It was Saucerful of secrets......but my dad was deaf....

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I have another friend from work who I have long known was into Punk and Metal bands like Motorhead.  I was surprised when he told how awesome the latest Rush concert was.  Not only did I not know he was into Rush, I didn't even know they were playing nearby.

 

I think a couple of nephews might get into Dream Theater or Mastodon or other Prog Metal beasts if I introduced them.  They listen to Avenged Sevenfold, so the next level could interest them.  Christmas might be a good time. 

 

I have actually grown to appreciate Elvis over the last few years, especially the early tunes recorded at Sun Studio.  There is still a lot of his music I can't stand, though - soaked in syrupy strings, the Vegas Elvis, that stuff.

One awesome moment that was...

You said "Ever heard of Cardiacs"

He said, clutching his chest " Yeah, I'm having one now"

Other than her, I don't know anyone. I don't even really know her either :\

I smell a band forming....

Horizons wrote: 4 Siblings with similar music tastes? I smell a band forming....

 

colorofmoney91 wrote: The closet I can think of is my sister, who is a huge fan of The Mars Volta and At The Drive-In, but she actually introduced me to them so I guess it doesn't count. Other than her, I don't know anyone. I don't even really know her either :\

Curious: Do you think she's is a closet or is in the closet?

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What?

Hey man, you never know!

That's right!  If we did start a band, we would definitely blow Hanson out of the water.  Just saying. 

Not gonna lie, this is a little depressing.   / 

Her favorite is A Night at the Opera, she likes Floyd, Collins/Gabriel/Genesis.

But she cant stand wierd Jazzy things (aka. Return to forever ect.) or "when the screams more than they sing"

aka Led Zeppelin or rather anything heavy (expc. Queen - they are forgiven whatever they do).   

I like that story. Had no idea Babe Ruth were British though. I just assumed they were American. Roger Dean did a cover for them I believe. I baseball player on a shark or something.

He loves early floyd - especialy Ummagum's - and early danish Hippi'e music from the late 60's - early 70's.

(for those few : Steppeulvene - Young Flowers - Sølvstjernerne - Christiania LP'en mv.)

Along side a shizload of RAP / Hip-Hop 

I sometimes lose my mind and forget how to type, but I'm sure you know what I meant. My sister's potential lesbianism is well hidden, as far as I know.

 

It seemed that the hippies had created an establishment which was 10 times worse than the one they rebelled against in 1969. I take the history personally because I played on circuits with bands like Renaissance, Steve Hackett and a bunch of others during the industry knife stabbing edge into prog days of the late 70's and early 80's. It's a nightmare for members on this site (I know)...to recall the lack of glory in Love Beach or Hackett's Cured.  When you had bands like Butt Trumpet singing "Kill all the F Hippies" or the Sex Pistols with "God Save the Queen" it was humourus and the drive behind it was fun. During the same time period though....Punk destroyed prog in the media. They slaughtered the "Art Rock" side to Pink Floyd and the list was endless. The influence soaked into the minds of punk audiences and the mentality of making fun of a musician became worldwide. This was that period that I so often refer to where the suicide rate for musicians increased. Many of them went on a suicide mission. People say..."well it was because of the drugs",,,but seriously many of them were crushed from the new business concepts in the industry. Their heads were in the smasher.

 

With the exception of prog in the media ....all prog fans are alone and have been alone since the determination to wipe it clean from promotion. I hate the saying..."Give the people what they want" or " "The times changed". First of all.....times do not change on their own in the music business with a wave of a magic wand. The record companies changed the rules of the music business. For example.....Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd would play the "Electric Factory" in Philadelphia during the late 60's. It was completely down to earth in that place. The bands would play on the stage and the crowd would sit staring, observing the band's talents and you could almost reach out and touch the band on stage. It was like they were performing in your house. Then the record executives and promoters destroyed this kind of event and reaction between audience and performer when they proceeded to place all rock bands in stadiums. Keith Emerson was now untouchable because you felt a million miles away trapped between a thousand people in the audience. Emerson was an outstanding pianist who became a "Rock Star" with all the props. The flying piano or smashing his organ like Ritchie Blackmore might smash a guitar. 

 

"Give the people what they want" ....It's as if some guys got together in 1964 with pad and paper to knock on every American's door and ask the question "Do you like the Beatles?" An audience for the most part does not actually know what they want . Not until it is fed to them through the blood stream of the music industry. With the industry......they took a gamble on the Beatles....however decades later they gave the people what they wanted to give them. What is going on with Nearfest today?   I have watched various new prog bands perform at picnics. They are more than capable of playing Classical music and Jazz. I think it's really sick when a diverse type of player has no alternative but to play at a picnic. What does that mean? Where are they sleeping, on someone's couch? This is sad and funny at the same time. We are more alone now than we ever were. When vendors decide to put together prog festivals they only bargain on making enough profit to pay the bands........so they can at least fly back to Europe with a security blanket. What does that mean? That the vendor or promoter is featuring prog music for the sake of art?  Imagine if there was a wealthy business promoter who invested millions into prog and told the industry to pi-s off. That;s what you would need basically to solve the problem. A hero.  

