SHT
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SHT
Playing Steve Howe's guitar parts accurately in our defunct prog tribute band DG was incredibly difficult. The classic albums Fragile and Close To The Edge were comprised of 4 soloists essentially...
They should cover that Jeff Beck Group song, "Definitely Maybe."
Don't you just love pin tweaks?
It's no Stand Up. Althought it was fun covering "Cross-Eyed Mary" in DG.
Now you understand why we eventually formed an original band. Too many "real prog fans" who are willing to judge you because you actually played the studio songs too well. "I might as well listen to...
This is what our former tribute band did. We covered 9 different progressive bands in one night.
In Absentia is brilliant, disturbing, and is a difficult cover to look at - but so is the basic theme behind the album.
A perfect match.
Touching...touching you...inside, inside, inside,...
And is discussed in depth on the allmusic.com website: http://www.allmusic.com/album/schemer-dreamer-mw0000339123
Pretty damned funny review of the cover art, regardless of the music.
That which cannot be unseen. Part 1.
Rush | first album: Actually very strong in terms of graphics, it's just those "we recorded all night at a studio at a discount rate and couldn't take a bath before this picture" pictures on the back...
Or maybe Yes isn't.
We all WERE Yes.
I know many who regularly have spiritual experiences at recent Yes concerts.
I must have been at the wrong church.
Look, it's great if they still do something for you.
But I play this music on...
Completely agree. Thanks for the in-depth review!
What makes Echoes so incredible is it used all of their strengths. That's when Floyd was truly a BAND. I don't think TDSOTM was even possible without MEDDLE coming first.
Remember that cow album?...
I would say Echoes is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. * P I N G ! *
Yes will always be one of my favorite bands, but I actually enjoy a rather slim selection of their catalogue.
Less is more.
And me as a teenager looking all over the U.S. for that very rare album which I figured then had to have a Roger Dean album cover.
I couldn't have been more wrong (and may have actually seen it,...
:up
No. I'm quite positive that comment will be topped in the future on a prog forum. Have faith. TFTO is like a car that keeps stalling. Speed up. Slow down. Stop. It never gets enough...
Another article about Sunday's Newmarket NH performance, with seminars before the concerts:...
Do The Strand. :up
Interesting review of one of the best-received albums in the history of progressive rock.
I suppose that depends on your opinion, doesn't it?
Hint: Howe's playing is not nearly as complex on...
Perhaps..............................................not.
Well, at least he picked one of mine. X)
Yessongs couldn't replace CTTE in a million, trillion years.
The technical intricacies of the studio albums are FAR more complex than any of the live recordings.
Energy doesn't replace creativity.
John, thanks for creating the webarticle!
Bill -
Lead guitarist in Circuline.
Unfortunately some males, simply put, DO NOT just "shake hands."
It's the "macho death-grip."
And it can really do damage.
I've shaken hands with male fans after our shows - and my hand then...
What would Don Kirshner say?
That bloke on the cover looks unhappy. X)
CAN "Peking O" go
Damo talk crazy again
Momma gonna eat
Q: Why did Jon Anderson leave Yes?
A:He got over all those forest-raping-overhanging-trees?
(I know I would)
There was metal in prog, but not shred. The closest I can find is Holdsworth, but he's still legato-ing and not really shredding arpeggios all over the place. The entrance of Yngwie changed the...
COMPLETELY disagree.
I'll take Meddle over ANY other Pink Floyd album.
I'm not a huge fan of "Eruption" on Side 2 of Focus' "Moving Waves."
X)
"Answer the damned phone, Orfeus!" - Euridice.
I still rave about Roland's MicroCube amps. The smallest runs on 6 AA batteries and has multiple COSM modeled amp sounds and built-in effects. Wish I had this amp when I was learning guitar in 1978....
^ On the inside triptych.
Sessyongs.
The girl and flying ship were forced on Dean to add them by Atlantic, according to Dean's book VIEWS.
http://www.guitarworld.com/video-amateur-guitarist-vittorio-camardese-displays-two-handed-tapping-technique-1965
Some sources claim it started centuries ago (albeit on other instruments), and...
Heard Camel albums back in college, but they just never became mainstays.
Meddle, on the other hand...
I quite flipped out when I first heard CAN.
Only because all of those things that I thought were so innovative on P.i.L's Metal Box (Second Edition) really............weren't.
I'm not sure if I...
I remember feeling very alienated in the middle 70s because I could not write songs like "Old Time Rock And Roll."
If you aren't good enough (yet) to write prog tunes, and you cannot stand most...
You don't have to sell me - one of my all-time favorite solos is his, in Echoes.
Dogs is another one I just had to get down note-for-note on guitar.
I had to know what he did.
Brilliant.
There was some dude from the 1950s that was already doing the tapping, so I don't think that Steve Hackett invented it.
I have read that Eddie Van Halen once saw Steve at an early Genesis concert...
Gilmour's playing is deceptively difficult.
It's not as easy as it sounds.
Gilmer.
I prefer Pilgrimage over Argus.
The Live Dates versions (especially "Blowin' Free") kill the studio cuts.
The debut has "Handy" which is one of the greatest things they ever did...and worth the...
Too late.
That offers a house dark brew called "Bock's Speared."
And even though Steve's incredible - Mike is also responsible for a lot of doubleneck 12-string/bass, and Taurus pedal playing in Genesis.
Tony is also playing 12-string on the beginning of "Come...
Nails. Or not.
Steven Wilson, in almost any incarnation.
What about the third category, all by itself: Fripp? :lol
People weren't trying to categorize everything then - they just listened to all different forms of music. It was all called ROCK.
It was the music critics in the punk era, and beyond who suddenly...
They're both two of my main guitar influences - I won't ever deny that.
Sit down and play "Clap" from start to finish on a Martin 0018 acoustic if you don't think Howe is "that" accomplished. It...
I'm now totally convinced that I'm not totally convinced.
How convenient. :O
Rather amazing how Rush is such a "great prog band from 1970 to 1975" when their debut album was released on March 1st, 1974. Following this logic, they are technically better than all of those bands...
I gotta go mow the lawn.
This was never an "always" even back in the 70s.
I'm also hearing someone who should possibly be creating music instead of complaining that no recent music is ___________ .
If it's so easy to define all the exact parameters, then create it...