![]() |
|
Post Reply ![]() |
Page 12> |
Author | ||
Jeffro ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 29 2014 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 2201 |
![]() Posted: August 16 2017 at 06:36 |
|
The name "Spock's Beard" has its origins in the Star Trek episode Mirror, Mirror There is a Neal Morse interview out there somewhere that speaks to why they picked it as their band's name.
|
||
We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain.
My face IS a maserati |
||
![]() |
||
M27Barney ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 09 2006 Location: Swinton M27 Status: Offline Points: 3136 |
![]() |
|
Perhaps Roj (NEO contributor) should shed some light on this - when He and I were a lot younger - he used to sell S. Wilsons Karma tapes for him and was his contact for information I do believe. Roj & I stayed with Mr Wilson at his parents house in Hemel Hempsted - We went to the pub with him and his keyboard player - who I remember was into drinking beer and smoking roll-ups, S. Wilson drank coke. No mention of Porcupines or trees if I can recall - though Steve's favourite bands at that time were Floyd/Rush , don't think he liked Genesis and Yes as much as I did, and I think he had far more electronic and popular influences than I thought was healthy for an aspiring prog-god....
|
||
![]() |
||
micky ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46838 |
![]() |
|
*loses entire beer on keyboard* FAIL!!!!!! SWilson as the ex-con. Yeah right. SWilson wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes in prison without some dude making him (and his pretty hair) his bitch and having him squeel like a pig for the duration of his stay in the big house...
|
||
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
|
||
![]() |
||
Dellinger ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: June 18 2009 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 12816 |
![]() |
|
But Spock's Beard does have a reason to be. I just read it once, and am not a fan of the band, nor Neal Morse either, but as I remember there was something between the band members (perhaps the two Morse brothers?) about a chapter of Star Treck in which Mr Spock did have a beard. But it was something so uncommon that it ended up being like another way of saying something that is very unlikely. Or soemthing of the sort. |
||
![]() |
||
Tom Ozric ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15926 |
![]() |
|
If it were 25 years ago, I'd say. " let's drop some acid and ponder this suggestion ". Who knows, it's just an attention grabbing, unique name that stands out from the crowd. Spock's Beard is another name in similar vein.
|
||
![]() |
||
moshkito ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18159 |
![]() |
|
Probably came up with it while poorly stoned on bad acid (the good one was in the 60's and 70's!) and poor grass ... while doing something he called music for his garage!
|
||
Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com |
||
![]() |
||
verslibre ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 18778 |
![]() |
|
![]() |
||
![]() |
||
Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37598 |
![]() |
|
^ Now that is funny, (as was Mascodagama's post), but it gives me a most horrifying image.
Edited by Logan - August 14 2017 at 15:42 |
||
![]() |
||
verslibre ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 18778 |
![]() |
|
I always figured a Porcupine Tree had something in common with a Steely Dan.
![]() |
||
![]() |
||
Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37598 |
![]() |
|
I had worried that I was not subtle enough. It means to have certain intimate relations with a pine tree that does not belong to you -- many of us are told not to covet they neighbour's pine tree, are we not? No, that's our neighbour's ass. However, if it's a naughty (read knotty) pine tree, then this may not be such an issue (at least for the tree), wood it, or woody knot?
Anyway, I apologise for the crudity. Edited by Logan - August 14 2017 at 14:39 |
||
![]() |
||
dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20671 |
![]() |
|
Pork your pine tree...? What the hell does that even mean..?
![]() |
||
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin |
||
![]() |
||
siLLy puPPy ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic Joined: October 05 2013 Location: SFcaUsA Status: Offline Points: 15347 |
![]() |
|
![]() He's right. Here's Steven Wilson's high schoo yearbook photo before the plastic surgery ![]() ![]() Edited by siLLy puPPy - August 14 2017 at 14:10 |
||
![]() https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
||
![]() |
||
siLLy puPPy ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic Joined: October 05 2013 Location: SFcaUsA Status: Offline Points: 15347 |
![]() |
|
![]() He's right. This was Steven Wilson's high school year book photo (before the plastic surgery ![]() ![]() |
||
![]() https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
||
![]() |
||
Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37598 |
![]() |
|
Not according to Wilson, it's a corruption of "Pork your Pine Tree". If you ever hire a linguistically challenged arborist who threatens to "pork you pine tree", consider dismissing said degenerate. Well, unless you are open-minded and it's a "naughty" [sic] pine, in which case the tree might welcome the wood.
|
||
![]() |
||
dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20671 |
![]() |
|
Thought this was interesting.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine_Tree Porcupine Tree originated in 1987 as a collaborative hoax project by Steven Wilson and Malcolm Stocks. Partially inspired by the psychedelic/progressive bands of the 1970s, such as Pink Floyd, that had dominated the music scene during their youth, the two decided to form a fictional legendary rock band named The Porcupine Tree. The two fabricated a detailed back-story including information on alleged band members and album titles, as well as a "colourful" history which purportedly included events such as a meeting at a 1970s rock festival and several trips in and out of prison. As soon as he had put aside enough money to buy his own studio equipment, Wilson obliged this creation with several hours of music to provide "evidence" of its existence.[6] Although Stocks provided a few passages of treated vocals and experimental guitar playing, his role in the project was mostly offering occasional ideas, with the bulk of the material being written, recorded, played and sung by Wilson. At this point, Porcupine Tree was little more than a joke and a private amusement, as Wilson was concentrating on his other project, No-Man, an endeavour with UK based singer and songwriter Tim Bowness. However, by 1989 he began to consider some of the Porcupine Tree music as potentially marketable. Wilson created an 80-minute-long cassette titled Tarquin's Seaweed Farm under the name of Porcupine Tree.[7] Still showing the spirit of his joke, Wilson included an 8-page inlay which further revealed the hoaxed Porcupine Tree backstory, including references to fictitious band members such as Sir Tarquin Underspoon and Timothy Tadpole-Jones.[8] Edited by dr wu23 - August 14 2017 at 13:08 |
||
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin |
||
![]() |
||
dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20671 |
![]() |
|
^
![]() |
||
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin |
||
![]() |
||
Mascodagama ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 5111 |
![]() |
|
A bunch of arboreal pricks.
|
||
Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to.
Bandcamp Profile |
||
![]() |
||
micky ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46838 |
![]() |
|
really?? I mean REALLY... wow man.... I think the cult of SWilson has reached the tipping point... Jonestown there they go!!!!!
|
||
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
|
||
![]() |
||
AFlowerKingCrimson ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 19017 |
![]() |
|
Not sure but I think he just wanted a psychedelic sounding band name since initially they were sort of meant to be a parody on the whole psychedelic era.
|
||
![]() |
||
Tom Ozric ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15926 |
![]() |
|
In the end, probably nonsense.
You could call your band Blunt Cactus, and it means nothing......... |
||
![]() |
Post Reply ![]() |
Page 12> |
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions ![]() You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |