Favourite Prog "Moments"

Emerson never broke that Hammond.... what are you kidding.  That thing lasted quite a few tours before it was donated to the RocknRoll Hall of Fame in Cleveland...

One of my favs is Grobschnitt's 'Anywhere', especially that moment

(Anywhere behind a desert stone,
anywhere so far from home
you'll find a grown blind flower
she never is alone, far from home
she feels wind around her
she feels a warming sun
SHE FEELS SOME RAINDROPS WET HER LEAVES
SINCE THAT TIME SHE LOST HER GRIEFS)

and the out-of-tune-whistling.

I can't explain why, but these two moments in this rather short track touch something deep inside me

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oliverstoned wrote: threefates wrote: I've very few respect for a musician who breaks his instruments (except hendrix of course)

tHAN IT MUST BE REASSURING TO YOU, THAT MOST MUSICIANS BROKE SPECIALY PREPARED INSTRUMENTS ON STAGE, NOT USED, AND EASILY PUT TOGETHER AGAIN. (the who, Jimmy Hendrix etc.)

Peter Rideout wrote:   That part from 3:03.591 to 4:01.72, with the Hammond and the mellotron, where the synth goes 'bip bip bip zee boing doing -- sa-weeeee-garoooohgh!," and the guitar starts to go "bwoop boop di di di diddley mee dee dee diddly diddly mee dee dee," and the singer goes into that bit about the cosmic togetherness of it all!

  what band are you taking about? what what cd!? im interested in some weird like that

Joking! He was joking?

Oh man.... I just spent the past 18 hours and 23 minutes pouring over every tune longer than 5 minutes and, using my led crystal Swiss timepiece, accurate to with .000000937ths of a second to listen to each piece from 3:03.591 to 4:01.72 trying to find those golden moments Peter spoke of.... I'm crushed, a joke? A joke you say.... oh the humanity.... the loss of sleep and gallons of coffee... a joke, all for a pithy Professors sick sense of humor.

Curse you Rideout, you shall rue the day I have my revenge.... Yes, yes... Revenge is mine. Sick twisted Canadian blister. My rath be smote upon your hideous visage. I fart in your general direction..

Great Prog Moments according to Lunar :

• The first bars of Lady Fantasy - Camel
• The first bars of Firth of Fifth - Genesis
• The refrain of Sylvia - Focus

The greatest of them all is:

• The Lives of Great Men - Hawkwind
• The Starship Trooper (last 4 minutes) - Yes
• The Pharao Of Alexandria - Rick Wakeman
• Beach Theme (Thief OST) - Tangerine Dream
• Master Of Illusion - Pendragon

Live Performances witnessed by Lunar :

• The Journey - Rick Wakeman (live in Rio 2001)
• The Pirate - ELP (Live in Rio 1995)
• The Spirit Of The Light - Kitaro (Live in Rio 1996)
• Amused To Death - Roger Waters (Live in Rio 2002)
• Your Own Special Way - Genesis (Live in Rio 1977)
• Harem Scarem - Focus (Live in Rio 2004)

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Lunar 

 

Jim Garten wrote: oliverstoned wrote: threefates wrote: I've very few respect for a musician who breaks his instruments (except hendrix of course) Usually I'm the same, but that is the same Hammond he's been throwing around on stage for the last 35 years (a 1960 L100, if anyone's interested) - they have delicate bits, but overall, they're damned sturdy, so will take that kind of treatment

I'm told Wakeman did this sort of thing when playing with the Strawbs, deliberately having his Hammond set up as close to the stage edge as possible, and then threatening the front row with a potential toppling organ in mid solo (as the actress said to the bishop.....). My brother has fond memories of being in the flightpath of Wakeman's organ, being particularly active doing a tribute/compilation of Shadows hits. Soon as I heard about this,  I booked tickets to see the Strawbs at Guildford - alas by then Wakeman had left and a less physical Mick Blue Weaver (aka Wynder K Frog) had taken over......

There was on show that Emerson did with ELPowell where he got so into the organ riding.. that he and the organ toppled off the stage.  He hopped back up and was waving for the roadies to come pick up the organ... but before they could, half the front row picked it up and put it back on stage for him....

Nothing like an interactive concert.....

But another one of my favorite Emerson moments....

Peter Rideout wrote: That part from 3:03.591 to 4:01.72, with the Hammond and the mellotron, where the synth goes 'bip bip bip zee boing doing -- sa-weeeee-garoooohgh!," and the guitar starts to go "bwoop boop di di di diddley mee dee dee diddly diddly mee dee dee," and the singer goes into that bit about the cosmic togetherness of it all!

Mr Rideout - do I perchance detect just a hint of dramatic irony, mayhap

We all know, a Hammond / Mellotron / Synth set up can never go "bip bip bip zee boing doing -- sa-weeeee-garoooohgh", unless, of course you are using the latest Korgand fellatiofuzz-tone pedal, which wasn't even invented until 2010 - I believe the sound you're describing was actually between 3:03.591 to 4:01.73, not 3:03.591 to 4:01.72, and can more accurately be described as "bip bip bip zee boing doing -- ka-blooooooeeeee"; if so, this was achieved by nailing a Hammond'd tone generator to the drummers head, then hitting him with a duck - a technique initially seen in the early '30s in the then unknown Laurens Hammond Whoopee Band ("a smile, a song and a dancing ferret"), used during the 57 minute proto prog classic "supper is about to be served, gentlemen, if you would like to take your seats".

I well remember.....




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