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Poll Question: Which of these bands have you heard and would recommend?
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Tiles.

Great Band, although their new album is a huge disappointment.



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Yes.  Discipline is playing with Tiles at the Magic Bag.
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Cool thread. I'll check out some of these link later. I know Tiles is at the Magic Bag. Is Discipline on the same bill?
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Time for a couple of other time machine trips.  Lurking around the internet I ran across some links to a Motor City Prog fest in 1999 and a second in 2004.  The 1999 show included Tiles, Discipline, and House of Usher.  The 2004 Prog Fest included Tiles, Eyestrings and Space Nelson.  I am their intended audience but went on with my life merrily uninformed while these events went on.  I am definitely glad that I am going to see Tiles and Discipline next week, but it would be so cool to have a prog festival in this neck of the woods.  According to these fliers there is a prog underground here in the Motor City.

 
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This is a neato thread. Perhaps I'll look into Larval and House of Usher.
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nice  thread Scott.. . Clap  Don't think I've heard of those.. .as soon as I finish this album. I'll take some listens.
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I have added Tin Scribble, another Michigan band to the list.  The guitarist Michael Moore was also the guitarist in House of Usher.
 
Also, I just found out that Mark Evans was the drummer for House of Usher.  He was also Tiles original drummer, and is back as their current drummer on their new album Fly Paper.
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Thank you for your response H.T.   I was feeling quite lonely in here. Cry
 
I read the two reviews on Acuity, with one being a 1 star and one being a 4 star, so a bit hard to gauge.  I suspect that I will probably like them.  I see that Matthew Parmenter plays violin on one of their tracks.
 
I expected that I might see a Discipline recommendation from you. Wink
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Of course I have to recommend Discipline. Acuity is not my favorite, but would be good for someone with heavier tastes. I met Jake Reichbart a couple of weeks ago, and he is going to get me a CD from his band. I have only heard him playing by himself in a restaurant, so I will have to update for the band.
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I updated this thread to include the prog subgenres that each of the bands is included in or proposed for. 
 
Some folks have been clamoring for new or different bands to talk about so here is another chance to talk about some lesser known bands.  Many subgenres are included and if they are not and you know of a Michigan band that fits the bill please let me know so that I can included them.
 
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Michigan may not necessarily be a hot bed of progressive rock music, since it is better known for Motown, and for rockers like Bob Seger and Ted Nugent, and rappers like Kid Rock and Eminem, but each of the above bands calls Michigan home, or at least has a strong connection to Michigan.  Which of these bands have you heard of and would you recommend to others?  I have allowed for multiple votes so you can vote for more than one band.  My hope is that for any of the bands that you mark you will also provide a description of your thoughts on the band and to whom you might recommend them to.  I am hoping that this thread will bring some recognition to some lesser known bands and might bring some active discussion and might help others discover some music that they might not have otherwise discovered.  So post often and actively and try to help me keep this thread from becoming yet another ghost thread that settles harmlessly to the bottom of the barrel of threads.  I have left open another 11 poll choices in knowing that I have probably missed some other bands with Michigan connections so please feel free to suggest them to me so that I might add them.

Below are some links to these bands webpages or MySpace pages so that you might be able to sample them.

Acuity http://www.projectacuity.com/MainPage.htm   http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1274

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Jake Reichbart  http://jakereichbart.com/main.htm

 
 
 
 

 



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