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...Nick Beggs.
From Kajagoogoo?!
(Nick Beggs on R)
Say what you will about Kajagoogoo, but the bass parts were all pretty awesome even if the songs weren't great.One in the same. Like XTC's Dave Gregory, he is a mainstay in progressive rock in his post new wave career. Nick is the driving force behind a progressive pop-rock band called The Mute Gods and had previously been part of the Christian/Celtic prog band Iona (with whom Fripp guested a few times). He's been Hackett's regular bassist for a number of years.
Nick is the driving force behind a progressive pop-rock band called The Mute Gods and had previously been part of the Christian/Celtic prog band Iona (with whom Fripp guested a few times) .
Say what you will about Kajagoogoo, but the bass parts were all pretty awesome even if the songs weren't great.
He's done more than a little u-turn on the Christian thing and The Mute Gods albums are more than a little vitriolic - the latest, third album even more so than before based on some interviews I've recently read. He comes across as quite abrasive at times and there's a thin line between observational critiques and outright ranting.
I think when Hackett goes out this year he'll have Jonas Reingold on bass again, as with the last tour.
But then there is Goblin, an RPI band that did soundtracks to horror films. Literally, they had a career of making prog rock for soundtracks.
As you mention Goblin, the theme for Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) was epic at the time.
You'd have done better getting Aqualung. Thick as a Brick is one song over two sides of a record.Today I sent away for two more LPs that seem like they should be pretty good:
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Number or length of tracks is irrelevant to me. Might get Aqualung someday, but in the meantime can't argue withYou'd have done better getting Aqualung. Thick as a Brick is one song over two sides of a record.
Number or length of tracks is irrelevant to me. Might get Aqualung someday, but in the meantime can't argue with
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Some of us make the time.Some of us don't have 45 minutes to listen on a single song
Even with non-prog and non-jazz, I prefer to listen to a record all the way through as the artist intended.Progressive rock is an album-oriented genre anyway. Whether it be A Pleasant Shade of Grey, or Tubular Bells, or A Passion Play, album-long songs are par for the course.
You've picked the wrong genre then dudeSome of us don't have 45 minutes to listen on a single song
When did I say I like prog?You've picked the wrong genre then dude
Me too. I'm a complete Tull-head though. And Aqualung is the only album don't love. Songs from the Wood, Broadsword & The Beast, Warchild,...much better.I went to see them on their 50th Anniversary tour this time last year. And they still put on a great show.
The theater is nothing compared to what it was. Did love the videos of former band members etc.I caught them (well, they were being billed as Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, but the current lineup) for the TAAB2 tour. A friend of mine who is a decade younger and more familiar with Alt Rock, was blown away by how "lively" and theatrical the whole performance was.
No Hawkwind?Jerry Lucky, in his late 90s book The Progressive Rock Files, used the term Big Six to describe Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, ELP and King Crimson. Basically the main six British bands commonly associated with Progressive Rock. As early as 1988, I had heard the term colloquially used by older friends to describe the same six bands (presumably riffing off the Big Four of Thrash), but the Lucky book is the earliest non-anecdotal source I can cite.
Hawkwind are very much not prog. Though you could.make a solid case for thwm being one of the forefathers of modern dance music. Particularly the various rave bramches. There's certainly a lot of common ground in the extended songs, repetitive grooves and use of sound effects to create music.No Hawkwind?
No idea where the line is but consider them solidly psychedelic, which may take them out of Prog Rock by the authors definition. I've never heard anyone call Hawkwind dance music.Hawkwind are very much not prog. Though you could.make a solid case for thwm being one of the forefathers of modern dance music. Particularly the various rave bramches. There's certainly a lot of common ground in the extended songs, repetitive grooves and use of sound effects to create music.
They're not dance music in and of themselves. But think of the drug fuelled Hawkwind gigs and free festivals of the 70s and compare with the rave scene of the late 90s and early 2000s. It's not hard to draw a line between the two.No idea where the line is but consider them solidly psychedelic, which may take them out of Prog Rock by the authors definition. I've never heard anyone call Hawkwind dance music.
They're not dance music in and of themselves. But think of the drug fuelled Hawkwind gigs and free festivals of the 70s and compare with the rave scene of the late 90s and early 2000s. It's not hard to draw a line between the two.
Are we talking Hawkwind Princess Valhalla?
No Hawkwind?
... speaking of Queensryche. They never get enough love. Spectacular band all the way around. De Garmo's guitar and the unholy vocals of the Third Tremor of metal that is Geoff Tate, worthy accessories of classic Prog, if only as their metal cousins.
I'd cite 'Operation:Mindcrime' and 'Rage for Order' as two of the greatest rock albums ever.
I was going to say that. I remember in 1986 these guys are singing about cyberspace, and cyberpunk dystopia-turned-Orwellian hellhole scenarios DECADES before people were even considering this stuff in rock, much less doing whole concept albums about it. You can imagine how this impacted me as I was reading Bruce Sterling and William Gibson... yeah. Queensrche is glorious.Mindcrime is one of the greatest albums of all time. And possibly more relevant now than it was when it came out.
Queensryche, Body Count, Orbital. The soundtrack of Cyberpunk gaming.I was going to say that. I remember in 1986 these guys are singing about cyberspace, and cyberpunk dystopia-turned-Orwellian hellhole scenarios DECADES before people were even considering this stuff in rock, much less doing whole concept albums about it. You can imagine how this impacted me as I was reading Bruce Sterling and William Gibson... yeah. Queensrche is glorious.