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    Posted: April 12 2006 at 16:21
Over 17 minutes with varied themes and emotions, Procol Harum's 1968 melody "In Held Twas In I" seems to be the first to meet the prog epic criteria. Or was there anything earlier?
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YES!!!

 

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Points: 2156 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2006 at 04:26
Originally posted by MANDRAKEROOT MANDRAKEROOT wrote:

YES!!!

Mandrakeroot, as a specialist on Italian prog, which was the first Italian prog epic?
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I loved "In held" when I got that album. Was this done by "Transatlantic" too? I heard it on XM and it sounded almost exactly the same.
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Points: 2156 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2006 at 06:22

Originally posted by freebird freebird wrote:

I loved "In held" when I got that album. Was this done by "Transatlantic" too? I heard it on XM and it sounded almost exactly the same.

They certainly did. They also did the Abbey Road medley live (on "Live in America").
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Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Over 17 minutes with varied themes and emotions, Procol Harum's 1968 melody "In Held Twas In I" seems to be the first to meet the prog epic criteria. Or was there anything earlier?

i don't know, but i don't think there is an earlier epic . of course, there was stuff going on in 65-67, but that wasn't epics.
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Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Originally posted by freebird freebird wrote:

I loved "In held" when I got that album. Was this done by "Transatlantic" too? I heard it on XM and it sounded almost exactly the same.

They certainly did. They also did the Abbey Road medley live (on "Live in America").

Is it my imagination or is the "Transatlantic" version almost the same? Is the newer one any better? I only heard the last part of it.
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Anyone knows the exact release date for Procol Harum's 1968 album "Shine on brightly" which had "In Held Twas In I" on it?
 
I'm asking because The Nice released the "Ars longa vita brevis" suite in November 1968. It clocks in at 19:26 and perhaps rightly deserves the "First Epic" tag? (How could I possibly forget this?!)
 
Recording and release dates for these first epics?
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Points: 2156 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2006 at 06:23
Another thread has revealed that "Shine on Brightly" was released December '68, while "Ars longa vita brevis" was released November '68. Don't know which of the two was recorded first.
 
Consequently, "Ars" is the first symphonic prog epic, beating "In Held Twas In I" with an inch.
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Try listening to Miles Davis in a silent way 2 20 minute Jazz pieces with a somewhat symphonic structure (this was the beginning of his fusion period so it counts as prog). I listened to it the other day I'm sure bands like Van Der Graft Generator and King Crimson got ideas from it, give the album a listen and you'll see what I mean.Wink



  
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Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Anyone knows the exact release date for Procol Harum's 1968 album "Shine on brightly" which had "In Held Twas In I" on it?
 
I'm asking because The Nice released the "Ars longa vita brevis" suite in November 1968. It clocks in at 19:26 and perhaps rightly deserves the "First Epic" tag? (How could I possibly forget this?!)
 
Recording and release dates for these first epics?
 
Hello again earlyprog! There was a thread about this a few months back. I think the conclusion was Ars Longa Vita Brevis (November'68) was the first 20 minute prog epic as it was released before Shine on Brightly (December '68).
 
PS. Have you accepted that Ars Longa was the first symphonic prog album yet?Wink
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Points: 20411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2006 at 09:03
Having just finished the book Beyond The Pale, Shine on Brightly was releasedin the UK in -dec 68, but released in the US in Sept 68 and Germany in oct 68
 
Still a fave track of mine, but on that album, thete is another real masterpiece: Skip Away My Moonbeams >> fantastic also
 
 
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Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Over 17 minutes with varied themes and emotions, Procol Harum's 1968 melody "In Held Twas In I" seems to be the first to meet the prog epic criteria. Or was there anything earlier?
 
Well, I'm not shure but The Collectors released an epic in 1968 which is called "What Love (Suite)" which clocks at 19:15. It's in the archives and there's a review of Sean Trane
 
 
In my opinion this is the first occurence of a full-blown symphonic rock epic (if it's before the Procol Harum and Nice tracks)
I have this on vinyl, but I bought it somewhere in the '70 and the album doesn't give a definite release date except 1968. I also tried to Google it but no result. There is one article about it in the net which is very interesting to read (and shows that these guys were really composing, not just jamming, when making this suite):
 
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I'm definitely going to buy The Collectors, Soul Dreamer. Just haven't found it on amazon.co.uk yet.
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Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

I'm definitely going to buy The Collectors, Soul Dreamer. Just haven't found it on amazon.co.uk yet.

You will love The Collectors >> Vanilla Fudge meets Moody BluesWink
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Points: 1188 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2007 at 23:04
And some people are still deluded in believin' that ITCOTKC was the first prog album?Disapprove
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Have to wonder wrt the  Electric Prunes 1967  Mass In F Minor - btw when did Arlo Guthrie release Alice's Restaurant?
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Have to wonder wrt the  Electric Prunes 1967  Mass In F Minor - btw when did Arlo Guthrie release Alice's Restaurant?
 
Alice's Restaurant Massacree (18:20) 1967 Arlo Guthrie "Alice's Restaurant". Exact release date?
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