Locomotiv GT ... would you recommend?
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Topic: Locomotiv GT ... would you recommend?
Posted By: T.Rox
Subject: Locomotiv GT ... would you recommend?
Date Posted: October 23 2006 at 06:23
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I have just seen the band Locomotiv GT from Hungary listed as prog band on another website. They are not listed on PA.
Do know this band and what style of music they play?
Would you recommend spending your hard earned cash on any of their CD's? ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: October 30 2006 at 07:35
Is there no one out there who is familar with this group and can give a bit of info on their music  
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Posted By: honganji
Date Posted: October 30 2006 at 20:12
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I own their albums. Locomotiv GT's music is so to say progressive hard rock / symphonic rock in the early days. Unfortunately I don't know later albums. They are not always close to Locomotiv GT, if you like Piramis, Novela, etc, you may be able to enjoy the group. East, Rumblin' Orchestra, After Crying, Fugato are entirely different type Hungarian bands.
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Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: October 31 2006 at 17:52
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^Thanks for that.
The two albums in question: Mindenki Maskepp Csinalja - Zene (1977) & Mindenki (1978) ... any particular thoughts on these albums?
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: October 31 2006 at 21:06
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Better start with OMEGA, the band number 1 in Hungary, they are more progressive and have much better melodies (IMHO).
When Gabor Presser left Omega in 1971, he found Locomotiv GT. LGT style is closer to bands like Rolling Stones than to prog. Though LGT are Hungarian rock legends too. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: honganji
Date Posted: November 01 2006 at 00:40
Alas
 I don't know them. Sorry.
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T.Rox wrote:Posted By: skyrover
Date Posted: April 12 2008 at 05:19
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Hello,
first of all, the photo in the band's profile is incorrect. It shows Omega in the early seventies, after Presser and Laux left the band. :)
Locomotiv GT is very different of any other hungarian rock groups. Presser is a great composer, and we can say, that he is the musical motor of the group, alone. As a composer he thinks in a progressive way, and he is one of the greatest keyboard-expert in Hungary at least, but I think there's something that doesn't work in the LGT-songs. In my opinion, most of their albums and songs is boring.
The only LP I like is Bummm (1973), but that's nothing special, just hard rock.
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: April 12 2008 at 05:27
Sia, Can you provide a correct photo? If so then I'll upload it. Köszönöm szépen  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: skyrover
Date Posted: April 12 2008 at 07:31
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Szia Tuzvihar!
What do you think about this? This is the first promotion photo of the band, from 1971.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hu/2/21/Lgt1971.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hu/2/21/Lgt1971.jpg
Nagyon szívesen!
:)
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: April 12 2008 at 07:36
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Nice one! Thanks. EDIT: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3190 - Fixed ! ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: April 12 2008 at 08:27
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Syrius, Barbaro and Kolinda are/were far more interesting bands from Hungary than LGT and Omega, IMHO.
There is a Syrius thread somewhere among the appreciations, it wasn't too popular.
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