ProgDay 2016

  Awesome. Can't wait to hear what you all come up with!

damn right you do!!  I'm getting old and crockety and don't travel as well as I used to. You all need to get down to D.C/Baltimore.

Great news about a 5th. Even better to hear you'll be on it.  Dan and Pat are lovely guys... but I liken them to modern day Fripps.  If you ain't cutting it.. you are out on your ass. I don't think they've had the same lineup for any album have they?

yeah..  missed you all and likely will miss Tea Club through this current album cycle.

Bring back the NJ Proghouse homecoming weekend damnit.... 

if anything so we can all go back to that kicking Peruvian joint you found Robert...  I haven't had a Pisco Sour in far too long

We'd love to see you back Robert... be it on stage... or just with us in the audience.  Been a good bit since we've got together.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Just listened to the most recent studio album and while it certainly is better than the live performance with less noodling and benefiting from the added instrumentation it's still not anything that excites me enough to want repeat listens.

That makes sense. I saw you as having good enough tastes as it was Ian... if you liked everything under the sun I'd have revise my opinion of you to freak status.  If you had liked this I was going to start trying to turning you on to Willie Nelson

after nearly 10 years.. I've nearly got Raff..

to the point she stands him. And I have caught her singing along and shaking her ass on occasion...

Nice review.

Just listened to the most recent studio album and while it certainly is better than the live performance with less noodling and benefiting from the added instrumentation it's still not anything that excites me enough to want repeat listens.

and I did count you as those voices that I have respect for considering Bent-Knee.  Perhaps as we talked about at breakfast.. this group just needs more time to click. Sometimes we need more time for stuff to connect. It isn't a question of quality with them and with me.. it is about feeling the music. I give a lot of people a lot of sh*t for some of their perferences but it always has been with a wick and a nod... I know as well as anyone that it is not a matter of quality that rules what we love in music.. it is all about how we connect and relate to what we are listening to.

apples and oranges compositionally.. no doubt. The point is... noddling or not... I found it interesting from a completely visceral point of view. Much as I did, and other do Alec Redfearn, we connected the dots between the two. If he had used a guitar instead of an accordian.. I likely wouldn't have cared what his influences were... it wouldn't have connected as hard as it did.  If Scales had been up there jamming with a guitar.. I wouldn't have liked it half as much.

the reason I made the connection between the two Ian.. and others did in conjunction with him seeing me wearing his shirt yesterday was purely from a visceral level. This is music you know.. the reason why Raff and I are different in our tastes in spots and much more in how we see music.. even where we are so much alike otherwise.

I don't attempt or care to analyze music... I just feel music. Scales hit me where it counts... as did Redfearn. That is where we might see this differently and why some like me make that connection between the two, and also distinquish what we heard Saturday from your basic dude with a guitar along with a bassist and drummer just jamming away. I have heard that a 1000 times.. and 999 times too many.

What I heard Saturday I hadn't... and thankfully since these were top notch.. grade A+ musos...they connected with me and I loved it.


Edited by micky - September 06 2016 at 11:34

I did I heard something with them I had not heard before, and done by A+ musicians and as Raff will tell you, and I've made quite clear here. I DETEST noddley fusion.  It was interesting, and different much in the same way I took to Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores.  I wasn't the only one to see that.. I had a few comments about the shirt.. and Scales. That something unique and different that some of us look for in our music.

on the flip side.. I simply didn't hear anything that 'grabbed' me musically from Bent Knee. Personally I found MoeTar, a similarly leaning avant prog pop leaning band to be far more interesting musically and Moreas vocal style (and her obvious influences) to be much more to my tastes.  Perhaps with teh next album they'll connect. It just hasn't done it yet.