The Prog Rock thread

[delb0y]

Here's me and my good friend Paul Newton - who was in Uriah Heep with David Byron. I can safely say we never played any Prog Rock. Paul's about the only proper rock star I know.

 

[Drago]

Look what arrived today. Apparently Wakeman turned the prog up to 11 for this one.

 

[Drago]

Listened to this a couple of times today. All I can say is, wow!

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

A program rock thread, 6 pages in and no mention of Tales from Topographic Oceans.

Very odd.

 

[Venod]

No mention of Barkley James Harvest either.

Extremely odd.

 

[Bazzer]

Ah memories. Evenings and weekends lost in a haze of alcohol and wacky backy, listening to bands such as Iron Butterfly, Velvet Underground and albums like Genesis' Nursery Cryme and Floyd's Meddle.

 

[Drago]

A program rock thread, 6 pages in and no mention of Tales from Topographic Oceans.

Very odd.

Well, we've mentioned Wakeman, and Chris Squire is revered as a God over in the Guitarist and Bassist thread.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Jon Anderson has also been mentioned but Tales...must be the high point/nadir of prog rock. Nothing was quite the same after that.

It was once said that Yes were trying to save this world without actually being on it.

 

[Drago]

Jon Anderson is actually a member of this hallowed forum. He goes by the user name of @numbnuts.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Really?
I'm impressed.
Comes from Accy doesn't he?
Just up the road from me.

 

[raleighnut]

I was at an afternoon 'mini fest' at DeMontfort Hall Gardens once, a bunch of local bands and 'headlinining' John Otway and another band called The Enid. Anyway 'The Enid' played and then a long wait before an MC came out to announce that Otway's Van had broken down and he couldn't make it, but he went on "The Enid would play a 2nd set"

Deep Joy...............................,we went home.


View: https://youtu.be/MmPQAtZL6-I

 

[Rezillo]

No mention of Barkley James Harvest either.

Extremely odd.

I used to like them but bought a couple of their albums a year or two back to relive my youth and found them ponderous and rather dull, even the first live album.

On the other hand, Argus by Wishbone Ash, which I remember as ponderous and dull, is anything but and actually sounds great today.

 

[And]

Do we have any opinions of the 80's prog rock bands?
I was quite a fan of IQ....:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IqWaDKWwc8&list=PLhuvEQzJRGB6cmM6bx_4tj7Kuth2px-O6

Pallas - saw them at Clay Cross & Danesmoor Miners Welfare Club (!), they were very good:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2OAJGnpOyE&list=PLUKrfkBTrQgPGfsMBNysP15oS5_gBaj1k

Marillion - saw them at Sheffield City Hall on the same day the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated, they were OK that night:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5kc3tleEY

 

[And]

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.

and let's not forget Tangerine Dream:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIQ0dd7B_FU

and Edgar Froese:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wAS9CMjKZ0


Do Jean Michel Jarre and Kraftwerk fit in here too?

 

[Drago]

Do we have any opinions of the 80's prog rock bands?
I was quite a fan of IQ....:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IqWaDKWwc8&list=PLhuvEQzJRGB6cmM6bx_4tj7Kuth2px-O6

Pallas - saw them at Clay Cross & Danesmoor Miners Welfare Club (!), they were very good:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2OAJGnpOyE&list=PLUKrfkBTrQgPGfsMBNysP15oS5_gBaj1k

Marillion - saw them at Sheffield City Hall on the same day the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated, they were OK that night:
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5kc3tleEY

Marillion got off to a good start, although they were never my thing. They sold out, burned brightly commercially for a brief period then quickly faded away.

Pallas, on the other hand, are brilliant. I've the Sentinel on vinyl and recall buying Shock Treatment as a single!

The 80's also saw the broadsword and the beast as well as Under Wraps from Jethro Tull, two great prog albums. They also released the Chateau D'isaster tapes in the 80s, a prog album the recorded in 1974 but binned off. An album about music critics been blown up by a disgruntled rock star at a show was probably taking Anderson's argument with the music media a bit too far for the early 70's

BTw, I've listened to The Red Planet a few times, and its quickly apparent to me this is one of Wakeman's finest prog works, well work buying.