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VDGG

I like Procol more than VDGG, but they really weren't getting up to speed yet at that point (their second album). Things started jelling with Home (their fourth), and especially Grand Hotel (their seventh). So, going to have to go with VDGG in this instance.

Edited by Boojieboy - February 03 2023 at 18:36

kenethlevine wrote: I don't know the VDGG album much at all so can't vote.  But I think "In Held" is the very definition of the bloated prog epic, which brings down the whole album.  The title cut and "Quite Rightly So" are both great though

VDGG 

Graaf

Logan wrote: LAM-SGC wrote: PH by a looong way. This could have been a PH vs. PH poll (Peter Hammill vs. Procol Harum), but it being an artist vs. a band, I don't think that the pH balance would be right.

pH 7

PH by a looong way.

I love VdGG.  I've always adored VdGG.  But Procol Harum is in a league by themselves.  Not to start any arguments in taxonomy here, but I've always considered them to be the first prog rock band.  I saw VdGG only once (Beacon Theater, 1975) but I saw Procol Harum several times, usually with Robin Trower.  The 1st time, in 1968, they shared a bill with Moby Grape at the Anderson Yiddish Theater on 2nd Ave diagonally across from where the Fillmore East would soon open.  I saw them 5 out of the 6 times that they played the Fillmore East.  I missed their last show there in 1971, possibly with Dave Ball i/o Trower, because I was out of town.  I saw them at the wonderful Atlantic City Pop Festival, 2 weeks before Woodstock.  I saw them twice in Central Park at the Schaefer Music Festival, once in '69 with Robin and once in '71 with Dave Ball.  I saw the Prodigal Stranger reunion tour in 1991 and said "hi" at a meet and greet.  And I saw them at a 2001(?) reunion in a theater-in-the-round in some god-forsaken place in the middle of Pennsylvania, sharing a bill with Paul Kantner's reconstituted Jefferson Starship and Steppenwolf.  They were always great, but I can still close my eyes and see Trower (with his eyes closed as well) feet together rocking back and forth on the edge of the stage as he played the solo for the title song to Shine On Brightly.  They were/are amazing.

Edited by socrates17 - February 11 2019 at 06:40

Im quite happy by the result, not such a great devide as I feard. Closer than i suspected.