nice! glad it went well. def post whatever you remember of the setlist
I mean, with the right song Peppa Pig visuals might not be that far off lol
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 January 2024 15:24 (three months ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3775107497_10.jpg
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 5 January 2024 15:30 (three months ago) link
okay, it was something like this
Walter Wegmuller - Der NarrWobbler - This Past PresenceYes - The Remembering - I cut the mellotron bit from Wobbler into that "relayer" part, so it was only like 3-4 minutes of the sideThe Nice - BrandenburgerCamel - La Princesse PerdueTriumvirat - The History of the Mystery Part One - started halfway through this, when it starts sounding like a gameshow themeVan der Graaf Generator - Theme OneTodd Rundgren - first four tracks from A Wizard a True Star, I cut the last note of "You Need Your Head" into "The Ikon" by Utopia, and then once that hit a big note cut it back into the "International Feel" reprise at the end of Side 1Robert Wyatt - Little Red Riding Hood Hit the RoadAnimal Collective - What Would I Want? SkyUtopia Strong - Konta ChorusJon Anderson - Moon RaSusumu Hirasawa - Nice Nice Very NicePink Floyd - One of These DaysWalter Wegmuller - Der WagenHawkwind - Are You Losing Your Mind? - beforehand someone said "You gotta play some Hawkwind" - I asked what he wanted to hear and he pointed me to this album called Alien4 from 1996??Midday Veil - Babel - people were starting to dance (!!) so I had to put on something like thisRuins - Progressive Rock MedleyIQ - Awake and NervousNeil Cicierega - Fredhammer - getting a little goofy at this point...I was like "ok folks let's play a guessing game, here is a mashup between two musicians, you have to guess which one has an extensive background in progressive rock". This is a mashup between "Sledgehammer" and "Nookie" - obviously everyone knows it's Peter Gabriel, I thought it would be funny if the second one was Fred DurstRush - LimelightKansas - Journey from Mariabronn (this was a request)Yes - The Gates of Delirium - played nearly the whole thing which was nice because I kinda needed to get a drink and the bar was crowded :)Ween - Among His Tribe (this took the place of "Soon Oh Soon" from Gates)Motorpsycho - Mona Lisa/AzraelKnifeworld - High/AflameGong - Flying TeapotMidday Veil - Empire Is No More King Crimson - SleeplessMarillion - first two from Clutching at Straws - someone actually brought the LP in and asked that I play it, which I thought was rad as hellMotorpsycho - Mutiny!Cardiacs - The Everso Closely Guarded Line
hmmm...what else...I am pretty sure I played "One More Night" by Can at one point...probably a few other tracks I forgot...also I threw on "Shimendoka" by Haruomi Hosono right at the end
― frogbs, Friday, 5 January 2024 15:58 (three months ago) link
A++++++++++++++ set list \m/
one question -- were IQ's vocals ever a barrier to entry? i've liked a lot of what i've heard by them, but the singing has put me off so far
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 January 2024 16:16 (three months ago) link
damn, nice set! Nice balance of classic, new stuff and under the radar stuff. I want a bar like this near me, will you take your show on the road? haha
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 January 2024 16:16 (three months ago) link
oh forgot one - "By-Tor and the Snowdog" by Rush, which I segued into "Hyperventile" by Frost*...sheesh maybe I forgot a number of things
I never minded IQ's vocals, guess you kinda have to accept that every neo-prog singer sounds like Peter Gabriel. I mean in prog just having a dude who can sing at all is a plus honestly
fwiw I bet there are a lot of hip/weirdo bars open to doing this sort of thing, the hard bit is finding them. I got lucky in that the right guy was working the shop when I'd bought a Utopia record, he was like "oh if you like this kind of music you should come out for this"
I did really want to play "Communion with the Sun" but I did that one last time when I was being shown the ropes :)
― frogbs, Friday, 5 January 2024 16:25 (three months ago) link
Awesome!
― brimstead, Friday, 5 January 2024 16:50 (three months ago) link
Super setlist, even though I’m only familiar with a fraction of it. And dying at President Keyes’ graphic.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 January 2024 17:14 (three months ago) link
luckily someone did get a pic of it
https://i.imgur.com/gOcXyD6.jpg
― frogbs, Friday, 5 January 2024 17:20 (three months ago) link
also gotta give props to whoever on this board recommended Midday Veil a while ago (I think it was rush?), was a big nervous playing stuff nobody there was gonna recognize but both those tracks went down really well
― frogbs, Friday, 5 January 2024 17:23 (three months ago) link
Ha that was one band I was just researching since I'd never heard of them before, curious now.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 January 2024 17:31 (three months ago) link
Haha, Peppa Prog
― sawdust lagoon, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:38 (three months ago) link
Also love the Knifeworld > Gong sequence. Kavus, yup.
