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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2015 at 13:57
Originally posted by jacksiedanny jacksiedanny wrote:

With the exception of Sebastian Hardie, why are you all totally neglecting the wealth of 70s bands?

Is there this fricking line you just dont cross????

Let's face it Australia's modern prog scene is streets ahead of anything they had back then
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2015 at 14:06
Very little mention of Cog. Much disappointment. Disapprove
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2015 at 14:07
I love The Church.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2015 at 13:31
I love SUNWRAE, sleepmakeswaves and Karnivool best--though The Church and Tame Impala are also highly enjoyable. Unitopia, too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2015 at 14:20
Ayers Rock
Big Red Rock - 1974
Beyond - 1976
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2015 at 17:15
Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

Ayers Rock
Big Red Rock - 1974
Beyond - 1976

Clap - Beyond in particular is excellent, top quality jazz rock.  

Some of my other Aussie prog favourites include: 
Ariel - A Strange Fantastic Dream (1973) and The Jellabad Mutant recorded in '74 nut not released until 2002
Madder Lake - Stillpoint (1973) and Butterfly Farm (1974)
Sebastian Hardie - Four Moments (1975) and Windchase (1976)
Spectrum - Milesago (1972)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2015 at 17:25
Went to progfest last year in Adelaide. My fave band were  A Lonely Crowd, they're User Hostile cd gets regular playtime in my household.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2015 at 17:50
Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

Ayers Rock
Big Red Rock - 1974
Beyond - 1976

Clap - Beyond in particular is excellent, top quality jazz rock.  

Some of my other Aussie prog favourites include: 
Ariel - A Strange Fantastic Dream (1973) and The Jellabad Mutant recorded in '74 nut not released until 2002
Madder Lake - Stillpoint (1973) and Butterfly Farm (1974)
Sebastian Hardie - Four Moments (1975) and Windchase (1976)
Spectrum - Milesago (1972)
I've heard of a couple of these bands but the only one I have is Sebastian Hardie. I played it recently and it still sounds great.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2015 at 18:02
Dr Wu:
First track on  cd#2 of that comp set , you have:

1. Make You're your Stash [DADDY COOL] (6:04)


Wots this? Some cover band?
"Make Your Stash" is by Spectrum from their "Part One" lp. (I seem to recall that it is done to the tune of Holst Planets.)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2015 at 21:37
It isn't prog - but The Drones' most recent album I See Seaweed is pretty f**king amazing. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2015 at 21:47
Originally posted by jacksiedanny jacksiedanny wrote:

Dr Wu:
First track on  cd#2 of that comp set , you have:

1. Make You're your Stash [DADDY COOL] (6:04)


Wots this? Some cover band?
"Make Your Stash" is by Spectrum from their "Part One" lp. (I seem to recall that it is done to the tune of Holst Planets.)
I think it's a Ross Wilson number (aside from the Planets adaption). He and Mike Rudd were in a short-lived group called Sons of the Vegetal Mother and the song was written around or even before that time. Ross Wilson not long after formed Daddy Cool and Mike Rudd formed Spectrum. Both bands recorded the song around '71.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2015 at 21:50
Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

Ayers Rock
Big Red Rock - 1974
Beyond - 1976

Clap - Beyond in particular is excellent, top quality jazz rock.  

Some of my other Aussie prog favourites include: 
Ariel - A Strange Fantastic Dream (1973) and The Jellabad Mutant recorded in '74 nut not released until 2002
Madder Lake - Stillpoint (1973) and Butterfly Farm (1974)
Sebastian Hardie - Four Moments (1975) and Windchase (1976)
Spectrum - Milesago (1972)
I've heard of a couple of these bands but the only one I have is Sebastian Hardie. I played it recently and it still sounds great.
I recommend 'em all! A Strange Fantastic Dream is probably my favourite Australian album. 

You listen to some really cool stuff BTW
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2015 at 21:55
Impala related band called Pond is fantastic. Their new album is simply stellar.

I also recall a '70's era band called Bakery who had a heavy prog psych masterpiece with Momento.

Oh, and give Gabe's music a try. Great, eclectic avant-prog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2015 at 22:02
Originally posted by jacksiedanny jacksiedanny wrote:

Dr Wu:
First track on  cd#2 of that comp set , you have:

1. Make You're your Stash [DADDY COOL] (6:04)


Wots this? Some cover band?
"Make Your Stash" is by Spectrum from their "Part One" lp. (I seem to recall that it is done to the tune of Holst Planets.)
 
