HI, new ... help with 70s prog :)

Hello.  I'm new here, well... to the forum anyway... :)

Took me awhile to figure out I was a fan of progressive music.  New bands I was finding seemed to lead me to this website 9 out of 10 times... 

What I like... Riverside, Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater, Spheric Universe Experience, Andromeda, Atmosfear, Green Carnation, Pain of Salvation, Jon Olivia's Pain, Fates Warning, Savatage, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody of Fire, Satellite, Sieges Even, Nightmare, Dead Soul Tribe, Iced Earth, Pathosray, Pure Reason Revolution, ... to give you an idea (grew up in the 80s so have metal tendencies it seems..)

Also love female vocals of any style and any genre really...

I'm new to the old progressive music, of course I know of the more popular classics like Rush, Pink Floyd, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Yes, etc...  I'm taking about bands like King Crimson, Eloy, Camel, Caravan, Marillion, VDGG, Gentle Giant, The Strawbs, Hawkwind, The Soft Machine, etc...

I have an insatiable desire to listen to something new every day and I usually do, often 3 to 4 albums a day.  So if anyone wants to work with me to catch up on all the 70s prog I missed you'll find that I will seek and listen to it ... of the old stuff I've brought in so far is:

King Crimson "In the Court of the Crimson King"
Eloy "Ocean"
Camel "The Snow Goose"
Caravan "In the Land of the Grey and Pink"
The Strawbs "Grave New World"
VDGG "Pawnhearts"
Gentle Giant "In a Glass House"
Hawkwind "The Hall of the Mountain Grill" (wanted warriors, but was a $40 dollar import)
Soft Machine "I and II"

welp ... guess this is enough for a hello :)

Thanks, plank

cool ... have napster, I use it like a library :)

Loaded up Moody Blues, Uriah, IQ, and Magma.

The Rennaisance "Sheherazade and other stories" wasn't listed nor Pendragon, so I'll have to search a little deeper for those.

heh, wish u did resist on the Phil Collins plug...lol.

Plankowner wrote: Also love female vocals of any style and any genre really...

cacho wrote: ...Welcome my new friend, haha..I'm really a metal hater but still we can be friends .. You may try out some Heavy Prog besides Rush that I really can't take them (No Offense), if you like 70's hard rock like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath you should really check out Atomic Rooster, Uriah Heep. Have you liked Jethro Tull? You may try Black Widow, a folk rock band with some heavy tendencies cause the hammond... Their debut has some notably Tull presence but it's less accesible not cause the music but more cause the voice. From Heep: Salsibury, Demons and Wizards, Magician's Birthday and later on their debut. If you really like heavier stuff you should also try the overrated(IMO) Look at Yourself. From Atomic Rooster: Death Walks Behind You later on their debut or In Hearing Of. From King Crimson you can also try In the Wake of Poseidon if you liked their debut. You haven't mentioned ELP so that's another classic prog band that you should have something from them. If you're interested you may try first their debut or Trilogy or perhaps Tarkus.

Squonkman wrote: cacho wrote: ...Welcome my new friend, haha..I'm really a metal hater but still we can be friends .. You may try out some Heavy Prog besides Rush that I really can't take them (No Offense), if you like 70's hard rock like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath you should really check out Atomic Rooster, Uriah Heep. Have you liked Jethro Tull? You may try Black Widow, a folk rock band with some heavy tendencies cause the hammond... Their debut has some notably Tull presence but it's less accesible not cause the music but more cause the voice. From Heep: Salsibury, Demons and Wizards, Magician's Birthday and later on their debut. If you really like heavier stuff you should also try the overrated(IMO) Look at Yourself. From Atomic Rooster: Death Walks Behind You later on their debut or In Hearing Of. From King Crimson you can also try In the Wake of Poseidon if you liked their debut. You haven't mentioned ELP so that's another classic prog band that you should have something from them. If you're interested you may try first their debut or Trilogy or perhaps Tarkus. dude, how come you keep posting replies right after mine in only the threads I am posting in?

mmm..maybe cause I have been here for 4 months and I love the forum and I'm very active almost everyday 1 or 2hs per day. Don't you think that's reason Mr I know more.

