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someone_else 
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IGNEO1991
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Posted: May 08 2009 at 15:45 |
UNIVERS ZERO
this group is a bit avant garde, but good!
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StyLaZyn
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Posted: May 08 2009 at 15:53 |
Rush used the violin player, Ben Mink, from the band FM for their song 'Losing It'.
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: May 08 2009 at 15:54 |
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Not mentioned so far:
High Tide
Skaldowie (the solo on Krywań, Krywań!)
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"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
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rushfan4
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Posted: May 08 2009 at 15:55 |
 StyLaZyn wrote:
Rush used the violin player, Ben Mink, from the band FM for their song 'Losing It'.
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He was also on Geddy's solo album My Favorite Headache.
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lucas
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Posted: May 08 2009 at 16:01 |
For those who like some metal in their prog (or rather the other way around) :
PHLEBOTOMIZED
UNEXPECT
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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RunawayBoy
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Posted: May 11 2009 at 11:23 |
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Pavlov's Dog was nice :) I now remember my dad recommending this band when I was home for Christmas
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Hey Stan, come see what your old man made
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: May 11 2009 at 13:21 |
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moshkito
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Posted: May 11 2009 at 15:00 |
HI,
Let's see ... off the top of my head ...
String Driven Thing -->> Van Der Graaf (Graham Smith) (And Mckendree Spring?)
Curved Air -->> Wolf (Darryl Way)
Amon Duul (Kris Karrer)
PFM
Banco
Esperanto (try the 3rd album!)
Ides of March (Killer version of Eleanor Rigby on their 1st album)
King Crimson (although I did not find it that special at all)
Per Lindh Project
FM -->> Nash the Slash
High Tide -->> Hawkwind -->> Spiral Realms (Simon House)
Curved Air -->> Roxcy Music -->> UK (Eddie Jobson)
Gentle Giant
Gryphon
We can always add some others, that were not in the pop/rock vein ...
Scarlet Rivera
Jean-Luc Ponty
Frank Zappa
Shankar (ECM)
(will add more as I remember it )
In general, for originality, I would say that Amon Duul 2 is the best. For classically minded uses of the violin, I find all the others rather good, but also somewhat conventional ... it's hard not to enjoy "Vivaldi with Canons" from Curved Air and Darryl Way going nuts ... it's fabulous ... and you must play both versions (live and the original) to get the full pow-wow of it ... but things like Gryphon are highly "classical".
Gentle Giant is the odd ball here. Their musicianship is way up and above anyone else's and their use of instruments ... is off the chart compared to 95% of the bands mentioned here. They are special in their own way, but it is stuff that is heard to sync into ... thus their first album "Acquiring the Taste" ... which is highly mandatory and recommended anyways regardless of music.
In general, Banco and PFM's uses are very well defined in a classical way. King Crimson's couple of albums with it, are not ... as "important" to my ear ... as the more experimental stuff around. I really thought it was just some people wanting to bring their instruments into the modern idiom of "rock" .... 50 years from now an electric guitar will hold similar posts to a violin ...
I can not tell you right off the bat the good, the bad and the ugly for jazz violin .... Ponty is hardly jazz in my ears, and the same for Rivera.
Zappa is listed here, because he is a composer that is second to very few ... and he knows how to compose with one hundred instruments and you find a lot of violins, sometimes doing fun things and different things all over his music ... and it is fascinating and crazy at the same time. Were he a New Yorker he would be way bigger ... but because he is from Southern California he is not a "master".
Shankar is a Hindu that plays violin within the context of a lot of diffent musics, jazz included best known for his bit with Bruce Springsteen ... what key you playing? ... you no worry Bruce ... you just play and I join in! ...
Edited by moshkito - May 11 2009 at 15:21
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SoundscapeMN
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Posted: May 11 2009 at 22:46 |
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Kiss Kiss
Clann Zu
Murder By Death
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http://last.fm/user/SoundscapeMN
http://allmediareviews.blogspot.com
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The Pessimist
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Posted: May 12 2009 at 06:29 |
himtroy wrote:
The Pessimist wrote:
You all fail because no-one has mentioned Mahavishnu Orchestra the very FIRST band that springs to mind when anyone says violin. |
You fail because you clearly can't read and somehow manage to be on a message board |
How rude... Do you feel you have some unresolved issues you'd like to share with us, because you seem very angry. Don't worry dude, I'm all ears. Slarti, sorry for missing your post man. An honest mistake. You don't fail 
Edited by The Pessimist - May 12 2009 at 06:36
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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cesar polo
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Posted: May 12 2009 at 12:22 |
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Check CURVED AIR and UK, very interesting bands
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mrgd
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Posted: May 12 2009 at 19:29 |
Moshkito has given you some good leads as well.
STRING DRIVEN THING's ' The Machine that Cried ' features excellent violin from Grahame Smith and some cello also. Darryl Way vintage CURVED AIR is also good as previously mentioned up to ' Air Cut' featuring Eddie Jobson [ great album - you would be aware that, apart from UK , he went on to join TULL, ZAPPA and ROXY MUSIC for short stints and is making a comeback with UKZ].
EAST OF EDEN also uses violin as does USA band of the late 60s and 70s IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY. Australian fusion band of the same era MACKENZIE THEORY also had a classically trained violinist. And for something very interesting and current check out Armenian symph band OAKESENHAM who have a nice mp3 stream here on PA. 
A few more then to think about.
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Looking still the same after all these years...
mrgd
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himtroy
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Posted: May 12 2009 at 20:22 |
It all started when I was eight..
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The Pessimist
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Posted: May 12 2009 at 20:33 |
himtroy wrote:
It all started when I was eight.. |
Go on, this chair is definitely comfortable enough.
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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timothy leary
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Posted: May 12 2009 at 23:14 |
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the flock
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Icarium
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Posted: May 14 2009 at 12:23 |
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Electric Light Orchestra have violins
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Icarium
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Posted: May 14 2009 at 12:31 |
<<thus their first album "Acquiring the Taste" ... which is highly mandatory and recommended anyways regardless of music>>.  Aquiering the taste is not Gentle Giants first album but it is there 2nd  gentle giants first recorcd is caled Gentle Giant (self titeled) and was released in 1970 and AtT was released in 71. but it is greate violin preformances on both CDs Funny Ways and Isnt it Quiet and Cold have both violin.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: May 14 2009 at 13:38 |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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The Pessimist
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Posted: May 14 2009 at 14:31 |
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
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