Mad Men and English Dogs

[augdimsus]

Anyone familiar with the Mad Men and English Dogs album? If not...it reaches well beyond Nigel Glockler's usual gig as drummer of Saxon. With fellow Saxon Doug Scarratt on guitar, this instrumental music visits some proggy realms as in the mellotron-infused "Snow-capped," the majestic "Pomporwot," and the Camel-referenced "One Hump or Two." Glockler writes quite a bit on keyboards and is among relatively few drummers who express pleasing chord movement. The resulting album is varied and often quite tasteful, with some fun nods toward metal territory (bangers or sausages?).

More info follows for anyone interested:

http://www.nigelglockler.com/maddog.html

http://dmme.net/interviews/glockler.html (lots of prog references here)

[spellbound]

I had not heard of it, but it's a great title for an album.

[rcarlberg]

[PeterG]

Never heard of it or the musicians who played on it.

However

[augdimsus]

Never heard of it or the musicians who played on it.

Neither had I until recently. Nigel Glockler has had an interesting career, playing with Toyah, Saxon, GTR, Steve Howe ("Turbulence"), and Asia. His personal tastes run toward Genesis/Hackett and PFM among many others. Here's a French-originated interview, which is interesting in its own right from the working musician's perspective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uNWeKSLaw0