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Any 80's Crimson, with the exception of "The Sheltering Sky", on Absent Lovers or later liver releases. "Red" also is better on nearly every live version I have.

"Close to the Edge" on Yessongs.

Could just be personal taste on GftO, but that original CD pressing always sounded good to my ears and it was one of the first CDs where I started to notice a lot of the subtleties (especially the...

Glad to see it mentioned here. It is one of the first CD's I ever purchased (I bought it in Singapore while on a port visit aboard USS Enterprise in 1989) and this pressing still amazes me.

My...

I was born in 1970. I was a metalhead in the 80s and leaned towards bands on the proggier side (Anthrax, Iron Maiden, Metallica, et al) I loved Rush as well. I finally took the yes plunge around...

I passed last time they were in town and based on what I saw on "Meltdown" I should really make it this time!

But I want my music to sound like what I was listening to in the 70's. Got it.

John Wright- Galactic Cowboy Orchestra


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tXafvj6Pa4

I can explain it pretty easily, audio quality and accessibility. Recordings I have from the 30's & 40's, in the days before multi-track and stereo, really don't sound that great and when I was a...

I love RW's with and playing. I really wished he would have played on Talk, as it seemed that he and Rabin had a definite chemistry during the Union tour. It was a good record, but it could have...

I've always heard him say his biggest gripe was that the album had a ton of padding that really hurt the brilliant bits that were clearly there. That's a pretty reasonable assessment IMHO.

KC's Deja VROOOM DVD had a few tracks that allowed you to isolate an individual on camera and bring his part to the front of the mix. I wish more bands would do something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s

If Def Leppard can get nominated, why not Roxy Music?

200,000 in Germany alone, probably similar numbers in the US, but those are hard to come by. The last year I saw figures for album sales in the early 2000s, less than 100 albums sold 500,000, for a...

I think you pine for time that never existed. I'm guessing there were plenty of good bands in the 70s that never made it because a record company had to deem them good enough for their purposes. ...

Musicians still do records like that, I would point to and example like Kamasi Washington releasing "The Epic" and "Heaven and Earth", both 3 CD sets, as a similar bold move on both artist and the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZKCNFInJc

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Nice review. I watched it over the weekend and didn't notice the split L-R channels for guitar, so I'm looking forward to giving it another go soon to listen with this in mind.

You're not the only one with fond memories of FII. Yeah, there's some filler on that record, but "New Millenium", "Hell's Kitchen/Lines in the Sand", and "Trial of Tears" are really good tunes that...

YES! The band is really tight and the film is well done. I really like the old PT numbers and Ninet taking the lead on "The People Who Eat Darkness"

I don't think it's nitpicking or thinking too hard to point out that adding unnecessary crowd noise is distracting for some and lowers the quality of the recording.

I think Publick and Hammer have to be prog fans and Yes fans, or their episode "Perchance to Dean" probably would not have been as on point with the Prog sub-plot.
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I recall on the YesYears video it seemed like all of the band at the time looked at it like some sort of "comeback" or "return to form".

A million thumbs up on this one. I listen to HYF a lot. It was the perfect album to come along when I finished high school and joined the Navy and sailed the world. Sure, some songs haven't aged...

I tried again yesterday with the same result. Oh well. In full disclosure, I am the guy that finds laugh tracks on sit-coms grating as well. It's just how I'm wired!

I didn't get the DVD, but downloaded the album from Amazon and the crowd noise really is a buzzkill, so much so that I probably won't give it another listen. This is a shame, as I do like the takes...

Trey Gunn's "Live Encounter" Album with Trey and Joe Mendelson on Warr Guitar


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DiLpG-O6As

Welcome Aboard! I loved "Return to Ox" and am looking forward to record #2!

Can't believe I forgot about that one! "Walking on Air" is one of my favorites as well.

Yes has had a few that I used to get my wife used to prog:

"Where Will You Be?"
"Hearts"
"Turn of the Century"
"Onward"

"Ghost of a Chance" from Rush was always a favorite.

Frisell really takes to the jazz ethos of making a song your own, IMHO.

His version of "Heard it Through The Grapevine" is a favorite.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v-MGE2pziQ

Never heard of them, but I really like that sample! Time to dig in!

