German Prog Fest! (formally 'Kraut Fest')

Hi,

I don't think I will have a chance in my life to see any of these and meet some of the folks that have inspired me the most.

Without an order (no top ten allowed in this thread!):

Can - Movies, Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, Future Days, Soon Over Babbalooma, Landed
When CAN "Landed", the group was pretty much done. You knew that was sad, but Damo was not needed in Babbalooma and Landed were just fine and dandy and crazy!

Amon Duul 2 - Yeti, Dance of the Lemmings, Carnival in Babylon, Wolf City, Vive La Trance
You can close it on "Apocaliptyc Bore" in Vive La Trance. It says it all about that band and how it died! The rest was actually sad ... though HIJACK has some exceptional things.

Cozmic couriers - All of the albums. Though it's been said that these were just drug trips, in the end, the whole concept and continuity of many of these pieces, with or without the temptresses, was just fine and very enjoyable. Planeten Sit-In is fantastic as is Cosmic Jokers.

Ash Ra Tempel - All the way to the 6th album and their last out of this world album "New Age of Earth", the very first and prettiest of all "new age" albums, some 20 years before the crystal idiocies!

Guru Guru - All the way to "Tango Fango", which many folks dismiss because it seems more like a KRAAN album than a Guru Guru album, but it has one massive anthem in there that says it all about Germany at the time ... and how they see music! Progressive folks can't stand the last cut in the album, and it was done several years before the wall. And it was funnier!  Other than that, the early days insane guitar world of Ax Gernrich, should have made this guy the new Jimi Hendrix, the one that was not doing pop music or the blues ... this was the real deal and the live stuff from the early days is what Jimi probably wanted to do all along and never got to do.

Jane/Eloy - All nice and I am a fan of their first 6 albums in both cases. Sister bands.

Faust - The first 5 albums specially. Very insane and fun, but by the time you see them in the BBC special, the fun is over!

Lesser stuff also very nice:
Tanned Leather - Cherubin - Wallenstein (part of the Kozmic bruhaha folks but their band does not fit there!) - Mythos - Novalis - A & R and his Echo machines - A. Tishen - Grobbschnitt - Kraan

And now:

Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze deserve a special mention. Even though they are not "exactly" a part of this whole thing, it was their album that probably helped break the ground running, and how well they did ... is historical. BUT, above all, we forget that this was not just a music scene. There were artists, writers, film makers, theater folks that also added a magic dimention to this whole world, and not thinking of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski doing almost the same thing as these folks in music, or Damo not doing the same thing as the actors trying to do Peter Handke who also went on to write for Wim Wenders ... is short of criminal!