Been listening to a fair bit of obscurities lately because my cds are packed away so I'm on youtube more - this one's from '77 (hardly the annus mirabilis of prog) and from Israel, so nice to see that - (multitap ) echoes of Yes are evident - though the bassist, significantly, is much more Jack Bruce than Chris Squire (and pretty much his own thang, really) and overall it's nowhere near as monolithically Yessiriffic as, say, Starcastle of the same vintage. it's nice to hear something different (not different) once in a while. I'll take that qersty H.Cow post anyday tho
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:44 am
by Dowi
I missed thia thread so much.. Not much prog in my weekly listenings these days but I always enjoy to put on some while doing house maintenance in the weekend mornings. Noted for the next weekend!
Re: Don thy cape, heathen - IT'S A PROG THREAD
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2021 9:05 am
by Dandolin
Dowi wrote:I missed thia thread so much.. Not much prog in my weekly listenings these days but I always enjoy to put on some while doing house maintenance in the weekend mornings. Noted for the next weekend!
i missed this site so much
welp - hopefully you don't hate it - i don't want to over-sell it - this is really the shallower end of the prog pool - I'm thinking more of how it compares to some of the "lost classics" by one-and-done firstwave prog latecomers that tend to get over-praised by the obsessive progistas (i'm looking at you Cathedral's Stained Glass Stories) f'rinstance than i am of how it stacks up with the big boys wearing authentic Hammer Horror cast-off capes. and also, was interested in its rep as a yesclone (it's mostly the vox from what i can hear becuz neither the bass nor the guitar are really gettin' that)...and also its country of origin, because i haven't run across a tonne of vintage prog from Israel.
anyway - we've covered so much of the primo/better-known stuff at this point that we're perforce left to deal with such obscurities (and i just don't have the heart to start slinging Neal Morse, sub-Marillionites or Dream Theater wannabes)
if you've got the time and you're not too grossed out by the taste of those shallots, give this one a spin - it might be more up yer alley:
just watched a BBC4 doc about prog that painted a picture of prog as, like 90% ELP and Yes, 5% Genesis, 2% some Quebecois Genesis tribute band and whatever else (a miscellany out-timed by the punk included).
idk whether that's objectively true, but thank the noodly appendage it can't erase what's in my brain...yet.
so i guess this continues my recent trend of posting things that straddle the prog/fusion line
i feel a little odd about posting it, because - to be clear - i don't like it
but some dude posted on the web about how great it was, and i'd heard of the constituent musos (mostly from S.Wilson's band i think), but then i queued this up on youtube and it came on an i was like "wat :/" and then i kept listening and at the end i was still like "wat :/"
curious as to whether anybody really likes this shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szssdLmFysk
Aie, sounds like the fonk-ay house band on a podcast for bros who think they're clever where they talk about how they're above Marvel movies and how they dig science and how religion sucks and they're oblivious to how douchey they are.
) echoes of Yes are evident - though the bassist, significantly, is much more Jack Bruce than Chris Squire (and pretty much his own thang, really) and overall it's nowhere near as monolithically Yessiriffic as, say, Starcastle of the same vintage. 
it's nice to hear something different (not different) once in a while. I'll take that qersty H.Cow post anyday tho 
i missed this site so much 
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