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October 24, 2017: THE U.S. PROG ROCK SPECIAL
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Listener comments! | |
Tue. 10/24/17 10:54am
Dean:
Can't wait for Gabriel Bondage, Fireballet, Ethos, Happy the Man... I'll just sit here for the hour and seven minutes. | |
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![]() Hey, early Dean. You've sure got me pegged. |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:00pm
glenn:
is that the american rush? |
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![]() How do, Tony and all! Ready for the progtacular! |
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![]() hi tony. hi everyone. |
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![]() Heya, Glenn! That's a pic of the band Atlantis Philharmonic. |
Tue. 10/24/17 12:01pm
Dean:
Let's see: Neil Schon, Timothy B. Schmidt (apropos of Matt W.'s latest playlist), and...a brother Gibb? | |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:02pm
V Priceless:
hey Tony! Somebody mention the "P" word? I'm in! : ) |
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![]() who are on ... now |
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![]() Hey, hey, hey, Listener James, JtotheK, and VP!! |
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![]() greetings Tony and all |
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![]() Greets, coelacanth∅! |
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![]() Hey all! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:04pm
glenn:
but which gibb? andy? |
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![]() ... and greets to doctorjazz too! |
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![]() hello. i hope kansas is on the ticket. topeka's finest! |
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![]() Hey, Dale! Yes, Kansas will make an appearance.... |
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![]() i'm psyched for cheese and math! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:06pm
HollyT:
I am here. The token Female Prog Fan. Wheee |
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![]() does anyone know how to get this stream to show up on a logitech squeezebox? |
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![]() death man! |
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![]() Holly! |
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![]() ... and Hams too. Welcome to you both! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:08pm
HollyT:
Listening while writing assessment questions for a college textbook on cognitive psychology. Nerd Factor = 11 |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:09pm
V Priceless:
ahhh...that Ric bass sound...though that could be a Fender Jazz too...hmm |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:12pm
Dean:
Fender Jazz...a beautiful instrument. | |
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![]() yo tony et al! |
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![]() Yo, Ho Oa!! |
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![]() Yes! Sliding in. |
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![]() coincidentally i quoted an ambrosia song (well, a Vonnegut quote really, i think) on Matt's comment board. any ambrosia on the menu? |
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![]() Hey, Nick! |
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![]() @HollyT: That actually sounds like my type of nerdery. I copyedit college texts and psychology/psychiatry books, so hats off to an actual writer of same! |
Tue. 10/24/17 12:14pm
Godfather of Prog:
Beefheart & or Zappa? | |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:15pm
βrian:
A confederacy of blue pencils? |
Tue. 10/24/17 12:15pm
Dean:
Armando Gallo took a photograph of Peter Gabriel donning an Ethos t-shirt many years ago. | |
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![]() @ coelacanth∅: No Ambrosia, no. @Godfather of Prog: No Beefheart or Zappa either. I'm definining prog very narrowly today, so no avant prog or prog fusion -- just straight-up proggy prog. |
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![]() Hiya, βrian! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:17pm
V Priceless:
Got Capt. Beyond? |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:17pm
βrian:
Proglodytes! |
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![]() 'sokay. it's prettypoppyprog anyway. |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:18pm
glenn:
has anybody been watching mindhunter? a lot of nerdiness in that show. |
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![]() βrian: A union, even! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:18pm
Psychspaniolos:
Hello all | |
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![]() @ VP: Nix on Captain Beyond too, sadly. |
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![]() @Dale-I have a Squeezebox, but afraid I'm no help, can barely get it to stream stuff off my computer, find setting it up crazy making. (I believe Uncle Michael uses one...) |
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![]() Ahoy, Glenn and Psychspaniolos!! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:20pm
V Priceless:
@ TC - no problemo, all good! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:20pm
HollyT:
@listener james--thanks! I'm not actually writing the text though, just the test questions based on the text. I do a lot of copyediting as well. |
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![]() @HollyT: Much respect for the question writing; I've been asked to do that and knew I was better suited for other functions. Editing and proofing are more my wheelhouse. |
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![]() Heya Tony, ditto the Happy the Man request. |
