Musicians! Can you play prog? What ones?

A sad thread, because I used to play

• Take a Pebble, Eruption, and Trilogy (ELP)
• Promenade, The Hut of Baba Yaga, and The Great Gate of Kiev (original score)
• Anne Boleyn (Wakeman)

All of these were at the limit of what I could tackle, so they had to be played regularly to keep them in shape. That was a long time ago. Then work and other things intervened, so now it would take several months of practice before being able to play them again.

I am the keyboardist for a progressive rock cover band in the Netherlands, http://www.awakening-band.nl

We play/played lots of songs from artists including:

Landmarq: Forever Young

Marillion: Fantastic Place, The Great Escape, Beautiful, Misplaced Childhood excerpts, Incommunicado

IQ: Subterranea, Failsafe

Dream Theater: Another Day

Camel: Rhayader, Lady Fantasy

Deep Purple: Child in Time, Highway Star, Lazy, Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming

Uriah-Heep: July Morning, Stealin'

Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb, The Great Gig in the Sky, Shine on You Crazy Diamond

Porcupine Tree: Even Less

Lana Lane: Alexandria

Transatlantic: All of the Above

Arena: Bedlam Fayre

Janison Edge: Beneath the Boy

Kansas: Carry on Wayward Son

Mostly Autumn: Caught in a Fold

Riverside: Conceiving You

Styx: Suite Madame Blue

Angel: The Tower

On my own or with another band I've also played: Money (Pink Floyd), 6:00 and Through her Eyes (Dream Theater), Party in Simon's Pants (Steve Lukather), Misplaced Childhood and Brave albums (Marillion), Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple), The Doorway (Spock's Beard)

off the top of my head...

I can play the moog solo from Rush's Countdown - It's all white keys & pretty easy - which is why I can play it.

I used to be able to play Dodo-Lurker from Genesis & I did a passable rendition of Long Distance Runaround - many years ago.

^ add to my list:

Captain Beefheart's "Hair Pie" and "Pachuco Cadaver" on bass

Lindsay Lohan wrote: I can play anything that i want to play...but i find playing other peoples songs a bit boring

Wow - that's amazing Lindsay - can we here any of the stuff you do play anywhere?

My band worked out Siberian Khatru for our last rehearsal - which was a laugh

M

www.yaksongs.com

I play guitar:

• Rush- Working Man, Fly By Night, Bastille Day, most of The Fountain of Lamneth, 2112, A Passage to Bangkok, Something for Nothing, Xanadu, Closer to the Heart, Cinderella Man, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres, Circumstances, The Trees, Jacob's Ladder, Natural Science, Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, Limelight, Witch Hunt
• Frank Zappa- Peaches En Regalia, Watermelon in Easter Hay, Zoot Allures
• King Crimson- Red, Matte Kudasai, The Sheltering Sky, Larks' Tongue in Aspic part II, Frame By Frame, Exiles, 21st Century Schizoid Man

And many more.

I consider myself a really fortunate person because I can play the four basic instruments of prog rock (or ordinary rock) which are keyboard, guitar, bass and drums. On keyboard I can play the intro for lamb lies down on broadway, Rhayader, Rhayader goes to town, The Snow Goose, Lady Fantasy and some Castlevanian stuff (which i think is progressive)

I know almost any song of Camel in drums (THE MOST DIFFICULT BEING LUNAR SEA) and can play genesis songs too.

On bass I can play almost the entire Dark Side of the moon album and many floyd songs as in guitar.

I play guitar since I was 15 (now 32). At that time I discovered David Gilmour. I can play nearly all his soli, they are not that difficult. But nobody can play them with his feeling.

I like to play also "Dancing with the moonlit knight" with the right handed tapping technique that Steve Hackett developed (and Van Halen took it to the limit)