Your most magical progrock moments?
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Topic: Your most magical progrock moments?
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Subject: Your most magical progrock moments?
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 16:50
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I am very curious to your most 'magical visual progrock moments' on a video or DVD. My Top 5 in no particurarly order is: Peter Gabriel with his old man mask during the closing section of The Musical Box (Genesis/A History DVD) Eddie Jobson during Out Of The Blue with his solo on a transparent violin (Roxy Music/Musikladen 74/75 DVD) 'Caped crusader' Rick Wakeman during his Six Wives .. solo with the mirrors and all those mindblowing vintage keyboards like the Hammond, Moog and Mellotron (Yes/Yessongs DVD) Fish with his 'mike' standard as a machine gun during Forgotton Sons (Marillion/Recital .. DVD) Keith Emerson during the Italian tour 1973 in his 'space cape suit' on the Moog synthesizer (ELP/Beyond The Beginning DVD) |
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 17:18
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Great topic! The Fish thing I remember from a video. Very good stuff! Mine: 1. Pink Floyd (Live in Pompeii): that moment in A Saucerful Of Secrets where the noise is gone and Rick Wright starts playing his organ. 2. Jon and Chris harmonizing and singing on the song "Going For The One", in the studio rehearsal, on Yesyears, and one of them is singing Go-o-ing For The One, and the other Go-i-ing For The One. That's a little detail that really impresses me, because it shows how much subtleties there were on that record , my favourite record of all time. 3. Emerson, Lake and Palmer ... rehearsing, practicing BSS stuff, and after a while Emerson is practicing his solos. (ELP / Beyond The Beginning) 4. Cliche, but Rick Wakeman doing the "excerpts" on the Yessongs video. 5. Once again Yes. Cheating here: two live moments from the Union tour: a. that moment when the band is doing an unknown (to me) peice of music and the reach a climax, and then there's a silence, and the keyboards are doing a fast piece, with great chords. b. Is it Solly's Beard? Trevor Rabin plays fast on his guitar, then he plays a bit in a Spanish style, and keyboards accompany him (Yesyears) |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 18:01
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Hello Moogton III. This is my first topic and I already feel ashamed... because I forget to mention the compelling scenes from the Pink Floyd At Pompeii DVD, like Echoes, well, I can mention every song I have the bootleg CD from the Going for the one studio recordings, very interesting, great to see Rick Wakeman with the Mighty Tron and his upper class English! |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 18:07
I just adapted what I said myself (edit-button): you asked for moments and I gave you songs. Rick Wakeman: I know some of those moments you mentioned from the magnificent Yesyears video, Rick with his cigar and "Tension is mounting up down here" and "Can you bluff your way through this one?" I'd really like to see more of that, the making of my fave cd of all time! |
erik neuteboom wrote:
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 18:17
You will .. ..!
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 18:27
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Hurrah, thanks!!! |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 18:37
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Eddie Jobson as a special guest in the Jethro Tull's Slipstream video (1980)!! I have purchased it as a bonus dvd in in the new remastered edition of the A album. Great scenes and impressive performance from all the band members! Eddie' solos on his transparent violin and his particular two keyboards live playing style (in front with the two keyboards respectevely on his left and his right) are MEMORABLE even if he joined Jethro Tull only for few months!! I don't have many progrock videos or dvds, though! Another one by Jethro Tull (A New Day Yesterday dvd) and the 25th anniversary dvd of Barclay James Harvest. I own also the 1968 Rolling Stones Rock'n'Roll Circus video. Great and interesting topic, Erik! You've forgotten to mention the Strawbs Grave New World - 1975 Live in Tokyo DVD, yet!! I know you consider it as a highest example of mellotron strong waves!!! What about other DVD from BJH? Do you own their Caught Live dvd (excerpts from 70s live shows, they say it's a gem!) ? |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 18:45
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Hello Andrea. This is my first topic and I already feel ashamed... because I forget to mention ... l'histoire se repète... this time the Strawbs video 1975 Tokyo,... sorry, I must have missed some Trons.. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 18:53
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I remember fondly my first video, "Pink Floyd at Pompeii", but the most magic moment for me is the end of "Watcher of the skies" with Peter Gabriel making a strange grimace... it is amazing! ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 18:59
| Real magic with his white painted face and that tambourin! |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: November 19 2005 at 19:21
Im still yet to see a prog classic DVD but from the ones i've seen, the
ending of the Be concert. Just when you realize that you have seen a
masterpiece in action... I got psyched ------------- 
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 06:13
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Like in White Rabbit from Jefferson Airplane.. ..?
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Posted By: retuow
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 06:48
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Being a prog-newbie, the only DVD prog experience I have is Live At
Pompeii from Pink Floyd. And that expiernce was quite worth it. Great
from start to finish, although I don't like the computer animations in
the director's cut. I always just look at the orginal concert (found in
the extras).
