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    Posted: August 10 2006 at 17:41
My god! Just discovered this song. Mind-blowing! Is this the first prog epic or what? I suggest everyone to hear it... NOW!


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Points: 2632 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 17:56
It is certainly an early proto-prog composition, one of the best.  You might be interested to know that Transatlantic - a "supergroup" comprised of members of Marillion, Flower Kings, Spock's Beard and Dream Theater - covered the composition on one of their albums, and did a damn good job.
 
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Points: 720 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2006 at 17:58
Originally posted by maani maani wrote:

It is certainly an early proto-prog composition, one of the best.  You might be interested to know that Transatlantic - a "supergroup" comprised of members of Marillion, Flower Kings, Spock's Beard and Dream Theater - covered the composition on one of their albums, and did a damn good job.
 
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Yeah, I heard about that. I tried to hear the song from the "it was all the way back in 68" angle, and I didn't expect much... Man, was I surprised!


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Points: 2133 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2006 at 05:01
“Ars longa vita brevis” was released 1 month before “In Held Twas In I” in the UK but the latter was released earlier in the US and Germany! Therefore “In Held…” is probably the first symphonic prog epic/suite. However, The Collectors released an epic in 1968 which is called "What Love (Suite)" which clocks in at 19:15. Not sure of it's exact release date (and haven't heard it! - yet!).

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Points: 20239 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 11 2006 at 05:53
In late 67 Jefferson Aiplane released After Bathing At Baxter's which had the 13 songs into five "Suites". None of the "suites" had more than three "songs" as subsections
 
 
 
 
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Edited by Sean Trane - August 11 2006 at 07:35
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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