What are yout fave Prog (Or otherwise) moments?  Y'know, the ones that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and remind you why you love the genre (or the band in question) so much.  I'm sure you've all got hundreds of these so expect this one to run and run.

A few of my faves exaples that come to mind are the "I get up I get down" part on cloes to the edge, the guitar solo in Easter (especially the second part where the key changes), Dukes End where he starts to sing "I am the one who has guided you this far..."  Also with non prog tunes like where Lemmy sings "don't forget the joker" and the guitar solo follows.

Ok these are probably popular choices but I'm more interested in more obscure ones, of which i have many and will probably post at a later date.  Remember they must be "moments", don't cop out by putting "all of the song", we know you like all of the song, I'm looking for pinnacles.  Be specific as well, give the time the cd reads or be descriptive as to exacly where the point begins as I have.

Fave prog moment for me

'In the cage' live where the band are obscured by the curtain of white lights (see cover of Seconds Out) and then the light suddenly focus in on 'Rael' on the line 'Outside the cage, I see my brother, John'  shivers run down my spine every time -Bbbbbrrrrrrrr!

My fave prog moment was placing A Farewell To kings on the turntable and being absolutely enthralled and excited.The start of Xanadu still raises a nostalgic goosepump.The whole package was fantastic-the gatefold sleeve, the lyrics inside and the music, well it was beyond my wildest dreams!

I remember getting up early the following day to get to the Sixth Form Common Room first to get bragging rights.I converted dozens to the Rush Fold just 30 seconds into Xanadu, and I remember fondly the "oohs" and "aahs"!

Still the best prog album ever made.

My favourite Rock moment, for some reason I cant fully explain, is the start of Michael Schenker's extended solo on Rock Bottom from Strangers In the Night. I always get goosebumps as he breaks into the solo!

A great guitarist, pity he's such a Jodrell Banker!

So now I'm The snake In the grass, the ghost of film-reels past, I'm the producer of your nightmare, and the performance has just begun.

absolutely brilliant, headding up to the grand final of "Incubus" By Marillion

Guitar solo on Sweet smoke live 74' on the third piece called "Ocean of fears"

BRRRRR

Best prog moments:  I was here...

Lovely picture of you sat on your box Threefates!

"Forgotten Sons" by Marillion - especially that bit just after the "prayer" section. I get goosebumps just thinking about it. In fact, the whole "Script..." album just "does it".

"Mirage" also "does it" (entire album).

Top 5 individual bits after the ones mentioned;

"Dust Of Time" (Hawkwind)

"Castle in the Clouds" (Steve Hillage - on "Angel's Egg")

"Time is Running Out", "Hysteria" and "Butterflies and Hurricanes" (Muse on "Absolution")

Most of "OK Computer" (Radiohead)

"Firth of Fifth", "Can-Utility and the Coastliners", "Dance on a Volcano", "Return of the Giant Hogweed", "The Knife", the keyboard solo in "Robbery Assault and Battery" and "Behind the Lines" (Genesis)

...and there are so many more

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D'Oh! - I copped out and put whole songs and albums... but I think we've had a thread like this recently and anyway, without access to my albums, just the memory of the songs raises my neck-hairs...

I love the breaks in the middle of very fast tempo tracks.There are 2  I can recall easily:

Muse - Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist

Par Lindh Project - Juxtapoint

As far as ELP is concerned it would be Emerson's organ solo in Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression from Cal Jam1974 on the 'Then And Now' CD.Talk about 'letting rip'!

Threefates...you were quite the looker back in the day...WOW!!

P.S...I'm sure you still are

The guitar solo which ends the "Stationery Traveller" album by Camel

"Lives of great men/the golden void" by Hawkwind

The end of "entangled" by Genesis

The closing guitar solo on "The visitor" by Arena

Ken Hensley's slide guitar on "The spell" by Uriah Heep

The slightly speeded up guitar sections of "The shadow" by Pendragon (but a great track as a whole)

The symphonic bits of "And you and I" by Yes (especially the Yessymphonic version)

Steve Hackett's solo on "Firth of Fifth" by Genesis

The orchestral break on the Red Rocks version of "Isn't life strange" by the Moody Blues

etc...

Oh yeah that bit in "Forgotten Sons" where the voice says welcome....... friend

And the bit in "Script for a Jester's Tear" when that really cool guitar part comes in.

