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    Posted: February 05 2018 at 16:18
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

I only own Saga’s debut. It’s a beauty. Love those mini-moogs. Ice Nice is a winner.

I strongly recommend Silent Knight. Monster album imo. 
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Does the band earn any money from people listening to it, via youtube?

I'd rather say; try Spotify or Itunes or any other music-streaming-website. Then at least they make 1 cent.
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Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2018 at 17:41
Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Ah, sorry. I take it you've already heard the albums via YT?
I haven’t !! Yet.
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Ah, sorry. I take it you've already heard the albums via YT?
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Their LP’s are hard to find here in Oz.
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Keep going, Tom! Saga was an all-Moog band on those first few albums! Up through Heads or Tales, at the very least.
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I only own Saga’s debut. It’s a beauty. Love those mini-moogs. Ice Nice is a winner.
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Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:

Saga in their prime. Combining metal, discopop and progrock with some reggae (before even Rush and Police did it, this song is from 1978!)
Just listen to 1001 breaks, al the riffs, solos, hooklines.
Okay it's all just basically a 4/4 shuffle but the tempo changes are there.

Easily one of their best songs. Don't forget Peter Rochon's tasty synth solo (played by Jim Gilmour on a Moog Liberation)!
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Saga in their prime. Combining metal, discopop and progrock with some reggae (before even Rush and Police did it, this song is from 1978!)
Just listen to 1001 breaks, al the riffs, solos, hooklines.
Okay it's all just basically a 4/4 shuffle but the tempo changes are there.
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I can fullheartedly agree that Saga is kitsch.

But almost prog from that day and age is kitsch.
It were the days of the synthesizer, drumcomputer, electronic drumpads.

If you compare Saga to Yes's Big Generator or Rush's 80's output or Genesis 80's output than Saga were really doing the best they could and even hold their own.

When you compare Saga (and maybe It Bites) to the more boring plagiarism of the neo-prog movement than Saga were at least original.

Maybe Saga were just a kind of thinking's man synthpop with metal-guitarriffs.
But to compare it to the grandeur of early King Crimson, Genesis, Focus, Camel and the likes, is just silly, I guess.

Nevertheless, Saga were great in what they were doing. And in their wake influenced progmetal. Especially the synth/guitar duals, and double-time drums (Humble Stance, Pitchman, wich is borderline heavy metal).
Saga is a matter of taste, but no-one in his/her right mind can say that they were a bad band.
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Points: 20451 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2018 at 21:02
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

^ Great distaste indeed.


Well...there is a lot of distasteful music out there...

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Points: 20451 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2018 at 21:00
Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:

Wow. This is your cynical day?

pretty much everything that is not Crimson 72-74 is meh for the doc.

Oh no....that would be Crimson 69-74

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^ Great distaste indeed.
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Originally posted by Barbu Barbu wrote:

Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:

Wow. This is your cynical day?
 
pretty much everything that is not Crimson 72-74 is meh for the doc.  

Hey, the Dr. has great taste! Wink

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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Tao2112 Tao2112 wrote:

Saw them warm up for Styx in 1980 in W Germany.  Incredible!

At a BOC show a few years back, we talked to one of the roadies, who said he saw Saga open for Styx, as well.

He added that Saga blew them away! 

Saw them in Copenhagen,same tour.Yes Saga was better.
I love Styx,but they were touring Cornerstone,which ehhh has some questionable songs, to say the least.
Saga became big in Europe and I believe they lived in Germany, for quite some time.
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Points: 30845 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2018 at 13:39
Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:

Wow. This is your cynical day?

pretty much everything that is not Crimson 72-74 is meh for the doc.
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Points: 20451 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2018 at 13:37
Just having some fun and if you can't do that on a music forum.....where can you?

We agree on Metallicaca.......but then I don't really like any metal.


ps: Someone has to take over from 'Micky' now that he isn't posting these days.
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Points: 1578 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2018 at 12:43
Wow. This is your cynical day?

Why even bother commenting?
But you're right: musical taste is subjective.

For me, it depends on the mood I'm in. So I can eventually almost enjoy anything, except maybe Metallica.
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Points: 20451 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2018 at 09:21
With this Saga thread it certainly shows that music is definitely a subjective thing.


btw....Styx, ELO, Saga,....meh........but Kansas rules.  ;)
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Points: 1578 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2018 at 06:38
Wow. Great to see the renewed enthousiasm for this great band.
I haven't started this thread in vain :D
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