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Points: 3064 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2006 at 15:41
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

The Nice were a massively influential British prog band...and that cannot be understated.Just about anything by them is worth checking out.

A few years back I got to meet the original guitarist in the band Davy O'List at a London prog show (Linda ''Three Fates'' was also there).I love his admission that he turned down the chance to join Roxy Music full time in the seventies because none of them were as talented as Keith Emerson! 
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Points: 3064 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2006 at 15:42

Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Beggar's Opera "Act One" is very NICE too if you like The Nice. But not nicer than Five Bridges.

I love "Act One", the musicians are great, especially the organist!!!
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Points: 2133 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2006 at 16:14
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

The Nice were a massively influential British prog band...and that cannot be understated.Just about anything by them is worth checking out.

Very influential yes. Prog band? Perhaps if they had made a fulblown prog album but they never did. Hence the proto prog tag.
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Points: 28034 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2006 at 02:34
Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

The Nice were a massively influential British prog band...and that cannot be understated.Just about anything by them is worth checking out.

Very influential yes. Prog band? Perhaps if they had made a fulblown prog album but they never did. Hence the proto prog tag.

Ars Longa Vita Brevis and Five Bridges both have side long suites.I regard them as a full blown prog band.What they didn't have was the synthesiser which perhaps makes them sound a little less prog than ELP or Yes.They were organ based prog IMO.
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Points: 1059 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2006 at 09:35

Only two days ago i bought a new 2cd "Essential Collection" compilation of The Nice's work, for only £4.97 ($8.67 or somewhere near that). Quite incredible stuff.

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Points: 96 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2006 at 11:52
Bloody good band! very NICE.
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Points: 376 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2006 at 13:40

A great band and I just want to mention Lee Jackson's amazing galloping bass line on Rondo that he keeps up for 8 minutes. It's one of the wonders of modern music.

Apparently he tried to teach it to Greg Lake, but even a talented musician like Lake could never master it.

 
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