestly think there is more great music coming out today than ever before - not prog-wise, but in more experimental forms of pop and rock. Not because people are magically more creative now than they were before, but because so many more people have access to the means to produce their own music. Even I have 2 albums publicly released, and I'm a nobody. Enough people like me around and some of them are bound to be great.
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Posted: October 19 2014 at 16:23
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SteveG wrote:
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I like a lot of early symphony recordings made by the older giants of conducting done in the 1930s-1950s. There are several dozen conductors from that era that I collect.
Wonderful to hear people enjoying classical! Who is your favorite composer PD?
Anton Bruckner
Yes Bruckner is amazing. After seeing the movie Amadeus in 1984, I became enchanted with the Classics and started listening to composers alphabetically starting with Bach. I borrowed many Symphonic works from my library, some were the same symphonies but the quality of the music varied drastically. That's when I realized how important the conductor is regardless of how good the orchestra is. It's been a 30 year learning experience for me as I'm now up to Tchaikowsky!
Hey, cool, Steve! For me, as well, it was after seeing the movie Amadeus that I became enchanted with the Classics-I saw Amadeus in the spring of 1985.
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Posted: October 19 2014 at 13:38
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SteveG wrote:
presdoug wrote:
I like a lot of early symphony recordings made by the older giants of conducting done in the 1930s-1950s. There are several dozen conductors from that era that I collect.
Wonderful to hear people enjoying classical! Who is your favorite composer PD?
Anton Bruckner
Yes Bruckner is amazing. After seeing the movie Amadeus in 1984, I became enchanted with the Classics and started listening to composers alphabetically starting with Bach. I borrowed many Symphonic works from my library, some were the same symphonies but the quality of the music varied drastically. That's when I realized how important the conductor is regardless of how good the orchestra is. It's been a 30 year learning experience for me as I'm now up to Tchaikowsky!
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Posted: October 19 2014 at 13:34
^ ohhh yea forgot about the Brother's Johnson.....Most of this stuff I had on cassette not vinyl so its in boxes somewhere in storage. I really need to focus on this genre at the used record bins....
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Posted: October 19 2014 at 13:23
[QUOTE=Catcher10]I grew up initially with R&B, Funk and some Soul.....
Earth Wind & Fire, Parliament/Funkadelic, Isley Bros, Tower of Power...stuff like that. That music will always be a part of me.
Early rap (the best rap!) Curtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5, Sugarhill Gang but once stuff like Beastie Boys and Run DMC came out I bailed....it was back to metal/prog/hard rock.
And dabbled in some R&B Disco styles too, like Heatwave, Chic, Lakeside, Sun, Gap Band.....stuff that got played heavy in HS dances and eventually nightclub scene.
[/QUOTE Jose, great collection of classic funk and R&B! TOP is probably my favorite.
And I still play a Brothers Johnson disc in my car that was copied from a cassette tape!
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