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Ah yes, who can forget Brain Salad Surgery?
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Steve Hackett, ex of Genesis still doing the stuff. I saw him at the Hammersmith Odeon last year. Still very very good.
View: https://youtu.be/DsHU_e_x_fM
View: https://youtu.be/DsHU_e_x_fM
Profpointy
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We were lucky enough to see them in Cardiff a year or so back. Maybe the progiest prog rock band if the all. Wow, what a gig! Three drummers out front, wind player, guitars (and the like, including a guy doubling on a "chapman stick") and Robert Fripp himself sat in a chair quietly at the back, despite him being the bandleader and main creative force. The music was complex, particularly the interaction between the 3 drummers - I didn't see sheet music but though it must be hard for the drummers particularly to keep it so precise and tight without it. As befitting such "serious" music, there was no light show, no "hello Cardiff" whooping and hollering, and just a polite bow between pieces. One of the best and most exciting rock concerts I'ver ever been to, and I wasn't a particular fan to be honest.
Here is the same line up, in a very similar performance to what we saw
View: https://youtu.be/3028oDEKZo4
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I’m glad I’m of an age where I didn’t grow up listening to this drivel
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Heresy!I’m glad I’m of an age where I didn’t grow up listening to this drivel
EltonFrog
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I’m glad I’m of an age where I didn’t grow up listening to this drivel
Be fair, it is drivel, well played drivel but nonetheless total drivel. If you want utter drivel I would suggest the sub-genre of prog rock- Space Rock, which manifests itself in the aural personification that is Hawkwind; now that my pedigree chum takes drivel to the stratosphere.
rogerzilla
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Supertramp does it for me, especially Crime of the Century, which is just about the perfect album. And middle-period Pink Floyd.
Oxford Dave
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There are some bands I simply wouldn't give house room to - and that includes Pink Floyd (at least, anything they did post-Syd).
I have quite a few CDs boxed in the loft, but the only ones out on the shelf in my music, etc. room are the 100+ I have of the world's greatest band - The Grateful Dead.
rogerzilla
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I know it's an unpopular view but I think Syd leaving was the best thing that ever happened to the Floyd
Grant Fondo
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Post Waters leaving is the really bad Floyd, i got to like the early Syd stuff eventually.I know it's an unpopular view but I think Syd leaving was the best thing that ever happened to the Floyd
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Drago
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I have to say, much as I love prog the Floyd have never done it for me. Despite all the fuss I don't think they're especially remarkable musicians either.
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I saw King Crimson several times in the '70s. Once at the bar at Manchester's Hard Rock, I ordered two pints of Bitter, the guy next to me ordered a glass of milk, I turned my head to see Robert Fripp getting his money out of a leather pouch on his belt. 
How many people on here own Still by Pete Sinfield?
How many people on here own Still by Pete Sinfield?
You cannot know what you missedI’m glad I’m of an age where I didn’t grow up listening to this drivel
Chromatic
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You cannot know what you missed
He missed the golden age of rock/popular music. He deserves our sympathy.
