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Since Florian Pilkington-Miksa has unfortunately passed away in 2021, this is rather unlikely (re: Curved Air)

Quod sit demonstrandum (sorry for the pun-ny Latinism):

The Capitol of Power's introductory Moog line and later descending chord progression (from 01:00) is clearly closely inspired by Trilogy...

‚Amazingness’ :heart – and safe travels!


PS.: I just re-read the Modern Drummer story of Pat Mastelotto going to the Sylvian/Fripp auditions, where Mike Giles also reemerged after x years,...

Does anyone remember (monsieur Aymeric probably, at least) the King Crimson member/alumni interviews that one Bill Murphy had conducted during the 1990s?
He got hold of almost all of them (even...

I just wanted to correct you à la GuitarGeek that the object Carl is wielding in that most subtle video is a Dynacord Rhythm Stick/Jamma, a rather crude guitar/bass shaped electronic percussion...

While being neither Japanese-speaking nor an anglophone, the Japanese 'a' is generally demonstrated to sound like in:

Yamaha (or even Omaha, NE) -> so that's the a you'd apply here

So, the...

UKZ Radiation

Marco Minnemann from ca. 4:00-4:30 soloing over arpeggiated guitar chords


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFlnG3AKOW8

This description is actually a bit misleading. :p
The actual lead guitar is quite virtuosically performed by the late Alan Murphy(Go West, Level 42). HZ has a solo part coming it at ca. 3:20 to 3:50...

Anyway, the my answer to the initial question would be, that there are literally hundreds, or rather thousands of prog-metal and fusion guitar players who could play the above parts (also in unison,...

To put things a little bit into perspetive, checkerboard floors were generally an ’80s interior design staple, and very often whole bathrooms were covered in that pattern.
I remember them also being...

Interestingly, this has been questioned and challenged a long time ago, already

This is an online diary entry from Dec 2nd. 2003:...

Only it wasn't.
Brian Eno did indeed compose the Windows 95 startup sound (as any online search would show instantly).
And why should this preclude Robert Fripp from getting invited 10 years later...

No, that was Holdsworth, in fact

Van Halen News Desk: tribute to Eddie Van Halen's Favourite Guitar Player
https://www.vhnd.com/2017/04/17/allan-holdsworth-tribute/

But there was *for* sure a...

This time it's my turn to pull a quote that originated on his old forum, where he outlined the whole Yes experience. I think I posted it years ago in another thread.
Here's the paragraph describing...

Thanks for the sources - that's a pretty well-made FZ page I didn't know of.

Do you have sources for these two quotes – never saw them before

https://musescore.com/brondrums_music_1/scores/3167461

As for Rick, I think he is, as so many producers, so enamored with the studio gear aspect (as one can see e.g. with his amplifier and guitar...

That's essentially a 4/4 tune from start to end where they throw in a truncated 7/8 bar each time at the end of the instrumental riff.

It was apparently more like it was not authorized by him at all:

I.O.U. Live (album)

Allan considered this a bootleg, and was able to pull it off the market. The recording is the soundtrack to...

I don't know, by googling the full name? :cool

Anyway, that's his homepage:
https://thomasthielen.wixsite.com/t-homeland

https://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/11329-Chris-Squire-interview

Here's a 2014 interview from Chris, where he mentions the dangerous side-effects of that pairing during Summer and...

I am sure that you know this, but without the ring modulator in the separate Deckard's Dream Expander there is a huge component missing in terms of Vangelis (or even Eddie Jobson) emulation in the...

One thing that you have to remember: musicians play music. They don't write it. Composers write music. So if you don't have something for a musician to do, you will be treated to noodling. You will...

It's been alluded to in post #5



I think knowing that song and its lyrics is kind of assumed around here.

The many-armed wizard of Greenslade

I really really really have to thank you for this info gem – I used to muse quite a lot about this particular interlude, although not being the classical case of Zappaphiliac and haven't looked for...

I don't know if you've noticed, but there is a link to the court's decision in the wiki article of Chariots of Fire, which sheds some light on the arguments at hand.
...

Depends on the definition of the term, of course

1988 Franz Zappa wins for "Jazz from Hell"
1995 Frank Zappa wins for "Civilization Phaze III"

1985, 1989, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2010 Jeff Beck for...

Exposure’s liner notes:
“This album was originally conceived as the third part of an MOR trilogy* with Daryl Hall’s solo album ‘Sacred Songs’ and Peter Gabriel II, both of which I produced and to...

Thank you very much for this little glimpse at least – it's not easy to find it nowadays.

