70s Heavy Prog Rock?

Jim Garten wrote: never to miss an opportunity to recommend Spooky Tooth: Enjoy

Listened to it! It was awesome, the only thing that bothers me from Spooky Tooth is that their 70s album somehow had different mixing style compared to the likes of their 60s albums

Be conscientious over the change of styles throughout the Guru, Guru catalog. Yes, that would be a good thing to do...but, also realize that not every obvious definition to each style of their music is accurate in all cases. Take their fusion period for example. Guru, Guru  Live 1978 is a precious title to own and not only for the melodic/gymnastic instrumental Jazz/fusion pieces, but for the rearranged renditions of their "Heavy" pieces . I enjoy hearing the performances of those pieces on Live 78' much more than I do hearing the original studio recordings. The guitar playing has the clean inspiring sound of Frank Marino, Jeff Beck, and ..forgive me I forget his name..the guitarist who played on Jean Luc Ponty's Cosmic Messenger. My point is that Guru, Guru change their musical personality during live transmission with the same impressive quality of Frank Zappa. That's why it is so difficult to just state..that during their fusion period ..there is no sight of Heavy Prog. The Heavy Prog is more consistent on the early releases, but various tracks recorded on later releases were just as Heavy and with even more adventurous compositions.

BaldFriede wrote: TODDLER wrote: The guitar playing has the clean inspiring sound of Frank Marino, Jeff Beck, and ..forgive me I forget his name..the guitarist who played on Jean Luc Ponty's Cosmic Messenger.. Joaquin Lievano. What I especially like about the 1978 Guru Guru live album is the double lead guitar on many tracks. Dieter Bornschlegel and Roland Schaeffer are both excellent guitar players, and these duets can be heard whenever Schaeffer is not needed on sax (on which he is equally excellent)..

What I found to be really amazing was how they played so fast and clean with such beautiful "feel". You can play really rapid , producing 30 or 40 notes quickly and sound dull. They had this developed melodic approach existing in the presentation of their playing and it was very schooled, but completely natural. The 2 guitarists (forget their names), from the band Edhels were very great and for the same reasons. Most of their cd's are over priced , deleted, and perhaps they were dropped from the Musea label and apparently no other label has found them interesting enough to release their back catalog.

JellySucker wrote: sorry for bumping my own old thread, but i was curious, is there such thing as symphonic heavy prog? i've been trying to find them around the net but to my avail, i have not succeeded,

Dean wrote: Glaring by their omission so far: Warhorse: guitar, hammond and screaming vocals, not unlike early Deep Purple, which is no surprise since it was Nick Semper's post-Purple band

Cheers Dean - never heard of until now...



How did that happen? I just bought the album!

Can't go wrong with Uriah Heep or Budgie.

OMG yes Atomic Rooster another excellent choice. Vincent died way to young....

Armageddon another excellent recommendation-In my to 10 Albums for sure

Hi,

Dean wrote: Glaring by their omission so far: Warhorse: guitar, hammond and screaming vocals, not unlike early Deep Purple, which is no surprise since it was Nick Semper's post-Purple band: Hatfield's finest - Babe Ruth: