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70sSoundquality 
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 Topic: What do you think of 'disco' in prog?
Posted: June 09 2006 at 23:13 |
I like 70's 'disco', not the boring obvious pop kind, but the musically competant kind- i.e., Heatwave... borderline Steely Dan in a way, heavy use of jazz chords, competant walking bass lines, lots of analog keys, (i.e. Rhodes, Analog Synth, clav, etc etc). I quite like it.
What do you think about 70's 'disco'?
I have music that most would consider to be "prog" called "Sun City" by Nova, from 1978. Extremely competant playing, awesome songs, and hints of "disco" splashed all over the place. Kind of also why I like "dont kill the whale" so much. Thoughts?
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Posted: June 09 2006 at 23:15 |
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I think this topic should be in the non-prog lounge.
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70sSoundquality
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Posted: June 09 2006 at 23:22 |
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Even though I am saying disco can be found in "prog" bands such as Yes and Nova? Okay..got it.
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70sSoundquality
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Posted: June 09 2006 at 23:29 |
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Edit- Should have rephrased my post- "What do you think of disco in "prog" ?
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 01:24 |
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Check out Recycled by Nektar. A lot of those grooves really border on
disco, but in the end come up prog. Nice stuff. Was lucky enough to see
'em live a few years back. Do the Hustle.
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 01:34 |
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds has some Disco references and it's a great album.
But honestly the word Disco makes me nervous remembering those dark years when Prog was dying and everybody dancing in white suits with black shirt. 
Iván
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 01:42 |
i had to endure this "stuff" in the 70's, i thought the whole world was going mad....!
Edited by mystic fred - June 10 2006 at 01:42
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 02:29 |
What do I think of disco?
It died a quick death for a very good reason.
Thank God.
I grew up in the 70's and heard way too much of it.
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 02:40 |
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Who needs disco in prog, when one can dance to other prog tunes? There
is a song on the first solo album of Roman Bunka, played on oud and
some Afghanistan percussion instrument only, plus some vocals provided
by Roman Bunka ("The Heat"). That song kicks so much ass, despite the
minimal instrumentation, that I always get up and dance to it.
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70sSoundquality
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 03:01 |
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Why was this moved? I'm specifcally asking about disco elements in "prog" music.
Edited by 70sSoundquality - June 10 2006 at 03:04
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BaldFriede
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 03:08 |
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Mother Gong play "Disco" on the first track of the first album of the
"Robot Woman" trilogy; the song is titled "Disco at the End of the
World". It is meant as a satirical parody though. And the sax and
guitar solo interludes by Didier Malherbe and Yan Emerick are anything
but disco.
Edited by BaldFriede - June 10 2006 at 03:30
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 03:13 |
 70sSoundquality wrote:
Why was this moved? I'm specifcally asking about disco elements in "prog" music. |
Because this seems to be basically a discussion about what we think of disco.
If you want to discuss prog elements in disco music I will move it back,but if it turns into a discussion about disco music ITSELF I will move it out of the Lounge again for good.
And you should made it a little more clear in your topic title,which asks what we think of disco,not the prog elements(if any)in disco music.
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 03:31 |
HEY...
WHAT ABOUT E.L.O. - DISCOVERY? 
THERE ARE SOME DISCO REFERENCES IN IT...
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Arriving somewhere but not here
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70sSoundquality
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 04:23 |
TheProgtologist wrote:
70sSoundquality wrote:
Why was this moved? I'm specifcally asking about disco elements in "prog" music. |
Because this seems to be basically a discussion about what we think of disco.
If you want to discuss prog elements in disco music I will move it back,but if it turns into a discussion about disco music ITSELF I will move it out of the Lounge again for good.
And you should made it a little more clear in your topic title,which asks what we think of disco,not the prog elements(if any)in disco music. |
My deepest apologies.
I truly am talking about disco in "prog", like when Yes touched disco on Tormato.
Thanks.
Edited by 70sSoundquality - June 10 2006 at 04:25
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 04:26 |
There is a song called "tripot" by Mona Lisa, from 1978 that has a cool disco sound/feel.
FM has some "disco" type art-rock from the late 70's. I really like that sound.
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 05:17 |
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Zappa did some very funny parodies of Disco, like "Dancin' Fool", and the only band I know of that really mixed it up with Disco were the Brecker Brothers...they'd do an album with mostly silly Disco schmalz, then one absolute killer fusion cut. Actually lots of originally fusiony jazz guys went disco, like George Benson & George Duke, but that stuff is only embarassing to hear today.
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 07:28 |
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It's like poison in candy.
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 08:45 |
Apparently Pink Floyd did a little disco-influenced song called Another Brick In The Wall (part 2)... Anybody ever heard it?
Edited by Myxamatosis - June 10 2006 at 08:46
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 09:26 |
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Almost all classics of the prog genre had their hands in disco music, Floyd, Kraftwerk, T. Dream, Gentle Giant ... and some of disco music is quite close to prog, like Deodato or hey, back in 1977 one couldn't make a difference between Donna Summer and T. Dream. Disco is alive and well, it branched into techno, house, chill out ...
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Posted: June 10 2006 at 09:31 |
Led Zeppelin flirted with disco in Carouselambra (or however it's spelled). That song has a prog rock structure and is over 10 minutes long.
The Tangent's "A place in the Quene" album has a disco song that is very catchy.
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