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    Posted: September 11 2013 at 13:45
Apparently Captain Kirk has gone prog Thumbs Up

William Shatner's new album is called "Ponder the Mystery" and was created with Billy Sherwood and features many guest musicians including Steve Vai, Robby Kreiger, and grumpy old man - Rick Wakeman.  Check out the "William Shatner on his new prog rock album" article at:


Here's a short excerpt from the Shatner interview...

Are you a prog rock fan?
I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored. 

Did you buy prog rock albums when they came out back in the 1970s? 
Yeah. I would listen to the music. . . This has always been a fault of mine. In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard. So yes, progressive rock, I began to discover, was my music.
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Points: 2447 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 14:38
Yeah, I posted about this in the News forum.  He's going to be performing live with members of Circa as his backing band.  Weird.
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Points: 2466 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 15:28
another glimpse of prog rock in the mainstream....YAY!!!!!
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Points: 17203 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 15:40
Originally posted by infandous infandous wrote:

Yeah, I posted about this in the News forum.  He's going to be performing live with members of Circa as his backing band.  Weird.


I'd go see that...not for the Circa guys, but for the Shat.
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Points: 1781 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2013 at 17:37
AND he's 82!!!
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Points: 13382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2013 at 09:14
^ Wow. At that age he should be listening to Frank Sinatra or something. Maybe he does, but it's still cool to know he listens to prog. The Shat is looking very good for his age.
New album!
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385
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Points: 2447 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2013 at 14:12
When I first saw the headline that he was going to perform with members of Yes, I got visions of Shatner dressed in Jon Anderson's flowing robes from the 70's, doing his spoken word thing and moving his hands in weird ways like Jon did back then.  Then I saw it was just Circa he was performing with and my beautiful dream was shattered.
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Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2013 at 17:42
Well, it makes me willing to hear his 1968 LP, described on Discogs as "psychedelic rock".
Furthermore, he also covered the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamond", he recorded an album with a classical orchestra... William Shatner for "Prog Related"? Wink
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2013 at 17:56
A taste of things to come
 
Right, so who should Leonard Nimoy team up with?
 
 
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Points: 2689 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2013 at 12:01
Just the other day I was reading (in a Hawkwind article) that WS had covered "Sonic Attack", but it didn't make the album he was recording.
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Points: 5482 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2013 at 14:56
I can't wait for the uproar when he is added to the database.
Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2013 at 15:12
For some reason, I tend to believe that Shatner would be more easily accepted than, let's say, Björk. Ermm
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It's a stretch but prog is for exploring......new.......... territory........
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I am looking forward to whatever he comes up with.  I really like his other albums.  
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Points: 1256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2014 at 08:19
I'll have it reviewed this week on progshine.net

Just a Billy Sherwood solo album with Shatner reading any stuff that comes to his mind. Far from being a real good album.
https://progshinerecords.bandcamp.com
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Points: 17203 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2014 at 23:49
Bill should record an album called Shatnerdome!
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Points: 1455 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2014 at 08:39
Originally posted by irrelevant irrelevant wrote:

^ Wow. At that age he should be listening to Frank Sinatra or something. Maybe he does, but it's still cool to know he listens to prog. The Shat is looking very good for his age.
You can listen to Sinatra, et al, all you want.  I will be 55 this year, and I will be listening to prog until the day I die - about a hundred years from now!  (tongue-in-cheek)
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Points: 1256 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2014 at 16:44
As I mentioned, here it is:

http://www.progshine.net/2014/01/review-william-shatner-ponder-the-mystery-2013.html

See the video and you saw the whole album with that one song. Or the playlist here: http://www.progshine.net/2014/01/william-shatner.html
https://progshinerecords.bandcamp.com
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Points: 14258 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2014 at 16:51
yeah its Prog Jim but not as we know it......
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2014 at 17:11
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

yeah its Prog Jim but not as we know it......
"Dammit man, I'm a doctor, not a Hammond B3 tonewheel electric organ with Lesley speaker system!"
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