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Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 8:23 pm
by Chankgeez
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 7:12 am
by Eivind August
So, I was relistening to some of Eloy's albums today. Listened to them in passing before and thought they were ok, but actually sitting down with their stuff I'm at a bit of a loss. Any strong opinions from the prog crew?
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 3:53 am
by Dowi
Eivind August wrote:So, I was relistening to some of Eloy's albums today. Listened to them in passing before and thought they were ok, but actually sitting down with their stuff I'm at a bit of a loss. Any strong opinions from the prog crew?
Don't know them enough,but the only thing I can say is that I stumbled upon some of their tracks during the years, but they naver made me want to dig deeper in their catalog.
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 8:41 am
by Chankgeez
Eloy are sometimes listenable, sometimes not. Their stuff varies. Overall, I'd say "I'd probably rather be listening to something else" though.
So, not really a strong opinion.
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 12:59 pm
by Eivind August
Chankgeez wrote:Overall, I'd say "I'd probably rather be listening to something else" though.
Yeah, that's what I ended up thinking as well. Some prog sites seem to rate them highly, which is why I assumed that they would be better.
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2019 3:07 pm
by Chankgeez
Not all prog is created equal.
Plus, there are many different sub-genres of prog.
Not everybody wants to hear the same thing when they listen to prog.
[youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wihkiz_z5SU[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wihkiz_z5SU
[youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLjqiyXOYno[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLjqiyXOYno
Almost everything's worth a listen once.
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 5:56 pm
by Chankgeez
More proggy Oh Sees:
[youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTpVPUIwOMo[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTpVPUIwOMo
(Although, they aren't copping to that particular tag on their bandcamp.)
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 8:36 am
by Dandolin
Love that post-proto jawn!
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:17 am
by Chankgeez
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2019 5:05 pm
by Dandolin
^^interesting^^
Leaving this here for Eivind:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCbyu9S1WPI[/youtube]
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:27 pm
by Chankgeez
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:23 pm
by Dandolin
^^Whole lotta Hammond....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8_a7Z2NgQo[/youtube]
Yezda Urfa - Give 'em Some Rawhide Chewies from Sacred Baboon
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 10:59 am
by Dandolin
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYCrmpNP-x8[/youtube]
or...fusion...or sumpin'....
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:20 pm
by repoman
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yUN6CsuVPw[/youtube]
There was a RMI electric harpsichord on my craigslist for $100 and I didn't know anything about it so I googled and it said the keyboards on this song is one of those. I should have bought it but didn't for some reason.
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2019 1:40 am
by Dandolin
I don't really keyboard, but I played bass in a band that covered that song--it's fun to play. I always thought that Banks used one of the piano settings on the 386x for it (or maybe even it's predecessor, the Rocksichord). Word is that you could combine the basic piano/harpsichord/lute sounds--seems quite likely Banks could have been doing that. Definitely sounds like he's got the organ (sustain) setting turned on. Word also is that Banks had a Fender Blender built into his RMI--no evidence of that on Carpet Crawlers, but it's likely there somewhere else on Lamb...somewhere.... The keyboardist in my band just used a Rhodes and it still sounded great, but it probs could have used to be a bit more staccato on the note attack phase...come to think of it, he may have switched over to using his Prophet after a while....
There are a few virtual instruments and sample packs that claim to cop that sound through the years...but it would be fun to play an OG for stuff other than Banksian; the common notions of portability were of course far more generous than today
Although keyboardists apparently think little of the action on the RMI's keybed
That price though
Keith Jarrett would play an RMI when he was in Miles' band (if that's what was on stage when he got there, lol)[fusion invasion!
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyJooHmRcdc[/youtube]
and Ron Mael of Sparks definitely featured it:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAzESJ62irI[/youtube]
And, of course, there was the Caped One himself:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu4eD4_1B0s[/youtube]