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KoS 
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Australian
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 03:03 |
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The Whistler
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Posted: October 08 2006 at 03:08 |
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When I was at the Tull concert (I'm such an art rocker snob), and Ian started hogging in on the guitarist's solo by acting like that (motions above) and air guitaring on the flute, I started clapping really, really loud...but no one joined in...
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"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
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andu
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Posted: October 09 2006 at 07:24 |
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along with normal flute, blockflote is a great instrument to use in progrock. romanian bands used it with great succes in the 70s, though not for soloing. such blockflote players were bassist iosef kapl for phoenix and dan andrei aldea for sfinx. their reason to use it was that it has a slightly different sound from that of the flute, that they used to immitate the sound of the archaic air instruments of the ancient peasants.
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Easy Livin
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Posted: October 09 2006 at 10:47 |
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Muilti-instrumentalist Yoel Schwarcz of Continuum played some superb flute on their albums. Try the extract from Autumn Grass on the band's page in this site.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: October 09 2006 at 11:05 |
 Syzygy wrote:
All good nominations, but the flute passages on Kobaia are truly magnificent (in my completely objective opinion  ). Seeing as the Baldies haven't added their opinion yet, I'd also have to nominate Didier Malherbe of Gong, a brilliant and highly adventurous flautist whose playing is as much influenced by jazz and Indian music as it is by rock. Try Flute Salad for starters, and proceed from there.
Ian Anderson is a highly distinctive flautist but his playing is heavily influenced by the mighty Roland Kirk, as he himself admits. He also admits that he's not that great a player; when Gentle Giant supported Tull in the 70s, the Shulman brothers invited him to play with them but he felt that he wasn't good enough. |
Actually Anderson was very adventurous at first.
Although not that highly virtuoso a player, he is always a very modest person re to his playing. He's way too intelligent to ever consider himself a virtuoso (even though he could qualify).
If the Mad Flauter turned down playing with GG, it is mostly because he was completely lost in the extremely complicated rhythms of GG and therefore would've screwed up easily. I don't think anybody in his right mind would accept playing with GG without a solid crash course first.
But our Mad Flauter's real invention was the way he played while saturating the flute the way he did. Some might say it was not the way to play the flute, but he opened up a new way of playing it, IMHO. And THAT makes him one of the best.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Pnoom!
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Posted: October 09 2006 at 15:17 |
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I completely agree.
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Pnoom!
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Posted: October 09 2006 at 15:18 |
I completely agree that Anderson is THE prog rock flautist, since my post didn't make that clear.
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greenback
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Posted: October 09 2006 at 20:43 |
there are tons of excellent flautists:
RDM
Solution
circus
moraz/syrinx
kraftwerk
ozric tentacles
white willow
king crimson
danny wilding (wilding/bonus)
you all forgot peter gabriel on trespass....sublime!
jean-pierre rampal
THE BEST FEMALE FLAUTIST IS.... ANNE_MARIE HELDER!
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[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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fuxi
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Posted: October 16 2006 at 05:53 |
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I love Jethro Tull, and when I saw them live a couple of years ago, I was amazed how clear Ian Anderson's flute sounded in concert. Still, I'm convinced the greatest flautist in prog is Jimmy Hastings. He's very subtle, not an exuberant showperson like Mr Tull, but every solo I've ever heard him play (especially on Caravan or National Health albums) was a delight!
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T.Rox
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Posted: October 16 2006 at 06:05 |
Here is a guy that pops up on one album and he plays some pretty cool flute (supposedly recorded in the toilet of the recording studio to get the sound the band was after on their one and only abum)...
John Challenger of Steel Mill ... and no one seems to have heard of him since!
Edited by T.Rox - October 16 2006 at 06:06
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"Without prog, life would be a mistake."
...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche
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Bern
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Posted: October 16 2006 at 18:21 |
François Richard who played in that awesome fusion band called L'Orchestre Sympathique has amazing flute talent. Rarely I've heard such great flute playing. Highly recommended unknown band. I recommend you get En concert à la Grande Passe now that it is out on CD.  He is the guy that convinced me to pick up the flute a while ago.
Edited by Bern - October 17 2006 at 17:22
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RIP in bossa nova heaven.
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The Whistler
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Posted: October 17 2006 at 02:13 |
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IF proggy flute is your passion, then you need BURSTING OUT, the Tull album I happen to be peddling everywhere I go. It has a flute improvisation solo that must be heard to be believed. Coupled with the song Thinking 'Round Corners offa Catfish Rising, makes me suspect that Mr. Anderson is, in fact, possessed by demonic entities. Just a theory.
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"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
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Sean Trane
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Posted: October 17 2006 at 04:46 |
Bern wrote:
François Richard who played in that awesome fusion band called L'Orchestre Sympathique has amazing flute talent. Rarely I've heard such great flute playing.
Highly recommended unknown band. I recommend you get En concert à la Grande Passe now that it is out on CD.
He is the guy that convinve me to pick up the flute a while ago.
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Right on, Bern 
L' OS debut is fairly close to early Maneige, but their next two are jazzier (in the pre jazz sense)
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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