Daddy Cool with Ross Wilson was an offshoot of Spectrum,,,,they both covered that song on their albums.
This was on their second LP, Sex Dope Rock and Roll...Teenage Heaven. And part of the tune was indeed borrowed from the Jupiter section by Holst from the Planets.
 

The central figure in the band was Mike Rudd, a New Zealand-born singer, songwriter and guitarist from Christchurch. Rudd arrived in Australia in 1966 as rhythm guitarist for the NZ group Chants R&B.[2] That band only lasted a short time after they arrived in Australia, but he remained in Melbourne, teaming up with singer/songwriter Ross Wilson and guitarist Ross Hannaford.

Wilson and Hannaford's first band The Pink Finks[3] (which had also just broken up) worked in a similar vein to Chants, and had already had some local chart success in Melbourne. Mike was invited to be the bass player in a later lineup of their next band, The Party Machine (1967–69), which gained local notoriety when copies of their self-published songbook were seized by Melbourne police due to alleged obscene content in the lyrics.[4]

The Party Machine split in 1969, when Ross Wilson spent several months in London after being invited to join expatriate Australian progressive group Procession. After his return, Wilson and Hannaford formed the more experimentally-oriented Sons of the Vegetal Mother (1969–71); this was an occasional event-based project, rather than a full-time band, and Rudd played bass in its floating lineup on numerous occasions.[5] During 1970 Sons of the Vegetal Mother was overtaken by the rapid rise in popularity of its offshoot band Daddy Cool (in which Rudd did not perform) but by this time Rudd had formed his own band, Spectrum.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2015 at 22:24
Originally posted by Lear'sFool Lear'sFool wrote:

Impala related band called Pond is fantastic. Their new album is simply stellar.

I also recall a '70's era band called Bakery who had a heavy prog psych masterpiece with Momento.

Oh, and give Gabe's music a try. Great, eclectic avant-prog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2015 at 07:47
Originally posted by Gallifrey Gallifrey wrote:


Let's face it Australia's modern prog scene is streets ahead of anything they had back then


I'm going to come clean and disclose the fact that I am totally unaware of the  prog coming out of Australia since 2000.  I try to keep up with some other countries, but I wasd not aware of any current scene of significance from this corner of the world.

Facing such a gulf of experience , how can I rightfully call myself a Pwog Masterman?

So perhaps some of you could direct me.

If you were to give me three cd suggestions, what would they be?

But please be circumspect ,for I have two main stipulations:

No simple music

No verbose (and especially not in-your-face, melodramatic, aggressive  metal-type singing)

By non-simplicity I mean I want some degree of  actual composition to the works (no drone or ambient bands). Some complexity of actual MELODY - Im not looking for experimental or overly RIO-ish music.

By composition I mean NO SPACEROCK. Not that there is anything wrong with formless spacerock jams that go on forever. Its just that I'm already inundated in this - it seems its all the new bands are doing.

Also NO HAWKWIND CLONES. Ever since the likes of Karda Estra ,everyone is going this easy route. That deal is long played-out. So, please, no.


Doubtless at this point some are thinking: "The old goat wants retro."

Would be nice, yes.
But doesn't have to be vintage instruments (only no drum  machines!). And I'm always interested in a unique outlook (as long as its not mathrock shoite).
A unique outlook THAT IS MELODIC. As I've stated on many a forum, it is STILL unexacting for bands to attain some semblance of Unique by smacking together dissonance stitched by a wee bit of actual composition. It is MUCH more difficult to write unique melodic tunes.


So , if you feel you can accomodate me on something here.....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2015 at 14:53
Originally posted by Lear'sFool Lear'sFool wrote:

Impala related band called Pond is fantastic. Their new album is simply stellar.



damn it man...  I still haven't got their new one yet.  I hear it is fantastic. Clap 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2015 at 15:37
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Lear'sFool Lear'sFool wrote:

Impala related band called Pond is fantastic. Their new album is simply stellar.



damn it man...  I still haven't got their new one yet.  I hear it is fantastic. Clap 

It most certainly is.Thumbs Up
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2015 at 15:45
Originally posted by Lear'sFool Lear'sFool wrote:

Impala related band called Pond is fantastic. Their new album is simply stellar.

I also recall a '70's era band called Bakery who had a heavy prog psych masterpiece with Momento.

Oh, and give Gabe's music a try. Great, eclectic avant-prog.


I mentioned Pond a few days ago, but my post seems to have been completely overlookedCry. Great stuff, and a frequent presence in our CD player. Bakery are also quite good. I remember evaluating them for addition to Heavy Prog years ago.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2015 at 15:48
overlooked? LOL  says the one who still has more forum likes than me Angry
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