I was shocked when I read the lyrics to this bit of Porcupine Tree's Halo:

"I'm not the same as you
Cause I've seen the light
And I'm gaining in height now"

Because even now I hear:

"I'm...

I couldn't find it on a quick YouTube search, but I watched a video last year that compared the vinyl SW remix of one of the Jethro Tull albums to an original vinyl pressing and the original sounded...

For some sruff definitely inspired by the Dregs:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tXafvj6Pa4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T4FbI-bC6s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj-FzdO7r4E

They have always been great fun live and usually bring the house down when they play them. Kind of like "I've Seen All Good People" for me, don't really like the song that much, but it is usually...

That's quite a statement to make when the mid-20th century brought us composers like Copeland, Rodrigo, Gershwin (he did young in 1937, but had a huge influence), Stravinsky, Britten, and so on who...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCEWyuom12I

Not all completely prog, but all good

Carla Kihlstedt
Annie Clark (aka St Vincent)
Lisi Wright (Galactic Cowboy Orchestra)
Kaki King


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shYdqbJgQdc

I saw them in Charleston last night and he seemed to be playing everything at a pretty good clip (maybe not as fast as 20 years ago) and his tone was amazing. The show was really good overall.
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While the the intense, instrumentally driven side of KC does get the most attention, I've always thought that their ability to move easily between the light and heavy without sounding forced or...

I thought it was a fun episode.

I think the Captain probably had no choice as he didn't remember any of it, other than taking over the ship's computer and the word of his slightly off-kilter...

The lyrics are pretty corny on TTI, but damn if they didn't some energy to that song that makes it a great listen.

I was born in 1970, so that affects some of my first purchase items!


Tull album: Aqualung
Tull tour: N/A
Yes album: 90125
Yes tour: Union
Genesis album: ABACAB
Genesis tour: N/A
Floyd...

I think the case-in-point for your Roddenberry take is the fact that he hated Star Trek II and Star Trek VI, which were two of the better outings of the films.

I've liked it and I'm still hanging in, but the Water Bear wasn't a big issue with me. ST has used odd life forms as plot points and moral dilemmas before (One of the only Voyager episodes I liked...

She can shred (which she doesn't do much), but her playing reminds me of what I expect from a Bowie guitarist, kinda weird. The new one and the previous self-titled CD are both really good, but her...

I can't believe Toy Matinee hasn't been mentioned. I've always loved the sound of that album ever since I first heard it being played over the PA at the then Lakewood Amphitheater before Yes in...

I took a 10 hour drive from South Carolina to New Orleans a few years back and listened to the Rush studio catalog back to back (it took most of the round trip). I found even the albums I didn't...

I probably didn't articulate that as well as I should have, especially the new wave 80s. They incorporated a lot of the synths and other sounds that were being used heavily in popular music at the...

I could make a pretty pretty compelling argument that Rush never really set any trends. They're first few albums were inspired by Led Zep and the like, then a prog phase, the AOR phase through...

Don't forget Accept: Balls to the Wall and Metallica's "Kill 'em All" from 1983

Die You Bastard from Another Perfect Day was one of my favorite songs to get me jacked up to play football on Friday...

Ride the Lightning- Metallica: My 14 year old self had just discovered Metallica via the WUSC (Columbia, SC) show Massive Metal.
Powerslave- Iron Maiden
Defenders of the Faith- Judas Priest...

Second the vote on Pasquale Grasso. In addition to being an incredible jazz player, his classical chops are impeccable!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTMaw7va4WI

Not many straight up prog guitarists on my recent list, so here are the guys & gals that have impressed me of late:

Kaki King is flat out great and her albums have a bit of diversity in their...

I saw them in Atlanta in '01 and they opened with the never heard by these ears "Dangerous Curves" and "Level Five", I was so excited to see them and see them playing new stuff to boot. Low energy...

It's funny to see that reaction, I took a while to warm to KC. I was a teen in the 80s and thought that era KC sounded "synthetic" and 70's KC was too cacophonous and inaccessible. I bought THRAK...

Never heard of them, but what I heard online just drove me to purchase. Outstanding stuff and thanks for posting and expanding my music catalog.