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Still no mention of a new date for the Helsinki show that got postponed when Benoît David fell ill in 2011 :(

RIP Heikki "Pedro" Hietanen who played keyboards in Wigwam between 1975 and 1977, having replaced Esa Kotilainen who passed exactly one month ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P82qjN-1weE

Tabula Rasa's first album has flute all over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDY8JnK0-V8

This is so wacky and audacious that I can't help loving it.

IIRC most of Lambertland was written while Frank Robson was still in the band, and it's obvious that the vocal lines on that album are often simply too high for Raittinen's voice.

Robbie wrote the first verse and part of the chorus. If you look at the lyrics, they get much more expressive and poetic in the second verse, which was written by Jim.

Anyway, nice job from The...

A couple of years ago I saw Suzanne Vega playing a support set for Queen + Adam Lambert with just one guitarist who had a bunch of pedals and used them to create rhythm loops on the fly. As a result,...

13. Dance on a Volcano
27. Entangled
32. Squonk
49. "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." / "...In That Quiet Earth"
91. Wot Gorilla?

The definition seems to be "tracks longer than 15 minutes" instead of "takes up an entire side of a vinyl album" because the very first epic mentioned in the thread was Supper's Ready, which as we...

It's not on Anthology and it has never been released officially, but I see that somebody has gone through the trouble of recording a fake version of what a full band arrangement might have sounded...

The problem is that if the lapped cars weren't allowed to unlap during the safety car, then the gap between the last unlapped car and the first lapped car would immediately stretch to nearly one lap...

Trying to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark in 7 minutes is, if possible, even worse.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbdpXx-PHuM

There are fewer track marshals this year for social distancing reasons, which might have some effect. In general, the number of safety car periods increased greatly after Bianchi's fatal accident in...

"Tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999" doesn't sound as uplifting and forward-looking as it used to.

Kebnekajse also has two bass players. I had no idea about this until I saw them live a couple of months ago (and still couldn't quite figure out why they have two, although apparently both have been...

It should be mentioned that he was also the bass player of the mighty Höyry-kone.

Haven't heard Gustavson's new one yet, but I probably should because everybody has been so positive about it. Here's one retailer who might be able to ship you a copy:...

I was at two of the 50th anniversary gigs (Kulttuuritalo and Tavastia) and they were quite enjoyable but not particularly proggy affairs. The only Gustavson/Pohjola era tracks were Losing Hold, Lost...

So now Boris Johnson has tested positive and Till Lindemann of Rammstein is in intensive care.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52060791...

Finnish government has banned all events of more than 500 people starting from today until the end of May, so the two Van der Graaf Generator shows in Helsinki are cancelled/postponed (and also Yes,...

If anything, Zeppelin ripped off a couple of chords played on an acoustic guitar and wrote a completely different tune on top of that. The melody lines are completely different and the chord...

If I remember correctly, Natalie said something about having to figure out who is most likely to buy the advantage with their fire token, because if she gave it to someone who decided not to buy it,...

According to their drummer's Facebook posts, they intended to do a big North American tour as well, but the planned co-headliner (whose name wasn't disclosed) dropped out.

I was at Kraftwerk's 3D show two years ago and my seat was so far to the right that I actually saw what was going on behind their podiums. Three of the band members were playing keyboards and as far...

The vocals on the first album could probably have been better if they had more than one day of studio time. The last track recorded was Warning and on that one Ozzy really sounds like he needs to...

Dream Theater used to do this a lot early on in their career.

"And though the time will come When Dream and Day Unite" in Only a Matter of Time
"Images and Words are running deep" in Wait for...

Looks like boots from both 1990 Philadelphia shows are available in YouTube.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBSdxj_iOpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpL-pySzI0s

The cover photo of Magma's Facebook page was just updated to list the following names:

Christian Vander
Stella Vander
Hervé Aknin
Isabelle Feuillebois
Rudy Blas
Francis Linon
Simon Goubert...

Somebody posted in a Finnish prog fans' Facebook group that he had received an email from Bussonnet about this in December 9th, but was wondering if it was really true because there had been no...

If I counted correctly, Centipede had 55 members when they recorded Septober Energy.

