What’s ur fav non prog band?

About my favorite non-prog bands...well, too many to mention...

- jazz: Joshua Redman (amazing sax player), Bojan Z (great pianist from eastern Europe) and Thelonious Monk

- blues: SRV, Gary Moore (blues era)

- rock: Toto, Queen, Hendrix, Dire Straits...

- metal: old Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Symphony X, Nightwish, Steve Vai, Angra

- french singers/groups: Jacques Brel, Alexis HK, Noir Désir, Louise Attaque

- others: some disco music (yes, and I'm not ashamed!), and about everything good

Phillipe,

Is that you or Gary Husband?

Radioactive Toy wrote: there are so damn many.. Prog and metal is what I listen, but in metal there are SO many sub-genre's, some bands that I like: Death metal : Morbid angel, nile, vader Black metal : Ulver, wyrd, Kampfar Suicide metal : Forgotten tomb, shining, ondskapt viking metal : Amon amarth, falkenbach Doom metal : evoken, worship, my dying bride Prog metal: Maudlin of the well, opeth, green carnation, drawn Katatonia-alike metal (lol?) : Katatonia (duh), rapture, daylight dies, october tide

I can't hear all those stuffs made by (and for) young extremists & schizo...moreover I can't consider this sh*t as music or art...those bands make me want to throw up.

Suicide Metal:

there are so damn many.. Prog and metal is what I listen, but in metal there are SO many sub-genre's, some bands that I like:

Death metal : Morbid angel, nile, vader
Black metal : Ulver, wyrd, Kampfar
Suicide metal : Forgotten tomb, shining, ondskapt
viking metal : Amon amarth, falkenbach
Doom metal : evoken, worship, my dying bride
Prog metal: Maudlin of the well, opeth, green carnation, drawn
Katatonia-alike metal (lol?) : Katatonia (duh), rapture, daylight dies, october tide

other music:
Godspeed you black emperor, fly pan am, led zeppelin, amorphis

edit: don't forget yur laughs.. ATOM AND HIS PACKAGE

just a tiny bit of what I listen..

wheeee!

danbo wrote: Peter Rideout wrote:  I also really love classic LOS LOBOS!   Kiko was a very interesting album. Claptonesque at times. I need to break that one out again. Will the Wolf Survive? Great disc.

Yes, Danbo ol' buddy, both are very good. My fave is "The Neighbourhood." One of the best rockin' electric blues-based bands in the U. S. of A., with Mexican-American/Latin flavours as well. Love the singer's voice -- very real and heart-felt! Their all-Latin EP is good too! Collossal Head is also great!

 Hi Maani! I'm jealous ("green" with envy, get it?) of all your classic concert-going experience, especially your beer with Fripp & Eno (I'll never top that, though my bro' in law once lived next-door to a (must have been distant) cousin of Bill Bruford's, who after vounteering that yes, she was related to her famous namesake, said "I think he's in a band called "Yes" or something. Are they any good?" DUHHH! True story, & my brush with prog greatness, such as it is.... I did shake Victor Wooten's hand, however. Oh well...

"Quay Lude's" (just a stage persona) real name (or at least band name) was/is Fee Waybill. He was a former roadie. Apparently somewhat of an extrovert on stage....

Thanks for the compliment  on my Amon Duul II review. I'm going to write some shorter reviews of beloved classics over the next few days. I may not churn them out like a certain Mr. Ronnquist (? spelling -- who apparently either employs a large staff, or has hundreds of previously-written reviews waiting in his computer; the man must listen to music even more than I do, some 36 hours a day, eight days a week!), but I intend to thus increase my output. The longer reviews can be exhausting to write, & perhaps (perish the thought!) somewhat of a chore for some to read. I will still write the longer pieces as occasion and album dictate, however.

Re the shades of the Moodies (get it? Blue lettering -- ain't I the clever one?) in the AD2 song, yes, I could see that (with that song, although the band's sound is very diverse, overall), especially in the mellotron and sweeping synth. Thanks for checking them out!

Regarding the problems with sending me Private Messages (which can be handy), I had put you on my "Buddies List" (you were the first), but the "status" part always indicated that you could not contact me. I may have done it wrong, though, because I have just now deleted then re-added your name, and now the computer indicates that you can message me! I'll send you one now, to test!

My favorite non Prog band whilst growing up was Steppenwolf. John Kay's Growl, Goldie McJohn's hammond work was killer. Nick St. Nicholas on Bass, Jerry Edmonton slamming the Skins. THe only lead player I can remember was Mars Bonfire, but he only stuck around for a few albums.

What about "Spirit" they came out with some pretty inspiring stuff.