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Topic: Prog Grooves ? Posted: February 16 2018 at 14:31
Hello... Attempts at grooving in prog pieces happen in often quite short sequences. Which link would you vote for as showing the grooviest sequence ?... The piece you'd vote for should have the power to make you want to dance wherever and with whoever you'd be.
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Posted: February 16 2018 at 17:57
Of these I went with Hoedown. Love ELP, but groovy they often weren't. On this track, oh yes they were.
But if it's funky prog with a real groove you want, I'd go with Gentle Giant or the Quebecois Sloche.
John Weathers, of GG, was probably classic period prog's most funky drummer. Your honor, I offer to the court as evidence, 'Proclamations' and 'Playing the Game' from The Power and the Glory.
And Sloche's J'un Oeil is très groovy indeed. See the title track, C'pas la fin du monde and Algébrique.
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The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough.
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Posted: February 17 2018 at 05:04
Even if we can't agree on which piece has the best groove there's a lot of tasty music shown there... Thank you !
QUOTE=verslibre]This dude ain't afraid to vote 4 OoaLH! [/QUOTE]
No certainly not ! However intoxicatingly overplayed (and not really prog) I was made to enjoy it 1000% . The Harlequin sequence gave me the idea for the poll, because it reminded me of Mats & Morgan, and would be my close second.
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Posted: February 17 2018 at 10:49
Not sure I really hear anything I'd consider too "groovy" in OP's selections, aside from maybe the second Ritual selection (though I'd argue that the first 3 minutes of the song is groovier than the part included here), so I voted for "other".
I could probably list a few hundred groovier examples from the jazz fusion subs, but that's basically cheating. Same with Can - they pretty much built their legacy on grooves! So here's some of my favourite grooviness from "prog proper":
Or the chorus from this one:
when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
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Manuel wrote:
. The Harlequin sequence gave me the idea for the poll, because it reminded me of Mats & Morgan, and would be my close second.
