Favourite prog tune cover

I'd like to hear Marillion cover a Genesis track, and Fish cover a Gabriel track - doesn't matter which 

Didn't Fish guest on a Tony Banks album????? -Probably as close as you are likely to get......

What I'd really like is to hear prog bands cover themselves - ie original band members get back together and actually re-record some of the classic albums with modern production techniques and the ideas they've picked up through their many years of experience.

I'm reminded Yes (around 1971/2) certainly gigged and  played different arrangements (particularly instrument change) of tunes off albums. Really would like to hear something off The Yes Album arranged for two bass guitars as lead, as opposed to guitar and keys. -and presumably bootlegs might exist?????????????

Imagine what "Selling England..." or "Court..." might sound like

I suppose 21st Century Schizoid Band sort of obligued with the latter. Similarily Caravan have re-recorded two albums worth of their earlier tunes in the late 90's, with slightly jazzier arrangements, e.g. on Over You. And check out the French band Polysofts, with Hugh Hopper and Elton Dean guesting, for 21st century takes on earlier Soft Machine tunes.

"What I'd really like is to hear prog bands cover themselves - ie original band members get back together and actually re-record some of the classic albums with modern production techniques and the ideas they've picked up through their many years of experience."

[QUOTE=Dick Heath]

Giraffe was a band featuring Kevin Gilbert who engineered some of Spock's Beards early albums. Nick D'Viglio worked with Kevin on THUD and other projects, as well as performing the SHAMING OF THE TRUE after Kevin's death. My guess is those are the only Spock's Beard connections.

http://www.kevingilbert.com/7a/beveridge.html

Cheers for that

Another great cover, IMO, is OSI's cover of "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun."

Spend the last three afternoons de-Chinenglishing  a reseach paper, so the brain refuses to decode OSI - help!

Hey Dick, How were Earthworks versions of Bruford's One of a Kind tracks?

And Danbo, you ol' bugger you've got me again - missed them. And in that area, (I don't think I read it here),  Bill Bruford is recently on record saying he will be reissuing remastered versions of Bruford albums, probably with bonus tracks. And I'm sure you must know Allan Holdsworth is apparently compiling A Best Of album, which is promised to contain a 'few suprises'.

Proof-reading a Soft Machine biography at the moment for its author - looks authorative!!! Hopefully published in the new year. Holdsworth biography also in preparation by a very earnest Frenchman, who somehow got hold of my tel no. and  bombarded me with questions over 3 long telephone conversations (made long because I don't speak French and he only just speaks English....) - however, his questions are more about the political state of the UK in the late 70's and ealry 80's than any direct Holdsworth connection....

Yes, yes, yes.... I posted something in the Announcements section regarding both. Neverwasneverwillbe will be released in 2005! The Holdsworth Remasters should be coming out next year as well.

danbo wrote: Yes, yes, yes.... I posted something in the Announcements section regarding both. Neverwasneverwillbe will be released in 2005! The Holdsworth Remasters should be coming out next year as well.

No No No (as they say on the Vicar Of Dibbley)  found I picked this up at Fusenet, with Chris Hoard of Alternity Records doing publicity for the AH remasters

OSI (Office of Strategic Influence) is a group consisting of Kevin Moore (Dream Theater / Chroma Key) /Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater / Tranatlantic & others)  /Jim Matheos (Fates Warning) and Sean Malone (Gordian Knot / Cynic & more). Call it a Supergroup.... Anyway, they put out one album and "Set the Controls...." is a bonus on the Expanded version. I liked Moore's use of effects and Portnoy's drumming is inventive, to say the least.

To change track completely, I liked Andrew Lloyd Webber's cover of Rachmaninov's cover of Paganini's Caprice in A minor... (I wonder where Paganini covered it from...)