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![]() he's not american so - not asking if its in the goody bag; but i really like Manfred Mann Chapter III, but i don't know how to categorise it. prog, or fusion? |
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![]() Heya, Carmichael! Happy the Man is a sure bet..... |
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![]() @ coelacanth∅: Agreed, Manfred Mann Chapter III are great ... and hard to categorize. Prog jazz, maybe? Wouldn't call 'em fusion. |
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![]() Best I just star this episode now; I know I'll want to return to it. |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:27pm
Psychspaniolos:
Very beautiful | |
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![]() Dust? American prog is not my strongest suit. |
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![]() @ Nick S: No Dust either. I like 'em, but think of them as more of a hard rock band with slight prog tendencies .. but I guess it's all in the ear of the belistener. |
Tue. 10/24/17 12:31pm
Dean:
For a time the Swiss prog band Flame Dream featured an American guitarist, Dale Hauskins, of Downey, California. I used to hang with Dale. He worshiped Hillage, Holdsworth... | |
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![]() We're in territory I'm not familiar with, fun to check it out. |
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![]() Very few American prog bands got anywhere, commercially speaking -- so most are pretty unknown. |
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![]() Heck, Canadia has more know prog bands, I'm drawing a blank on all of these. |
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![]() well so much for my cheese and math comment then. i was prepared, but this is even better! |
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![]() @ coelacanth∅: Well, a healthy percent of cheese and math will be unavoidable, so no worries there.... |
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![]() Greets, NGH! |
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![]() Heya, foofs! |
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![]() i missed everything. my power got knocked out by the storm blowing through here. the pixies are now coming out of the wall socket though. |
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![]() Heya! I'll keep my hand on the prog stove 'til I can't... |
Tue. 10/24/17 12:50pm
Dean:
Strikes me that Sparks, heard from a certain angle, might qualify as prog. | |
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Tue. 10/24/17 12:51pm
βrian:
That's pronounced Waw-keeeeeee-sha in my book. |
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![]() oh, i got it now. just searched for 'wfmu' under internet only radio search and all the streams showed up. sounds much better than on my lappety toppety box. |
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![]() @ Dean: Agreed, RE Sparks ... particularly since my introduction to Sparks was the track "Biology 2." |
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![]() @dale, in northern NJ it's been ridiculously windy; lights have flickered a couple of times. Have been saving to a thumb drive in case I need to repair to the library with laptop and grumbling. |
Tue. 10/24/17 12:59pm
Godfather of Prog:
Any Hands or Prizm? | |
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![]() @ Godfather of Prog: I did consider Hands -- Prizm I don't know (unless you mean Prism?). |
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![]() yeah james, i'm southwest of middletown ny and we usually get whatever sussex got 20 minutes later. |
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Tue. 10/24/17 1:01pm
Psychspaniolos:
rateyourmusic.com... | |
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![]() Thanks, Psychspaniolos! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 1:05pm
HollyT:
Nice. Hear Gentle Giant all over this |
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![]() winds high in ct as well. when i'm finished eating i'll have to go outside for damage control. i don't want the little bodhisattva falling on his face in the labyrinth or the chairs flying through the neighbor's windows. |
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![]() Zoldar & Clark is actually Jasper Wrath -- it's a long story. |
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![]() @coel: Have anecdotal reports of potted mums being blown across folks' property south of me. It's wild stuff! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 1:07pm
βrian:
Good lord, it's taking for freaking ever to clone this laptop! Want more PROGress. |
Tue. 10/24/17 1:07pm
Dean:
This Neige tune would have fit perfectly on Joe McGasko's show yesterday, when he played only tunes with names of real people. | |
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![]() imagine if the boston pops tackled a prog album? |
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![]() Some early Utopia would fit in here, like something from Ra. |
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![]() hey am I too late for the Manakin tribute? |
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![]() @James: I read that as potted moms, and had some interesting visions in my head. |
Tue. 10/24/17 1:08pm
Dean:
OMG, yes, Utopia. But Ra isn't exactly early for them. | |
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![]() Sunny and 73F/23C w/ low humidity her in F-L-A, it's like winter came early! |
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![]() Hey, Micah! No worries: the final hour will be all Manakin cover bands. |
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Tue. 10/24/17 1:10pm
βrian:
My avatar is OMG, by the way. |
