Most Synthesizer oriented Bands
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Topic: Most Synthesizer oriented Bands
Posted By: Aztech
Subject: Most Synthesizer oriented Bands
Date Posted: March 25 2004 at 17:12
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Which bands do you think are the most sythesizer/ keyboard predominant bands ? (including organs mellotron,fender rhodes etc..) in the older groups Genesis comes to mind or Tangerine Dream if you include them in prog. in the newer ones probably CAST or IQ. What are your thoughts ? |
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Posted By: diddy
Date Posted: March 25 2004 at 17:18
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If you include Tangerine Dream they will probably 'win'
 How about ELP?
Today...hmmm...don't know... ------------- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... George Orwell |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: March 25 2004 at 17:27
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TD is an important reference in term of synth-prog band...from their beginning until today, they used all kind of keyboards ( 'electric organs' farfisa & teisco type in 'Alpha Centauri'...the big Moog in 'Zeit', Hammond organ, analog (virgin years)& numeric synth. In the same genre we can also include K.Schulze and all the Berlin scene...so, the most electronic side of prog music ------------- 
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Posted By: Aztech
Date Posted: March 25 2004 at 17:29
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Ok so lets leave Tangerine Dream out for now because they are mostly a " Synth band": German Pinkfloydish in stlye, for those who don't know them. yeah ELP are definitely keyboard dominant in their music.Any others ? |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: March 25 2004 at 18:05
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Eno |
Posted By: diddy
Date Posted: March 25 2004 at 18:25
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Niacin ------------- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... George Orwell |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 26 2004 at 03:57
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German band Eloy have a heavy synth laden sound.Check out their early eighties albums Planets and Time To Turn. As far as organ based prog then Genesis (1970-1975) and more recently Par Lindh Project spring to mind although I'm sure there are loads of other examples.ELP are the best example of keyboard based prog because they were lead by a keyboard player and didn't have a lead guitarist Check out their album Brain Salad Surgery(1973) .Also worth mentioning is the solo stuff of Rick Wakeman including Six Wives of Henry VIII(1973) and Dave Greenslade. Canadian band Rush used synth a lot on their eighties albums including Moving Pictures (1980) and Power Windows (1986) ,the latter being the closest they got to ELP 'territory'.
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Posted By: Hammar
Date Posted: March 26 2004 at 06:29
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Rick Wakeman is a good example! The Nice with Keith Emerson, or Kraftwerk - Autobahn, if you can call it prog? |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: March 26 2004 at 10:41
| I know I keep bringing up this Hungarian band which apparently nobody cares for but Omega features a lot of synths in their music from 1973 onward when they started to record in West Germany and began to have access to better equipment. Check out the albums Hall Of Floaters In The Sky, Time Robber and Gammapolis. Their trademark song, Nem tudom a neved ( I Don`t Know Your Name) was synths all the way and this song even caused a Rolling Stone Magazine reviwer to sum up the band in one short sentence, " For everyone who wants to grow up to be a synthesizer". Hawkwind also incorporated a lot of keyboards throughout the years. Spirit Of The Age, Electric TeePee etc. Just about every band who was playing within the style of Prog Rock was experimenting with the new keyboard technology to some extent back in the early 70`s. The guy who did it right though, in my humble opinion, was Kerry Minear of Gentle Giant. I guess having being formally trained he knew how to keep it subtle you don`t hear him doing all the freaking out like a lot of guys did like Emerson, Van der Linden and Wakeman, doing the Hendrix thing only on keyboards. Rather Minear`s playing was always more integral rather than "flashy". |
Posted By: Aztech
Date Posted: March 26 2004 at 10:45
I have ELP Brain Salad Surgery... ,Moving Pictures, Power Windows etc and also alot of Klause Schulze but i've yet to discover the others: Par Lindh Project ? and Dave Greenslade? I've listen to a bit of the Six Wives... but its been too long : I don't remember I don't recall... ------------------------------------------------------------ - As for Eno I heard a lot of hype about this guy so I decided to listened to "Green" = Its neither prog nor good to me . I don't know Niacin I wish there was an MP3 to sample this band. I know autobahn and others from Kraftwerk and it is not prog to me. Any other synth predominant bands you can think of not mentionned ???
