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SteveG 
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 16:04 |
Everyone is a late bloomer in regard to some Prog artist or group. Which individuals or bands do you wish you knew about years ago, or wish that you knew about and wish you had appreciated years ago? Have a great weekend!
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 16:06 |
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Pentanlge, Jansch, Renbourn and Michael Chapman.
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 16:18 |
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ELP, the first that came to mind now.
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 16:36 |
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Kate Bush for sure... for whatever reason she went completely under my radar when younger and it wasn't till Raff bought me an album when we were dating that I could name a song, much less an album she did, and later when she started drilling her music into my head I really came to enjoy her albums.
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 17:48 |
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Henry Cow, Univers Zero, Samla Mammas Manna, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
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Ian
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Polymorphia
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 18:22 |
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I'm pretty late to the Area party. They're wonderful.
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Horizons
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Posted: February 06 2015 at 22:55 |
The Mars Volta. I wish i had been able to see them live.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 02:23 |
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The Mars Volta. I wish i had been able to see them live.
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I only saw them once, at a festival; but I still hadn't known them for very long, and so while I still went there with the intention of seeing them and loved every second of it, I didn't know many of the songs (or had only heard them once), and it was absolutely nothing like the way I'd appreciate and love it now, feels like a missed experience. Though I guess I spent most of the time focusing on the musicianship and performance itself, which was obviously pretty special, and I'm lucky to have seen them at all. (Now I'm probably going to miss out on Antemasque next month because the sideshow tickets are nearly as expensive as the festival itself, thanks to the promoter's greed and tight hold on sideshows...)
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 02:36 |
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Easily the band MAGENTA. Mainly for the idiotic attitude of mine "if it's not on vinyl, I don't wanna know about it".
The Twenty-Seven Club got a vinyl release last year, now I want them ALL. Time will tell if they are on vinyl or not.....
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 03:00 |
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Anathema or Le Orme. They will become firm favourites I'm sure. I also went an a Big Big Train spending spree when I realised I did actually like English Electric (all parts) despite my sniffy review of Part One.
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 05:25 |
Horizons wrote:
The Mars Volta. I wish i had been able to see them live.
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I saw them live (London - the Astoria) shortly after the first album came out and blew my mind. And I've got to say they didn't live up to the - probably quite unrealistic - expectations I'd developed off the back of my love for the record. But even aside from that it was a pretty unexciting gig. I mean every band has these off nights, and I only saw them once, so probably it was one of them. But seeing one's heroes can be a let down...
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 05:36 |
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For an on-topic post, 'the whole of Italian progressive' would probably be my answer. Until recently I only knew Stormy Six and Picchio dal Pozzo because of my interest in RIO. Now I'm getting into Area, Osanna, Il Balletto di Bronzo, Cervello, Il Paese dei Ballocchi, etc. There is some amazing stuff there!
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Gerinski
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 05:55 |
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A lot of RPI. Until the 2000's I knew little more than PFM and Banco. VDGG, Ange, Egg or Gong are also bands I discovered rather late. But honestly, so many others. I thought I knew quite something about Prog until I started lurking more seriously in PA in the late 2000's, when I realised I only knew the biggest classics and a few more, and since then I have discovered a lot of bands I didn't know of (and so many remain for me to discover I'm sure).
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presdoug
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 12:08 |
So many. My favourite artists are so mainly because of their 1970s output, and though I was around in the seventies, my fave groups (Triumvirat, Colosseum, Dzyan, Wallenstein, Passport) I discovered in the mid to late 1980s, quite after the fact. I really especially wish I knew of Triumvirat in the seventies when they were recording and touring as they are my favourite band. Could have seen them live in Montreal when they played there around '74-'75. Didn't know that my favourite solo artist, the late Helmut Koellen, had a solo album until I read about it on the net in the mid 1990s, and it was released in October of 1977. 
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 12:48 |
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^ I guess my biggest example of this just occurred a few minutes ago, when I heard for the first time, former Passport Guitarist Wolfgang Schmid's solo album "Wolfhound" , recorded way back in 1975. I didn't even know of it's existence until just last year. The record is astounding and a deeply moving one, and is near the top of my musical loves.
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 12:51 |
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Gazpacho, Devin Townsend, Yes, Iamthemorning
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 19:09 |
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jacksiedanny
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 19:34 |
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Of the big cornerstone bands it would be CARAVAN.
I didn't clue into them till maybe '79.
Of course I knew well of them - its just that I did not really TRY to get into the music.
This was basically down to the fact that , unlike most other prog bands then, Caravan had a greater ratio of lovesongs and back in those days love songs were a major turnoff point for me - no matter how good the melodies or playing.
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 20:15 |
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I missed out on Novalis until recently and the exhilarating jazz-rock of If and Cymande! Never too late, I keep being reminded of!
Edited by tszirmay - February 07 2015 at 20:16
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Barbu
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Posted: February 07 2015 at 20:36 |
Still haven't heard a complete Rolling Stones album. 
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