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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gerinski Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2013 at 03:20
The artwork of Mike Oldfield's Five Miles Out was inspired by an episode Mike had while piloting a Piper Navajo aircraft on August 1980 over the Pyrenees mountains in Spain and got caught in a thunderstorm, in his own words:

"We were tossed about like a pancake and there was ice collecting on the propellers and rain on the windscreen and everybody was going aaargh!"


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote timothy leary Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2013 at 17:39
I suppose it is, obscure does not mean bad.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote elyougo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2013 at 17:31
thaank youuu! yet obscure at some point too.. Big smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote timothy leary Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2013 at 17:28
I do like your song from the Decameron
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hehe don't get you i love it.. shame though he's a very special guy  Heart
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote timothy leary Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2013 at 17:16
Paté pour Chiens??

Just not my favorite
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote elyougo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2013 at 17:11
Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

^ Hopefully this stays obscure

Which? Astronome or Paté pour Chiens??


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote timothy leary Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2013 at 17:02
^ Hopefully this stays obscure
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Oh and also recent

PATÉ POUR CHIEN


w/ Fabien Rimbaud
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Who said Zorn wasn't allowed on progarchives lists??
Eat that.. Clown


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Before they were known as Hawkwind, the band were referred to as "Group X" for a while.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dayvenkirq Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 27 2012 at 12:12
^ I take a shower once every two months, and every time I do, Bert Jansch's "Veronica" (prog folk) pops in my head. 

Obscure prog fact?


Edited by Dayvenkirq - December 27 2012 at 12:12
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I play in the band, which nobody knows, beside few of my friends.

Is it obscure prog fact? :-)

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote M27Barney Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2012 at 03:23
I do know a very obscure Steven Wilson fact, when he was lead guitarist of his first band Karma, My mate Roj (who often posts on this site) was the contact point for Karma's Fans...Steven Wilson invited Roj and I to stay at his Parents Gaffe in Hemel Hempstead. Steve got out his guitar and played a bit of Rush/Floyd and then we went out and had few ales with Karma's keyboard player joining us..........this was about 1985 ish....
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dayvenkirq Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2012 at 19:47
Turns out that FZ was good friends with EVH: 


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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ The (hammered) dulcimer is more likely to be of Middle Eastern origin rather than Chinese, it was in common usage throught-out Europe for centuries. It is no more associated with New Age than xylophones or tabla drums are.


Possibly of Moroccan decent? It's so old. I thought maybe Chinese cause BRENDON PERRY of DEAD CAN DANCE swears by the Chinese make of a Dulcimber being the oldest and best in its class. Whatever that means?
In any case. I think you may be right.
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The Dulcimer may also be as old as out of Middle Earth, reinvented by Howard Shore. LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dean Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2012 at 14:44
^ The (hammered) dulcimer is more likely to be of Middle Eastern origin rather than Chinese, it was in common usage throught-out Europe for centuries. It is no more associated with New Age than xylophones or tabla drums are.
What?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote progbethyname Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2012 at 12:36
This is kinda of a cool obscure fact. Clive Nolan, the keyboardist for ARENA provided a fake sounding Dulcimer for GALAHAD on their album Empires Never Last. Dulcimer is of Chinese orgin and usually occurs in new age music. Not Neo prog!! But in any case, it worked. :)
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote martinprog77 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2012 at 04:53
this is a fantastically ironic coincide  




Edited by martinprog77 - December 14 2012 at 04:54
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