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Luciana Aun 
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 10:58 |
May I ask you for helping me to find out an interpret of a song which I've heard first and last time at October in 1983. I'am still looking for it, also after 28 years! The Style is like VdGG, Marsupilami, Focus, Jethro Tull, Pell Mell or Parzival, it's a very good melodic prog-rock-synfonic-song, a bit dramatic-opera-style with refrain "Conversation, Demonstration...“ rest of words of refrain are sung faster and stop suddenly (like at the opera) to the beginning flute solo improvisation (like Ian Anderson) and after the impro there are some spoken words to the rhythm like "Downtown, Uptown, Insidetown" or so, accompanied with an long deep sax noice resounding at the end of the part. Unfortunately I don't have the recording anymore cause a person (what offered me to find out the song didn't give me back the cassett and the DJ died young! I still hope fo find out the groop and say thanks to you for helping me! By the way, this song is not played in a heavy way, it is less progressive, better discribed it's more in a wave-rock style with a good drive and that particulare refrain with stretched sung (spoken) words "CONVERSATION, DEMONSTRATION" (pronounced like obsessed), words repeated again more faster and faster (a bit dramatically) and than it stops and the flute-impro starts very melodic and stops in a thrilling way, and than the main ryhthm returns and softly words "downtown, uptown, inside-town make the song calm and it ends with a not loud but deep sax-noice resounding.
Thanks all of you! Luciana Aun Belo Horizonte - Brazil
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 11:42 |
What is going on with this song?
Why you have started this thread using a copy of the same text as a German user posted back in September 2010?
Edited by Dean - April 16 2011 at 12:52
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lucas
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 11:47 |
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Thomas Kramer became a woman and is 16 years younger !
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Dean
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 11:56 |
^ He managed to open six threads on this subject, and this thread makes seven - that's enough to cause all manner of temporal rifts.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 12:06 |
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The strangest thing about this is that the user joined in 2004
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 12:17 |
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Bizarre.
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timothy leary
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 12:19 |
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Okay "Progers" lighten up
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Dean
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 12:20 |
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How shall we lighten up oh master.
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timothy leary
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 12:23 |
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Is the question the poster asked out of line for a progressive rock forum?
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 12:37 |
 timothy leary wrote:
Is the question the poster asked out of line for a progressive rock forum? |
No it is not. However, if you moderated this forum as long and as often as I do you notice trends and repeat threads. One of the bizarre trends are threads such as these asking for help identifying songs. Searching the internet for possible sources of these songs is actually quite fun and appeals to my inquisitive nature. However, what I often find in these searches is the same person asking the same question on multiple music forums across a fairly wide time span, and that in itself I find just as curious since no one appears to have even the slightest inkling or idea what these songs are, again, a bizarre thing given the breadth, width and depth of musical knowledge that is prevalent across the internet, because one thing I have noticed is that no mater how obscure a recording is, there will always be some know-it-all out there who knows something, or knew the artist personally, or saw them play in some backstreet dive back in the day. Yet all these enquiries draw a blank, and as I say, I find this curious.
Now in this particular instance I happened to remember reading the self-same text as appears in this opening post some time earlier. That is curious, even you must admit that. When I checked I discovered it is a word for word verbatim copy of that text, again piquing my curiosity since the chances of a 32 yo Brazilian and a 48 yo German phrasing the same question on the same song is an amazing feat of serendipity, let alone coincidence, and to get it word-for-word identical is an absolutely amazing stroke of coincidence worthy of study in its own right.
Now, you can further that level of amazement by actually answering this person's enquiry with full details of this song, who recorded it and when, because that would really make my day.
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timothy leary
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 12:45 |
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I have no idea about the song?? I do know when you Google "luciana aun" you find that this person has many posts on the web about progressive rock. I am just a member of the site and know nothing about what you are up against being a moderator. What I do know is a harmless question about prog rock is just that until proven to be something more. A member since 2004 should be given the benefit of the courtesy. The same poster in 2005 posted she was listening to Pink Floyd on the what are you listening to now thread.
and I certainly am no man's master
Edited by timothy leary - April 16 2011 at 12:47
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Dean
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 12:51 |
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Yup. I get that, I also can read IP addresses that you can't, so I can rule out multiple personalities and screenname hijacking, so that just leaves a bizarre case of plagarism. True, I can be more polite and afford people the benefit of the doubt when phrasing my question, so I shall go back to my original post and rephrase it. Thanks for pointing this out, my wrists have been firmly slapped.
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timothy leary
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 13:01 |
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Thanks for doing a job most would not want to do.
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 13:14 |
timothy leary wrote:
Okay "Progers" lighten up
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I've read every post again and it all seems "light" to me. What are you reading that I'm missing?
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timothy leary
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 13:16 |
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 13:17 |
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Ok. Obviously i am missing something.
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Dean
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 13:32 |
timothy leary wrote:
and I certainly am no man's master
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...I was paraphrasing Life Of Brian ... that's as light as I could get at the time.
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timothy leary
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 13:37 |
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Let me post my theory..........since Luciana has a blog called prog rock vintage suppose thomas kramer came to the blog and a question was born, since they had no answer they came to the most comprehensive prog rock site in existence to get an answer, so now the question remains unanswered because it is not a prog rock song or who knows??
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Luciana Aun
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 18:54 |
I´m sorry about this mess! Timothy is right. I have a progressive rock blog and someone wrote me with this question about this band that i don´t know. I don´t understand why everybody is joking about me. Once again, i´m sorry.
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Luciana Aun
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 19:04 |
And i guess this is a missunderstanding but if i´m not welcome in here, it´s ok! I´m out! But please, don´t humiliate me.
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