My Old & New Interesting Progressive Bands Thread

 

                         It's my pleasure Paul and about Poland, what an amazing progrock fertility  

 

This evening I am going to watch the triple Rush DVD Snakes & Arrows, recorded in Ahoy in Rotterdam (in my home country Holland) where I watched Rush two years ago, I am still enjoying the 2112 rendition

 

 

 

Interesting to see a recommendation of Schicke Führs Fröhling's live cd. I'm still enjoying the magnificent first two studio albums and I wonder if I should buy the live album as well.  Still doubting if I should try out Eela Craig as well. Maybe I should.  Thanks for the interesting reviews, Erik.

 

Thanks Marcel, I hope The Tubes (see: http://www.thetubes.com/oldstuff.htm ) will once enter Prog Archives, very interesting rock with lots of progressive ideas in their early years. About SFF, their live album is superior to the studio-albums, way more compelling and dynamic  And about Eela Craig ......................  Vintage Keyboard Prog Heaven

 

 

 

 

Prog-jester, I am in the final days of my 16 days holiday (at home) and too euphoric to take a dive into the dark Post Rock music  !

  

Angelo, I will make time to concentrate on The Tea Club, I noticed some reviews on the homepage and about Nemo, I hope you have ordered the 2-CD version with the bonus live disc.

 

 

Well Paul, I am sure you will like the 2-CD version of Barbares by Nemo and I am looking forward to see my Progfarm DVD footage including Nemo published on the Progfarm website. About the triple Rush DVD Snakes & Arrows I would like to say:

 

 

- I am a Rush freak since 1976 when I heard All The World's A Stage, in 1977 I bought A Farewell To Kings and from that moment I was hooked: I bought all their albums until Hold Your Fire, attended Rush their first gig in The Netherlands during the Pinkpop Festival in 1979 and all their following concerts in Ahoy (Rotterdam in Holland) ... except their last one that was recorded live for this DVD because of the tracklist that didn't appeal very much to me. And I wanted to keep my mindblowing memories of the R30 tour in 2007, a pretty personal reason. While watching this Snakes & Arrows triple DVD I am blown away by the jaw-dropping visuals (lightshow, lasers, pyrotechnics, animations), Rush plays very inspired, the renditions of Limelight, The Main Monkey Business (best new composition since YYZ!), Natural Science (goose bumps), Witch Hunt, One Little Victory (new stage favorite?), A Passage To Bangkok and YYZ are excellent, the extra live tracks are great, the inventive animations are very funny, the enthousiastic crowd often freaks out (at some moments close to the Rush In Rio atmosphere) but ......... I have to admit that during DVD-1 my attention slips away a bit too often because tracks like Entre Nous, Secret Touch, Circumstances and Between The Wheels are nothing but pleasant melodic rock, without interesting progressive ideas and the song Digital Man is drowning in a wall of sound, what a pity! The filming on this Snakes & Arrows DVD is the best I have ever seen on Rush DVD's, not that 'hyperactive' as on R30 and Rush In Rio, you get the chance to enjoy Rush live without 20 images in 1 minute but I prefer watching R30 and Rush In Rio, these DVD's capture a bit more the magical spirit of Rush on stage.

 

 

 

 

 

                    Angelo, Progwalhalla Hans told me that your order was the last one in 2008

 

                                            Haha, Igor, that's the true progrock spirit