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Posted: July 31 2012 at 20:04
Also worthy of a 'mention in dispatches' here as a seriously underrated guitarist is John Mitchell of It Bites, Arena, The Urbane, Kino, Frost*, and John Wetton Band.
These three clips are from John Wetton's 'Live In The Underworld' DVD from 2003, and show what a fine player Mr Mitchell actually is.
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Posted: August 01 2012 at 01:47
I would also chuck in some Chris Fry
^ btw he's in the white shirt in the Magenta video and its about 6 minutes in before he really struts his stuff. Seriously underated guitarist. (Magenta are great live.)
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Posted: August 01 2012 at 04:17
Hercules wrote:
Saperlipopette! wrote:
Hercules wrote:
BJH in particular were considered to be amongst the inventors of the genre, alongside King Crimson, Traffic, The Moody Blues and others.
Not bad for a band that released their largely ignored psychpop debut sometime in june 1970. I thought by then prog was "invented" and had already moved far beyond what BJH were releasing years later. But maybe you know something I don't?
Yes, obviously I do. I saw them in Manchester in 1968 (well before they released their first album) and they were clearly progressive in the same way Floyd were about the same time. And they'd been going for at least a year by then. Their first album was somewhat different from what they'd been doing before that and was largely dictated by their label, but it was hardly psychopop with tracks like "When the World was Woken" or "Dark now my Sky", was it?
(no, not psychopop) Truthfully, I've only listened to their debut once and remember it as having an older feel than its release date. In '68 they probably experimented and stretched out when playing live just like any other band.
Everything I've heard by them (including the two tracks you mention, found them on Youtube) has been mostly less progressive than what inessential groups such as Gracious or Cressida released in the same period. And Once Again still sound like a combination of what the bigger names of UK-prog bands had already recorded before them.
Btw: Your poll and opening post is perfectly fine and If it wasn't for your attitude when replying to others, I would never have bothered commenting. I'll try and stay away from now on.
Edited by Saperlipopette! - August 01 2012 at 05:07
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Posted: August 01 2012 at 05:03
richardh wrote:
I would also chuck in some Chris Fry
^ btw he's in the white shirt in the Magenta video and its about 6 minutes in before he really struts his stuff. Seriously underated guitarist. (Magenta are great live.)
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Posted: August 01 2012 at 07:56
If were talking about other guitar players I gotta mention Radim Hladik from Modry Efekt, one of the best guitarist from the 70's, no doubt about it. And hardly do I ever see his name gets mentioned, it's a pitty so many people doesn't know this magnificent band.
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Posted: August 01 2012 at 15:33
Snow Dog wrote:
richardh wrote:
I would also chuck in some Chris Fry
^ btw he's in the white shirt in the Magenta video and its about 6 minutes in before he really struts his stuff. Seriously underated guitarist. (Magenta are great live.)
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Posted: August 01 2012 at 23:36
Hercules wrote:
Thank you for making my point so eloquently. Neo-prog was a term applied in the early 80s to the new wave of (post-punk) prog bands. It referred to their newness, not their style. Now they are no longer "new", so the label is redundant and inexact.
Not sure I agree. The French New Wave was a style of film making that emerged in the late 50s and early 60s. It was a historical period in film. New Wave music was made in the 80s. These are the names that stuck. To try to change it would be an attempt to alter history.
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