It's nice to see someone else here who appreciates Kings of Leon.

 

He flipped out. "Really!!! Oh she's absolutely incredible! I've seen her twice already...you're gonna love her!" A few days later he tried to get tickets but it was sold out. The day after the show I almost felt bad telling him I got her to autograph my Voice CD and had a photo taken with her after the gig. He's been a fan of hers (and as I learned, jazz fusion in general as well as Jethro Tull and King Crimson) since 2004 or so while I only discovered her at the beginning of this year thanks to this site. We now play some pretty cool music in our lab now. We had no idea we shared a lot of music tastes.

I know there was a second CD, Tømmerclaus made more recordings back then, not on the original.

But havent heard it - sadly. Have You ?

 

 

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Talking about those classics, do you know this one, highly recomandable, very prog in its style, compared to everything else he have done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For me. "I heave a sigh and sadly smile..." then try to sum up in one to two sentences what bands are considered prog and what prog is, in general... I never get to far before I see they were hoping I said Black Eyed Peas or some band I've never heard of.

My dad then promptly ran away to South Africa. I didn't realise I was even listening to Prog Rock until I saw the BBC4 programme 'Prog Rock Britannia' when that first came out which I think was early 2008. Since then I've discovered hundreds of bands I love including Camel, Mike Oldfield and John Martyn. However, when I found each of these artists my mum was quick to point out how my dad was a big fan.

I've never felt 'alone' in my musical tastes. I just talked to my peers at school rather than my friends about music. Interestingly it was only my English teachers who liked Frank Zappa.

 

I was 8 years old when my music teacher played the album "Switched On Bach" by Walter Carlos. This was the electronic version of Bach. It was a strange revelation for me and started collecting Carlos albums. I remember a kid bringing in the single "Paperback Writer/Rain and we thought it to be strange. Music was accessible then and kids were sharing it ...while on the other hand..prog cut that realization of freedom in half. ELP, GENESIS, FLOYD became huge while the underground European prog bands had little chance of success to that level. They were placed on small theatre tours and released domestic versions of their albums. The industry should have promoted underground bands a bit more because the audience of proggers in the U.S. were buying all their albums from Europe and waiting 2 months to receive them in the mail. That was like being alone because if you were NOT in a popular city for art you wouldn't stumble upon anyone in particular who even knew of the band Gong or Popol Vuh. Sad to think of these bands not being promoted enough when their audience was growing.  

 

Our family is heavily musical knowledgable, what with about 3k LP's of music in Santa Barbara, from the earliest music you have ever conceived of to the latest.

 

Because I had heard a lot of that stuff, none of it was unfamiliar to me or not something that I could enjoy, regardless of what kind of music it was. Until one day, my friend played for me something that scared the pants off me and I pooped and peed like a baby ... (not literally!) ... because it forced a complete re-evaluation of what I liked or did not know or thought music was ...  Tangerine Dream's Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" ... and on that day I learned that ... how preconceived our notions of music really are and how we think something is music and something is not because of what we have liked and heard for hundreds of years.

 

I turned the tables on dad, who wrote a lot of poetry on various composers during his life (Jorge Sena - Portuguese Literature), when one day I brought Tomita's "Snowflakes are Dancing" ... and he heard it in its entirety (1 point!) but could only say ... that's interesting ... which is the academic way of saying ... forget it ... so I got mad at him, called him an arts bigot and left. When I stopped by 3 weeks later mom told me that he was really upset, and that he had spent the whole night listening to Stockhausen, Housemann and other "electronic" composers, and then playing Tomita in between ... and that by 3AM he went to bed and said ... that is actually very nice music and very good interpretations of the music!

 

My dad also had a lot of credit and awards and commendations for his work on "quotidian studies" and "comparative literature" which is basically what I do here with Music and the arts that most folks are not capable of working with, either because they haven't read, or heard, or seen ... and that's ok ... but that was like saying that the world can only exist by what you know ... and you know that is wong!

Of course, the ubiquity of marijuana didn't hurt one bit....

 

In those days music communities were tough and harsh toward new styles being developed in rock. Prog rock or then termed "Art Rock" was not excepted as the new majestic approach to any creation of sorts. The Jazz community was divided in 3 parts. The young fusion players who respected prog rock, the great but snobby players who were on an ego trip, and the old guys from the 30's and 40's who excepted new styles with open arms. Les Paul really liked Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Rich admired Carl Palmer. The majority of people in the Jazz community during this period in time were unfortunately the ego trippers. This is an observation of the communities I have been involved with over the years. I am not active today due to lack of interest. You are not completely alone in your musical tastes ..but historically the percentage of people that were anti-prog have damaged the socially excepted life of prog. Prog is very much like a cult or gathering of people with a specific common interest that bonds.