Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

M27Barney wrote: Roland113 wrote: On Dennis and Barney agreeing: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I am but one man on a small Island, and to the left of me across the Atlantic Ocean is another man , we have reached across that abyss and have agreed on some small point of musical taste, I feel that your feeling of great disturbance in the force was probably a bit of trapped wind or something......Anyway, it's not the predilection to tracks consisting of random noises that is the issue here...It is the insistence that (for example) the start of the waiting room is the highlight of the Lamb........I strongly disagree with such an outrageous and preposterous review of a fine progressive album - as should anyone, it's like saying that Benny the Bouncer is the best track on Brain Salad Surgery....I rest my case.....

zumacraig wrote: rushfan4 wrote: zumacraig wrote: Forgive my absence.  I've been indulging in some AOR.  If you remotely like that stuff, you gotta check out the band Line of Fire.  OMG!! Saw on the yahoo group that Roine is re-releasing Fading Ghosts of Twilight with several remixed tracks.  This kind of stuff pisses me off.  I mean, the album is not even 5 years old and now it needs a remix?  Why not a edit out the cheese ball spoken word stuff and remaster with pristine dynamic range?  Oh well. I have been listening to a lot of AOR lately.  Strangeways.  Work of Art.  FM.  Jimi Jamison.  Mecca.  And of course, the torchbearers, Foreigner and Journey. WoA is a great band.  Need to check out some of those other ones you mentioned.  Any other recommendations?

Since you like WoA, you would probably like W.E.T. and Eclipse.  If you aren't aware, W.E.T. is made up of members of Work Of Art, Eclipse, and Talisman.  Talisman's vocalist is Jeff Scott Soto, who was formerly Yngwie Malmsteen's singer.  I think he sang for Rainbow too.  He was also temporarily Journey's singer.  The newest Eclipse album Bleed and Scream was one of my favorite albums in 2012.

I also recently listened to the two albums from Lionville and they were really good.


Edited by rushfan4 - July 26 2013 at 15:25

What's Really Good Acid? Hydrochloric? Nitric? Sulphuric? Ribonucleic? So what you are saying here is that you have got your liking for clunks, whingles, phlurbs, and splunches whilst under the influence of  Lysergic Acid? Well that explains that then.....Even BTB would sound good when tripping......

zumacraig wrote: Hasse said on FB that he and the HFMC drummer played a duo gig last weekend.  Now that would be fun.  I'd love to see a trio format with the TFK guys in various configurations. @Roland, I know this is a late comment, but I also have been having trouble commenting, especially on iphone.  I'll write something and when i go to post i get an error message.  Frustrating.

You have the Circus Brimstone album?  That is instrumental Flower Kings/Roine Stolt material played by Roine, Jonas, Tomas and Marcus.  One of my favorite side project albums (it's live), and I wish they would do something like that again.

infandous wrote: All this talk of AOR............talk about a disturbance in the force    As to Benny the Bouncer....in retrospect I find that song hard to not skip over on the rare occasions when I still listen to that album.

M27Barney wrote: ^ Hmmm - I take your word for it that BTB has in-fact got hard piano work in it, however the song just doesn't have anything of merit unlike Karn Evil 9  first impression parts 1 & 2. And the lyrics are atrocious as is the singing. I lighten things up by listening to Saga Camel Celine Dion

Cockney Cousins??? Those b*****ds chased me all round the fookin underground on several occasions - I fookin hate the sov wearin, jellied eel eating cockney t***s..... 

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infandous wrote: Now to comment on my previous post: "begins at $700 per person"      Yeah, I won't be going.

Horizons wrote: Hahah why would anyone want to Yes now anyways. Like Dennis said you can see high quality bands currently at their peak for 15-30 dollars. I've seen PT and Swilson in the same venue where I was 2 feet from the stage. I think that's an amazing deal for 20 dollars and not having to deal with the awful conditions on a cruise. Sure there are one or two bands I'd like to see like Sound of Contact. But for that much money lol.. I got front row rush tickets for less than half of that sorry. What a scam.