Korea is where pop songwriting, vocal harmonies, presentation are happening today. Not only do these guys in this video have some dancing chops, but a couple of em write a lot of Korean pop hits for...
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Korea is where pop songwriting, vocal harmonies, presentation are happening today. Not only do these guys in this video have some dancing chops, but a couple of em write a lot of Korean pop hits for...
Time to catch up to the modern world, folks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSi63MyrSE0
Runner, you might wanna re-read what I wrote. I was referencing the views of champions of Nugent, Keith, and Greenwood's music. I did not mention my own. If you feel that wanting to understand...
It would be interesting to examine the thinking of such artists whose music is championed by people who resist efforts to stop global warming, people who object to programs that enable people of all...
Thanks much for the quick response, Gizmotron. What you wrote here makes me want to read the book. My whole life I've watched artists, big names as well as personal friends and associates, struggle...
Did you read what I wrote? 1) I didn't say all protesters are underground. 2) Are you saying that O'Conner and Eminem are representatives of TODAYs protesters? I think not.
Seems like there's a whole lot of ground that could be covered in such a book (Laura Nyro, Frank Zappa, The Clash, The Temptations, Todd Rundgren, Bruce Springsteen, even the Monkees "Head"). What's...
I wonder what would happen if, some day, it is revealed that a few select professional sports gamblers had been let in on the Astros special secret to getting hits? Put another way, is it ok for a...
Sound On Sound by Red Noise exemplifies innovative song writing, skillful execution, killer production -- my ears love this album. Seen Mr. Nelson with various bands, including Be Bop Deluxe. One...
Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain, Another Green World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGLwJGv1fAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr-FoBW5Xw
Both records were very popular.
My admiration to you Chalkpie. Whatever anyone's view of the "lyrical" content, Billy The Mountain is a very complex composition, loaded with split-second time changes, complex vocal harmonies, and...
The Jean-Pierre Melville directed film of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles (1950). Besides being a truly unique story with plenty of great acting and noir filming, this one might be worth a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSSany6luYw
Hot Rod Lincoln - Charlie Ryan
On Top Of Old Smokey - The Weavers
I feel as though
You ought to know
That I've been good
As good as I can be
I know what I like
And I like what I know
Getting better in your wardrobe
Stepping one beyond your show
Nazz - Nazz Nazz
https://archive.org/details/HalloweenMasksLookAlmostReal
Karen Carpenter solo album - recorded 1979, 1980 -- released 1996. Great musicians Gadd, Cappello, Brecker, etc. Great arrangements. The artist died in 1983, waiting for the "music industry"...
The PE community unveils some revealing responses here...
Among the many many many pops that ring in my own ears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC2EStmc3w4
...
These particular albums that have yet to be mentioned should fit your tastes quite well, and each fits snugly into the wide-ranging definitions of 1970's "prog":
Curved Air -- "Phantasmagoria"...
Ah, yes! Thanks for the correction, pb2015. I should have dug out those old tapes and checked the dates before saying anything. I also have the 1984 Speaking Of Music Zappa appearance on tape,...
This interview was part of an all Frank Zappa, day-long, fundraising event for KPFA. I listened live that day and recorded much of it onto several cassettes that I still possess. Things that stuck...
The idea of "value" = "$$$" is relatively new in relation to art and music, considering how many centuries humans have been creating such things. Perhaps humanity has more to mourn about. Art was...
The obvious suggestion for Progressive Ears readers: I've Seen All Good People
Right you are Progbear, and thanks for the correction. I learned something new today, always a good thing. I bought the cassette version of NH myself (very tiny album notes), and it came out after...
Larry Tagg, Michael Urbano, and Lyle Workman worked with Rundgren on Nearly Human -- Workman on Second Wind -- Tagg on The Individualist (tour only). Brent Bourgeois had some personal problems and...
First time was at a benefit at Bimbos in 1980. Two shows to raise legal defense money for somebody they were close to who was going to trial -- I've heard stories about what the charges were, but...
Ha! I lived in the SF Bay Area for many years, including during the time Rundgren lived there, so I got to see a lot of non-tour/ benefit-type shows and that sort of thing. Also, tickets for...
