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The Rock
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Topic: Dillinger Posted: February 19 2008 at 15:27 |
They were from Ontario, Canada and I never quite understood the progressive world's reticence to include them in their ''circle of friends''!
They produced a couple of albums back in the mid 70's.Both albums featured long tracks(the first one even includes a side-longer),mellotron,organ,synth,flute,sax,ect...All the prog pre-reqisites are here.
The music tends to be on the heavier side,with a light bluesy/jazzy touch especially on their first eponymous album.On the second the jazzy aspects are less obvious and are beign replaced with a poppier sound but far from commercial crap.I 'd compare them to bands like Uriah Heep,Argent,Manfred Mann's Earth Band,Santana,ELP and many other art-rock/hard prog bands of the 70's.
They would make a nice addition to the heavy prog section or even ecclectic or at least prog related.
Check them out;
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Sean Trane
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Posted: February 21 2008 at 08:05 |
The Rock wrote:
They were from Ontario, Canada and I never quite understood the progressive world's reticence to include them in their ''circle of friends''!
They produced a couple of albums back in the mid 70's.Both albums featured long tracks(the first one even includes a side-longer),mellotron,organ,synth,flute,sax,ect...All the prog pre-reqisites are here.
The music tends to be on the heavier side,with a light bluesy/jazzy touch especially on their first eponymous album.On the second the jazzy aspects are less obvious and are beign replaced with a poppier sound but far from commercial crap.I 'd compare them to bands like Uriah Heep,Argent,Manfred Mann's Earth Band,Santana,ELP and many other art-rock/hard prog bands of the 70's.
They would make a nice addition to the heavy prog section or even ecclectic or at least prog related.
Check them out;
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I just don't know how they escaped my radar before, being an Ontarian.
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The Rock
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Posted: February 21 2008 at 08:47 |
Sean Trane wrote:
The Rock wrote:
They were from Ontario, Canada and I never quite understood the progressive world's reticence to include them in their ''circle of friends''!
They produced a couple of albums back in the mid 70's.Both albums featured long tracks(the first one even includes a side-longer),mellotron,organ,synth,flute,sax,ect...All the prog pre-reqisites are here.
The music tends to be on the heavier side,with a light bluesy/jazzy touch especially on their first eponymous album.On the second the jazzy aspects are less obvious and are beign replaced with a poppier sound but far from commercial crap.I 'd compare them to bands like Uriah Heep,Argent,Manfred Mann's Earth Band,Santana,ELP and many other art-rock/hard prog bands of the 70's.
They would make a nice addition to the heavy prog section or even ecclectic or at least prog related.
Check them out;
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I just don't know how they escaped my radar before, being an Ontarian. |
I guess we all seem to discover the odd eccentric and exotic band from far away but fail to see those right under our own nose!
Glad to see that you agree with me.Dillinger were great and more prog fans need to be aware of their existence.
For the record,after the second album,a couple of members split and formed the heavier band ''The Hunt'' who relesed a very good first album with prog tendencies,a second not so bad,still with little prog traits but a third awful pop metal album.
Their drummer,Robert Harisson went on to play for Offenbach in the eraly 80's.He and his brother Jacques(keybords with Dillinger/The Hunt) were from Quebec.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 09 2008 at 05:21 |
Alain, Will you write the bio on these guys???
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The Rock
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Posted: April 09 2008 at 07:33 |
Sean Trane wrote:
Alain, Will you write the bio on these guys??? |
It will be my pleasure.I'll do like I did the last time for Dionysos,Okay?
Although you'll have to cut and paste the sleeves and pics(if any).
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 09 2008 at 07:38 |
The Rock wrote:
Sean Trane wrote:
Alain, Will you write the bio on these guys??? |
It will be my pleasure.I'll do like I did the last time for Dionysos,Okay?
Although you'll have to cut and paste the sleeves and pics(if any). |
no probs
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Posted: April 14 2008 at 08:48 |
done
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The Rock
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Posted: April 14 2008 at 13:56 |
Thanks for including them.
But I have one quib,why the psychedelic/space rock tag?
There's hardly any psych in their music,let alone space rock.Heavy prog or Cross over would have been more apropriate.Think Argent,Uriah Heep,Manfred Mann's Earth Band,Traffic,ect...harfdly any spavce rock in there.
ALAIN
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 15 2008 at 04:37 |
The Rock wrote:
Thanks for including them.
But I have one quib,why the psychedelic/space rock tag?
There's hardly any psych in their music,let alone space rock.Heavy prog or Cross over would have been more apropriate.Think Argent,Uriah Heep,Manfred Mann's Earth Band,Traffic,ect...harfdly any space rock in there.
ALAIN |
Iseem to remember the samples I listened as psych (not space), but we'll change it!!
Where do you think it suits best? Heavy prog or Eclectic prog???
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The Rock
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Posted: April 15 2008 at 07:36 |
Sean Trane wrote:
The Rock wrote:
Thanks for including them.
But I have one quib,why the psychedelic/space rock tag?
There's hardly any psych in their music,let alone space rock.Heavy prog or Cross over would have been more apropriate.Think Argent,Uriah Heep,Manfred Mann's Earth Band,Traffic,ect...harfdly any space rock in there.
ALAIN |
Iseem to remember the samples I listened as psych (not space), but we'll change it!!
Where do you think it suits best? Heavy prog or Eclectic prog???
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I'd say heavy.
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What's gonna come out of my mouth is gonna come out of my soul."Skip Prokop"
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 06:19 |
Change has been done.
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