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Posted: December 19 2014 at 16:04
Hey, just found this:
Kappa, by the band Samurai. Not the British band, but the Japanese one featuring Mickey Curtis. Some wonderful psych, both light and heavy, and very progressive. Is featured on this site. I'm loving it, I would recommend it, and I will review it soon.
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Posted: December 19 2014 at 15:02
SteveG wrote:
A step backwards as this album from 1970 is listed under Heavy Prog, which does seem appropriate as Quartermas were like a heavier version of ELP and a bit gruffer. The group still had a bit of a psych vibe going on as well so Quartermas is excellent for pysch fans, proto fans as well as heavy prog fans.
Love this one. Definitely at a unique intersection of psych, hard rock, and the old keys/bass/drums combo.
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Posted: December 19 2014 at 14:43
A step backwards as this album from 1970 is listed under Heavy Prog, which does seem appropriate as Quartermas were like a heavier version of ELP and a bit gruffer. The group still had a bit of a psych vibe going on as well so Quartermas is excellent for pysch fans, proto fans as well as heavy prog fans.
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Posted: December 19 2014 at 13:58
^And without the Elevators, there would be no MovingSidewalks. The second great psychedelic blues band to emerge from Texas featuring the great Billy Gibbons on guitar, who would go on to mega success with ZZ Top.
Featured is the band's one and only album from 1969 titled Flash. Another gem from the early world of Psychedelic rock.
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Posted: December 19 2014 at 12:42
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Posted: December 19 2014 at 10:05
White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground.
When PA members ask if VU should be considered proto prog, no doubt it's this 1868 album that that comes to the fore of the discussion. After splitting off with Nico after VU's debut album, the band signed an endorsement contract with effects manufacturer Vox. Using every conceivable effects processor from that company, the group recorded the extremely advant garde White Light/White Heat album (the name may have been prompted by producing white noise in the studio which in 1968 was a nightmare to record). The album's standout track is the seventeen and a half minute long proto prog epic Sister Ray.
The album's black on black cover seems like an answer to TheBeatles' "white album" cover design.
This album was a giant step away from psych toward early American prog. However the term progressive in 1968 only referred to American revisionist politics. So unless something changes, sixties psych rock is this album's worthy home.
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Posted: December 18 2014 at 15:56
Just to follow up on the DukesoftheStratosphere video. For those unfamiliar with the group, TheDukesOfTheStrastophere is a nom de disc for English new wavers XTC, who put out an EP and full length album of
of fun pysch pop that references Barrett era Floyd, Walrus era Beatles and many others 60's era pysch rock groups like the Zombies and TheMove. Pictured above is a reissue of 1985's EP 25 O'clock that comes in a cool mini book with liner notes that mimic Floyd's CD liner notes for their Piper album.
The 1987 Psonic Psunspots album is also available in a mini book CD format. Both albums are also available on vinyl.
If you like XTC along with prog music, these two albums are a lot of fun and stand up musically on their own.
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Posted: December 17 2014 at 15:52
Dean wrote:
David has the ability to create a sub-forum/lounge ... I suspect he just doesn't know how.
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Dean, thanks for the video and the support and also for introducing properly to the Fingers as I've never heard their work.
If this thread can introduce some members to artists just outside of prog (and that includes me) without upsetting the PA apple cart, I will be very grateful just for that. And I definitely had the Dukes in mind for this thread. Thanks again.
Edited by SteveG - December 17 2014 at 16:19
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^And without the Elevators, there would be no Moving Sidewalks. The second great psychedelic blues band to emerge from Texas featuring the great Billy Gibbons on guitar, who would go on to mega success with ZZ Top.
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