Progressive Rock that isn't dreadful

[Siouxsie]

My tag line tells which mast I nail my flag to


I saw Pendragon support Marillion on one of their New years tours, they were alright.
We had scary seats right at the top of the Gods in Liverpool's Royal Court...I was convinced I was going to get a nose bleed and fall head over tit right to the bottom

 

[Siouxsie]

I Love Anathema, this is one of my favourites


Edited to add...
I was here and it always makes me cry..... for some unknown reason I felt compelled to post it ....Think I need to go to bed

 

[The39thStep]

How could Jon Anderson go from this to Tales of Topographic Oceans

 

[Knotted]

I'm really liking the new Steve Wilson remix of Gentle Giant's Free Hand album. I always felt the slightly murky production took the edge of what's really a tremendoulously fun record. Here's Just the Same with that bass line really brought out.

 

[Sprocket.]

I went through all the Gentle Giant stuff at the time. My path navigated by my best mate who is slightly older than me, we first struck up a proper conversation after acknowledging each other for a few months when he saw me carrying a copy of Argus by Wishbone Ash I had just bought. We have been good friends since 1971.
He pointed out Steve Hillage, Gong, Soft Machine and some incredible artists. But he got really excited after seeing a band in early 73. He forced us all to listen to the album by them and we saw them a few times over the next year at various small venues.
They were called Public Foot The Roman, and I likened them to Wishbone Ash at first. They evolved later into an art-rock band called The Movies and disappeared when Punk hit the scene.
Anyway, for your consideration. Public Foot The Roman.

 

[glitch hiker]

How could Jon Anderson go from this to Tales of Topographic Oceans

No fucking way is that Mr Opio

 

[killer b]

I picked up the soundtrack to the film of When The Wind Blows from the chazzer today, and it has this Genesis track on it which is an undeniable slammer. It's also the final track of Invisible Touch (' the group's undisputed masterpiece' - P. Bateman) which is giving me pause.

 

[petee]

I picked up the soundtrack to the film of When The Wind Blows from the chazzer today

urban dictionary tells me that a "chazzer" is an exceptionally corrupt cop.
selling old vinyl is a side business for a police friend of yours?

 

[killer b]

Its colloquial English for a charity shop. I think you guys call them 'thrift stores'

 

[hash tag]

I picked up the soundtrack to the film of When The Wind Blows from the chazzer today, and it has this Genesis track on it which is an undeniable slammer. It's also the final track of Invisible Touch (' the group's undisputed masterpiece' - P. Bateman) which is giving me pause.

Had the Wind for years - never stopped to look at the playlist before
Late Genesis I wouldn't bother about

 

[killer b]

Late Genesis I wouldn't bother about

I'd assumed this, cause everything I'd heard previously was rotten, but this track is a gem.

 

[Knotted]

Late Genesis is pop with proggy elements done reasonably well and there's some gems in there. It's certainly not car crashes that were 80's Yes or Asia. I get the appeal, but still I can't get interested in it. Not even that track.

 

[The39thStep]

Apparently, Porcupine Tree have reformed and have a new album and tour in Spring.

I have always had a particular liking for the superb off with the motley festival of riffs and magnificent drumming of this live track

 

[hash tag]

Late Genesis is pop with proggy elements done reasonably well and there's some gems in there. It's certainly not car crashes that were 80's Yes or Asia. I get the appeal, but still I can't get interested in it. Not even that track.

Not only do I prefer early genesis but a big fan of early Yes - they lost me about the time of Tormato. Albums like Relayer and Fragike are superb albums as if the Yessongs triple

 

[Knotted]

Not only do I prefer early genesis but a big fan of early Yes - they lost me about the time of Tormato. Albums like Relayer and Fragike are superb albums as if the Yessongs triple

I think they lost most people with Tomato. Drama was alrightish though Buggles-Yes.

 

[hash tag]

I think they lost most people with Tomato. Drama was alrightish though Buggles-Yes.

girlfriend of the day really like tormato, particularly Don't Kill the whale.
She was also mad about Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow.

 

[Knotted]

girlfriend of the day really like tormato, particularly Don't Kill the whale.
She was also mad about Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow.

I've got Olias of Sunhillow. I haven't listened to it much, but I remember it being pretty good.

 

[hash tag]

I dug out Going For The One the other day. It was not good. About to go out plugged in to Wind and Wuthering. Very dreamy.

 

[hash tag]

Sky arts. Now. Oh yes.

 

[The39thStep]

Obviously for the diehard however there's a bloke who has a channel on Youtube does some really intriguing 'imagined' albums of prog rock mixing alt versions, out takes, and tracks from solo or collaborative projects. Bit like time traveling to a time you thought existed but it didn't.

 

[Chilli.s]

there's a bloke who has a channel on Youtube

good find

 

[The39thStep]

A fans made video of Gentle Giants Proclamation. A track I am only passingly familiar with tbh but this is utterly astonishing and quite hypnotic/compelling.

 

[Knotted]

There is a bit of Gentle Giant revival going on atm especially with Steve Wilson's remastered reissues. Derek Shulman says they are more popular now than they ever were in their day. Proclamation is one of their best songs and that video is really well put together and includes all surviving members as well as the fans.

 

[Knotted]

There's this perhaps surprising Run the Jewels - Gentle Giant connection. Derek Shulman who is now a record executive signed them and knows them and there is reportedly a mutual appreciation with RtJ sampling GG's Knots on Legend Has It

 

[The39thStep]

I never realised that half of Gentle Giant were in Simon Dupree and The Big Sound

 

[hash tag]

Kites is a superb little ditty

 

[Knotted]

Just going to put this here.

RIP Ray Shulman

Bassist/violinist and the youngest of the three Shulman brothers from Gentle Giant. One of the three main writers and responsible for a lot of the jazzy bounce of the group. They've always been a niche band but their popularity never wains.

From a couple of years back. There's something really heart warming about this fan video especially as it has all then surviving members. Little duet with Kerry Minnear.



This has Ray all over it:



Love that somebody went to the trouble of creating this lush animation for it.

A spontaneous rendition of Sweet Georgia Brown. I assume Ray on violin.



Really gutted by this news tbh.

 

[Knotted]

His favourite GG album was Acquiring the Taste. It's mine as well. That combination of Phil and Ray's jazziness and Kerry's baroque/madrigal compositions is something very unique. This song is very over looked in my opinion. Not a big show stopper but everything about it is exquisite, especially that vocal harmony.

 

[Knotted]

Couple of killer bouncy bass lines here.

 

[Knotted]

If anybody is interested there's a Steve Wilson remix of Gentle Giant's Interview due out in June. It's always been a bit of an odd album that one and not one of my favourites, but he did such a good job with Free Hand that I'm looking forward to a new perspective on it.