― sawdust lagoon, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:43 (three months ago) link
Utopia Strong was in there too :)
― frogbs, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:57 (three months ago) link
also gotta give props to whoever on this board recommended Midday Veil a while ago (I think it was rush?), was a big nervous playing stuff nobody there was gonna recognize but both those tracks went down really well― frogbs
― frogbs
idk, i do love midday veil tho, can't remember where i heard about th em
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 January 2024 02:55 (three months ago) link
yea I genuinely don't know where if not this board, either way it was great
just remembered I played "Island" by Echolyn and "Heaps of Sheeps" by Robert Wyatt at some point too, I genuinely don't know how I got this all in
― frogbs, Saturday, 6 January 2024 05:09 (three months ago) link
my playlist of this -- which omits nice nice very nice and fredhammer as they don't seem to be on tidal -- just hit five hours
― mark s, Saturday, 6 January 2024 11:43 (three months ago) link
slightly surprised to be concluding that the funkiest track on frogbs's list is gong's "flying teapot" (courtesy francis moze and laurie allan i guess)
also laurie allan played with chris macgregor (tho i guess the wyatt-bluenotes nexus is not a total secret)
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:25 (three months ago) link
hey, if funky prog is out there, I sure don't know about it. though I would argue that section of "The Remembering" is kinda funky :)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:28 (three months ago) link
there's a ton of funky prog. i would argue that funky drummers are an essential part of prog. even the big 3 have tons of funky tracks (bill bruford and phil collins are both funky ass drummers!). the french and italian stuff gets down and dirty. magma is hella funky. check out 3:20 in the area song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqhsqYJozG4
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:38 (three months ago) link
This is funky! Kind of. Goes into a bit of quiet storm around the 4 mins mark too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc04Xd3wOhQ
― where did the times go (Matt #2), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:39 (three months ago) link
cat food is funky as hell
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:41 (three months ago) link
of course, i was just surprised at gong of all people pulling ahead in this particular race
(of course moze was magma's bass player)
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:42 (three months ago) link
of course
as much as I liked the first Area LP, I never checked out the second, indeed that sounds great
I've always thought Yes had their own brand of funk - Siberian Khatru, Heart of the Sunrise, Sound Chaser and all that...obviously Crimson has stuff like One More Red Nightmare and Easy Money. Magma's Attahk is definitely funky but also a bit out there. that's on my list if I get another opportunity though.
but tracks like "Flying Teapot" which just ride a groove uninterrupted for a few minutes - idk how many tunes like that there are out there. I thought both the Midday Veil tracks were pretty funky though, in fact Bernie Worrell is on one of them
― frogbs, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:45 (three months ago) link
maybe we should start a thread :)
(not a poll tho, they suck)
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:58 (three months ago) link
as much as I liked the first Area LP, I never checked out the second
Crac is the third Area album, their second is called Caution Radiation Area and is probably more fusion/avant garde than funky; although their fifth, 1978 Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano! contains a song called "Ici on dance!" So maybe that's what they were all about, when not fomenting revolution.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:07 (three months ago) link
I think there's a lot of this type of material in something like Andy Votel's Vertigo mix:
https://www.discogs.com/release/498388-Andy-Votel-Vertigo-Mixed
(it's a big grab bag and not only prog, but I think it's def prog adjacent)
― fpsa, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:09 (three months ago) link
there's a ton of funky prog.
there is but sometimes it gets hard to distinguish between funky prog, proggy funk, "prog-funk" and fusion.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:14 (three months ago) link
even Gong occasionally have funky inclinations
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:16 (three months ago) link
I'm not at all suprised about Gong getting funky, if it had been Van der Graaf Generator...
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:21 (three months ago) link
still life almost gets there... there's some bass playing on the maida vale live album that gets out da fonk.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:33 (three months ago) link
They don't even have a bass player on "Still Life"!
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:34 (three months ago) link
that hammond bass is sick tho
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:40 (three months ago) link
3 mins in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dM9uujpGkc
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:41 (three months ago) link
time for ILM top help one another distinguish between funky prog, proggy funk, "prog-funk", fusion and etc
ignore comedy typo, i've been proofreading all day and my eyes are going
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:46 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gcl_Te7P9o
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:00 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7AJUT7JdJA
Not sure why these two classical/prog things popped into my mind, that Variations record is out(bloody)rageous in parts
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:03 (three months ago) link
whoa i didnt know about that ALW album!
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:24 (three months ago) link
really it's a colosseum ii LP, feat. ALW arrangements of paganini
once upon a time it was a big deal in the UK, bcz the very first eoisode of long-running cultural TV show the south bank show devoted to its recording, and the main pagaini riff became the TV show's themetune for like 95 years
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:46 (three months ago) link
Very much a charity shop staple.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:51 (three months ago) link
i will never sell my copy
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:52 (three months ago) link
even for pennies
No-one would buy it anyway.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:53 (three months ago) link
kurt might!
but he's not getting it
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:54 (three months ago) link
gimme!
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 20:29 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApXA1YjOM6M
― MaresNest, Saturday, 20 January 2024 20:25 (three months ago) link
thanks for sharing, you know when a band's primary songwriter is named "Joop van Nimwegen" you're in for something special
took me a while to notice there weren't any vocals on this, good because it doesn't need 'em
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 14:43 (three months ago) link
looks like I'm doing next week's prog night too, sweet
currently listening to From Silence to Somewhere by Wobbler and wow it really rules. hard to complain about something being derivative when it's this good
― frogbs, Friday, 26 January 2024 03:43 (three months ago) link
Been listening to the Supersister compilation M.A.N. Memories Are New and I'm really glad I wanted to be completist about this band. It's mostly songs that aren't on any of the albums, "Wine Melody" was worth the price of admission and the live versions never feel like a waste because they always added new tangents (often humorous) and they have a great energy.
I need to check out the bands Stips was in after Supersister and before Nits.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 26 January 2024 21:14 (three months ago) link