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Points: 3659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2009 at 17:07
Excellent Erik, I'm off to read it. Smile
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And I thought I knew Italian prog. How many unknown names!

Good work, Erik.
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                       Hello Paul: thanks, I am looking forward to your complaints about your wallet .... LOL !
 
                        Hello Marcel: thanks, good to hear from you and ... December 19th there will be a
                        Progwalhalla evening, we hope to see you back after a long time Thumbs Up
 
 
 
                                                                                                                              
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"Ciao Erik...GREAT JOB! Your articles are very interesting and complete! Thanks for the beautiful description of our albums! You have captured the emotion of our music and lyrics!
A great prog-kiss from all the band...thanks for your support Erik! Cheers! 
Eva & BDM"


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Good to see you Erik!!!Hug
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Yes, welcome back Thumbs Up !  And it's good to know about ProgWalhalla evening. I'm not on Hans' mailing list anymore, I think. I really would like to come one day but it's difficult for me if it's still in Zaandam. That's a 4 hour drive from where I live in Belgium, and a 4 hour drive back the same evening because on Sunday morning most of the times I have to work. The Hague would be much better for me: that means a 6 hour drive in total, and that's what I do sometimes to visit friends and family.

But hey, if I can make it or not: good to see you back here, and keep up all the good work!
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Thanks Bob, I haven't disappeared totally Wink
 
Well Marcel, perhaps the next Progwalhalla evening is at my home, thanks for your kind words Thumbs Up
 
About the Il Bacio Delle Medusa their e-mail to me, I have posted it here on PA because I have put so much time and energy in my Italian progrock article that I can't resist this way of ego-gratification, multo grazie Clap
 
By the way, I am just back from a mindblowing Barclay James Harvest gig, the super enthousiastic crowd (mainly 45+ men) was flooded by the sound of Woolly his M400 Mellotron and treated on most of their classics like Mockingbird, Child Of The Universe, Suicide, She Said and Poor Man's Moody Blues Big smile
 
 
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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

 

 
By the way, I am just back from a mindblowing Barclay James Harvest gig, the super enthousiastic crowd (mainly 45+ men) was flooded by the sound of Woolly his M400 Mellotron and treated on most of their classics like Mockingbird, Child Of The Universe, Suicide, She Said and Poor Man's Moody Blues Big smile
 
 


I was about to go there as well, but my friend(s) couldn't make it. I was already afraid I would have missed something. Good that you enjoyed it though.
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GReat Erik
 
 




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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

 
"Ciao Erik...GREAT JOB! Your articles are very interesting and complete! Thanks for the beautiful description of our albums! You have captured the emotion of our music and lyrics!
A great prog-kiss from all the band...thanks for your support Erik! Cheers! 
Eva & BDM"
 
Good to see you getting some recognition for your hard work Erik. Smile 
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Hello Paul, good to see that your thread about my Italian progrock article has been reanimated by more posts in the last two days than the entire previous month!  
Thanks Alberto for your compliments Thumbs Up
 
Marcel, here's link with pictures from that Barclay James Harvest gig I recently watched:
 
 
                                John Lees Barclay James Harvest 23-11-2009 by Marco de Niet.
 
                                                   The Mighty Tron (M400 model)
 
                      This man is responsible for the great vintage keyboard sound on the excellent
                                          Pandora debut album, I love that emotion: 
 
                                      Pandora - Cuneo - 12/07/2009
 
 
 


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Great pics, Erik. Too bad I couldn't come myself.

And Trons are always a good thing!
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Marcel, I hope this tour will be captured on DVD, in comparison with the 2006 DVD, BJH played more 'classic tracks' and the atmosphere was great, Woolly acted like a member of the Monty Python team Clown !

Today I received an e-mail from the management of the promising new Italian band Soulengine (one of the best compositions on the Dante II 4-CD), they will send me a promo package Smile
 
Il Bacio Delle Medusa send this e-mail:
 
The new album will focus on the theme of the Crusades, with references to the modern situation...
We are being drafted, and I think that the wonderful ideas and the variety of music will make an album extremely interesting and mature!
However I belive that we'll need to work calmly....we'll have to treat every single datalis at the best way!
Best wishes Erik, keep in touch, and thanks for all!
 
Eva and BDM!
PS: If you want, you can see our videos of our gigs on youtube:
 
                                                                                   Ciao
 
 
 

 
 
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Erik, Great to hear BDM are working on a new album; I'll look forward to that one.
 
Just had a look at the BJH pics...excellent and very good quality. Obviously a very close view. I see John Lees has come straight to the gig from his job at the bank. Wink
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Well Paul, fellow BJH fan, this is an Italian progrock thread but ... what an inspired and Mellotron
drenched Smile BJH gig it was and indeed, John Lees looked like a bank member, I was thinking of mr. Mainwaring from Dad's Army, one of my favorite TV series in the Seventies Wink 
   
                                               
 
                                                                        
 
By the way Paul, you are right: it was a close look at the BJH gig, the photographer and me (once we met at Pinkpop 1984 for the Marillion performance) were standing in the front row, only a few meters away from the band members.
 
 


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Welcome Erik Smile, tell more if you want about Soulengine, your new discovery
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    Hello Bogdan, welcome back to the show that never ends, ladies and gentlemen, Italian progrock Clap
 
About Soulengine, I got this e-mail from the management ( [email protected] ) :
 
Hello Erik, I prepared and sent you the promo package, I think you'll receive it within 3 days. Thank you for your interest, hope you'll enjoy what SoulenginE are working on. The promo cd features the
unmastered long version of "Polheim" (the song included in Purgatorio) and a demo version of "Rain Flower", another track from the upcoming full-length. Recording sessions are concluded, and soon it will be time for mix. Let's keep in touch and prog on. Ciao! Giorgio Bertini
 
I wrote this about their music on the 4-CD box Dante's Pulgatorio, see:
 
 
                                                                           Ciao
 
 

 


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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

 
Well Paul, fellow BJH fan, this is an Italian progrock thread but ... what an inspired and Mellotron
drenched Smile BJH gig it was and indeed, John Lees looked like a bank member, I was thinking of mr. Mainwaring from Dad's Army, one of my favorite TV series in the Seventies Wink 
   
                                               
 
                                                                        
 
By the way Paul, you are right: it was a close look at the BJH gig, the photographer and me (once we met at Pinkpop 1984 for the Marillion performance) were standing in the front row, only a few meters away from the band members.
 
 
 
Ah Dad's Army Erik, brilliant! One of my favourite TV series too. I have every episode on DVD. Now how did they get in an Italian prog thread? LOL
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                                               Search for the 5 differences  LOLLOL  :
 
                          
 
                                 John Lees Barclay James Harvest 23-11-2009 by Marco de Niet.
 
                                 
 
              
       
 


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I like BJH, Dad's Army and Italian prog also. Is there a pattern behind it LOL ?
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