WINTER MADNESS!! PA's Battle of the Bands.

micky wrote: First up. The Detroit Michigan Bracket!!! top 2 seeds. Yes and Rush. first round matchups! (imagine in bracket form) Yes v. Death  awesome! Banco v. Porcupine Tree Riverside v. Samla Mammas Manna Soft Machine v. Zappa/M.O.I Univers Zero v. Gong Godspeed Your Black Emperor v. Anglagard Bo Hansson v. Maudlin of the Well Rush v. Le Orme

That is an awesome first match up Micky! I'm voting for Death.

As long as the funky Camel is in it, it's a good tournament.

Do we start voting now? 

micky wrote: First up. The Detroit Michigan Bracket!!! top 2 seeds. Yes and Rush. first round matchups! (imagine in bracket form) Yes v. Death  awesome! Banco v. Porcupine Tree Riverside v. Samla Mammas Manna Soft Machine v. Zappa/M.O.I Univers Zero v. Gong Godspeed Your Black Emperor v. Anglagard Bo Hansson v. Maudlin of the Well Rush v. Le Orme

Where do I get tickets?  I can actually make it to this round.

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Edited by akamaisondufromage - November 26 2014 at 14:37

Stool Man wrote: I've never heard of Diablo Swing Orchestra before, not even seen their name mentioned anywhere on here.  I usually don't like Prog Metal but I'll give them a listen, having seen some interesting reviews just now.

hah.

Nearfest...  one song caught the attention of..

a lover of tuneless wacky barely listenable avant music

a damned Genesis fan

a passionate K.C fan

and a massive fan of Willie Nelson

it is the first band I'd recommend to 'non fans' of prog metal.  One that simply appeals to lovers of music. sh*t is seriously off the chart good and interesting as all hell.



Edited by micky - November 26 2014 at 17:34

akamaisondufromage wrote: Do we start voting now?

Saturday is when I'll start it and run them for a week.. I haven't decided to do all 32 at once or do the first half one week the second half the next. Likely I'll split the first round into 2 1 week halves.

I can't see flooding the polls section with 32 polls all at once.

micky wrote: rushfan4 wrote: micky wrote: First up. The Detroit Michigan Bracket!!! top 2 seeds. Yes and Rush. first round matchups! (imagine in bracket form) Yes v. Death  awesome! Banco v. Porcupine Tree Riverside v. Samla Mammas Manna Soft Machine v. Zappa/M.O.I Univers Zero v. Gong Godspeed Your Black Emperor v. Anglagard Bo Hansson v. Maudlin of the Well Rush v. Le Orme Where do I get tickets?  I can actually make it to this round. you have Jack Nicholson front row tickets on will call...

Edited by bhikkhu - November 26 2014 at 18:29

Also, if you're in Detroit watching Death, why not watch the show with the members of Death? 

micky wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Yes v. Death - this is too funny.  yeah. I LOL'd when that happened. Soft Machine v. Zappa/M.O.I - tough call for me  Zappa all the way!! Softs for me Univers Zero v. Gong - UZ for me but I'm going to lose a favorite.  Gong gets my vote, appreciate UZ, love Gong. UZ for me, adore that band, I'm fanatical Return to Forever v. Radiohead - urgh I hope Radiohead can survive this.  I hope so as well, but suppose enough of the anti (not prog) factions will vote against on principal. Tough call and the Fusions Not Prog crowd may have an impact, I'll vote Radiohead Camel v. Diablo Swing Orchestra - talk about stylistic differences  yeah almost to Yes-Death levels of differences. Easy vote there I like Camel a lot but will probably go DSO Pink Floyd v. Mike Oldfield - damn what did Oldfield do to deserve this fate?  Someone was going to be doomed I suppose to draw Floyd. I think I'll go Oldfield even though Floyd were my favorite band for 2 decades Atheist v. Cynic - wow  yeah.  This was the other one (along with Camel's location in the bracket) that was tempted to ignore the shear randomness of, but decided again not to mess with the fate of the D&D dice, besides it will at least ensure more PM groups than DT and Opeth are assured to move on to the second round. I know nothing of  the groups.  I am going to sample two clips, the more interesting one IMO will get my vote. King Crimson v. Can - nooooooo, CAN can't get flattened first round!!  Upset special perhaps? They will have my vote at the very least. Crimson all day for me though I love CAN, I've got 27 KC albums, its a compulsion Sigur Ros v. Henry Cow - two other personal favorites butting heads. HC all the way! Cow for me Magma v. Hawkwind - this sucks ass, not a good match up for Hawkwind BIG TIME SUCK ASSAGE.. I cried out loud when the dice gods allowed this matchup in the 1st round. Think I'll go Hawkwind though not sure Dream Theater v. Caravan - will all the fanboys bludgeon Canterbury's finest?  or will the ghosts of the old Symphonic team run roughshod over the DT fanboys and the group as they did years ago.... Caravan all day, hate DT