Your most magical progrock moments?

Great topic! The Fish thing I remember from a video. Very good stuff!

Mine:

1. Pink Floyd (Live in Pompeii): that moment in A Saucerful Of Secrets where the noise is gone and Rick Wright starts playing his organ.

2. Jon and Chris harmonizing and singing on the song "Going For The One", in the studio rehearsal, on Yesyears, and one of them is singing Go-o-ing For The One, and the other Go-i-ing For The One. That's a little detail that really impresses me, because it shows how much subtleties there were on that record , my favourite record of all time.

3. Emerson, Lake and Palmer ... rehearsing, practicing BSS stuff, and after a while Emerson is practicing his solos. (ELP / Beyond The Beginning)

4. Cliche, but Rick Wakeman doing the "excerpts" on the Yessongs video.

5. Once again Yes. Cheating here: two live moments from the Union tour:

a. that moment when the band is doing an unknown (to me) peice of music and the reach a climax, and then there's a silence, and the keyboards are doing a fast piece, with great chords.

b. Is it Solly's Beard? Trevor Rabin plays fast on his guitar, then he plays a bit in a Spanish style, and keyboards accompany him (Yesyears)

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erik neuteboom wrote: Hello Moogton III. This is my first topic and I already feel ashamed... because I forget to mention the compelling scenes from the Pink Floyd At Pompeii DVD, like Echoes, well, I can mention every song  ! I have the bootleg CD from the Going for the one studio recordings, very interesting, great to see Rick Wakeman with the Mighty Tron and his upper class English!

I just adapted what I said myself (edit-button): you asked for moments and I gave you songs.

Rick Wakeman: I know some of those moments you mentioned from the magnificent Yesyears video, Rick with his cigar and "Tension is mounting up down here" and "Can you bluff your way through this one?"

I'd really like to see more of that, the making of my fave cd of all time!

erik neuteboom wrote: You will ....!

Hurrah, thanks!!!

Hello Andrea.

This is my first topic and I already feel ashamed... because I forget to mention ... l'histoire se repète... this time the Strawbs video 1975 Tokyo,... sorry, I must have missed some Trons.. !

Real magic with his white painted face and that tambourin!

Like in White Rabbit from Jefferson Airplane.. ..?

I also prefer the original video version from Pompeii but some computer animations are really mindblowing!

If you are a newbie, you can check out the posts on this topic. I'm looking forward to the R30 2-DVD from Rush. I have seen the concert last year (splendid but a bit loud) and a 2-DVD bootleg (USA concert), R30 will be one of the best progrock DVD's of all time!

I'm going to slant this slightly differently. I don't collect videos or DVDs of concerts, so I'll list my Top 5 actual concert moments.

1. Peter Gabriel's stage entrance (Genesis "Six Of The Best", Milton Keynes Bowl 1982) - To the sound of a heartbeat-like bass drum, six pallbearers clad fully in white (including white faces, gloves, and tall top hats) carry a white coffin on to a stage bathed in a cloud of dry ice and brilliant white spotlights. They place the coffin upright centrestage and just as the drum beat becomes recognisable as the opening to "Back In NYC", the lid opens and out steps Gabriel in his guise as Rael. Fantastic.

2. Yes's light show (Going For The One tour, Glasgow Apollo, November 1977) - The first time I ever saw lasers. 3-dimensional "objects" hovered above the audience. Jon Anderson sang "I Get Up, I Get Down" from Close To The Edge in a rainshower of green laser light. I was stunned by the whole experience.

3. Mike Oldfield's Pipe Band (Premier of Tubular Bells II, Edinburgh Castle, 1992) - As the music builds to the "Scottish" movement, a previously solid looking backdrop suddenly becomes transparent revealing a full pipe band in front of the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle. Spectacular.

4. Steve Hackett's guitar synth (Hackett's first solo tour, Glasgow Apollo, 26 October 1978) - Silhouetted by a single spotlight from behind, Hackett launches into "Land Of A Thousand Autumns" with the then-revolutionary Roland Guitar Synthisiser. What a sound!!!

5. Marillion's second gig in Scotland (Kaim Park Hotel, Bathgate, 4 November 1982) - Didn't realise it at the time, but it's good to know I was at this one. They'd opened their tour the previous night in the town of Wishaw, so not quite their first Scottish date, but close! The Kaim Park had a fairly low roof, and when Fish made his first appearance he really filled the whole space from floor to ceiling! Everybody thought "What the hell is this???" They did a great show, and Fish handled the "Gabriel-clone" taunts from the crowd with no small amount of good Scottish sarcastic humour.


There have been any number of other enjoyable moments revolving around concerts such as meeting musicians before and after gigs and even enjoying a drink or two with some of them, but these are 5 of my favourite "in-concert" moments.

Thanks gentlemen, great to read your reactions!

On the Recital DVD you can also see that Fish almost touches the ceiling of the Marquee!

Hackett on his Roland guitar synthesizer (it was a bit slow but very sopisticated in those days) was indeed amazing, the light from above, I have some great pictures from that scene, GOOSE BUMPS when those memories come to my mind, he was the Genesis substitute and did a great job!

I have the Beatclub DVD too, what a weird person that Jamie Muir is but indeed very special to watch, so vivid, a very big contrast with Robert Fripp, almost a statue!