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Posted: May 10 2014 at 17:19
If I was asked to explain what prog rock is, I would have played Can Utility and the Coast Liners. It contains the essence of prog: the instrumentation, the modulations, the odd time signatures, the incomprehensible lyrics
(unless you know the anecdote about king Knud) and even a part sounding
a bit like free jazz. And this epic lasts for less than six minutes.
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Posted: May 10 2014 at 18:04
LittleMilton wrote:
I'm not so sure these two examples actually "scream" prog, though maybe they do in their own way. I was 14 years old, summer before high school, listening to 96Rock in Atlanta late one evening and on came this interesting tune, alternating between light and heavy changes with tripped out lyrics, when Steve Howe's first guitar break zapped me right in the melon (Yours Is No Disgrace), had never heard anything that good before, went out the next day and bought The Yes Album.
Many years later I was listening to a Genesis boot from '75 maybe? A period of time when Bruford was filling in on the tour, and on Cinema Show after "there is in fact more earth than sea...", where the pace quickens a bit and the music becomes enjoyingly intense, a little drum fill and Tony plays the most beautiful melotron melody, where the drums provide an end to each melotron line, and it builds and builds, until an angelic chorus wraps up this most amazingly beautiful segment of one of the best tunes of all time.
In two different ways, in two different life times, this music spoke to me very personally. Maybe even bookends to a certain part of an uncertain life.
: )
It's certainly nice to meet another Genesis and Yes fan. Welcome! Any other favorite prog bands you enjoy?
“Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov
Joined: February 05 2013
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Posted: May 12 2014 at 08:46
Mirror Image wrote:
LittleMilton wrote:
I'm not so sure these two examples actually "scream" prog, though maybe they do in their own way. I was 14 years old, summer before high school, listening to 96Rock in Atlanta late one evening and on came this interesting tune, alternating between light and heavy changes with tripped out lyrics, when Steve Howe's first guitar break zapped me right in the melon (Yours Is No Disgrace), had never heard anything that good before, went out the next day and bought The Yes Album.
Many years later I was listening to a Genesis boot from '75 maybe? A period of time when Bruford was filling in on the tour, and on Cinema Show after "there is in fact more earth than sea...", where the pace quickens a bit and the music becomes enjoyingly intense, a little drum fill and Tony plays the most beautiful melotron melody, where the drums provide an end to each melotron line, and it builds and builds, until an angelic chorus wraps up this most amazingly beautiful segment of one of the best tunes of all time.
In two different ways, in two different life times, this music spoke to me very personally. Maybe even bookends to a certain part of an uncertain life.
: )
It's certainly nice to meet another Genesis and Yes fan. Welcome! Any other favorite prog bands you enjoy?
Thank you, and greetings to you as well! Still trying to get my head around what prog entails, you know, what makes a band or a song prog. But from perusing this site, it seems Floyd, Tull, ELP, and Rush fit the bill. Have always dug these bands. Caught Tull on the Stormwatch tour, great show! My older siblings saw them at the Hollywood Bowl for the TAAB tour. They told me they played for 45 minutes, then Ian said, "and now for our next number."
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Posted: August 06 2014 at 12:34
Supertwister!
My gosh, do I get nostalgic/sentimental when the keys and flute hit during that middle section. It's like sipping a hot cup of coffee and staring out your front window on a mid-winter's morning...
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Posted: August 08 2014 at 14:38
PrognosticMind wrote:
Supertwister!
My gosh, do I get nostalgic/sentimental when the keys and flute hit during that middle section. It's like sipping a hot cup of coffee and staring out your front window on a mid-winter's morning...
Supertwister packs more prog into three minutes than some groups do with 10-20 minute epics.
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(unless you know the anecdote about king Knud) and even a part sounding
a bit like free jazz. And this epic lasts for less than six minutes.
LittleMilton wrote:
