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Posted: June 05 2010 at 21:49
rogerthat wrote:
I really really dislike the part where a voice introduces all the instruments in Mike Olfield's Tubular Bells. Big deal! Felt it was very condescending and self-important.
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Posted: June 05 2010 at 21:45
I really really dislike the part where a voice introduces all the instruments in Mike Olfield's Tubular Bells. Big deal! Felt it was very condescending and self-important.
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Posted: June 05 2010 at 19:06
akamaisondufromage wrote:
Just about anything Rick Wakeman did
I mean. On Ice .
As a fact this wasn't Rick's fault.
He had a 3 heart attacks very young and he had made a terrible contract with A&M (Almost slavery for what I read), so he was told he would not play anymore.
After he was told to retire by the doctors he wrote The Last Battle that same night and also most of King Arthur in the Wexham Park Hospital,
Thankfully I ignored the advice, wrote The Last Battle that night, and carried on. Heart surgery has come a long way since the mid seventies as well thankfully
So he was very short of money,.and due to the fact he faced his mortality, wanted to leave money to his family.
He accepted a series of concerts in Wembley in 1975 (shortly after his heart attack), but there was an ice show simultaneously
This was Rick Wakeman's third, high-profile effort as a solo artist. It is probably best remembered today for its accompanying live performances, which boldly went were no man had gone before (nor since, thankfully): Prog Rock meets the Ice Follies. To be fair (and perhaps to help us all feel a bit safer sleeping tonight), the King Arthur Capades didn't happen because Rick originally conceived it that way, but out of a scheduling necessity to accommodate with the incipient venue, which was having an ice show right before the planned concerts.
The Ice show had a previous contract, so he had two options:
Invest a lot of money turning the ice circuit into a normal floor and back again to icebefore every show
Reject the contract
Being that he required money, he couldn't afford any of the two options, he dis what any responsible "pater familias" would had done, make the show and accept the critics in order to get some bucks.
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Posted: June 05 2010 at 18:52
The real answer here is Thick as a Brick.
I find it completely hilarious that, after 40-odd years, we are STILL being had by Ian Anderson's overtly pretentious send-up of a genre. It's in our top 10, for crying out loud. Then again, it really is awfully good...
....And this, my friends, is what we call "irony".
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Posted: June 05 2010 at 18:48
J-Man wrote:
Falx wrote:
The Lamb. All of it.
=F=
EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!
It takes up two entire LPs, in all fairness TFTO deserves a mention too
Now, Quadrophenia on the other hand, is a masterpiece.
Edited by Falx - June 05 2010 at 18:50
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Posted: June 05 2010 at 15:05
lazland wrote:
None - If people just looked at ridiculous "celebrities" such as the Big Brother mob, Cheryl Cole, bloody Jordan, "Madge" Madonna running around in catsuits when she's old enough to be most of the audiences mother, they would realise that is true pretension.
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Posted: June 05 2010 at 14:57
None - If people just looked at ridiculous "celebrities" such as the Big Brother mob, Cheryl Cole, bloody Jordan, "Madge" Madonna running around in catsuits when she's old enough to be most of the audiences mother, they would realise that is true pretension.
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Posted: June 05 2010 at 14:49
Wakeman's cape, most of Gabriels stage outfits,Tubular Bells, Carl Palmer's flying drum platform, Michael Moorcock doing 'Sonic Attack'. All of these things are a bit like watching 'The Office', they are brilliant, but they make you cringe the whole time. "I shouldn't be enjoying this"!!
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Posted: June 05 2010 at 12:37
Adams Bolero wrote:
Pretentiousness doesn't mean bad. The fact that TFTO is based on the works of Paramahansa Yogananda is one of the reasons I love prog; it is a genre of music that is unafraid to experiment and try new things even if it they risk ridicule for doing it.
being pretentious is what prog is all about but this thread is about when it was taken too far and i don't think tales was one of them
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Posted: June 05 2010 at 12:36
Pretentiousness doesn't mean bad. The fact that TFTO is based on the works of Paramahansa Yogananda is one of the reasons I love prog; it is a genre of music that is unafraid to experiment and try new things even if it they risk ridicule for doing it.
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Posted: June 05 2010 at 12:32
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
This is pretentious, silly and unnecessary.
But normally pretentious is good, if compared with conformist.....I go with pretentious.
Iván
i loved the flying piano there is a difference between entertainment and pretentiousness and i think ELP stayed on the right side of that line until the Works albums and tour
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rogerthat wrote:
Felt it was very condescending and self-important.
