OK, we're rolling a bit.
Welcome, Vito!
OK, we're rolling a bit.
Welcome, Vito!
Joined in Spring of 2008. Never forget, when 7 months later, I read a thread that stated RIP Richard Wright
For me, it's first & foremost about discovering new music. The two areas about which I've learnt the most are Krautrock & the "minor" British keyboard-based prog bands from the early 70s (such as Web, Samurai, Fields, Quatermass, Rare Bird, etc).
A recurring delightful memory is Chalkpie's annual Canterbury Binge.
But my abiding memory was when I told my daughter, who is studying at Edinburgh University, that the son of someone from here had started in the year below her. She has frequently reminded me of her distress that I should have an online acquaintance who goes by the name of Scrotum Scissor.
Camples?
"Normal is just the average of extremes" - Gary Lessor
Topless Yes thread
All prog on Amazon for 99 cents!
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Blue Vino (and that 'mind-fucked snob' post about Dream Theater).
The furore about Yes' 2011 tour with Styx...leading to Geoff Downes' infamous 'yuppets' missive!
Rufus' relentless anti-Phil Collins schtick.
Phil Collins ruined...
The last two got very old very fast, I must say.
This is fun says the new guy...
Soundcloud page: Richard Hermans, musical meanderings https://soundcloud.com/precipice YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/@richardhermans4457
"You can't just talk about the Big 5 forever, you gotta talk about the other stuff too"- SuppersReady101 Dec 1999.
Oh, we DID!
"Play some Devil Doll!"
Uhh, we did.
^ ^ ^
I remember "good ol' sup" threatening to kill me with his gun, when I told him that buying a ticket to a concert did not legally entitle him to record a show and do whatever he wanted with it.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Most of my posts here are about Melvins or Motorpyscho or some other stuff no one cares about much, so I usually wind up posting to myself, but there are two threads I started early on that (for whatever reason) I'll never forget. Both were questions I'd been asking myself for years for which the Internet (in the mid- to late-2000s) had no answers. They are:
Thread 1: What the heck song is happening on the cover of VdGG's Maida Vale??? For years, I tried to figure out what song could possibly be played by a gtr/bass/sax/drums line-up, and nothing made sense. Turns out it was "Urban" which was played live in '76.
Thread 2: What the heck is Lake playing on Works Live? I thought maybe it was some kind acoustic/electric/guitar/bass/hybrid thing that hadn't been plugged in. Or maybe like a box of rubber bands. Nope! Just a weird tone on an Alembic bass.
Unrelated, but probably a life-changing moment (I mean, insofar . . . ), Kavus pm'd me about a new Knifeworld album. Didn't know him; didn't know the band. But the viddy he sent had me hooked. From there it was a short trip backward to Cardiacs.
Both Kavus and Tim Smith have been important musicians for me. Both have been responsible for writing a lot of my psychic and emotional landscapes for the past five or so years.
So, yeah, thanks, PE! Thems is the memories.
I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
Yanks going bananas when I said I didn't like something as it had too much harmony vocals.
Svet continually carpetbombing obscure Balkan prog.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Nearfest (pick a year ( except one)) is sold out!
A cool tool to sharpen corroded memories is The Wayback Machine
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...veears.com:80/
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Some names that have popped by and posted over the years...
Greg Spawton
Tomas Bodin
Nad Sylvan
Billy Sherwood
What WAS that band Sup always pushed?
Had either Mushroom or Unicorn in their name....
"I remember "good ol' sup" threatening to kill me with his gun, when I told him that buying a ticket to a concert did not legally entitle him to record a show and do whatever he wanted with it. "
Ahh, yes. Well, I got a few death threats too over the years. Though not from him. Usually from people that were envious of me for having a place like this. Thinking they could have done it better, had they been King for a Day.
They couldn't of course because they would have started with the wrong motivations. Revenge, etc.... And for that would have deserved to fail.
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Tons of great memories. Possibly the most important ones were threads on Prog from Italy, Spain, and other countries and regions like South America. Those really got me kick started on exploring more obscure stuff. Yes, there were sources that talked about these groups, but the discussions where people linked various groups and gave details about their sound and why they liked it (or didn't) was somehow more helpful and conducive to exploration than consulting an "encyclopedia."
Also, laugh all you want, but I got a lot out of those "what is Prog" discussions, and my perception has changed over the years as a result. Yeah, enough is eventually enough, but I don't think a revisiting of that question from time to time is without value. If nothing else, high entertainment value.
A couple of sad moments I won't forget, reading of Emerson's and Squire's deaths. If it happens in Prog, chances are I hear it here first, good or bad.
Camples, LOL!
Bill
Interviewer of reprobate ne'er-do-well musicians of the long-haired rock n' roll persuasion at: www.velvetthunder.co.uk and former scribe at Classic Rock Society. Only vaguely aware of anything other than music.
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Can't remember exactly when I joined. Back in 2005.... ish? I used to be a big part of a Rush forum until I got completely bored with it & the endless juvenile banter. I was looking for much more & found it here. Snobs, douchebags, @$$holes... I fit right in! Don't post a whole lot but have found a lot of great info over the years. Cheers!
Oh yeah! One of my favorites was The Omega Monkey. That guy would start fires everywhere.
A sad moment for the site when he died but Yanks' claims of being (paraphrased) musically 'open-minded, I like everything from Dream Theater to Tangerine Dream' was one for the ages.
Svetonio- oh God. One emoticon springs to mind- - because he used it so much. I remember an extremely bizarre argument with him where he insisted that The Who had re-recorded songs for the Meaty Beaty... compilation. They hadn't. 'Dogmatic' doesn't cover it.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
The late Arkangel3's review of that Flower Kings album- The Sum Of No Evil. He really hated it! (It's where I got off the bus as well...conveniently they provided said vehicle on the front cover, if I remember rightly!)
Ah, yes. Good old Ken. RIP Loved Yes so much and was so upset about how loose they were on the Styx tour he had to go the venue's bathroom and vomit. The review is part of what spawned Geoff's initial rage. Though he later admitted they were indeed in need of more practice and that Heart of the Sunrise takes more than a week to prep and he should have started sooner.
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