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Topic: Prog from your city
Posted By: mrcozdude
Subject: Prog from your city
Date Posted: June 07 2009 at 21:24
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I was quite curious in knowing what prog bands (if any) came from your city. Muse lived in Teighnmouth which is very close to my city,Exeter.Matt Bellamy used to live above Exeter's sex shop with a heroin addict which is about 30 minutes walk from my house.Also Thom Yorke used to study in Exeter University but I suppose that doesn't count as the rest of the band are cambridge based (I think). How about you? I'm sure you guys can do much better. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: June 07 2009 at 21:28
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None that I know of. But we did hoist Babes in Toyland on the world which I'm proud of.
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: June 07 2009 at 21:48
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A bunch of Brasilian prog bands started their life in my birthcity, Rio de Janeiro, but in some cases like O Terço or A Barca do Sol or Bacamarte or the prog-related 14-Bis some of their members came from other country's states/cities.
A real carioca (native from Rio de Janeiro city) band is Quaterna Requiem.
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: June 07 2009 at 21:54
Only prog band I know that came from my city is... well, mine.  Oh, but Adrian Belew was born like 5 minutes away from me. I think that's really cool.  ------------- 
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: June 07 2009 at 21:57
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Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!
No - none.
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: June 07 2009 at 22:00
That's fine.I appreciate your enthusiasm. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow">
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ClemofNazareth wrote:Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: June 07 2009 at 22:19
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I am from Mexico City, and if there is a band i am proud of, they have to be Cabezas de Cera, they are outstanding!! ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: meptune
Date Posted: June 07 2009 at 23:13
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Phoenix, Arizona here... not much to speak of. ------------- 
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: June 07 2009 at 23:27
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^ There is a somewhat interesting and proggy-ish band called the Stilletto Formal from Phoenix. As for me, I live in far too small a town for there to be prog, though I'm trying to form a technical avant-garde metal band with a couple guys. ------------- 
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Posted By: Endless Wire
Date Posted: June 07 2009 at 23:58
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Ty Tabor is from my town. Don't know if that counts for anything. ------------- . |
Posted By: jonirob
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 01:50
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Blackpool, England. Two that spring to mind are Jethro Tull and Roy Harper. Jeffrey Hammond lives on the same street, a few houses down the road. In fact Martin Skyrme, (John Evan Band 1967) and Tony Williams, (Tull bassist, 1978) are both good friends of mine. ------------- 
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 01:57
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Someone is going to hate me for posting this http://www.myspace.com/tteeaa - http://www.myspace.com/tteeaa -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 02:21
| Until my friends and I form a band there will not be a trace of prog to come from Laguna Beach, California. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 03:20
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It's not by habit to give some more detailed information about by whereabouts and I'm going to violate my own rule no more than just a little bit. But an inquisitive person may get some info out of it. The...er...er...city where I live now has never been good in producing prog and I guess it will never be. But I was born in the same place as a guitarist whose name is well known here on PA. The same place saw a band that can be found here on PA in the Crossover Prog section and belongs to the more symphonic part of it. The name of this band is a 5-letter palindrome. ------------- 
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 03:21
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Seven Reizh is a prog/folk band based not so far from Concarneau my hometown.That's all. ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 03:29
Djamra is a progressive band of my hometown, not added in PA but recommended by memowakeman! (Thanks!)  ------------- http://www.facebook.com/damoxt7942" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 03:35
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Only progband from Canberra (Australia) that I can think of is "TALIESIN".
Not on PA. ------------- 
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 04:33
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My hometown Düsseldorf got and still has a liveley music scene and produced among others Kraftwerk, Neu, La Düsseldorf, Streetmark plus the solo records of Michael Rother and the late Klaus Dinger and their side projects.
BTW K. Dinger produced and played also with newer Düsseldorf based postrock bands like Kreidler and Mouse On mars which are worth checking out.
and on the Postpunk side there are some interesting bands like Der Plan, Die Krupps and DAF
and the Fluxus movement was linked to the Academy Of Fine Arts of Düsseldorf with artists like Beuys and Nam June Paik and George Maciunas who performed one of the first Fluxux concert there.....
and obviously the still unreleased 80's tapes of my band Burning Headquarters.
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Posted By: Luca Pacchiarini
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 07:45
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I live in Empoli... but it's pretty close to Florence...
Florence: Campo Di Marte, Califfi, Nuova Era....
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 08:19
| One name for all: Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (Rome, Italy) - though I know for sure there are many, many more. |
Posted By: SergiUriah
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 08:30
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Je,je,je,je...I live in Bilbao. The most progressive thing here was Uriah Heep concert in 1976 and another with Triana, and some prog cds and vinyls in the music shops (when you find them).
A difficult place for prog...I´m afraid. ------------- http://img229.imageshack.us/i/bonfirma.jpg/"> 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 08:34
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The closest that I can think of at the moment is Black Sabbath.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 08:35
Well, if we are talking about rock in general, what about Judas Priest?  |
Posted By: AmericanProgster
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 08:40
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Hmmm...I'm from Lakewood, New Jersey and I don't know of any prog bands that started there. The closest I can come up with is Gary Wright who played with Spooky Tooth. He was born in Cresskill, NJ which isn't more than an hours drive from where I was born.
