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Bartok String Quartet No. 4, Movement IV:
https://youtu.be/6TcyOKJilHI?si=P1_UjabSsLpTkuSh

Does the cover of our first album count? I know that making it warmed me up (or was it "heated"?).
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This was a pretty cool interview w/ members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum on the Protonic Reversal Podcast. It's a bit over two hours long.
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I was going to say, if we're talking about prog, it might be faster/a shorter list to come up w/ songs that are NOT sci-fi/fantasy.

Guitar.

iTunes lists Geddy as the narrator of the audiobook. I wonder if he’ll sing some of the text…perhaps just a word here and there.

I like both drummers. However, I think they need someone like Marco Minnemann, someone who might do considerably more than create and play drum parts. Minnemann has composition chops, as well as...

On my band's (Far Corner) first album, we had flute and clarinet as guest musicians on our last track, "Fiction." I thought about having one or both of those instruments featured throughout the...

Tom Ford, drummer for Milwaukee-area band Fibonacci Sequence passed away today. Some may remember them from their performance at Progday several years ago. My band played a few gigs w/ them over the...

Metallica's drummer was on the Smartless Podcast this week. At one point, Jason Bateman asks him if we will ever again get a group creating rock/metal musicals/operas. I hoped he would mention...

Thanks, Steve! I posted awhile back, looking for this. I have a wizard piano student, in high school, who plays piano w/ his marching band. He was telling me about a marching field show using...

Doing a search for "Univers Zero tribute band" revealed nothing. If there was one, it would be great to have oboe, bassoon, and clarinets in the band.

She’s a great improviser, but it’s her composed moments that impress me the most.

This Friday, July 28, Far Corner’s second album, “Endangered” will be offered for just $5.00.
Go here:
https://mailchi.mp/cuneiformrecords/hey-todays-5-album-is-chamber-rock

I remember listening to the Exposure Radio Network in the ‘90s, when the host announced that Echolyn was no more, and were now two separate bands (paraphrasing).
My wife still wears her two...

https://youtu.be/uxM_XnENNuU

Volapük is/was cello, bass clarinet, and percussion for at least some tunes. I remember there being some keyboards, perhaps harpsichord, or other acoustic keys, but...

I am seeing the term “unplugged” getting used here. There’s a big difference between an electric rock band who decides to give a performance unplugged, and music that was originally composed for only...

Like many of the tunes mentioned so far, this group, even on their first album, uses electric bass.

Are we allowing this? 😉

Are you talking about bands in live performance, who are using no amplification and only acoustic instruments?
If you’re talking about bands who only use acoustic instruments when recording their...

This is a tune from his band. I think his singing voice might be a big plus for the band:

https://youtu.be/bXQp4NSEH64

This album, so far, seems to be the group's "Tales from Topographic Oceans," both in how experimental it is, as as well as how polarizing the effort seems to be in the world of fan reactions. The...

In their new album “Life is but a Dream,” Avenged Sevenfold manages to create something progressive and experimental, without going into the Dream Theater styled prog metal.
This album will likely...

Great music, thanks!

Thanks! Your check is in the mail.
As a younger lad, I was fortunate to meet Chick Corea and see him play live several times. Every time I saw him perform, it made me want to get to a piano and...

Are you referring to lyrics? I think a lot of prog metal sounds happy, bright, and/or positive, but that is with respect to music.

AWESOME! Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestions. Keep them coming, if you can.
This has been my favorite, so far: https://youtu.be/SJ5fmTC3qMs

I’m looking for names of progressive rock bands with bluegrass influences. This could mean bluegrass ensembles, which are made up of instruments such as banjo, fiddle, upright bass, mandolin,...

One of Far Corner’s all-time favorite gigs! Congrats, Mike Potter.

Hurrah!

Scardust
https://youtu.be/ibPVGP3mIJ0

👍🏻

EXACTLY! They needed a whole symphony orchestra to fill the role of one keyboard player (although the number of keyboards Wakeman had onstage took up the space of a small chamber orchestra).

Yes, he came in on the wrong fret, making his part a half step too high for 2–4 phrases, but was then back on.
Playing just a couple tunes, with quick changes between sets, perhaps made it hard to...

I believe Mr Keneally had his booth next to ours at Progday 2005. It was fun talking to them, and great to see them onstage. Congrats!

While improv can be fun, playing something that is different from the original recording does not always mean it was improvised. Sometimes, bands re-compose sections or whole tunes, or add on...

FYI: Jason Blake from Aziola Cry also plays in a new band with Craig Walkner from Far Corner and Joe Kopecky from of course, Kopecky.

In the new HULU Docudrama series “Pistols,” about the formation and rise of the Sex Pistols, prog rock makes a couple healthy appearances, in the first episode, at least.

First is a scene where...

We (me & wife) love this album. A very pleasant surprise…Can’t wait to listen to it, again.

One thing to consider: while many prog musicians are classically trained players, that doesn’t mean they have classical training as a composer. Playing and composing are two different things. I often...

Zappathustra,
Shamblemaths is fantastic!!

Sometimes, if one takes a classical work and plays it on rock instruments, especially with the addition of drum set, it automatically sounds like or could be described as progressive rock. I think it...

Just sci-fi, or fantasy as well?

When I was in college, the night club in the dorms had a “Rush Night” one night. That’s where I me up with my future [and current] wife.

A friend who worked at a college radio station received “When Dream and Day Unite” in the spring of 1989. It arrived with the band’s full promo pack, which included a statement claiming that this was...

Dream Theater just won the Grammy for best metal performance for their song “The Alien.”

When did you first hear and see DT?
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We (Far Corner) had the privilege of opening for Brian Auger in Milwaukee in ‘06 or ‘07. I remember his organ onstage made for a cozy space for us to play in.
I believe a show in Chicago, the night...

Rick knows his stuff. I was interested to learn recently that cello was his main instrument, where he was classical trained for the first several years of his musical life.

Do you mean “sidelong” as in “sidelong glance”?

Yes, my first thought was that this was the best album Crosby, Stills & Nash never released.
Very enjoyable, all the way through.

I second this one!

Great songs of the progressive rock repertoire deserve to be performed and heard live. Because the original bands who created them are no longer around to perform them, it doesn’t mean the music...

In high school, I complained to a friend that there was no real great drumming on rock radio. He said, “You should hear ‘YYZ,’” and I said “who’s that?” He told me it was the name of a tune by Rush,...

George Crumb, (October 24, 1929 – February 6, 2022) an important figure in American modern classical/avant-garde music. “Black Angels” is perhaps his best known work.
https://youtu.be/11o8nHk-l_o

I heard the Michael Sadler interview, which was great, thanks! I will check out your Rachel Flowers episode.

Yes, the way she laughs and giggles, as soon as she’s done playing something is inspiring. She has the time of her life playing music, and has no wish to hide that.

I just listened to "Bigger On The Inside.” There’s a nice variety, but at least a couple tunes that are very much in the ELP style. Well done, too.

I liked the interview and look forward to seeing Progject. These are great compositions that should continue to be performed live, even if not by the original artists. I don’t think these tunes...

What are the thoughts on keyboard prodigy, Rachel Flowers within the Prog community? She’s been blind since birth, and as a big Keith Emerson fan, she’s covered his music and created a lot of her...

While I’m glad to hear Alex trying something different from Rush, this song did absolutely nothing for me. I found every aspect of it completely boring. However, there wasn’t anything about it I...