Your Most Played... Ever!

Alice Cooper - Killer

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon / Wish You Were Here

Jethro Tull - Aqualung / Living in the Past / Thick as a Brick

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti / IV

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman

Moody Blues - Days of Future Past

The Beatles - White Album

King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King, Islands

Focus - Moving Waves, Focus 3, Hamburger Concero

Yes - Close To The Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans

Jethro Tull - Stand Up, A Passion Play

In the early days, I listened to a lot of "Atom Heart Mother Suite" and then later, "Echoes". They still remain my favorite PF stuff. But right after that, as soon as we came across it, "Ege Bamyasi", and "Dance of the Lemmings" took hold, and by then, "Phaedra" was one of the top ones.

Since then, there are many Klaus Schulze things I really like (Audentity, X, Mirage) and a lot of Peter Hammill on his own, of which "Over" is a very special album for me as is "The Silent Corner and Empty Stage". VdGG is still important "H to He", and "Godbluff" and "Still Life".

Later Holger Czukay won the honors with his first two albums, both of which added to my imagination so much. Both "Movies" and "On The Way to the Peak of the Normal" are exceptional, specially in the long cuts. Amazing mixes of sounds and composition, even if it was somewhat improvised, but it still stands up today, as highly progressive, though some would think them weird.

After 2000, the band that got me good, was Djam Karet, and it has remained there since. There are a few things here and there I enjoy, and Dream Theater with an Orchestra is totally insane and amazing, and not something that most people can enjoy or appreciate I would imagine. It's a very difficult mix, and makes Mike Oldfield come off like MOR sometimes. But the musicality of it is great, and the courage it takes to do something like that, and well, is amazing.

I have not specially enjoyed, to the point of having to go get 4 or 5 albums, any of the so many new things listed here, for some reason or other. Sometimes, it is like it feels like a copy for me, and it does not hit your moods or gonads, like "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" did, or "A Tab in the Ocean" did, or like "Tales from Topographic Oceans" did. 

I keep looking for music that will tear apart to shreds, anything that I have ever heard, so something that "sounds like" something else, is not usually a good thing for me. 

At 65, I think that finding new music for me, is likely to be over. Maybe it's the age that has a tendency to remember too much, and not allow some new things to shine, but for me, anything new for a long time, and including classical music, has a tendency to rip apart everything you and I know ... and this is not happening in the age of the DAW, and people using metronomes and sampled stuff, to recreate something that has already been done. I think that we have to let go the meters and the metronome, to allow the "visual" to flow even more, but that's me.

Other than that, only KC's show with 3 drummers and RTF with Jean Luc Ponty, have stood out for me, as music that is so well rehearsed and played, that it is like seeing one of the masters in classical music ... played to perfection, and ripping your senses apart ... and like RF requests, if you close your eyes, the experience, will last the rest of your life. Both of these shows, stand out as two of the very best I have ever had the chance to see, and it might be really hard to remove KC from the top spot, over TD on their first tour in America at the Santa Monica Civic.