------------- Human beings were created by water to carry it uphill. |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 09:04
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I also prefer the original video version from Pompeii but some computer animations are really mindblowing! If you are a newbie, you can check out the posts on this topic. I'm looking forward to the R30 2-DVD from Rush. I have seen the concert last year (splendid but a bit loud) and a 2-DVD bootleg (USA concert), R30 will be one of the best progrock DVD's of all time |
Posted By: TheLamb
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 11:18
I totally agree....Dressed as "Old King Cole" In the ending part of The Musical Box when he sortof... f**ks the microphone (or was he just f**king thin air? lol) and then collapses when the music ends.... Definitely an amazing moment! great show! ------------- 
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Posted By: Norm Cash
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 15:50
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I'm going to slant this slightly differently. I don't collect videos or
DVDs of concerts, so I'll list my Top 5 actual concert moments. 1. Peter Gabriel's stage entrance (Genesis "Six Of The Best", Milton Keynes Bowl 1982) - To the sound of a heartbeat-like bass drum, six pallbearers clad fully in white (including white faces, gloves, and tall top hats) carry a white coffin on to a stage bathed in a cloud of dry ice and brilliant white spotlights. They place the coffin upright centrestage and just as the drum beat becomes recognisable as the opening to "Back In NYC", the lid opens and out steps Gabriel in his guise as Rael. Fantastic. 2. Yes's light show (Going For The One tour, Glasgow Apollo, November 1977) - The first time I ever saw lasers. 3-dimensional "objects" hovered above the audience. Jon Anderson sang "I Get Up, I Get Down" from Close To The Edge in a rainshower of green laser light. I was stunned by the whole experience. 3. Mike Oldfield's Pipe Band (Premier of Tubular Bells II, Edinburgh Castle, 1992) - As the music builds to the "Scottish" movement, a previously solid looking backdrop suddenly becomes transparent revealing a full pipe band in front of the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle. Spectacular. 4. Steve Hackett's guitar synth (Hackett's first solo tour, Glasgow Apollo, 26 October 1978) - Silhouetted by a single spotlight from behind, Hackett launches into "Land Of A Thousand Autumns" with the then-revolutionary Roland Guitar Synthisiser. What a sound!!! 5. Marillion's second gig in Scotland (Kaim Park Hotel, Bathgate, 4 November 1982) - Didn't realise it at the time, but it's good to know I was at this one. They'd opened their tour the previous night in the town of Wishaw, so not quite their first Scottish date, but close! The Kaim Park had a fairly low roof, and when Fish made his first appearance he really filled the whole space from floor to ceiling! Everybody thought "What the hell is this???" They did a great show, and Fish handled the "Gabriel-clone" taunts from the crowd with no small amount of good Scottish sarcastic humour. There have been any number of other enjoyable moments revolving around concerts such as meeting musicians before and after gigs and even enjoying a drink or two with some of them, but these are 5 of my favourite "in-concert" moments. ------------- 
"We did it....you and me! Put him right under the table!" |
Posted By: Norm Cash
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 15:56
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Correction on the Marillion date in that previous post. It should read 11 April 1982. Ain't this interweb thing wonderful?  -------------
"We did it....you and me! Put him right under the table!" |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 20 2005 at 16:57
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Thanks gentlemen, great to read your reactions! On the Recital DVD you can also see that Fish almost touches the ceiling of the Marquee! Hackett on his Roland guitar synthesizer (it was a bit slow but very sopisticated in those days) was indeed amazing, the light from above, I have some great pictures from that scene, GOOSE BUMPS when those memories come to my mind, he was the Genesis substitute and did a great job! |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 02:09
Jamie Muir playing "LTiA1" with a fur cape on KING CRIMSON live at the beat club 1972! 
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 06:40
| I have the Beatclub DVD too, what a weird person that Jamie Muir is but indeed very special to watch, so vivid, a very big contrast with Robert Fripp, almost a statue! |
Posted By: Rapataz
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 09:08
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anything Frank Zappa did ------------- www.myspace.com/rasayanaband |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 09:30
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Seeing Live Scenes From NY for the first time ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Publius
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 09:44
Stolen shamelessly from Peter Gabriel's performances of "The Knife"!!! ------------- I'm so prog, I clap in 9/8 |
Posted By: Jeremy Bender
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 11:00
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Pink Floyd: A Saucerful Of Secrets: Pompeï DVD + Shine On You Crazy Diamond: P.U.L.S.E Video ELP: Take A Pebble + Rondo: Masters From Vaults DVD Rehearsel 1973: Beyond The Beginning DVD The Great Gates Of Kiev: Montreal Concert DVD California Jam 1974: Beyond The Beginning DVD Roger Waters: Time, Perfect Sense, Amused To Death + Each Small Candle: In The Flesh DVD Yes: And You And I + Ritual: Yes Symphonic Live DVD |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 11:55
I just watched the splendid 2-DVD Beyond The Beginning (after reading Jeremy Bender his reaction) and I have to add that Keith Emerson playing "Fanfare for the common man" on his mighty Yamaha GX-1 synthesizer in a snow packed Montreal Olympic Stadium is also a magical progrock moment. I still remember vividly the video-clip: progrock on the television  , what a rare but breathtaking moment  !
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Posted By: TheLamb
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 13:25
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Wow. I wish I could have seen that! You describe it so well I have a picture in my head right now! Which is even more annoying because I can only imagine what I missed by... not being born back then... -------------
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 13:52
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I was invited to go to that concert by some friends (I used to visit progrock concerts in the Seventies with them) but unfortunately I was drafted and not allowed to leave my militairy post in that period, they need my to protect The Netherlands against the communistic danger A few years ago I received photos from that concert by one of those friends who had visited the 1982 Genesis Concert. I was grateful for those pictures but I had also the feelings as TheLamb described, it's was Torment of Tantalus |
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while looking at it, once again, for several unlucky reasons, I had missed a Genesis concert, first in 76 and then in 78 
Posted By: Persona
Date Posted: November 21 2005 at 17:20
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Genesis 73-75 performances. Gabriel is The Best!! Magma: MDK (Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogy DVD). King Crimson: The Deception of the Thrush (Eyes Wide Open DVD). ELP: Take a peeble (Beyond the Beginning DVD). Soft Machine: Beat Club 1970. ------------- Le pregunte, y su sonrisa se desprendio desgarrando al aire. |