Obscure Prog Facts - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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vitamins999 wrote:

How's that for a first post on this rather lovely forum?

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the Genesis album Foxtrot was used as a mal for Mastodon when they pit together the album Leviathan (not the concept) but how the songs were put in order to song length and ending with a epic song,

borrowed form another forum, a Brann Dialor interview

Do you have a favorite concept album?
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis.

Peter Gabriel?
Yeah, oh yeah! There is a soft place in my heart for some of the Phil Collins vocal-driven stuff. When he first took over it was OK, it was sticking a little bit prog, but then he just went totally pop. My mom used to do exercises to Phil Collins stuff.

“Sussudio?” Have you seen that American Psycho movie?
Yeah, it’s hilarious! I love it! But yeah, Lamb Lies Down… is probably my favorite album of all time.

Really, of all time?
It’s got every element of music. I just love it. Genesis was able to do everything and get away with it—goofy at times, abstract, poppy, then completely f**king weird and bizarre. Peter Gabriel is amazing. The last song on their album Foxtrot, “Supper’s Ready,” is 22 minutes long and amazing. That album is kind of what we modeled Leviathan after, in a way. There’s a grouping of rocking songs between the four and five minute mark. Just bam! Bam! Bam! And then there’s this big long epic to take you out. We were like “We can have that, we can do something like that.” It wasn’t the inspiration for the whole album, but we kind of modeled it after Foxtrot.

Edited by aginor - June 27 2011 at 11:54

Interesting. I thought it was Gedd and Alex from the start, with others coming & going till they got John.

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chopper wrote:

Jon Anderson was one of the Wombles and played on "We wish you a Wombling Merry Christmas".

I'm shocked.

I Could have bought a Third World country with the riches that I've spent

The Pink Floyd Quad Audio Joystick originally developed by them in the 70's and used at the FOH consoles, is on a display in a museum.

Will get to back you guys with info shortly.

Thanks for the link sturoc. Thumbs Up

[Obscure or not, I found this Wikipedia tidbit interesting because it shows how the progressive genre has evolved.]

Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree has been noted in the past (1999) to express a certain dislike for the use of the term "progressive" to refer to them. However, more recently (2007), he made note that he has since become more relaxed toward the word considering it is becoming "a much broader term" as time passes.

ghost_of_morphy wrote:

Jefferson Airplane is actually considered to be a forerunner of prog here. Who'd have thunk it? (And yet the same people who approved this blind themselves to Boston's clear relation to prog. How can a group that set out to synthesize the sounds of Yes and Led Zeppelin not be prog-related?)

Okay, I'm freakin' confused. Heeeeeeelp!