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![]() uriah heep too, though not usually summoned in a prog séance. |
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![]() They're limeys, though. |
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![]() omg wow first time ever in FMU History! the best prog band everrrr MANAKINNNNN |
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![]() @Dean, I was thinking of albums before they went poppy with Adventures in Utopia. |
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![]() wow - you DID play kansas. early stuff has it's moments. |
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Tue. 10/24/17 1:15pm
Psychspaniolos:
www.progarchives.com... | |
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![]() @ngh: LOL, the hazards of getting toasted during a windstorm! |
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![]() Tony, you mean the heep? i didn't know, but i wasn't suggesting it. i trust your driving. |
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![]() Is this THAT Kansas? |
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![]() Yep! An early version of the band, pre-first LP. |
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![]() it sounds like kansas had some early king crimson records. |
Tue. 10/24/17 1:17pm
Dean:
Just goes to show you, @Carmichael. I don't even think of those albums! | |
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![]() ahahaha the idea of kerry livgren listening to Pawn Hearts getting stoned out of his mind in 1970 in miserable Topeka just warms the cockles of me heart!! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 1:19pm
glenn:
i like that introducing sparks is what, their sixth album? seventh? |
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![]() coelacanth with the o thingy - my thoughts exactly when the sax came in. |
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![]() I would say UM would know something about that, but I'm pretty sure he was still in Chicago back then. |
Tue. 10/24/17 1:22pm
Dean:
Good lord, Alan Broadbent plays on Introducing Sparks! | |
Tue. 10/24/17 1:22pm
Godfather of Prog:
Pere Ubu /MX-80 Sound/Ralph records/etc..? | |
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![]() Well, that's one band I recognize. |
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![]() shit's flying around out there. i'll be back. (if i don't get tossed into the next town) |
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![]() Manakin live on the Jerry Lewis Telethon, 1978: nedraggett.wordpress.com... |
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![]() yes Carmichael. this is the one and only media appearance by the most lordly and epic prog bands since J.S. Bach. Watch in utter awe! |
Tue. 10/24/17 1:28pm
Dean:
These guys share the GG vibe, too. | |
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![]() love these classic blues numbers |
Tue. 10/24/17 1:32pm
Godfather of Prog:
Sounds like they might like The Tubes? aka Pentwater | |
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![]() hiya Tony; sounds good from here.... |
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![]() Hiya, Tony, all. Bereft, having missed half the show, but happy to hear what's left. |
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![]() sparksy |
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![]() Nektar? Quasar Light!!!! |
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![]() Hey hey hey, steveo & Sem!! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 1:35pm
V Priceless:
early 80's 'tron! |
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![]() BIG BELATED THANKS to the following fab pledgers to this show: Listener James, William C. from Amory, Mississippi, Robert M. of Brooklyn, and Georgie R. from L.A. THANKS SO MUCH!! |
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![]() They all pledged over the last few days ... but now we need new pledges. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE ... PLEDGE FOR STATION & STREAM!!! |
Tue. 10/24/17 1:45pm
Dean:
GB's second album was a Billboard top album pick for Pop in late '77. In the same issue, Billboard announced the marriage of Michael Des Barres to Pamela Miller. In August '76 Billboard reported that Angel Dust was at the time Dharma Records' biggest seller. | |
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Tue. 10/24/17 1:46pm
Psychspaniolos:
www.discogs.com... | |
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![]() From what I've read, Gabriel Bondage were widely ridiculed for their name. Which I don't totally get.... |
Tue. 10/24/17 1:52pm
Dean:
March '78, Variety magazine: "Jem has new product by Harry Toledo, Cortinas, Chelsea, Poles, Soft Boys, Disco Bros., Jim La Lumia & Psychotic Frogs, Nazareth, Buzzcocks, Magazine, Headache, Front, Electric Chairs (Wayne County), White Music, Finch, Gabriel Bondage, Far East Family Band, Guillotine, Skrewdriver, Krazy Kat, Point, Ange, and Pilot." | |
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![]() floating along with the debris... |
Tue. 10/24/17 1:55pm
Dean:
You don't get that they were widely ridiculed, or you don't get their name? I think I first heard of them on a Southern California prog radio show...or maybe in Trouser Press at the time. I've always assumed the allusion to Gabriel (i.e., Peter) was deliberate. | |
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![]() Don't get why their name seemed so ridiculous to people. I guess the image of the angel Gabriel in bondage was considered risible. |
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![]() YAY!! BIG THANKS TO STEVEO FOR HIS GENEROUS PLEDGE!!!! |
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![]() i guess everyone wanted to sound like genesis or king crimson. nobody wanted to sound like the moody blues. |
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![]() Don't forget Yes and ELP ... and Rush.... |
