Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 6:24 pm
Incoming
Inconuucl wrote:It's not a new At the Drive in, but it's certainly better than Sparta.
Hey, I like Sparta!
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Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 6:56 pm
Hey, I like Sparta!
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:48 am
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 1:43 pm
blakestree wrote:Inconuucl wrote:It's not a new At the Drive in, but it's certainly better than Sparta.
Hey, I like Sparta!
Tongue's firmly on cheek, fam.
lordgalvar wrote:
Just saw Antemasque with a big time Steve Wilson fan (flys all over the world to see him and has secret demo tapes of his or something...don't know but he got kinda pissy when I moved them off their chair).
Antemasque was alright, but I ain't really a fan of At the Drive in or any of that stuff. They did some neat covers (can't for the life of me remember what it was, but it made me laugh at the time). A lot of chatter about not getting respected/came off a little too tough-guy act/kinda silly. It was alright live but not something really unique sounding (it was the first I had heard them). Just kinda standard punk/indie based rock. It was at Coachella actually and my friends and wife were getting pissed at SWANS which is why we walked over. We had fun though.
See, I started playing classical and Jazz, so I'll always have that in me. Steven Wilson just pushes all the right buttons along that route. I also love that he is prog without being all about fretboard acrobatics 24/7, which is super up my alley too. Some of his noisier songs are also ILF worthy, marginally.
I found Antemasque enjoyable but not revolutionary. Reason I got that record was because it was hella cheap, plus I liked it enough to want to follow what they do next.
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:08 pm
Inconuucl wrote:See, I started playing classical and Jazz, so I'll always have that in me. Steven Wilson just pushes all the right buttons along that route. I also love that he is prog without being all about fretboard acrobatics 24/7, which is super up my alley too. Some of his noisier songs are also ILF worthy, marginally.
I found Antemasque enjoyable but not revolutionary. Reason I got that record was because it was hella cheap, plus I liked it enough to want to follow what they do next.
I just thought it was a funny coincidence. Steve Wilson is better than a lot of the other prog stuff my friend listens too, haha. He liked Antemasque too.
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:57 pm
Steve Wilson is one of the few guys in the more recent prog movement that makes stuff akin to the great prog from the sixties and seventies. Less technical flash, more compositional genious. Those early Porcupine Tree demos are brilliant.
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:22 pm
Eivind August wrote:Steve Wilson is one of the few guys in the more recent prog movement that makes stuff akin to the great prog from the sixties and seventies. Less technical flash, more compositional genious. Those early Porcupine Tree demos are brilliant.
I think he has those on tape "from the source". And some early Yes demos or live recordings or something. All I know is that that box is his most protected possession (he is quite a bit older than me).
He was trying to talk me into going to see King Crimson or something like 30 years retrospective with all their drummers and a ton of guests. It was like 250 a ticket. Yea, not my thing haha. 10 dollars, sure, 250 no.
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:31 pm
I would easily have paid $250 to see King Crimson, man. I missed the Yes gig in Oslo last year, still beating myself over it. On the other hand, I don't listen to the stuff either of them did after the seventies, so what I really need is a time machine. But yeah, the problem with the prog community is elitism. Well, I guess that goes for every genre. Prog is still superior though. We get to wear capes and shit. 
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:33 pm
No one really likes Sparta.
or Prog.
or Prog.
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:03 pm
Eivind August wrote:But yeah, the problem with the prog community is elitism.
I love (some) prog, I hate most prog fans.
I don't fucking care how many NPS they can play, I just want to hear a good payoff to the song writing. 
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:08 pm
Inconuucl wrote:Eivind August wrote:But yeah, the problem with the prog community is elitism.
I love (some) prog, I hate most prog fans.
Word. Shreding destroys everything. Those Steve Hillage solos from Gong on the other hand...
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:36 pm
I like laughing at prog -- still fun.
A while ago, I played a bunch of shows in a band that briefly toured with Fang Island, and they told me I sounded like Chris Squire -- I was crushed.
A while ago, I played a bunch of shows in a band that briefly toured with Fang Island, and they told me I sounded like Chris Squire -- I was crushed.
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:37 pm
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:42 pm
Wednesday, I was looking through the "Just Arrived Preowned" section of one of the few shops we have in this town, laughing at the cheesy 80s hair metal record sleeves with a client, when I flipped through the O section to unveil the recent Om live 12" in new condition. Snapped that motherfucker up for $25 (that's AU, and that is very cheap for retail down here).
Also arrived in the mail was Master of Reality and Eagle Twin's Feather TIpped...
So, that was rad.
Also arrived in the mail was Master of Reality and Eagle Twin's Feather TIpped...
So, that was rad.
Re: The what you just got thread!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:43 pm
I think my friend is friends with Chris Squire. Just checked and they are buds. haha. I think he is really sick.
It's funny that I have so many prog friends. They can't stand anything I listen to except Neu. Trying to argue that Jello Biafra writes better lyrics than Yes is kinda fun.
It's funny that I have so many prog friends. They can't stand anything I listen to except Neu. Trying to argue that Jello Biafra writes better lyrics than Yes is kinda fun.