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richardh wrote:Posted By: diddy
Date Posted: March 26 2004 at 11:13
Niacin is playing a kind of fusion thing but sometimes they sound like ELP but a bit faster and the bass is louder...3 band members, Drums, Bass and Organ/Keyboards (I think Hammond B3 or so) I only have the live album 'blood sweat and beers' and I love it...try it if you like fusion or ELP...or Keyboards, Organs If you want a band that is Synth predominant try 'Ozric Tentacles' I like it but SOMETIMES I think it's techno ------------- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... George Orwell |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 26 2004 at 11:27
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Aztech - Dave Greenslade was the keyboard player for Colloseum in the late 60s early 70s; best album to check out from this period is 'Valentyne Suite' - I guarantee, you will not be disappointed, especially if you're a fan of the classic Hammond sound ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: March 26 2004 at 11:37
Prog4you: they have a Niacin MP3, as well as others. Check this out: http://www.prog4you.com/mp3.htm - http://www.prog4you.com/mp3.htm |
Posted By: Aztech
Date Posted: March 26 2004 at 13:08
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Thanks Guys I'll check out the Niacin MP3 . I'll check out Dave Greenslade (keyboard player for Colloseum) I already have some Ozric even the DVD &nb sp; &nb sp; &nb sp; &nb sp; &nb sp; (mostly technoish and atmospheric synths) |
Posted By: arqwave
Date Posted: March 26 2004 at 13:52
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well, Cairo is a good example of the keys oriented bands nowadays..., hummm, perhaps Genesis in the very begginings, chroma key of course..., well not to much but Planet X... and ELP, let me search a little bit harder... |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: March 26 2004 at 14:01
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Lands End/Transience: Fred Hunter plays some interesting stuff. A lot of atmospheric backgrounds. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 27 2004 at 08:18
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THE ENID : their mainman, Robert John Godfrey is a gifted keyboardist, classical-influenced. JORDAN RUDESS : he released some great albums. "Listen" in 1993 had good moments and blistering keyboard work. His collaboration with Rod Morgenstein gave rise to exciting songs. His latest solo effort "Feeding the wheel" is a jazz-fusion-metal opus that features such monsters as Terry Bozzio on drums, Steve Morse on guitars and there is a wide range of keyboard styles. With Tony Levin and other DT mates, he played also a wide variety of styles in the "Liquid Tension Experiment" project. AYREON : on their masterpiece, "Into the electric castle" There are some interesting keyboard parts, played esentially by Eric Norlander (but I wouldn't recommend his solo discography).
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: diddy
Date Posted: March 27 2004 at 13:07
...and his work with Liquid Tension Experiment is AWESOME...I love it and I HAVE to listen to 'when the water breaks' every day because I'm addicted
 I also have 'Feeding the wheel' ... awesome album and great keyboards, O.k. it's a solo album (but various famous musicians are featured on this album) from a keyboarder  ------------- If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... George Orwell |
Posted By: Rui__
Date Posted: March 28 2004 at 15:06
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Schicke, Führs & Fröhling http://www.nordseemusikanten.de/sff/ - http://www.nordseemusikanten.de/sff/ |
Posted By: progchain
Date Posted: March 29 2004 at 14:24
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Maybe they're not Prog but I think Silver Apples. About Italian prog surely Battiato or Il Balletto di Bronzo. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 29 2004 at 17:05
For Par Lindh Project I would recommend Gothic Impressions which is on a par with Anglagard Hybris (also recommended). Wakeman's Six Wives Of Henry VIII is a classic keyboard driven prog album.You should have this one! Also maybe worth a mention is Vangelis Heaven and Hell which has some wonderfull synth work from Mr Papathanassiou.This is more 'symphonic' than 'prog' but still worth checking out.
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