Prog Rock with substantial use of mandoline?

Prog I'm not shure of, but Styx used mandolin on Boat on the River and some other songs as well, and to good use .

if your search fails you Ivan... I've got some non-prog mandolin stuff that'll knock your socks off here at the castle micky...  warning though.. after listening you may feel the urge to knock up your sister and marry your cousin.  

Edited by micky - February 25 2007 at 18:30

Tuzvihar wrote: Brian May played mandoline in Queen's "Good Company" from "A Night at the Opera" if I'm not mistaken.

ukulele, actually


Edited by clarke2001 - February 25 2007 at 16:31

Brian May played mandoline in Queen's "Good Company" from "A Night at the Opera" if I'm not mistaken.

Ian Anderson and Martin Barre (the latter mainly live) used mandolin on several occasions e.g. Christmas Song, Songs from the Wood...
As for folk bands I remember Dando Shaft had a good fiddle/mandolin player.
Led Zeppelin (not prog but present in the archives as prog-related) had quite a few songs with J. P. Jones on mando. The Battle of Evermore and Going to California are the first ones that spring to my mind, the former even featuring no less than three overdubbed mandolins if my memory doesn't fail me. Check out the excellent www.mandolincafe.com for tabs.

P.s. if you're looking for FREE online lessons try this link:
http://www.folkofthewood.com/page675.htm
Have fun!

Edited by paulindigo - February 25 2007 at 15:44

I've got a mandoline today and started to get really cool sounds out of it. This is my second instrument since the flute (well, I can also play the lullaby and some riffs on any keyboard, and some riffs on balalaika), and I think I am going to combine learning the two (they are pretty compatible too).