Prog Rock

[Lawrie]

I saw Genesis at the Greyhound too. If I remember they played the Fairfields Hall a few weeks later.
They were really good in the Gabriel years. Lamb Lies Down on Bdoadway was their last decent album in the mid seventies and went commercial after Steve Hackett left.

The Greyhound on Sunday evenings were fantastic. Roxy Music, Alex Harvey, Genesis and even Queen if I remember correctly. The only concert I ever left early was Stray.

Yes we're excellent too. I've seen them and Rick Wakeman a number of times over the years.....

Totally agree. Genesis were the ultimate prog rock band for me. As you say, it all went tits up after Steve Hackett left.
Have you seen Steve Hackett ‘Genesis Revisited’? They’re brilliant. The ‘live at the Albert Hall’ album is available on dvd in 5.1 surround. It’s amazing.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

and nobody has yet mentioned The Alan Parson's Project. Prog Rock from London.

 

[Lawrie]

and nobody has yet mentioned The Alan Parson's Project. Prog Rock from London.

Great call. Tales of mystery and imagination is a classic.
I have every album they made. (I think).

 

[orpingtoneagle]

Don't get me wrong I can see the skill and musicianship in a lot of these players but for me it can all.getba bit overblown and pompous. You get a bass solo, a guitar solo, keyboard noodling and god forbid a drum solo all in a 70 mind song about goblins

Early stuff can be very clever but some of it is just a bit to overblown for me.

Give me a two minute blast of The Ramones....

Hey ho let's go!

 

[Lawrie]

following on from my earlier post, we mustn’t forget that Alan Parsons also gave us a lot more than his Project albums.
He was a sound engineer at Abbey Road for the Beatles and also produced Dark Side of the Moon, amongst others.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Don't get me wrong I can see the skill and musicianship in a lot of these players but for me it can all.getba bit overblown and pompous. You get a bass solo, a guitar solo, keyboard noodling and god forbid a drum solo all in a 70 mind song about goblins

Early stuff can be very clever but some of it is just a bit to overblown for me.

Give me a two minute blast of The Ramones....

Hey ho let's go!

I'm in your corner on this OE although there are a couple of exceptions - at the time I quite liked Greenslade (a band without a guitarist? Heresy. But in their case it sort of worked) and Wish You Were Here era Pink Floyd. If they count as prog Be Bop Deluxe did some interesting stuff too.

 

[silvertop]

Curved Air = Back street love. Brilliant song.

again, yes indeed!

 

[silvertop]

Don't get me wrong I can see the skill and musicianship in a lot of these players but for me it can all.getba bit overblown and pompous. You get a bass solo, a guitar solo, keyboard noodling and god forbid a drum solo all in a 70 mind song about goblins

Early stuff can be very clever but some of it is just a bit to overblown for me.

Give me a two minute blast of The Ramones....

Hey ho let's go!

Come on! How anyone can knock Rick Wakeman's opera on ice?
🙄

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Come on! How anyone can knock Rick Wakeman's opera on ice?
🙄

He does knock it himself like Jon Hiseman on a coffee binge.

 

[orpingtoneagle]

Come on! How anyone can knock Rick Wakeman's opera on ice?
🙄

I think even he did as there was so much dry I e used for effect no one could see anything!

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

Totally agree. Genesis were the ultimate prog rock band for me. As you say, it all went tits up after Steve Hackett left.
Have you seen Steve Hackett ‘Genesis Revisited’? They’re brilliant. The ‘live at the Albert Hall’ album is available on dvd in 5.1 surround. It’s amazing.

I saw SH do an early Genesis gig 3 years ago, and he had that blond guy on vocals. The band were tight and SH still has 'it' in bucketloads. Truly mesmerizing.

 

[Midlands Eagle]

Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Eel Pie Island......aaah memories

That's interesting. We are about the same age and I was a regular at Eel Pie Island mainly on Sundays watching The Yardbirds with their 18 year old guitarist Eric Clapton followed by the 19 year old guitarist Jeff Beck

 

[eritheagle]

Check out Curved Air, with the Fabulous Sonya Christina, I would recommend Air Cut and Second Album as a starting point

Thanks for the tip. I listened to two of their albuns on Alexa and was most impressed!
I'm gonna save my pennies to buy the boxset of their first four albums.

I've also listened to Leftoverture by Kansas and Gentle Giant's Octupus which were both great!!

Bought a second hand copy of a remastered ELP's Brain Salad Surgery last week for £3 on cd.
I really liked that but they had clumped the last 4 tracks together into a 30 minute marathon. It made it quite a tough listen so may look out for an earlier release of it where it's broken up into 9 tracks instead of 5.

 

[Palace Old Geezer]

That's interesting. We are about the same age and I was a regular at Eel Pie Island mainly on Sundays watching The Yardbirds with their 18 year old guitarist Eric Clapton followed by the 19 year old guitarist Jeff Beck

Great venue eh Midlands? I recall a gaping hole in one wall covered by an old tarpaulin and an abundance of Newcastle Brown (a lot of which ended up on the floor). The Yardbirds played there often and I made a point of seeing Jeff Beck whenever I could because he went to my school and he was always prepared to have a chat.

Keep on rockin'.

 

[mr. apollo]

Keep your eyes on mp3 thread will be posting Curved Airs 1st 4 albums staffies famous MP3 thread #9

 

[Pete53]

When did the term Prog Rock come into common usage?

When my musical tastes were developing in the late 60s I found myself veering toward what was, at that time, called Progressive music ( or sometimes Underground) and I don't recall anyone talking about Prog Rock then. In fact some of the acts that would have been considered to be Progressive back in the late 60s probably wouldn't comfortably sit under the Prog Rock label.

 

[silvertop]

That's interesting. We are about the same age and I was a regular at Eel Pie Island mainly on Sundays watching The Yardbirds with their 18 year old guitarist Eric Clapton followed by the 19 year old guitarist Jeff Beck

A rather long list of bands/artists who made their name there. From my head, Who, Floyd, Mayall, Stewart and dare I mention the Stones.

Knocks the Cavern into a cocked hat.

 

[palace_in_frogland]

Just read back through this thread and the mention of Jon Hiseman and Dave Greenslade made me remember Colosseum.

Valentyne Suite is a glorious 20 minutes of self indulgent prog rock.

 

[Lawrie]

When did the term Prog Rock come into common usage?

When my musical tastes were developing in the late 60s I found myself veering toward what was, at that time, called Progressive music ( or sometimes Underground) and I don't recall anyone talking about Prog Rock then. In fact some of the acts that would have been considered to be Progressive back in the late 60s probably wouldn't comfortably sit under the Prog Rock label.

Don’t think the term Prog Rock came into use till quite a bit later. As you say, progressive music started in the mid 60’s with The Beatles (tomorrow never knows and St pepper) and the Beach boys (Good Vibrations etc). Songs that departed from the ‘pop’ norm of verse verse chorus verse etc. experimental instruments and synthesisers came into common use.
It was then expanded upon by the likes of Genesis and Yes and I guess that’s when the term Prog Rock came into being.
As for my favourite prog bands if anyone is interested, Early Genesis (before they became a silly pop group), Pink Floyd, Yes and King Crimson.