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Guldbamsen 
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 Posted: June 21 2013 at 14:25 |
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^^ I know how you feel David. A year or so ago I found an excellent recording of a 2009 Faust show held at the 40 Watt Club in Athens GA (about 60 miles from ATL), and my first thought was, "Yay! I now have a great recording of a great Faust show that happened right near me!" and my second thought was "HOW COULD I MISS THAT SHOW!!"
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What a bummer Steve I've tried this a couple of times before - one of them being when Pink Floyd played in Copenhagen anno 1992. I was ready to buy tickets and all that, but my parents turned my 10 year old self down So many gigs I wished I could've seen. Some of em I missed simply because progressive music in Denmark is something you advertise in a silent way. Small stickers and flyers glued underneath the table, tiny promoters that promote in all the wrong places - like the bottom of a lake or has been gravel factories...
In keeping with this thread though - I did manage to catch Fantomas at Roskilde a couple of years back. What a complete mindf*ck that was!!! Their drummer was ill or something, so they'd hired some guy with a huge curly microphone due. He actually played the whole gig with note sheets flapping wildly about him. T'was the only way he was able to hang on What a show it was! There were at least two other people there who enjoyed it like I did(but maybe that was down to what we'd been doing up until the show...) We had a wonderful time, and the more weird and bizarre the music grew, the merrier we got. Great dancing music too!
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: June 21 2013 at 23:22 |
Yeah, I was going to mention the Faust debut, beat me to it!
 That album is just f**ked. Honestly, might be the weirdest listen I've ever had straight up. Certainly the most abstract album of the 70's, at least from what I've heard.
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: June 21 2013 at 23:26 |
Guldbamsen wrote:
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Guldbamsen wrote:
When speaking of the most adventurous in regards to rock music, it's almost impossible not to think of Faust - at least it is for me. These guys took rock n roll and deconstructed it completely. Just like modern chefs with their molecular cuisine serving food that looks very different from how it actually tastes. "Wow uhhhmmm I love bananas!!" -and then you get kebab meat with capers instead. That's Faust for ya.
This debut of theirs is among the most ground-breaking rock albums ever made imo. Conversely, I don't think it's anywhere near as good as what came after. Faust Tapes, So Far and IV are far better records.
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Good pick, Faust pretty much define adventurous, I'm looking forward to seeing them at RIO in Sept.
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I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that Wow - colour me jealous! If there's one old school experimental band I'd like to see in the flesh, it'd be Faust for sure. I mean who wouldn't want to experience this firsthand?: |
Wow, lucky you! Should be an experience, to say the least. What's he got there anyways? A saw? That is so kraut, it hurts.
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: June 24 2013 at 21:26 |
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^ I use that type of saw to undercut doors when we put in hardwood or lamanent. The boss says it's the most dangerous tool that we use.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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HackettFan
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Posted: June 26 2013 at 07:18 |
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Frank Zappa - Freak Out
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Genesis - Trespass
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Frith and Kaiser - With Friends Like These
Nektar - Journey to the Center of the Eye
Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch
Soft Machine - Volume 1
Jade Warrior - Released
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rushfan4
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Posted: June 26 2013 at 09:48 |
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Quite interesting how many of the albums that have been listed are ones that I have tried listening to once or twice had the WTF reaction and had no interest in wanting to listen to them again, whereas many of you fall in love with these. I am currently just finishing off my first listen to the third Sleepytime Gorilla Museum album, after listening to the second one for the first time yesterday. Good stuff musically but as with many of the albums listed, I could do without the harsh vocals. Mostly the same reaction I have to many of the above listed albums.
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zravkapt
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Posted: June 26 2013 at 18:57 |
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^What are you like with weird-ass instrumental music?
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Magma America Great Make Again
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progbethyname
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Posted: June 26 2013 at 22:02 |
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^ I tell ya....
There Should be a MAGMA hotline number where the slogan is "looking for a good time and are willing to experiment call 1888-MAGMA. " lol. I'd say magma's KA is quite out there and sound wise alone, it's an adventure.
Mahavishnu's BIRDS OF FIRE would be a nice fit here as well.
It's off the charts!!
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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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timothy leary
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Posted: June 27 2013 at 10:03 |
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Tim Buckley changing from an all American folk singer to putting out Lorca and Starsailor and following it up with the sex funk efforts of Greetings from L.A. and Sefronia. Adventuresome career I think.
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 21:00 |
Mellotron Storm wrote:
^ I use that type of saw to undercut doors when we put in hardwood or lamanent. The boss says it's the most dangerous tool that we use. |
Is your boss by any chance the guy from Faust? But wow, looks like tricky business, I'll tell you that.
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 22:04 |
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timothy leary
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 22:06 |
Fox On The Rocks wrote:
Mellotron Storm wrote:
^ I use that type of saw to undercut doors when we put in hardwood or lamanent. The boss says it's the most dangerous tool that we use. |
Is your boss by any chance the guy from Faust? But wow, looks like tricky business, I'll tell you that.
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Why not just pull the door off the hinges and put it on sawhorses and use a skillsaw. I am pretty sure you meant you use that saw to undercut door jambs and door casings.
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progbethyname
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 00:22 |
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Well I was able to track down another gem that is adventurous as it gets.
CLIVE NOLAN's ALCHEMY.
This is a brilliant, almost 2hr album, that is in vein of the style of AYREON's HUMAN EQUATION.
Lots of characters played by different vocalists, huge orchestration and superb production to tell a haunting theatrical tale divided into 2 acts!
I highly recommend this one. It's a rock opera full of adventure!
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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 29 2013 at 00:55 |
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Morgan Fisher's first two, Nova Solis and The Sleeper Wakes
Also anything by under-the-radar solo prog artist David Bagsby
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: July 10 2013 at 07:30 |
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He must be quite good with a name like that, though I must confess the last name completely escapes me.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: July 10 2013 at 07:32 |
Adventurous albums hhmmm let me see now, where do they......how about the.....
......TADAHHHH
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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progbethyname
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Posted: July 10 2013 at 10:42 |
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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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maani
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Posted: July 10 2013 at 17:37 |
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From TKC:
The Beatles - Sgt Peppers (turned the album from a collection of singles into a self-contained art form)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (defined the genre of prog rock)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (1 album, 1 song...had this ever been done?)"
Good start!
HF adds:
Frank Zappa - Freak Out
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Genesis - Trespass, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Nektar - Journey to the Center of the Eye
(Nice to see someone recognize Nektar here.)
I also agree with Tarkus, and would add GG's Acquiring the Taste, and the Moody's Threshold.
There is also much non-English prog that could be added, including stuff from PFM, Museo Rosenbach (people tend to forget that Zarathustra was among the earliest full-length concept albums, coming just a year after Thick as a Brick (i.e., 1973).
Peace.
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ole-the-first
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Posted: July 10 2013 at 17:46 |
Atavachron wrote:
Morgan Fisher's first two, Nova Solis and The Sleeper Wakes
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A bit surprised to find here a Morgan Fisher's connoisseur  Nova Solis is a great album, especially the title track. As for me, I myself can't make a list now as nothing comes to my mind 
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This night wounds time.
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FusionKing
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Posted: July 10 2013 at 19:37 |
Yes' Tales From Topographic Oceans based on its rough concept of evolution, prana and nirvana. (Or is that just how I heard it?)
Shakti: Natural Elements based on the superb artistry behind the merger of Jazz, Rock and traditional Bhajan- esque styles.
Tarkus...that's all I'm sayin'.
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