It is not the first time Geoff has relied on an arpeggiator for risky parts like this.
This is a classic synthesizer feature going back to some end-of-the-70s analog keyboards, where you hold down...

http://threadoflunacy.blogspot.com/p/analyzing-holdsworth-bbc-recordings.html

BBC3 "Jazz In Britain" - November 14, 1979
(broadcast January 8, 1980)

Allan Holdsworth: Guitar
Gordon Beck:...

I want to add to this a bit – Schmetterlinge have performed a critical song against the inanity and greed of the record industry at ESC, and their entry ‚Boom Boom Boomerang’ was a parody on not one,...

If it's about instruments as well:
Van der Graaf Generator - Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild

αἰωνία ἡ μνήμη
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I read the title thread as a quest for songs about individual musicians in a more narrow sense.
So it took my quite a while to come up with this sole entry:

Brian Eno: Zawinul/Lava

Then I...

I know, I just wanted to quote verbatim.

I do have it, and here are the results of the query:

It's indeed Trevor Rabin, who listed Apocalypse.
His full list is as follows:
1. Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture cond. Leonard Bernstein
2....

I really want to recommend the CD/DVD of the Radio String Quartet from Austria, who arranged and performed Mahavishnu material in an admirable way, that also highlights the stellar quality of the...

Amazingballs!

The Bungle is also strong within them, I'd say…

Great post and lots of valuable information!
I think you can be considered one of the best vaultmeisters™ for any artist. Thanks!
<and I'm not even that big of a Kevin Gilbert fan in the...

Dave Kerzner/Squids opined, no way, he would've been basically too strong a personality for Banks & Rutherford to accommodate.
And the playful trashing of the ghettoblaster playing ‚Invisible Touch’...

Thank you very much for the pointers, great to see that someone here already dabbled with this!
In case it will really be too awkward to ‚plectrify’, I shall hybrid-pick shamelessly. Yes, I am...

Wonderful interview, and I have already one from the early bird edition, without the special pick included, though, for those were out real quick!
It's a true gem from a great person & author. „All...

It's GPS, not PSG (that's Paris St. Germain) :good – I could imagine that after the Downes-Payne split there was a careful separation of ‚manpower‘ and a choosing of sides you wanted to continue to...

Imagine referring to the opposite as “Kid Rock” — wait, that's something else? Like, equalling "Young Dad Rock", maybe :huh :roll

Great episode again!
Had a chuckle when you referred to Eddie Jobson's Nearfest live project as XYZ (Yessian slip there) instead of UZ, and even Marc called it YZ a bit later :p

Thanks a lot for this exhaustive answer to all my questions – I am relieved that the box I've missed out on hasn't got that much over the other edition.
And also for pointing out the little details...

Yeah, I totally understand this, I just went with the flow of this site to point out minutiae.:oops
The notion of e.g. corrective subtitles like "[sic]" or "well actually he meant…" in this format...

Just a little mistake at ~49 minutes by Mark:
It's not Larks' Tongues in Aspic, that is not on the King Crimson album of the same name, neither is it Starless in Bible Black, but Starless...

It also seems that Astra, the proverbial "difficult third album" was what ‚signed the deal‘ about them not being a consistent AOR force that delivers massive income for the hungry label.
This...

When listening to the release live stream, Marc seemed to emphasize that the main reason for taking so long was their decision to pass on all profits to charity, which apparently made a lot of labels...

Oh, requiescas in pace!

Btw, here is an extremely expansive (believe me, you've never seen a scroll bar move so little :cool) transcript from his 2013 lecture at Red Bull Music Academy, extremely...

The Basement and its dwellers is a concept or term Fripp has often mentioned in his diary, denoting an ignorant and egotistic behavior or worldview he disapproves of, to simplify things.

In his...

Great - the trailer snippet (that I was quite curious about after last year's episode) reminds me of a refined version of Shawn Lane in his Powers of Ten (and a bit of Tri-Tone Fascination) phase....

Sorry to hear this.
My guess would be they went back and got sold to someone else.

Great interview!

What you could've possibly asked him as well, is whether he was aware of some of the English prog(ressive) rock violin players such as Daryl Way, David Cross or Grahame Smith....

I found it excellent as well.
BTW there is bonus footage of the interviews (Leonard, Pratt, McLeod) in a link below the video, in case somebody has missed that.

I can't find my 1991 Keyboard magazine interview with Patrick Moraz at the moment, but I seem to remember he mentioned that he might join in on some Union dates that would take place close to his...

It is possible to watch this in continental Europe?
I remember that BBC offerings featuring the iPlayer (or something like that) were restricted from foreign ears/eyes.
Maybe with a Tor browser,...