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Dick Heath
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 13:23 | |
Before ever getting near the Collins version, check out the storming version on Phil Manzanera's 801 Live, and the two remarkable guitar versions of it that bookend Come Together: A Beatles Tribute Volume 2 (NYC Records) by Wayne Krantz and David Fuiczynski.
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Tenorsaxman89
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 13:55 | |
I believe that Keith Emerson was inspired early on (Pre-Nice) by a record called "Switched on Bach" which was Bach on a Hammond Organ. I can't recall the artist performing it though. |
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Jethro Tull kicks ass!
But don't forget the Moody Blues :) |
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Scratchy
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 14:41 | |
Why pre-1965.Prog rock is said to have started in 1967,therefore why not pre-1967. A better way of finding out the answer to your question is when/who made the transition from Psychedelic rock to Progressive rock.That is surely the most influencial pre-prog album.A genre cannot be based on one song or even an album.They or someone else must have continued the experiment for the genre(prog) to have developed further.It is generally excepted that Prog followed on from the imputious of Freakbeat(Pink Floyd I do not,personally,regard either of the above true Prog albums,but are probably 2 of the more influential in the movement at the time.There are plenty of other lesser influences,numerous Hard Bop and even more classical influences because they had been around for longer.Psychedelia only started two years previously,remember - Psych sub-genre freakbeat only for several months before. Edited by Scratchy |
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Scratchy
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 15:16 | |
Walter Carlos.Album released 1968 - it was on a Moog,though.I didn't no that,actually,but just investigated it. |
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AtomHeartMother
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 15:17 | |
Syd Barrett was one of the first to make prog. songs. Piper wasn't a prog. album but I would say atleast 2 or 3 songs on it are prog, Astronomy Domine/Intersteller Overdrive are deffinetly prog. songs and mabey, Bike, if the main part of that song isn't prog then the ending has to have some prog elements in it. Dozens of clocks ringing randomly/footsteps/Rubberducks quacking and then echoed. I think these songs that are prog. show that LSD was an influence on Syd's writing ability, he was one of the most creative and "out there" writers of that time. Intersteller Overdrive really sounds like somone on LSD tripping out. We all know that Syd did alot of LSD and weather that was the cause to his removal of the band or not is debatable, but one this is sure, that LSD was a major influence on Syd's prog songs. That is what I believe made atleast some of an impact on prog and the whole movement, drugs. Edited by AtomHeartMother |
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Certif1ed
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 15:21 | |
Because 1966 onwards has been covered to death in other threads on this forum - Revolver, Pet Sounds, Piper, Da Capo, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, S. F. Sorrow, 5 Bridges Suite and all the other great proto-prog/psychedelic albums have been named as contenders for earliest proto-prog album on several occasions. I think the purpose of this particular thread is to explore further back than that - into the murky waters of jazz/folk/blues and all the other great elements of prog rock. Prog rock proper started in 1970, AFAIK - with ITCOTCK, which is widely regarded as the first prog album. Edited by Certif1ed |
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Odd24
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 15:43 | |
I'll agree that the Beatles had a great influence and that it started on "Rubber soul". But there are also other names that need to be mentioned: Leonard Bernstein (1961), Burt Bacharach (1963) and Brian Wilson (1966). I did actually get a reaction on this in another forum that Gershwin was the first one but I only do know "Rhapsody in blue" played by Ekseption so I cannot judge that. |
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Right down the line
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Scratchy
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 15:56 | |
Oh!!!!!!!!! I hadn't even heard of Afaik,actually.Shows how much I now. McCoy Tyner - My favourite things - sounds quite prog piano to me - but that was 1972 |
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Dick Heath
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 16:02 | |
I like Bernstein inclusion a lot - mentioned his name recently in another thread, asking how many prog covers from West Side Story existed (e.g. Nice: America, Rundgren/Utopia: Something's Coming), and suggesting Bernstein's Mass would be an ear-opener (rumour has it Paul Simon got involved somewhere along the line, and Gary Lucas played guitar???). Gershwin and RiB takes us back to the late 20's - a piece first performed (and probably commissioned), in a special arrangement for jazz orchestra, Paul Whiteman's (the so-called King of Jazz - a title which would have Wynton Marsalis rolling rapid around his grave - if he were dead), which still had Bing Crosby in its ranks and the legendary Bix Beiderbeck had just be fired for being permanently pissed (and this was prohibition). Gershwin's masterwork was separately arranged for classical orchestra and that version is now most commonly played. Simon Rattle released an serious music album on EMI Records classic music label about a decade ago called Jazz, which resurrected the Whiteman version and had some jazz pieces written by Bernstein and Stravinski. The fusion of jazz and serious music, is heard in Ravel's Piano Concerto, which is said to be partly influenced by Bix Beiderbeck - Bix (the cornet-player) reciprocated with a short piano piece In A Mist, with clear Ravel overtones. |
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Schizoid Man
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Posted: July 12 2005 at 17:57 | |
Thanks Single Coil and Dick Heath for the Tomorrow Never Knows recommendations. I'd like to add one more and that would be Todd Rundgren's live version. This is from the days when he was playing in Bourgeois Tagg (spelling?) They do the song justice! |
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