Caravan's Frozen Rose (a.k.a. I Don't Know Its Name Alias The Word) which was left off of In the Land of Grey and Pink is one of their best tracks ever as far as I'm concerned. I can see why it...

That reminds me of Liberty Bell by The Gathering. The lyric isn't otherwise too bad, but the money line is "we are sitting in a chair". A rather underwhelming climax.

26 May in Helsinki was also confirmed today, which I'm very happy about because Van der Graaf Generator is the very last band remaining on my bucket list.

One of the main reasons why Clare Torry was given a co-composer credit for TGGITS was that in Floyd's live performances the vocal was done pretty much in the same way as it is on the album....

https://img.discogs.com/DqGkIrbeIBgMoiyEOxK-4vFIHHg=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4256570-1359910054-4936.jpeg.jpg...

I find it quite strange that the CD only contains an abridged version of the album to avoid making it a double CD. That makes it even harder for me to justify why I should spend almost ten new CD's...

Songs such as Ballad of Dwight Fry, I Love the Dead, Dead Babies and Cold Ethyl have been in the setlist quite recently. He doesn't have a problem with the dark horror songs, but the ones that he...

Believe it or not, the lowest price I've seen in European stores so far is 85€ (= $95) at amazon.de.

Where did you see it? I am still a little bit pissed that they dropped Gates at the Helsinki show because the show started late due to some problems getting through the customs at the Russian border.

So this guy ranked all Rush songs but didn't agree with me about the quality of every single one? How dare he insult my taste like that!

I remember reading that some of the footage from the final part of 2001 is simply recolored aerial footage originally filmed for Dr. Strangelove. Perhaps he only started destroying it later.

Last Saturday I went to see Magma and skipped Dream Theater. I'm quite happy with my decision.

It has received a lot of media attention. Some members of Saimaa write commercial pop songs as their day job and have worked with Pyhimys earlier in that role. Also, Matka mielen ytimeen featured...

Pyhimys is one of the most popular rappers in Finland at the moment. His latest solo album also went to number one and is still at #14 after spending 65 weeks on the charts, never dropping out of top...

ELP should be at both ends of the scale at the same time.

IMO the only thing that could save this sorry excuse for a season anymore would be Reem coming back and winning. In any case, the jury is full of people who have been toughing it out at the EoE in...

One common source for these are the plastic instrument video games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero that were popular about ten years ago. The music in these games is mixed on the fly from isolated...

Wigwam's Being contains nothing but twofer segue songs (although due to the limitations of vinyl format, one pair was split up in the middle).

Fireball also sounds very similar to Warpig's Rock Star.

One interpretation I've heard is that each verse is about one of the members of The Beatles. That requires some fairly creative interpretation, but it kind of works: George is a holy roller with hair...

They never did any four part harmonies, though, and rarely spread the harmonies over multiple octaves. IMO their main influences for harmony vocals were most likely The Everly Brothers and black...

John Lennon's bass playing on The Long and Winding Road is really clunky and imprecise with an occasional missed note. No wonder Phil Spector buried in in the mix.

I don't think this could be done with just one piano. Although to be honest, I don't even understand how it can be done with just one brain.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnQdP03iYIo

I have a mid-70s UK repress of LZ II and on the label the songs on side A are listed as

1. Whole Lotta Love (Page-Bonham-Plant-Jones)
2. What Is and What Should Never Be (Page-Plant)
3. Killing...

I've always thought that Return to Forever's Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant (Parts I and II) sounds like the corniest possible neo-prog song title. Truly ahead of their time.

When it was released in 1992 it topped the album charts in virtually every European country. That's how forgotten they were in the 90s.

Jeff Probst recently said in an interview that there have been regular talks about an all winners season, but it's not going to happen because in Probst's opinion there aren't enough winners who are...

It's not the original stereo mix since the panning of the instruments is not as extreme as in the original, but there is definitely some panning going on (the distorted vocal at 0:02 is mixed quite a...

Who really played the piano on Rock and Roll Music is one of the unresolved Beatles mysteries. The "John, Paul and George Martin together on one piano" version comes straight from the original liner...

White Album is very rough around the edges at times, but at least when it was wrapped up, Lennon and McCartney stayed up all night working on the final mix and sequencing. Whereas Let It Be contains...