BTW: You're gonna get mad if someone posts something after you?? I think I'm really getting sick of you..

Edited by cacho - April 09 2008 at 19:20

If you are are open to female vocals in just about any genre: Try U Totem, Greaves' Kew Rhone, Eskaton, Art Bears,  Koenjihyakkei, After Dinner... so much to try (I'm not limiting myself to the 70s there).  Magma is, like it or not, a good band to know in these parts (Magma is terrific). And every collection is woefully incomplete without Comus and Spirogyra (male and female vocals -- the subject matter in Comus may disturb some people though).

Edited by Logan - April 09 2008 at 19:34

cacho wrote: Logan wrote: (the matter is that I may disturb some people though). ... Fooling around Logan.

  Fooling around, or playing this fool? ;)

 
1977
Playing The Fool - The Official Live

It's the cover of Gentle Giant's Playing the Fool (just since you were posting about GG recently, so kind of timely).

"I pity the fool who plays me for a fool" (not quite Mr. T).

My female collection, I pretty much own complete discographies of the bands listed even singles:

4 Non Blondes, Linda Perry, 7 Year Bitch, 12 Rounds, 22 Brides, Alisha's Attic, All About Eve, Dot Allison, Amanda Ghost, Tori Amos, The Amps, Angelfish (shirley manson before Garbage), Anouk, Fiona Apple, Baby Fox, Baby Gopal, Bandit Queen, Barbie Complex, Shirley Bassey, Battershell, Bel Canto, Heidi Berry, Bettie Serveert, Bif Naked, Blackmore's Night, Blake Hazard, Blood Sugar, Brigid Boden, Tracy Bonham, Boss Hog, The Botswanas, Michelle Branch, Breakbeat Era, The Breeders, Meridith Brooks, Catatonia, Chainsuck, Mag Lee Chin, Lauren Christy, Chug, Cinnamon, Collide, Come, Imani Coppola, Concrete Blonde, Amy Correia, Cowboy Junkies, Sarah Cracknell, Cranes, Sheryl Crow, CURVE, Daisy Chainsaw (now Queen Adreena), Damone, Vanessa Daou, Darling Violetta, Danielle Dax, Death by Chocolate, Delerium, Denali, Die Cheerleader, Die So Fluid (ex-Feline), Ani DiFranco, The Distillers, Dj Rap, DOLLSHEAD, The Donnas, Doro, Drain STH (now Superfixx), Drill, Echobelly, ELASTICA, Elysian Fields (Jennifer Charles), Emma Peel, Eve's Plum (now Vitamin C), The Eyeliners, Evanescence, Fear of God, FELINE, Fetchin Bones, Flake, FLEMING & JOHN, Fluffy, Frogpond, Frou Frou, Furslide, Nelly Furtado, GARBAGE, Genitorturers, The Geraldine Fibbers, Beth Gibbons (portishead), Girl Next Door, GUANO APES, Halfcocked, The Halo Friendlies, Kay Hanley (letters to cleo), Hana, Sarah Harmer, Beth Hart, Juliana Hatfield, Lily Haydn, The Heart Throbs, Lauren Hoffman (Cannibal named Ed hehe), Hooverphonic, Natalie Imbruglia, Imogen Heap (now Frou Frou), The Indians, The Innocence Mission, Ivy, Jack off Jill (now Scarling), The Januaries, JANE JENSEN, jewel, JOYDROP, Jucifier, Brenda Kahn, Katastrophy Wife (ex-Babes in Toyland), Katydids, Katell Keineg, Kidneythieves, Killing Heidi, The kills, Kittie, Komeda, Karyn Kuhl (ex Sexpod), L7, Lacuna Coil, Lamb, Lava Baby, Avril Lavigne, Letters to Cleo, Michelle Lewis, Lisa Loeb, Inger Lorre (ex-Nymphs), Love Club, Luscious Jackson, Lush, Luxt, Luxx, Tara MacLean, Madder Rose, Manda and the Marbles, Marry Me Jane, Amanda Marshall, Mary's Danish (Battery Acid), Mazzy Star, Holly McNarland, The Millions, Miranda Sex Garden, Mollies Revenge, Mono (Marine Research), Abra Moore, Morcheeba, Morella's Forrest, Alanis, Motorbaby, The Muffs, My Ruin, Leona Neass, The Nields, Nightwish, No Doubt, Heather Nova, NY Loose, Nymphs, Olive, One Dove (Dot Allison), Opal, Omatic, Original Sinners (x-X), Beth Orton, Over the Rhine, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair, Phantom Blue, Sam Phillips, The Pierces, Piss Factory, Power Symphony, Julie Plug, Plumb, Poe, Portishead, The Prissteens, Puracane (x-Barbie Complex), Queen Adreena, Radio Vago, Rasputina, The Ravonettes, Ramona The Pest, Red Five, Republica, Rilo Kiley, Eileen Rose, Ruby, Bic Runga, RACHAEL SAGE, Roxy Saint, Saint Etienne, Saloon, Salt, Hope Sandoval, Save Ferris, Scarnella (x-geraldine fibbers), Scheer, CASEY SCOTT, Scratching Post, Shea Seger, September 67, Sexpod, Shakespeare's Sister, Bree Sharp, Shelby Starner, SHIVAREE, The Shroud, Silver fish, Sinboy, Sinergy, Sing Sing (x-Lush), Single Gun Theory, SKINDIVE, Skunk Anansie (now Skin), Sarah Slean, Sleeper, Kendra Smith, Snake River Conspiracy, Sneaker Pimps, Spike 1000, The Spinanes, Splashdown, Squatweiler, Star 69, The Start, Stereolab, Stone Fox, Sugarsmack, Sun 60 (joan Jones now solo), The Sundays, The Superjesus, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Switchblade Symphony, Tapping the Vein, This Mortal Coil, Throwing Muses, Mary Timony, Torrez, Emiliana Torrini, Trip 66, The Tuesdays, Tuscadero, Velocity Girl, Veruca Salt, Violet, Violet Indiana, Ana Voog, Wild Strawberries, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ZuZu's Petals.