I think I've seen Rundgren perform nearly 100 shows, going back to the 1970's -- solo, with Utopia, with The Tubes, with Bourgeois Tagg, etc. Lots of great memories from all these shows.
He's...
Just in case there are some EJ fans who don't know, Mr. Jobson was involved in the late 1970's Jasun Martz Pillory album.
https://jasunmartz.bandcamp.com/track/the-pillory-remastered
And a...
Mid 1980's band Crazy Backwards Alphabet with John French, Henry Kaiser, Andy West, Micky Maksymenko might appeal to readers of this blog. Their one studio album is powerfully promising, but these...
One more time for the M. Traveller -- with You Tube emphasis...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3XeQ8y1ym4&list=PLCfM4ys7vZm9MGjWtH_nzxRclPirKLpuD
A few years ago TR did a record with Emil Nikolaisen and Hans-Peter Lindstrøm called "Runddans" -- there's no "songs" on it, but there are a lot of synthesizers, vocals, guitars, some great...
Counselor! This is the second time I've noticed you and I having attended the same performance (Nektar). I'm guessing there are many others. Perhaps one day we should compare notes... Nice to...
What a batch of responses, thanks everyone for ringing in on this. My own story -- 6th row center for Utopia. Except for the fact that Rundgren kept breaking strings on his Ankh guitar, I was...
When he wasn't acting as the only bass player in the group, Roy Wood doubled up with the various bass players of the Move every once in a while. The Looking On album contains some of the heaviest...
Just for the fun of tweaking all your proggy minds... Here's a puzzle for ya:
April 2, 1977. Bay Area, California. Utopia performing at Winterland, San Francisco. Return To Forever performing...
18000 -- you wonder what to make of it? If you're an American, you must be aware that the press/media/etc. in this country is all about selling commercials. Aretha Franklin's gonna attract more...
So what exactly is this discussion about now? The opinions are forging trails all over the place.
Are the people who are talking about Beatles albums now saying that Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts...
Skully -- If are you saying that Revolver and Sgt Pepper are progressive rock albums, I would argue that those records are generally not part of the discussion of the genre. Certainly they provided...
I am genuinely surprised that no King Crimson records have been spun into this discussion. Since opinion is the name of the game here, mine is that every Genesis album from Trick Of The Tale back to...
Tempts: Cloud 9
James Brown: It's A Man's World
Parliament: Flashlight
Stevie Wonder: Do Yourself A Favor
Potentials Of Interest To Krautrockers...
Radio show featuring excerpts from several live Klaus Schulze tapes. This one is a temporary post, probably only up another week or so...:...
Tubes provided me a lot back in the good old 20th Century -- including a lot that all you Rundgren lovers would have liked. I saw...
What I believe was the first Tubes backing Rundgren live...
https://critterjams.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/lovebeach2.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF-dEA-BXTo
Viridiana - Luis Buñuel
A holographic version of that legendary contest with Alice Cooper would be the thing to get those tickets sold...
Unloved Children - Todd Rundgren
Where Does The World Go To Hide? Utopia
We are talking Berkeley Community Theater, right? I was the guy in the front row who supplied the "cigarette" to the lead singer of City Boy (upon his request). As I recall, the guitar player...
Saw a performance from that tour at Winterland, SF. The crowd gave the same rude treatment to Television. Verlaine actually swore at the audience. But everyone in our row (Row 3, stage left) gave...
I ushered at all the New Music America shows at the Kabuki Theater (San Francisco) (7 days in June, 1981). I saw performances and presentations from Lou Harrison Gamelan Orchestra, Laurie Anderson,...
I'm not out to "persuade" or "convince" anyone to do anything. If you don't like experimental music in general, you might mess up your head by listening to some of this stuff, but I doubt it. You...
Avant garde and electronic sound experimenters flourished in an underground worldwide community throughout the 1980's. By trading/selling cassette albums through the post, these artists provided a...
I possess around 125 Zappa recordings (both authorized and unauthorized). I have gone through periods of listening to at least one per day (yes, for around months per cycle). Zappa has influenced...
To all ^^^: fine choices all...
Mine (many more are possible, but at this moment, these come to mind):
The Doors - The Doors
The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat
Fripp & Eno - No...