Flower Kings Appreciation Thread

dennismoore wrote: About the "hostile takeover" here, we will probably get all tired and pass out pretty soon and then the old timers can have the thread back.

infandous wrote: Well, I'm an 'old timer' in the sense that I've been listening to the FK's since spring 1999.  I don't recall where I came on this thread, but I think it was after it had hit 100 pages.

Hello people, I've been a bit busy in the old work department, and I haven't been listening to as much music as I should be, mainly coz I got wiped out in a RTA and my new car's CD player is duff - must get it replaced soon!!!

M27Barney wrote: Hello people, I've been a bit busy in the old work department, and I haven't been listening to as much music as I should be, mainly coz I got wiped out in a RTA and my new car's CD player is duff - must get it replaced soon!!! Anyway, can't wait for the new flokis album! My current recommendations are the two Nexus Cd's - Detras Del Umbral and Metanoia - both absolutely amazing on first listen and just get better witth each subsequent spin. If you like keyboard oriented prog - these are probably your bag. I'll be posting again - shortly, How is everybody??

OH BOY, OH BOY!!

rushfan4 wrote: Just curious.  What do you guys think of a band like Sylvan?  Do they appeal to the average TFK fan, or are they too heavy or alternative sounding?

dennismoore wrote: zumacraig wrote: DM- you're the man!  i basically came on board right before you, so i also am grateful.  it definitely is peaceful here.  either we are all incredibly well balanced as a result of the subconscious messages in TFK music or we learned some hard lessons on other boards   for me it's both. one more comment about jon anderson.  his solo stuff and latter day yes stuff really is all one song.  i think he has a formula for writing lyrics where he focuses on a few themes.  openness, light, infinite, dream.  he can come off preachy but a lot of his stuff is just jon babble and supplication to his guru or something.  it's too bad for me, because he has a sh*tload of solo stuff that i just cannot get into.  olias is great, but after that...uh oh. also, that old roine interview snippet posted above was great.  i went to the site and read the two interviews they have with him.  he talks about chicken farmer song!  he says its a fun, feel good, rocker.  good stuff. Hey zuma, This is getting way too strange now, as all I can do in my posts is say I agree with you.  But I agree with you. Yeah,most of us have been on many forums before and though it is so easy to loose one's temper at people who are rude to you it doesn't get anywhere ultimately... So for my part, I try really hard to stay cool, but being a really opinionated bozo like I am, it is really hard! Can't agree more on Jon Anderson.  I can play Olias a billion times more, yet his other stuff doesn't work for me. And all his stuff in YES recently feels like the same vibe. But you said that already. You were very kind to mention my service and I humbly say thanks.  Yes, I was on a submarine and I can't believe that I actually did that! On the sub I met some of the most dedicated & professional men, I think there ever could be.  It was a huge honor to be a part of that. I went in the Navy for an education for my future, not to be Rambo.   Being on the sub was just like Star Trek but under the oceans and without all those space babes that Kirk always wound up meeting. Can't wait for the new Flower Kings record!

zumacraig wrote: Nov wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Just curious.  What do you guys think of a band like Sylvan?  Do they appeal to the average TFK fan, or are they too heavy or alternative sounding? I saw them at Calprog in 2008. I thought they were a professional outfit but musically not my bag  there seem to be so many prog bands.  i've listened to sylvan in one of my many attempts to 'broaden' my horizons only to come away unimpressed.  doesn't mean they're bad, i just don't have the attention for 'em.  TFK and family along with Rush and Neal Morse related projects are keeping me quite busy lately.  that's not to mention constant rotation of classic yes, genesis, etc.  thanks for the rec though.  i'm always interested in what other bands TFK fans are into

Those videos are quite fun.  Gotta love Roine's humor.  He pissed someone off on the Yahoo group with a post about TFK's touring with the Pope.  It was an odd one.  I'll post it here, just to see what you guys think:

TFK open for the Pope !!

PROGRESSIVE ROCK MASTERS THE FLOWER KINGS  HANDPICKED BY HIS HOLYNESS 
TO OPEN ON  HIS WORLDWIDE TOUR IN DEC 2012.

The Pope is already getting into shape and report from the gym that 
he'll "teach those communists and the gay community a lesson they'll 
never forget".
He found no better representative than the "young emerging arian 
choral progsters" The Flower Kings to be his  warm up act for this 
world dominition tour .

The Vatican's press contact  reports that he's now also getting his 
paperworks in order to go to the Americas to "challenge that black 
communist who destroy a clean healthy profitable  Godfearing America 
with a left wing  drug liberal agenda".  (and he's black )
This boxing (death match) game will be held at The Madison Square 
Gardens  on July 4th.  Warming up will be The FLOWER KINGS.
Let no one leave alive!

This is no Hoax !

Get tickets !!!
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Those little sound clips in the videos seem promising. Day one.