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Poll Question: There are many great ones. Another silly impossible poll. Pick favs.
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
5 [3.38%]
10 [6.76%]
20 [13.51%]
43 [29.05%]
31 [20.95%]
14 [9.46%]
25 [16.89%]
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    Posted: November 03 2019 at 12:51
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But if it's Curved Air related then Darryl Way's Wolf is a good option and often forgotten about.
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Gentle Giant with brother Ray Shulman is quite tallanted violinist
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giving it to the other.. ELO.. and especially to Wilf Gibson.. the Keith Emerson of prog violin.
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Of these bands, I think I'm the closest to Mahavishnu.

With others I will mention the wonderful early English band East of Eden.
The music is wonderfully rude and the violin of Dave Arbus has a very rustic character.
I mean mainly the first 2 albums, the hit "Jig-a-Jig" and the more polished 3 album.
The first album definitely opens the door to the past, forgotten times.
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An additional curiosity is the American band Streetdancer, whose 1976 album Rising is a cool (maybe not so heavy) trip towards the Mahavishnu style, but with a large dose of originality (e.g. oriental elements).
Violin may not dominate, but it's a coherent element of the whole and show off when needed.
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Dregs



Yeeeeeee haw!
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Curved Air, not that they're any better than the other bands named, but because the violin is so fundamental to their style of music.
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Not impossible for me to choose:  Curved Air.  I didn't vote again so as not to dilute my vote for them.
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I'm going with Bent Knee. I've been really enjoying their music lately.
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Voted Jerry Goodman and Jean-Luc Ponty but would've had to think harder if you'd have included ASTURIAS, BELIEVE, and, especially, KBB. Akihisa Tsuboy is AMAZING!!!!
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I chose Curved Air even before I saw who was included in the poll. Smile
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Not much of a Kansas fan. David Cross is excellent but I'm going with Jerry Goodman of Mahavishnu Orchestra. Awesome violin work!
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

It's difficult to argue against anything Jean-Luc Ponty contributed to (as good as Jerry Goodman, Mark O'Connor, Eddie Jobson, and Geoff Richardson were). The award winning fiddler cut his teeth going toe-to-toe with Stéphane Grappelli!

Stephane Grappelli actually passed his violin on to Jean-Luc Ponty, who in turn passed it on to Didier Lockwood.


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It's difficult to argue against anything Jean-Luc Ponty contributed to (as good as Jerry Goodman, Mark O'Connor, Eddie Jobson, and Geoff Richardson were). The award winning fiddler cut his teeth going toe-to-toe with Stéphane Grappelli!
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Never listened to 
Bent Knee and Dixie Dregs.

Mahavisnu ok, they are great but… I need time to listen better…

UK: good albums but they are not the early and genuine prog… they sound like already listened…

Kansas? I know only some songs by them but, in my opinion, they are not at the same level of the other bands in this poll. I cant say that Kansas is a great band. Good, ok, but not great. I cant compare Kansas with King Crismon….

So, I voted for Kc and Curved Air.
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This is a good one, several fine options here, I went with the Dregs. 

Edited by Argo2112 - May 06 2019 at 08:31
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

Could have voted for everybody but if it's violin that stands out, love the playing of Darryl Way in Curved Air.

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