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Meltdowner wrote: What EW&F albums do you recommend?

Edited by Catcher10 - November 07 2014 at 15:26

Also progressive funk led me to prog rock.....I was already listening to Pink Floyd, Yes...but bands like EW&F and Parliament/Funkadelic gave me the love for long songs

I used quotes on progressive punk and I was indeed juvenile when I mostly listened to punk
I was not assuming that they are prog, but we were talking about our first experiences with long tracks. What was yours? Or did you immediately found prog?

Two fine singers you mentioned

And I'm looking forward to get mine from the store with a bonus official merch item from being one of the first to pre-order in vinyl

So you found prog right away then. It was probably easier to discover what prog was when it was a novelty, no?

I only knew what prog was and all the main bands (except Floyd) when I found this site. Before that, the only Yes song I knew was 'Owner of a Lonely Heart', the only Genesis song I knew was 'Invisible Touch' and never understood the difference between Genesis and Phil Collins solo albums

I don't remember anything from Tormato: I've been listening to their entire discography for quite some time that I probably listened to that one once two years ago. I'm rarely in the right mood to listen to Yes.

Speaking of Disco, my brother played a Disco compilation a few hours ago, and I was improvising with the electric guitar over it and it had a lot of modulation and some interesting chord progressions. I don't know why some people trash this genre so much

Tom Ozric wrote: In regards to Disco - the bass players had amazing dexterity and solid drive which may feature less intricacy, yet, me personally, find it somewhat less demanding playing Prog bass, than Disco bass.

I always thought that too, specially when they don't constantly play octaves and improvise in a very specific way. I tried more than once to improvise Disco bass and failed

Tom Ozric wrote: And this concept of solid 4/4 - once Squire claimed that it drummed rhythm and beat into most listeners whom otherwise had no clue about music.

The same can be said about Floyd: they played almost always 4/4 and in many songs the chord progression is very basic, but we all know and love it nevertheless.

Tom Ozric wrote: I always love Chicago's Street Player (from their 13 album) - Cetera nailed it, tricky octaves and all. And Blondie had a section in 7 on Heart Of Glass. Boney M too, clever bass work.

I never listened to Chicago besides Chicago II: their discography is gigantic

My father used to play a Boney M compilation cassette many times when I was a kid. That's probably why I can tolerate Disco and why my brother really likes it

Meltdowner wrote: I tried more than once to improvise Disco bass and failed

Edited by Argonaught - November 08 2014 at 19:03

Back to vinyl.......This showed up today!

Tom Ozric wrote: ^ Wow !! Looks absolutely mind-blowing. Greg W didn't have this on his list, and I hate shopping elsewhere.......

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Tom Ozric wrote: Floyd - yes, we all lap them up....... The thing with Prog bass, you can play intricately, but can always have a rest here, play slowly, have a rest again, then do something fast and busy. Disco is virtually non-stop, four-on-the-floor, pacey and dare I say it, tiring to play. And it's not my cuppa tea. But give me Disco over your Ed Sheerans and One Directions ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. .......but give me Prog 4 ever

Yeah, no other genre is as good as Prog (at least for us here), but for a genre whose main purpose is dancing, Disco is kind of complex, better than those sh***y musics youngsters (that aren't me ) dance to nowadays.

Argonaught wrote: Have you tried to improvise disco strings as well? (strings as in fiddles and such, not an item of clothing).  By the way, is Vangelis also classified as prog of some description? I have been going through my most recent flea market haul, and noticed I had unwittingly acquired one of their albums as a part of a $0.50 apiece impromptu spot deal. Greed is good, I tell ya.

I don't understand your question, but the bass playing is very tight to freely improvise: if you don't play on the right time, the music is completely ruined

I never understood why Vangelis is not fully prog here: he has been into krautrock, jazz rock and progressive electronic and those albums are very good. I don't know if it is because he is not Prog enough or because he wasn't part of any movemente, like Berlin School.