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    Posted: March 22 2004 at 07:22
YES  CORRECT PACO FOX FORBIDDEN PLANET is one of my alltime favourite movies(i did hear that there may be a remake....i hope not,i shudder to think what sort of politically correct monstrosity they could turn it into) BY THE WAY  most of the soundtrack is apparently water dripping from a tap that was recorded and run through early synth processing..stretching amplitude playing with lengthening, shortening of sound of waterdrops etc.....EARLY PROG EXPERIMENTING!!!???

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Originally posted by dude dude wrote:

interestning!! i know the song but did not know the connection By the way proggers "THE TEMPEST" was used as the basis(or at least the inspiration) for a very famous science fiction film from the 50,s does anyone know THE NAME OF THAT FILM??

Of course:

The great, the one and only FORBIDDEN PLANET, starring Robbie the Robot and Lt Frank Drebin himself!

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interestning!! i know the song but did not know the connection By the way proggers "THE TEMPEST" was used as the basis(or at least the inspiration) for a very famous science fiction film from the 50,s does anyone know THE NAME OF THAT FILM??
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"Pull Me Under" from Dream Theater's Images and Words is about Hamlet.

"The current explanation goes that it was inspired by Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Prince Hamlet swore vengeance on King Claudius for murdering his father, the former King, and then marrying his mother, still Queen. Hamlet's famous Soliloquy was the passage in which the conflict in Hamlet's mind is detailed, and the second verse of Pull Me Under coincides pretty thoroughly with it. The very end of the song James can be heard singing this line from Hamlet:

"Oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt."

Furthermore, after seeing the video, in an interview, Portnoy said "Who the hell was that wolfman guy in the video anyway? We had written it based on something else entirely." Portnoy noted that while Moore did not write PMU about Hamlet specifically, he DID write PMU about what Hamlet was about. Same themes, ideas, etc."

This is from http://www.dtfaq.com.
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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Midsummers nights dream theater??

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Points: 9669 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2004 at 23:35

 Ah, yes. Billy Jigglejavelin:

"Home from work, our Juliette clears her morning meal....

Romeo locks his basement flat, and scurries up the stairs...."

Can't think of any prog Dickens references, but I know of both in non-prog music....



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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2004 at 05:32
Midsummers nights dream theater??

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I dont know but i reckon it would be kool if The Tempest was made into a Prog tune.
Long live progression.
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Its not shakespeare but ,  Il Trono Dei Ricordi   used and adapted " Blake " on all their lyrics  . Check them out. A great Italian prog group with unfortunately only one album.
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There's a title of a Gentle Giant track on Acquiring The Taste called The Moon Is Down. Whether or not it is taken from Macbeth, act II, scene I, line II I am not sure. I'll have to give it a listen.
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Gilmour ?

For me it is evident : Great Steve Hackett !!!!!!!!

"A midsummer night dream"

His big classical piece with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra
The State Of Grace Is Achieved
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Of course, Steve Hackett made a 'Midsummer Night' album in a similar style of Joaquin Rodrigo and his Concierto de Aranjuez.

I'm sure there must be more, but I can't remember now.

 
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 Hmmmm....
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Points: 1338 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2004 at 08:15
NOW ARE OUR BRUISED ARMS HUNG UP FOR MONUMENTS OUR STERNER MEASURES TURNED TO MERRY MEETINGS..are there any references to shakespeare in prog, i cant think of any(but I will bet there are)"the darkness was cheap but he liked it"...etc..what about Dickens?

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