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Points: 809 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2007 at 04:06
"Halo of Flies" is a great piece of music...

"Killer" the song is pretty good too.


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I didn't mean he became a joke right away, anyway I was being a lttle harsh, evryone has to make a living, right.
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Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

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Originally posted by jimmy_row jimmy_row wrote:


 

So I'll go with Grand Funk Railroad:  I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home (not sure if that's the correct name) strikes me as "proggy", and then of course Alice Cooper: been pounding away on Alice as of late...but I'll do it again - Unfinished Sweet is a great prog rock track, plus Hello Hurray, etc.
Alice Coopers early albums all have one or two great prog tracks (to go with the stage show I guess). The first two albums are just weird (Zappa influence?). "Lay down and Die, Goodbye" is an excellent example of weirdness.


Cool, someone remembers the early Alice Cooper. It might suprise younger folks but back in the early 70s Alice was considered by many to be border line progressive rock along with Doors, Zep etc. When he fired his original band and changed his music he rapidly became more of a joke really.


Ah many here remember Alice in his early days - for intermittent prog-credentials, you need go no further than Killer's "Halo Of Flies".

As far as becoming a joke as soon as he fired the original band is concerned, remember, the bass guitarist he used on "Welcome To My Nightmare" was none other than Tony Levin - not sure if he was in the touring band though...

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Originally posted by Terra Australis Terra Australis wrote:

Originally posted by jimmy_row jimmy_row wrote:

 
So I'll go with Grand Funk Railroad:  I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home (not sure if that's the correct name) strikes me as "proggy", and then of course Alice Cooper: been pounding away on Alice as of late...but I'll do it again - Unfinished Sweet is a great prog rock track, plus Hello Hurray, etc.


Alice Coopers early albums all have one or two great prog tracks (to go with the stage show I guess). The first two albums are just weird (Zappa influence?). "Lay down and Die, Goodbye" is an excellent example of weirdness.

I bought the first 2 Alice Cooper albums when they were repackaged as "Schooldays" n the 70s. Not quite was I was expecting - there is some weird stuff there, as well as some excellent songs e.g. Shoe Salesman, Beautiful Flyaway, Below Your Means.
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Originally posted by Terra Australis Terra Australis wrote:



Originally posted by jimmy_row jimmy_row wrote:


 

So I'll go with Grand Funk Railroad:  I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home (not sure if that's the correct name) strikes me as "proggy", and then of course Alice Cooper: been pounding away on Alice as of late...but I'll do it again - Unfinished Sweet is a great prog rock track, plus Hello Hurray, etc.
Alice Coopers early albums all have one or two great prog tracks (to go with the stage show I guess). The first two albums are just weird (Zappa influence?). "Lay down and Die, Goodbye" is an excellent example of weirdness.


Cool, someone remembers the early Alice Cooper. It might suprise younger folks but back in the early 70s Alice was considered by many to be border line progressive rock along with Doors, Zep etc. When he fired his original band and changed his music he rapidly became more of a joke really.

Anyway people are probably sick of me harping about Hendrix, but "1983 a Merman I Should Turn to Be" and "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", as well as others.
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and how could I forget Cat Stevens and his amazing Buddah and the Chocolate Box and Foreigner Suite...  and check; http://www.connollyco.com/discography/cat_stevens/index.html
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Originally posted by jimmy_row jimmy_row wrote:

 
So I'll go with Grand Funk Railroad:  I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home (not sure if that's the correct name) strikes me as "proggy", and then of course Alice Cooper: been pounding away on Alice as of late...but I'll do it again - Unfinished Sweet is a great prog rock track, plus Hello Hurray, etc.


Alice Coopers early albums all have one or two great prog tracks (to go with the stage show I guess). The first two albums are just weird (Zappa influence?). "Lay down and Die, Goodbye" is an excellent example of weirdness.


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The class ic rock band that screams prog to me is Toto. Listen to their live album and it's far more proggy than, shall we say, Black Sabbath could ever be.
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I'm tempted to name a bunch of Zeppelin tunes, but calling them "classic rock" is maybe an understatement being that progressive rock was such a large part of their sound.
 
So I'll go with Grand Funk Railroad:  I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home (not sure if that's the correct name) strikes me as "proggy", and then of course Alice Cooper: been pounding away on Alice as of late...but I'll do it again - Unfinished Sweet is a great prog rock track, plus Hello Hurray, etc.
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Originally posted by zachfive zachfive wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

and Van Halen's 'Pleasure Dome' from the For unlawful album is great


I tried to tell someone that exact same thing and they said Van Halen's synth work in Jump was so crappy that it negates Pleasure Dome and Van Halen from being associated with prog rock.



sounds like selective ignorance to me
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Houses of the Holy to be more exact.
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Led Zeppelin's mid-late period.
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

and Van Halen's 'Pleasure Dome' from the For unlawful album is great


I tried to tell someone that exact same thing and they said Van Halen's synth work in Jump was so crappy that it negates Pleasure Dome and Van Halen from being associated with prog rock.
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Points: 65603 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2007 at 00:09
the Stones got rather proggy on several records ('Their Satanic..'), and the Police have some good prog moments, 'Spirits in the Material World', 'Synchronicity'.. and Van Halen's 'Pleasure Dome' from the For unlawful album is great







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Points: 770 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2007 at 23:54
There are a lot of Classic Rock bands that have one or two songs that fit into the progressive category. To name a few; Boston- Long Time/ Foreplay, The Band -Chest Fever and Foreigner- Star Rider.

I'm sure Cream has a few too, but I'd like to see what others come up with.Also to be discussed is other prog influences in other musical genres and why most bads stopped drawing influence from progressive styles.We can agree most characteristics of prog dont go to well with radio or the general public, however there's got to be more reasons, i.e- to hard or complex for all members of a certain band to play.
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