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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2014 at 18:49
Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

Richard Hudson played sitar on several STRAWBS  songs - "Canon Dale", "Is it Today Lord", and "Lady Fuschia" all come to mind.  I think he played it on some Hudson-Ford albums too

I think from memory (without digging through my complete collection of Strawbs/Hudson Ford albums) that he also played it on Fingertips from Antiques and Curios and Shepherd Song from Witchwood. He certainly did use it on Nickelodeon but on which tracks, I'm not sure.

Strawbs really were (and still are) a marvellous band. I saw the electric line up on a dreadfully windy night in York when they played to just 50 people (most couldn't get there die to travel problems) and they were fantastic. Despite the tiny crowd, they put everything into the gig.
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Points: 1607 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2014 at 17:04
Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:

Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

Le Orme's Aldo Tagliapietra did play the real sitar

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There is another nifty Le Orme's song that features a beautiful Sitar sound:
 
Calipso (album Florian)
 
More:
 
Le Orme - Fine Di Un Viaggio_E Ricorda Che... Domani (album Florian)
Le Orme - Il Treno (album Piccola Rapsodia Dell'Ape)


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Points: 7028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2014 at 22:05
Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

Richard Hudson played sitar on several STRAWBS  songs - "Canon Dale", "Is it Today Lord", and "Lady Fuschia" all come to mind.  I think he played it on some Hudson-Ford albums too

Excellent reference.

I would also strongly recommend A Handful Of beauty and Natural Elements  by Shakti and John Mcclaughlin
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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2014 at 19:24
A song I just got finished listening to - "Astarte" by the Danish group Secret Oyster Ying Yang
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Points: 20604 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2014 at 19:15
Not really prog, but not really anything else, either. Wonderwall Music by George Harrison. Not really proggy but a lot of sitar-ie.

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Points: 15243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2014 at 19:12
Sorry, not all prog but from this Wikipedia page. Lots of prog listed though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raga_rock
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Points: 1607 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 24 2014 at 17:20
The Moody Blues feature some sugestive sitar playing in the superb track Visions Of Paradise, and in the CD2 of the 2006 Remaster of the album In Search Of The Lost Chord there is an instrumental version of this song that is formidable, it really enhances the song's atmosphere with those sitar sounds playing around.


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Andre Fertier's Clivage features plenty of amazing sitarplaying. Check out: Regina Astris and Mixtus Orbis
Ananda Shankar is a sitarplaying progger from India. I reccomend Ananda Shankar and His Music, Sá-re-gá Machàn + 2001 are the best in that
Popol Vuh featured a sitarplayer in 1977-1979: Nosferatu (On the Way to a Little Way), Herz aus Glas 
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Kanguru - Dreaming
Okko - Sitar & Electronics

The oriental jazz fusion of Oregon, Codona and Vasant Rai all features sitarguy Colin Walcott.
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Points: 10964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2014 at 20:33
Dream Theater used Sitar on Home from "Scenes From A Memory"

Also, check out Miles Davis "Big Fun" for more jazz-rock/fusion with sitar.

Can't of anything else off the top of my head. Maybe Ozric Tentacles but I'd have to check.
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Points: 1607 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2014 at 17:31
Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

Le Orme's Aldo Tagliapietra did play the real sitar

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There is another nifty Le Orme's song that features a beautiful Sitar sound:
 
Calipso (album Florian)


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Points: 8951 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2014 at 22:13
Richard Hudson played sitar on several STRAWBS  songs - "Canon Dale", "Is it Today Lord", and "Lady Fuschia" all come to mind.  I think he played it on some Hudson-Ford albums too
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Points: 1195 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2014 at 10:31
Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Howe uses electric sitar quite a bit on both CTTE and Relayer.

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Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

Originally posted by PrognosticMind PrognosticMind wrote:

Doesn't Steve Howe use a lot of sitar in the studio? What's going on right before the first verse of Close to The Edge kicks in? I could just be mis-hearing steel lap.
Yes, well he never played the real sitar but the Coral Electric Sitar which was a pseudo-sitar-like sounding 6-string guitar, at 26m20s here



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Points: 1413 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2014 at 10:04
Mr. George Harrison put his sitar to good use in the 1960s and '70s, and since we consider the post-1966 Beatles to be "proto-prog" ... here are two vids from Sgt. Pepper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGigmNSPk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqXmBy1_qOQ
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2014 at 08:26
Denny Dias played electric sitar on Steely Dan's "Do It Again". Not 100% sure if that counts.
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Points: 850 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2014 at 08:04
The only two prog songs I know of that feature the sitar are Home by Dream Theater, and Don of the Universe by The Flower Kings.
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Points: 8615 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2014 at 11:34
On Dzyan's album Electric Silence, Eddy Marron plays some tastefull, and atmospheric sitar.Wink
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Points: 5154 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:29
Le Orme's Aldo Tagliapietra did play the real sitar
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Points: 5154 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:28
Originally posted by PrognosticMind PrognosticMind wrote:

Doesn't Steve Howe use a lot of sitar in the studio? What's going on right before the first verse of Close to The Edge kicks in? I could just be mis-hearing steel lap.
Yes, well he never played the real sitar but the Coral Electric Sitar which was a pseudo-sitar-like sounding 6-string guitar, at 26m20s here
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Points: 6446 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2014 at 10:27
Howe uses electric sitar quite a bit on both CTTE and Relayer.
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