Live at Carnegie Hall vs Playing the Fool
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Topic: Live at Carnegie Hall vs Playing the Fool
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Subject: Live at Carnegie Hall vs Playing the Fool
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 19:24
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Two live classics. Choose one. For me, Playing the Fool. ------------- You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' about You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' at all |
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 22:47
Playing The Fool 
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 00:09
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Hi, Both are excellent, and it is really hard to select one. This was, by far, the best time for Renaissance with Annie. GG was not as appreciated at the time, until this album came about. At our station in Santa Barbara, for example, only Guy Guden played GG on a regular basis, along with many other fine things that no one else touched, or had an ear for ... in this sense, Renaissance was the easier one to tackle, but in due time, and many years later, one can see the incredible musicianship involved in all the members of GG. The show I saw them in, their encore was insane ... the musicians played musical chairs and switched around until all of them had played everything. Craziest thing I ever saw, but I have not heard anyone mention that before! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 02:43
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I much prefer Chicago's Carnegie Hall to Renaissance's. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 04:34
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Love them both... but, Renaissance for me. ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 06:11
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Love 'em both but, Playing the Fool for me. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 06:26
| Giant of course. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 06:36
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Renaissance gets the nod. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 11:33
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Renaissance - one of the best symphonic prog live albums ever. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 12:06
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I covered a track off each of these two albums in a much longer poll of lives myself recently. I had not listened to either album in many years. I used to like that Gentle Giant live much more than I now do, whereas I found more to appreciate from that Renaissance live than I remembered. Live at Carnegie Hall for me for sure. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 14:28
| Good poll after listening to them both I give Renaissance the nod. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 26 2025 at 15:37
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Despite my nickname, I prefer Renaissance ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Moonshake
Date Posted: April 27 2025 at 10:37
| Gentle Giant |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 27 2025 at 13:08
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Like both, but Giant gets the nod. I stretched the highway into a pie plate, another in a series of contributions to socks. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |