Prog Rock

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

maybe we should start a thread :)

(not a poll tho, they suck)

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.

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)

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.

even Gong occasionally have funky inclinations

I'm not at all suprised about Gong getting funky, if it had been Van der Graaf Generator...

still life almost gets there... there's some bass playing on the maida vale live album that gets out da fonk.

They don't even have a bass player on "Still Life"!

that hammond bass is sick tho

3 mins in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dM9uujpGkc

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gcl_Te7P9o

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

whoa i didnt know about that ALW album!

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

Very much a charity shop staple.

i will never sell my copy

even for pennies

No-one would buy it anyway.

kurt might!

but he's not getting it

gimme!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApXA1YjOM6M

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

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

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.

His solo records are pretty endearing too.

one thing I love is when you randomly find great obscure prog albums in the bargain bin, I picked up Refugee and Trace for five bucks apiece and they both rule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTyFPnnnuL8

lmao I'm dying at the fact they put Weathers at the front of the line. might be the funniest prog music video ever made

Bill Bruford's coming to NYC, but unfortunately it's just for a talk - I guess he really is retired from performing. On the other hand, his talk is paired with a performance by ProgJect "featuring Stu Hamm, Mike Keneally, Alessandro Del Vechhio, Ryo Okumoto and Jonathan Mover performing the classics and epics from Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Bruford, etc." Considering how many of the classic prog bands are no longer active (which may even include King Crimson), this may not be a bad way of seeing their music live.

https://sonyhall.com/events/bill-bruford/?id=17261

I've seen videos of those guys, they're pretty legit. Pretty sure Marc Bonilla was touring with those guys at some point too.

dunno if I mentioned it on this thread but I saw Steve Hackett live a few months ago. it was pretty amazing - that too was sort of an all-star lineup. despite having heard it a hundred times seeing "Supper's Ready" performed live was something else. I never thought I'd get the chance to see something like that. not gonna say I cried but I definitely got a little emotional

I saw The Music Box, who do Gabriel-era Genesis a few years ago (with costumes!), well worth the $25-30 I paid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxNw3G0TXPE

^^ that record just got reissued. I think all of IQ's albums are good (even the Paul Menel ones have their charms) but yeah The Wake is something special, neo-prog that actually rocks

got to DJ another prog set last night, this time I broke out some Magma and Area. I think it actually scared one of the bartenders because she told me afterwards "some of that music gave me a lot of anxiety"

I have the ridiculous 3 or 4 disc edition from years ago, seemed like the ultimate incarnation and someone asked in the dvd feature if it would be the last version and the singer said "until the next one".
Is it just the same version?

https://wizrd.bandcamp.com/album/seasons

forgive the band name. and the album title. these guys fuckin' rock. sounds to me like if Van Halen decided to become a prog band instead.

doing another prog night in a couple hours, just winging it this time :)

free tip for all the prog DJs out there when a tune has a long outro play the beginning of In Search of the Lost Chord over it, as soon as the poem ends and the drum kicks in for "Ride My Seesaw" hit the fader, its like a bolt of lightning

Did you just let it play then?

oh absolutely, it's a killer tune. think I got a good balance this time between prog epics everyone knows - Karn Evil 9, Yours is No Disgrace, Dance on a Volcano, etc., and my own esoteric stuff. but I think the key is to drop a lot of cool 3-minute psych songs in the middle of all that. I think I played 3 Dukes of Stratosphear tunes but there are lots of great ones for this. Brief Candles by the Zombies, Round and Round by Strawbs, Inside by Jethro Tull, and so on. also played "La Mela di Odessa" by Area as recommended above since I did need to get some funk in. also let me segue into Magma quite nicely. the guy who usually does this hates Magma but guess what?? he wasn't there so tough luck

I also brought Deluxe by Harmonia and I think played 4 different bits of it...but only like a minute or two at a time. makes a really nice transition piece!

frogbs if you remember the next time you do this -- here's a long-distance prequest for NOLAN POTTER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHu4NE3md-c

that sounds cool - always looking for neat modern stuff like this. its a good feeling when someone comes up and is like "what is this?". amusingly when I played "Gallarde" by Trace someone asked "is this Focus?" - it's a different kind of music but it has the same drummer and somehow he recognized it. so that was cool.

unfortunately I'm not sure when I'm doing this again since the normal guy is getting around a lot better. so he may retake the throne next month. I made sure to adjust my set accordingly, I think I got like 50 different tracks in there at some point

<3 the idea of Harmonia transitional pieces in your set, frogbs

Is this the thread where we talk about new prog bands?

Really digging Terrapath, the debut from the Brighton band, Plantoid. Jazz and psych influenced prog.

https://plantoidworld.bandcamp.com/album/terrapath

this is nice...wish more of these modern bands had female singers. great drumming too

Yeah, I also just love the ultra slick, jazz guitar.

This is pretty good! Doesn't have too much of that Radiohead thing all modern prog bands seem to feel is necessary.