New "Old-Fart" here
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Topic: New "Old-Fart" here
Posted By: tube-type
Subject: New "Old-Fart" here
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 21:51
| Hello to all....having listened to this stuff since it first came out (mid 60s), I've been using this site to check out newer progressive stuff for about a year. From looking at the forums, I'm suprised how many youngsters are turning on to progressive instead of the crap on commercial radio. I grew up (sorta) on Genesis, Tull, Floyd, ELP and most of the other usual suspects. I also pride myself in being familiar with, and a collector of (mostly vinyl) the little more obscure stuff...Triumvirat, PFM, Rare Bird, Seventh Wave, Trace, Eloy, Nektar, Michael Quatro, Mike Oldfield, Barclay James Harvest, Kingdom Come, Pavlov's Dog, etc. Here lately, I've been fascinated with IQ. Good site! Later.... |
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Posted By: Sir Realist
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 22:57
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Rare Bird, eh? I had completely forgotten that band. No It's a Beautiful Day? ------------- I can have double standards, and you can't |
Posted By: tube-type
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 12:14
| Yeah...that too...I have to go thru my vinyl from time to time just to remember what I've got...old age! I also have quite a bit of stuff from the so-called "Psychedelic Era" and other rare and out-of-print stuff (read: they ain't never gonna re-issue this on a cd) from the mid 60s thru the early 70s, so when I do go thru stuff, it takes a good bit of time! |
Posted By: Sir Realist
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 15:55
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The back side of "It's a Beautiful Day" got a lot of play in my apartment. "Bombay Calling" and "Time." Definitely fits in the "prog" category. ------------- I can have double standards, and you can't |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 17:34
| Seventh Wave - I have the vinyls too. From one 'old fart' to another |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 14:43
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For some reason I have 2 copies of "sci-fi" by Seventh Wave, and don't like either of them much. Did they do any other albums? Welcome Tube-type by the way, from yet another oldie! |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 14:58
| They did a follow-up called Psi-fi. The first was quite good but this is not quite as good. Unfortunately one of the pair died after that. |
Posted By: strawberry
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 22:16
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Hell, Welcome I am a newbie and an old fart too. ------------- taste is but a matter of oppinion. |
enjoyPosted By: tube-type
Date Posted: May 27 2005 at 16:05
My favorite Seventh Wave album was Things to Come...I really liked "Old Dog Song"...kinda ironic looking back...now I'm the "old dog"...Old Farts Unite! Don't you think we need our own sub-forum?  Oh, and BTW, I'm a huge (read: perversely enamored) Mellotron fan...coolest box ever built...would like to have one someday but will probably settle for a "digital" version.
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Posted By: MarxNutz
Date Posted: May 27 2005 at 20:25
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Hey, tube-type! From yet another middle-aged progger... I see
some familiar names on your list, somewhere I have a tape of Michael
Quattro w/Mahavishnu Orchestra I haven't listened to in ages...
Been meaning to try and find some more Nektar to download and give a
listen to. I have Recycled, A Tab In The Ocean, and Remember The
Future. I saw a couple of other albums on vinyl at the flea market, I
bet they're still there LOL... Have you listened to Tubular Bells
2? Just wondering what you thought of it compared to the
original... This makes me want to go through my record collection,
cause I don't remember what all I have in there! Oy, old age is
creeping in... ------------- "Live long and fester!" |
Posted By: tube-type
Date Posted: May 28 2005 at 19:22
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I guess I really haven't listened to TB2...the original TB was one of Virgin's first releases as a label and thier first pressings were awful...hissy, scratchy, noisy...I went thru two of them with no luck...I took the second copy and rec'd it to open reel thru a Berwyn single-ended noise reduction unit...it was ok. By the mid 70's, vinyl started getting pretty bad...thinner, more pressings per master, etc....CDs saved some stuff out there, but some of my best LPs are from the mid to late 60s...thicker vinyl...they've held up better over time with less surface noise, etc. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 02 2005 at 03:02
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From one old fart to another, welcome! -------------  Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: kirklott
Date Posted: June 02 2005 at 21:31
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Brother, there's lots of new stuff that sounds like the good old stuff. Check out: Citizen Cain Crucible IQ IZZ Little Atlas Magellan Suntower The Watch
------------- "Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin |
Posted By: tube-type
Date Posted: June 05 2005 at 17:13
| Thanx...I've checked out a lot of that...I really like IQ and Citizen Cain... |
Posted By: kirklott
Date Posted: June 06 2005 at 21:04
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>Thanx...I've checked out a lot of that...I really like IQ and Citizen Cain... If you like Cain, you'll also dig the Watch. http://www.thewatch.it - www.thewatch.it - You can listen to sound samples there. I think their best album is Vacuum. Cheapest place to get it in the US is http://synphonic.8m.com/ - http://synphonic.8m.com/ And make sure you have Cain's best albums: Serpents and Somewhere But Yesterday. ------------- "Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin |