HI, new ... help with 70s prog :)

cacho wrote: Logan wrote: (the matter is that I may disturb some people though). ... Fooling around Logan.

  Fooling around, or playing this fool? ;)

 
1977
Playing The Fool - The Official Live

It's the cover of Gentle Giant's Playing the Fool (just since you were posting about GG recently, so kind of timely).

"I pity the fool who plays me for a fool" (not quite Mr. T).

If you are are open to female vocals in just about any genre: Try U Totem, Greaves' Kew Rhone, Eskaton, Art Bears,  Koenjihyakkei, After Dinner... so much to try (I'm not limiting myself to the 70s there).  Magma is, like it or not, a good band to know in these parts (Magma is terrific). And every collection is woefully incomplete without Comus and Spirogyra (male and female vocals -- the subject matter in Comus may disturb some people though).

Edited by Logan - April 09 2008 at 19:34

Squonkman wrote: cacho wrote: ...Welcome my new friend, haha..I'm really a metal hater but still we can be friends .. You may try out some Heavy Prog besides Rush that I really can't take them (No Offense), if you like 70's hard rock like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath you should really check out Atomic Rooster, Uriah Heep. Have you liked Jethro Tull? You may try Black Widow, a folk rock band with some heavy tendencies cause the hammond... Their debut has some notably Tull presence but it's less accesible not cause the music but more cause the voice. From Heep: Salsibury, Demons and Wizards, Magician's Birthday and later on their debut. If you really like heavier stuff you should also try the overrated(IMO) Look at Yourself. From Atomic Rooster: Death Walks Behind You later on their debut or In Hearing Of. From King Crimson you can also try In the Wake of Poseidon if you liked their debut. You haven't mentioned ELP so that's another classic prog band that you should have something from them. If you're interested you may try first their debut or Trilogy or perhaps Tarkus. dude, how come you keep posting replies right after mine in only the threads I am posting in?

mmm..maybe cause I have been here for 4 months and I love the forum and I'm very active almost everyday 1 or 2hs per day. Don't you think that's reason Mr I know more.

BTW: You're gonna get mad if someone posts something after you?? I think I'm really getting sick of you..

Edited by cacho - April 09 2008 at 19:20

cacho wrote: ...Welcome my new friend, haha..I'm really a metal hater but still we can be friends .. You may try out some Heavy Prog besides Rush that I really can't take them (No Offense), if you like 70's hard rock like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath you should really check out Atomic Rooster, Uriah Heep. Have you liked Jethro Tull? You may try Black Widow, a folk rock band with some heavy tendencies cause the hammond... Their debut has some notably Tull presence but it's less accesible not cause the music but more cause the voice. From Heep: Salsibury, Demons and Wizards, Magician's Birthday and later on their debut. If you really like heavier stuff you should also try the overrated(IMO) Look at Yourself. From Atomic Rooster: Death Walks Behind You later on their debut or In Hearing Of. From King Crimson you can also try In the Wake of Poseidon if you liked their debut. You haven't mentioned ELP so that's another classic prog band that you should have something from them. If you're interested you may try first their debut or Trilogy or perhaps Tarkus.

Plankowner wrote: Also love female vocals of any style and any genre really...

cool ... have napster, I use it like a library :)

Loaded up Moody Blues, Uriah, IQ, and Magma.

The Rennaisance "Sheherazade and other stories" wasn't listed nor Pendragon, so I'll have to search a little deeper for those.

heh, wish u did resist on the Phil Collins plug...lol.

Hello.  I'm new here, well... to the forum anyway... :)

Took me awhile to figure out I was a fan of progressive music.  New bands I was finding seemed to lead me to this website 9 out of 10 times... 

What I like... Riverside, Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater, Spheric Universe Experience, Andromeda, Atmosfear, Green Carnation, Pain of Salvation, Jon Olivia's Pain, Fates Warning, Savatage, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody of Fire, Satellite, Sieges Even, Nightmare, Dead Soul Tribe, Iced Earth, Pathosray, Pure Reason Revolution, ... to give you an idea (grew up in the 80s so have metal tendencies it seems..)

Also love female vocals of any style and any genre really...

I'm new to the old progressive music, of course I know of the more popular classics like Rush, Pink Floyd, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Yes, etc...  I'm taking about bands like King Crimson, Eloy, Camel, Caravan, Marillion, VDGG, Gentle Giant, The Strawbs, Hawkwind, The Soft Machine, etc...

I have an insatiable desire to listen to something new every day and I usually do, often 3 to 4 albums a day.  So if anyone wants to work with me to catch up on all the 70s prog I missed you'll find that I will seek and listen to it ... of the old stuff I've brought in so far is:

King Crimson "In the Court of the Crimson King"
Eloy "Ocean"
Camel "The Snow Goose"
Caravan "In the Land of the Grey and Pink"
The Strawbs "Grave New World"
VDGG "Pawnhearts"
Gentle Giant "In a Glass House"
Hawkwind "The Hall of the Mountain Grill" (wanted warriors, but was a $40 dollar import)
Soft Machine "I and II"

welp ... guess this is enough for a hello :)

Thanks, plank