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![]() klaatu supposedly wanted to sound like the beatles, if the beatles went prog. |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:05pm
Dean:
Barclay James Harvest were accused of sounding like a "poor man's Moody Blues." In response, John Lees wrote a tune, "Poor Man's Moody Blues." So there. Everybody wanted to sound like Genesis, etc., including a bunch of Italian bands, and then everybody wanted to sound like those Italian bands. | |
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![]() i wouldn't want to sound like genesis. i'd sacrifice a finger to sound like king crimson. (first 7 albums only) |
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![]() i always wanted hair like justin hayward so i'm guilty. |
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![]() (a lesser finger) |
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![]() HURRAH! BIG THANKS TO VINCENT PRICELESS FOR HIS PLEDGE!! YAY!! |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:08pm
Dean:
I sense that Genesis wanted to sound, roughly, like Anglo church music. Hence Beyond an Empty Dream (Songs for a Modern Church), including Charterhouse Chorale Society's lovely anthem, Take This Heart. The boys attended Charterhouse. | |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:09pm
V Priceless:
Attack of The Giant Hogweed 4EVR! |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:09pm
G of P.:
Don't forget Jethro Tull/David Bowie/Residents...etc | |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:10pm
glenn:
giant hogweed's nasty shit. |
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![]() Quasar Light made only one record. It's $100! I really liked that stuff! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:13pm
glenn:
genesis is great until peter left, and even trick of the tail is pretty good. after that, bleccchhhh. |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:13pm
Dean:
Are we in for Styx at some point? I imagine I'll stomach it. | |
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![]() Yes clones! |
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![]() yes, indeed! |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:14pm
Dean:
Well, of course. Starcastle! | |
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![]() please assure us no stynx. |
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![]() No Styx, no. |
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![]() (unless there's some pre-first album styx that's not gagworthy, of course) |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:17pm
glenn:
styx means gag worthy, in some obscure language. |
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![]() is this the Tales from Topographic tribute bands set? |
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![]() now i'm just trolling prog archives - could be worse ways to spend a rainy day. |
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![]() @ Micah: It's the singers with tight trousers set.... |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:20pm
G of P.:
Yes minus the cosmic quasi religious overtones? | |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:20pm
V Priceless:
whoa - nice bass playing there! |
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![]() actually G of P this is a xian prog record |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:22pm
Psychspaniolos:
micah is right www.theancientstar-song.com... | |
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![]() glenn, i've tried to like genesis. i have most of their albums. (well, not beyond abacab - if i need to say that!) ...and i do like them, but -just. i'm never compelled to put on some genesis, with the one exception (strangely?) of an instrumental track from the post-Gabriel wind & wuthering. |
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![]() Brimstone was unusual because they sound like early Yes. |
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![]() More like Yes without the religious Howe guitar lines! |
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![]() Brimstone are xian too, btw.... |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:26pm
Psychspaniolos:
Ans another xian prog www.theancientstar-song.com... | |
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![]() now play some glass hammer to make it a jesus prog set |
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![]() god prog |
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![]() Will Chalis do? |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:27pm
V Priceless:
@ fish: Unquiet Slumbers for The Sleepers? |
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![]() Phil Keggy has to be around the corner. |
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![]() VP yes, but really those last 3 tracks together are just gorgeous, in my opinion. (i really like that whole side, in fact) |
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![]() They are all very beautiful indeed! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:30pm
V Priceless:
@ fish: lots of Hackett writing on that side, especially 'Blood On The Rooftops' |
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![]() was Hacket the more prominent earlier writer, besides Gabriel? |
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![]() This sounds a LOT like early Yes. |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:33pm
glenn:
i haven't listened to them in years, myself. |
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![]() Now here's some god prog for you -- courtesy of Manhattan's Trinity Church. |
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![]() oh i see - they always credited the whole band until Peter left. |