... I'm sure some have escaped the listing, but a list of my female fronted bands/artists.  I left some out because they are headed for the pawn shop. :)

Just received the cds I mentioned on my first post today, already love King Crimson, Caravan, and Camel....  I'm looking into the posts now, think I'm going to like it here, very active forum :)

cacho wrote: Squonkman wrote: cacho wrote: ...Welcome my new friend, haha..I'm really a metal hater but still we can be friends .. You may try out some Heavy Prog besides Rush that I really can't take them (No Offense), if you like 70's hard rock like Deep Purple, Black Sabbath you should really check out Atomic Rooster, Uriah Heep. Have you liked Jethro Tull? You may try Black Widow, a folk rock band with some heavy tendencies cause the hammond... Their debut has some notably Tull presence but it's less accesible not cause the music but more cause the voice. From Heep: Salsibury, Demons and Wizards, Magician's Birthday and later on their debut. If you really like heavier stuff you should also try the overrated(IMO) Look at Yourself. From Atomic Rooster: Death Walks Behind You later on their debut or In Hearing Of. From King Crimson you can also try In the Wake of Poseidon if you liked their debut. You haven't mentioned ELP so that's another classic prog band that you should have something from them. If you're interested you may try first their debut or Trilogy or perhaps Tarkus. dude, how come you keep posting replies right after mine in only the threads I am posting in? mmm..maybe cause I have been here for 4 months and I love the forum and I'm very active almost everyday 1 or 2hs per day. Don't you think that's reason Mr I know more. BTW: You're gonna get mad if someone posts something after you?? I think I'm really getting sick of you..

I'd recommend some of the Italian bands - start with PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi) - you can't go wrong with their first 3 albums.