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 (five months ago) link
Haha, Peppa Prog
― sawdust lagoon, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:38 (five months ago) link
Also love the Knifeworld > Gong sequence. Kavus, yup.
― sawdust lagoon, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:43 (five months ago) link
Utopia Strong was in there too :)
― frogbs, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:57 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
cat food is funky as hell
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:41 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
maybe we should start a thread :)
(not a poll tho, they suck)
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:58 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
even Gong occasionally have funky inclinations
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:16 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
that hammond bass is sick tho
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:40 (five months ago) link
3 mins in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dM9uujpGkc
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 18:41 (five 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 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gcl_Te7P9o
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:00 (five 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 (five months ago) link
whoa i didnt know about that ALW album!
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:24 (five 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 (five months ago) link
Very much a charity shop staple.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:51 (five months ago) link
i will never sell my copy
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:52 (five months ago) link
even for pennies
No-one would buy it anyway.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:53 (five months ago) link
kurt might!
but he's not getting it
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 19:54 (five months ago) link
gimme!
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 20:29 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApXA1YjOM6M
― MaresNest, Saturday, 20 January 2024 20:25 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
His solo records are pretty endearing too.
― MaresNest, Friday, 26 January 2024 21:18 (five months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 26 January 2024 21:22 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTyFPnnnuL8
― MaresNest, Sunday, 28 January 2024 00:03 (five months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Sunday, 28 January 2024 03:14 (five months ago) link
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
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 05:00 (four months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 14:50 (four months ago) link
I saw The Music Box, who do Gabriel-era Genesis a few years ago (with costumes!), well worth the $25-30 I paid.
― nickn, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:26 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxNw3G0TXPE
― MaresNest, Friday, 2 February 2024 12:27 (four months ago) link
^^ 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"
― frogbs, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:23 (four months ago) link
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?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 2 February 2024 22:08 (four months ago) link