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    Posted: August 06 2005 at 18:49
It's a nice direction for Steve...  his screams are quite awesome.  Symphonic, electronic prog-metal suits him well.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2005 at 22:30
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 06 2005 at 22:33
^I'm listening to "Rise" right now .
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 00:27
It is a good CD. I haven't purchased it yet but a friend played it for me after the Nearfest gig with PFM and Proto-Kaw.  A little on the short side time wise but it is a solid effort.  Trent Gardner knows how to make Steve sound good.  I really like how his voice is sounding these days.  It is just too bad that it doesn't look like any new Kansas CD for a long while. Have to enjoy Steve's solo effforts and P-K as the new Kansas.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 01:01
The River was a REALLY nice track...  I first heard it on the bootlegged demos from the Power sessions. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 10:13

nice album, been a long while since her released anything and "Shadowman" is realy cool ; especially like the title tracks and "pages of old". metal ? don't think so ; no prog either ; modern rock ; the orchestrations sound really nice, sometimes the rhythms are too electronic sounding

read some bad reviews about this album though

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 13:05
I dont like how Steve Walsh hasn't sounded anything like he used to in years. The music isn't bad.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 13:14
Originally posted by Fishy Fishy wrote:

nice album, been a long while since her released anything and "Shadowman" is realy cool ; especially like the title tracks and "pages of old". metal ? don't think so ; no prog either ; modern rock ; the orchestrations sound really nice, sometimes the rhythms are too electronic sounding

read some bad reviews about this album though



I take it you're missing all the odd time signatures?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 13:21
"odd time signatures"  ? What do you mean ?  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 13:23
The samples I posted were the first two tracks.

In the FIRST TRACK alone, there is extensive use of 7/8 time, which is practically a trademark of progressive music.  Extended instrumental sections, odd structures, odd time signatures, virtuoso musicianship...  this IS prog by definition.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 13:42

Man overboard wrote :

In the FIRST TRACK alone, there is extensive use of 7/8 time, which is practically a trademark of progressive music. 

 

It depends on how you define progressive rock, I guess. A lot of people think progressive music got to be complex to be called progressive but I don't agree. Other styles of music can have complex rhythms and structures as well.   

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 13:43
Right, but the examples in this song are typical of progressive rock more than any other genre.  Consider that Steve Walsh is the frontman of the most famous early American prog group.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 13:54

I like Kansas a lot but this is not much like Kansas, is it ? I know Dave Ragsdale is playing on it and he was a member of the band in 1994 but just like Steve's previous record "Glossolalia", I don't hear the Kansas sound. But that's not important, it's a fine album nevertheless.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 13:58
Yeah, it's not meant to have a Kansas sound (though the last Kansas studio LP was damn nice), it's a Walsh solo project, one that I personally believe is even proggier than anything Kansas has done in the past decade or so.

Glossolalia was very nice too.

EDIT:  I should mentioned that the last track on this album, The River, was originally going to be a Kansas song, it was demoed for the Power album.  However, it's gotten a lot more complex since then...  as good as the demo was.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 15:53
Listen to the first Two Tracks and the river so far.  The Rise souinds like something Tiles would do so that does make it prog metal.  Shadowman is for sure prog. A little metal thrown in on that but some nice acoustic guitar work and orchestration also.  So far I like.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 16:38

Originally posted by Man Overboard Man Overboard wrote:

Yeah, it's not meant to have a Kansas sound (though the last Kansas studio LP was damn nice), it's a Walsh solo project, one that I personally believe is even proggier than anything Kansas has done in the past decade or so.

Glossolalia was very nice too.

EDIT:  I should mentioned that the last track on this album, The River, was originally going to be a Kansas song, it was demoed for the Power album.  However, it's gotten a lot more complex since then...  as good as the demo was.

 

I think Somewhere To Elsewhere in 2000 had some of thier best prog songs ever in Icarus II, Mryiad, Distant Vison and Bysantium. I like this SW a lot After is a great song.  The thing is it very much reminds me of anything SW or Kerry Livgren puts out.  Diverse, exploring different ground in every song and in that respect sounds like Kansas.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2005 at 16:44
I really miss Kansas.  I think they got caught up in some bad management, they have the potential to be SO MUCH MORE.

I would not be surprised if Proto-Kaw are getting better sales numbers and show draws.  Which, ironically, is how it should be, but with a heritage like Kansas', they should be rocking the world with amazing prog, getting widespread distribution, headlining huge tours with prog bands opening for them (1 hour for each opener, 2 for Kansas), and generally making the prog scene great again.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2005 at 14:31

Originally posted by Man Overboard Man Overboard wrote:

I really miss Kansas.  I think they got caught up in some bad management, they have the potential to be SO MUCH MORE.

I would not be surprised if Proto-Kaw are getting better sales numbers and show draws.

Heh, not a chance.  Kansas actually draws pretty large amounts of people to their shows (certainly more than most prog bands), since they were a very popular classic rock band.  Every Kansas show I've been to has had at least several hundred people there.  And Phil Ehart has been their manager for years now, so I guess you can blame him if you think they have bad management.

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