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![]() Been really enjoying this show! (this type of stuff would not be my cuppa joe back when it came out, more hippie dippie stuff, but fun to hear now). |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:35pm
Dean:
Used to spin Selling England by the Pound once or twice daily. Haven't listened much at all in recent years, though I do enjoy the old bootlegs. | |
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![]() Glad to hear it, Dr. J! |
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![]() Liked that Archangel, started off like holy minimalism. |
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![]() The guy behind Archangel was Calvin Hampton, who wrote some very interesting experimental music. He's on this record, for example: www.discogs.com... |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:40pm
V Priceless:
@ fish - I think, generally speaking, Hackett's departure from Genesis had a greater impact on their musicality than Gabriel's, in all due respect. |
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![]() they did dive into a sea of slugslime after that, didn't they. |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:44pm
Dean:
Agreed, @VP. Gabriel's was a loss of, pardon the pun, charisma that Collins couldn't replace, much as he tried. Alas, the only time I saw them live was the first post-Gabriel tour, one upside of which was Bruford. Buddy of mine saw the '75 show at the Shrine in LA, i.e., he attended, but slept through most of it. | |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:45pm
glenn:
slugslime. fish for the win. |
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![]() ...and - as i remember -a trick of the tail is right along the lines of lamb lies down on broadway. wind and wuthering is different than all of them, maybe. (or do i just think that because i heard that one first, oblivious to the 7 albums prior?) |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:47pm
Dean:
They also did that EP featuring the song "Pigeons," which begins, "Who put fifty tons of shit on the Foreign Office roof?" I hear TOTT as a fairly radical deviation from LLDOB. WAW is of a piece with TOTT to my ears. YMMV. | |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:49pm
glenn:
at least they didn't blame the canada geese. |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:50pm
V Priceless:
@ Dean: pun pardoned, but Second's Out tour w/BB? Nice! Gabriel's voice is missed, that's for sure - he had that certain rough earthiness that Phil couldn't replicate. Yes, 'slugslime' ftw! Hackett continues to create some inspired music... |
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![]() hmm, okay. i figured i'd give all those records another spin sometime if i live another 10 years. maybe i'll make it sooner. YMMV?? |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:53pm
Psychspaniolos:
Thanks a lot Tony. Another great great show. Be well. | |
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![]() Dug the hell out of the prog special; thanks! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:53pm
V Priceless:
thanks Tony! Yay! Cheers gang! |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:54pm
Dean:
Your mileage may vary, @coelacanth∅. I hear what I hear due, particularly in the case of Genesis, to expectations at the time. July 9, 1978, Washington Post, an article about colored vinyl noting that Gabriel Bondage's second album sold at least 30K copies, due in part to its three editions: one red, one white, one blue vinyl. | |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:54pm
HollyT:
Great show, Tony! |
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![]() Thanks, everyone!! See you next week! |
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![]() Tony, is it me, or is the Drummer schedule grid not linked anywhere on the WFMU home page? I wish this were not the case. I'll ask Ken about it tomorrow. |
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![]() thanks, Tony! |
Tue. 10/24/17 2:55pm
Dean:
@steveo: Home | Listen | Give the Drummer Radio | GTDR Weekly Schedule | |
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![]() Thanks Tony Great program! see y'all |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:56pm
glenn:
you have to access it from the listen link. |
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![]() Ah, I found it. You have to "hover" over Listen, then over Drummer.... |
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![]() yeah, what glenn said ;) |
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![]() i have the 3 different schedules bookmarked, so i can bypass the user-unfriendly/computer-unfriendly homepage entirely. |
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![]() Right on, Tony! Such a great show! |
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![]() Yeah, truthfully, I do wish the station homepage made things a bit more obvious. |
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![]() that's a good idea too, coela |
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![]() yeah, very enjoyable show! |
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Tue. 10/24/17 2:58pm
glenn:
somebody said it's possible to use the old homepage. does anybody know how? |
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![]() i'm using it ...hold on... |
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![]() /freeform ? |
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![]() old homepage, maybe? freeform.wfmu.org |
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![]() almost :0 |
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![]() that didn't work? |
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![]() freeform.wfmu.org here's the link to the old homepage. |
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