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Posted By: enemyofthesundevils
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 09:48
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I live in San Antonio need I say more. To be fair we do have a post rock-y band in the vein of Dredg called Pop Pistol but I do not consider the prog but I don't really consider Dredg prog either. About 65 miles north of me in Austin we have the venerable Explosions In The Sky and members of Giant Squid are from Austin but they relocated to San Francisco. |
Posted By: Luca Pacchiarini
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 10:14
Rome?
Raccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno
Reale Accademia Di Musica
Libra
Quella Vecchia Locanda
Goblin
Metamorfosi
Murple
Pierrot Lunaire
L'Uovo Di Colombo
Alberomotore
Cherry Five....
and many more
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Posted By: enemyofthesundevils
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 10:16
| I amost forgot that guitar player Ron Jarzombek is from my hometown of San Antonio and he's the guitar player of Blotted Science and the late,great tech-prog metal band Watchtower which is beforre my time but from what I hear pretty impressive. they were a big influence on the early progressive death metal band like Athiest,Cynic,and Pestilence. |
Posted By: Mellow Tron
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 10:28
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Wonder if there's any prog from Canterbury! ------------- Searching for me You look everywhere, Except beside you. Searching for you You look everywhere, But not inside you. |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 10:45
Several members from the Psychedelic/Spacerock band Öresund Space Collective are from my city 
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 11:42
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I live between York and Leeds - slightly nearer to York, so I claim Mostly Autumn as being from my patch. A great band and really nice people, too. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Nov
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 12:16
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I live near Cambridge, UK. So that'll be, err, Pink Floyd then. No idea what happend to them though. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 12:21
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I live in Cologne, which had a big prog scene in the 70s, spearheaded by Can, of course. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 13:02
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Absolutely nothing from Carmarthen, Wales, as far as I know, but Roger Glover did marry a local girl!
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 13:10
My point exactly! Birmingham has a lot of rock bands but bugger all prog. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 14:08
The Moody Blues were from Brum weren't they? ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 14:57
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Hmm, here in Menen, at the Belgian-French border I didn't meet any prog artists yet. Just the man in the mirror |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 15:43
No one from my city but a pretty major one from my state, take a guess who it is.  ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 16:42
well, on th PA - The Moody Blues, Traffic, The Move, ELO, Led Zepplin, City Boy... ------------- What? |
Posted By: Nov
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 17:20
Errrr......Boston? |
Posted By: Repner
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 18:35
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Hmm. Any from Glasgow that I don't know of?
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Posted By: paulwalker71
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 18:44
| Parallel or 90 Degrees which was Andy Tillison's band before The Tangent were based in Burley-in-Wharfdale, just north of my home town of Bradford |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 19:27
| I live in San Diego Ca, and we have the great Mike Keneally living in town. There was a band in the nineties, called Superunloaded, who were really good, but never heard from them again, which is a real shame. |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 19:39
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I'm from Québec, Canada. And there's a lot of great prog bands from this city. Harmonium, Maneige, Pollen, Octobre... Rush ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: June 08 2009 at 20:44
Chicago? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: infandous
Date Posted: June 09 2009 at 13:54
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Well, here in the middle of Pennsylvania, USA I would say..............probably just myself However, a few hours away is Philly, home of Echolyn............ |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: June 09 2009 at 15:09
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Hi,
Over here in Portland, Oregon, the tendency is to kill music ... there are no sound/music agencies that can do concerts here that know how to do anything else other than drums, lead guitar and bass ... which of course lends itself perfectly to only one type of music and some of it is considered jazz ... but if you ever want to hear a keyboard, please go to NY and SF where the audiences are more critical and demand more for the buck ... here it's a disater and an insult to the artistry itself.
The only band I have seen here, that had good keyboard sounds was 20 years ago, Tangerine Dream ... and they are not stupid enough to trust anyone else to touch their sound system and isntruments ... and of course, that's the same reason we will never seen them again here ... or over most of America for that matter!
Even Roger Waters a few years ago at the Rose Garden, did not sound very good at all ... and he has some phenomenal keyboard work in his albums.
There is one something or other orchestra that goes around with a couple of Theramins and making it sound like they have compsed some sort of avant-garde music ... it's actually quite dissonant and reminds me of the days of some of the really early folks like Stockhausen and Heinemann ... whose musical talent was dutyfully forgotten in favor of much better musicians ... sometimes I think that if they had added sound effects to things it might be more exciting ... but somehow someone playing some musical scales upside down seems to be "musical" ... although to my ear it is rather boring.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: June 09 2009 at 15:15
Ahh, I'd forgotten about them, we even had the Mellotron factory here in Brum, so I suppose that counts for something. Dean: Didnt Led Zep come from Kidderminster? ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: June 09 2009 at 15:38
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Marseille : Barricades (70's), Eclat (90's), Nnecra Packê (90's), Jannick Top (born in this city). |