Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

Wow - How much did that set you back? - Apart from the Moog Rogue I bought - never really played an instrument - My son has two professional keyboards - a Roland and a Korg - don't know what models they are! I admire anybody who can play a guitar properly, I really should take it up but if I couldn't play like Steve Hackett in a month I'd be pissed off!!!

Thanks to jnkls for bringing us back to reality.

Every time I hear Fender Stratocaster Zappa runs through my head

"...it was a Stratocaster with a whammy bar"

boing-buh-boing-buh-buh-buh-boing-buh-boing-buh-buh-buh...

geekfreak, I think that question (what was the first album to be called progressive rock) is not really answerable.  According to our esteemed Dean, the term progressive rock was in use in the late 60's.  Members of progarchives have argued endlessly over which album was the first progressive rock album.  I always said In The Court Of The Crimson King, but I'm not really sure that is absolutely true.  Procol Harum had an 18 minute track on their 1968 album, the Pretty Things released a concept album / rock opera in 1966 (before Tommy), and the Moody Blues album  Days Of Future Past, from 1967, is drenched in mellotron and has flute and orchestra (as well as being a concept album).  There's also Sgt. Peppers.

I guess I still think of Court as the first "prog as I know it" album, but I'm not sure it's really the first prog album.  As far as what was called "progressive" first, it's hard to say.  That term was used to describe Pink Floyd in 1967, but I think the term was probably used before that.

yes they are two classic Genesis songs and a great album too!. but the
no Mellotron! on Sgt Pepper is still slips in to the prog. its a concept album. than I ask you this what`s the greatest concept album. my are TFTO/TLLDOB/PH/MC. . . .

Isn't that why the Who are on here?

Still, it's a good point.  I would argue that Sgt. Peppers was extremely progressive for 1967.  So I think it qualifies.

M27Barney wrote: Who do we tell if we notice album details that are incorrect (on this site) - genesis - seconds out has a problem with the track length of Carpet crawl and I think a typo in the band/instrument details?

Post them here:  http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=82726

They are pretty good about getting to them quickly.

geekfreak wrote: maybe we all need to keep from being stop looking into everything.

If I spot an error , I have to report it - it's all part of the scientific constant pursuit of truth !!!
And since Stolt said that "The Truth will set you free" (whereas I think he means in the fecking bible which makes me Laaarrff) - But I reckon track timings are the biggest area of errata - where the true time and the given time (on a CD or vinyl) are not the same !!!
And yes - I am similar to John Cleese's character from the film Clockwise ! I hate unpunctuality !!!

Aye I'm from Manchester - Born & Lived in Swinton all my life - though I have visited a fair few other countries and visited (and worked) in a lot of other counties of Britain!
And Yes - Ive been to Stone Henge which is in your neck of the woods I think. Marvellous bit of ancient stone masonry there I think - and just to think that they accomplished that several thousand years before some loonies wrote the bible!

Strange though it may seem, I was looking through my diary entries for 1978. Twas on 23/09/1978 when I went into Manchester and Bought Tales from Topographic Oceans (Gate-sleeved Vinyl) for the princely sum of £3.99...Strange entry since (The it mentioned and triggered the full memory) when I got off the bus in the Arndale centre, I was crossing the bus depot, heading to get myself three or four sausage rolls from Greggs, When an Old lady tripped and fell face down. I legged over to her and told her not to try to get up because I could see that her leg was quite badly broken and I was sure that she had possibly other injuries - there were several other people around just gawping including two nuns! - I shouted for somebody to go into greggs and get them to phone an ambulance and they all just stood and gawped!
A Bus driver, ran across from his cab and it was he who called in an ambulance - I stayed with the old dear unable to really assist in any way except to tell her that keeping still was for the best till a paramedic could assess her properly. Just kept her talking and was glad that she didn't show signs of passing out - The ambulance took about eight mins to get to her, and obviously took over! I was glad to get on my feet, and fill my face with sausage rolls! Well the moral of this story is that it was the supposedly amoral Atheist who was first to aid the lady and not the two sisters of Jesus who were stood no more than 10 feet away and who just rubber-necked!
Interestingly, I first started to listen to Topographic oceans at 11:45 on 23/09/1978......