There are so many

The end of 'Entangled' by Genesis from 'Trick of the tail'

Guitar solo near the end of 'Lunar sea' by Camel from 'Moonmadness'

The opening of 'The lamb lies down on Broadway' with that piano symbolising NYC awakening (Most of that album does it for me to be honest)

The middle section of 'Freewill' by Rush when the whole band explode with musical excellence. This is one of the finest displays of musicianship in rock music IMO, and is very exciting.

'La Villa strangiato' by Rush - The whole damn thing

'Welcome back to the circus!' the finale of 'Cinderella Search' by Marillion and the aforementioned part of 'Incubus'

The opening of 'Assault and battery' by Hawkwind from 'Warrior on the edge of time'

Thats for starters..

gdub411 wrote: Threefates...you were quite the looker back in the day...WOW!! P.S...I'm sure you still are

Thank you gdub !!  Those were the days... Although Maani hung out with me recently at the Nektar/Caravan show and knows I'm doing pretty good these days too... 

More current prog moments for me...

Hangin with Rick W.

D

Danny Carey from Tool  hugging his idol.. .Carl Palmer.  Carl says we make drummers really big in this country....

The Slide accompanying Fly on a Windshield-Genesis-Lamb Lies Down tour/ Lamb Stew - Trick of the Tail tour.

Man Erg: I'm intrigued, can you describe it, or better still post a pic

I love seeing classic pics of the Lamb tour. There are not enough around. Or maybe I'm not looking in the right places.

Man Erg wrote: Blacksword wrote: The Slide accompanying Fly on a Windshield-Genesis-Lamb Lies Down tour/ Lamb Stew - Trick of the Tail tour. Man Erg: I'm intrigued, can you describe it, or better still post a pic I love seeing classic pics of the Lamb tour. There are not enough around. Or maybe I'm not looking in the right places. I'm unable to post a pic bit it has been burned into my memory for 30 years. The screen behind the band was black but in the centre you could just make out a speck of white. As the the music began to build ,the speck became larger and larger. Then the song explodes.Well! I nearly spilled my 'merchandise' all over the floor. The speck that grew & grew becomes a SKULL!

Sounds brilliant, and sadly before my time, I was only 5 years old in 1974. Not wishing a few more years on myself, but I reckon I was born ten years too late.. I'm an old progger in a young(ish) body.

Muse seem to be popular on this one, what about the closing section to Space Dementia (more than a nod to the mellotron part in And You And I I feel), or that monstrous church organ sound on Megolamania just before (and during) the "take off your disguise" bit.

Also the part just following "so we close our eyes" in 100 Nights (from Holidays In Eden, Marillion,) where the band crashes in, another Rothery pinnacle and Moseleys drums manage to sound emotional if you know what I mean.  Another excellent moment of Hogarths Marillion is the "Don't ask me why I'm doing this.." bit at the beginning of Falling From the Moon (Brave).  In fact there are many in Marillion post 1989 which compound for me they are at least as good as Fish's incarnation. 

my favorite moment is when steve howe does his guitar solo in awaken. i imaging im playoing it infront of my whole high school. i actually grab like a closet hanger and pretend im playing it. makes me feel so kool. Boy if i did that infront ogf the whole school! i would be so kool!

Its awsomne that three fates hugged rick wakeman.. i wish i could hug rick wagman...!

Favorite prog moment?

1. The whole of "Apocolypse in 9/8 Time" from Supper's Ready, plus Hackett's angel's cry during the New Jerusalem section right afterwards (especially on Seconds Out).

2. The Live Moog sequence at the end of Karn Evil 9, 3rd Impression (ah hell, all of that live album is pretty amazing IMHO, especially Aquatarkus).

3. Any Wakeman/church organ combo during Yes' career (Close To The Edge and Parallels)

4. Any Tony Banks/Mellotron choir usage on Seconds Out.

5. Lastly, all of This Is The 21st Century by Marillion.  Once I figured out that the song is a conversation between two lovers with radically differing views of the world, the whole song clicked for me big time.  With each proclomation that "This is the 21st Century" growing in intensity, I'm in prog heaven.  Sorry they didn't play the song last night at Irving Plaza but a great show nonetheless!

Pierre

Another one for me is Paul Cook's drumming at the beginning of IQ's 'Widows Peak'.It starts off really quietly then Cookie comes in like a herd of stampeding elephants on heat.One to turn up as loud as the neighbours allow you!

Favourite prog moment:

- Almost any 'Oldfield Climax (tm)'. Specially in 'Amarok' and 'Ommadawn Pt 1'. Nobody does this things like this guy.

- As almost everybody in this world the 'Firth of Filth' solo

- The start of ''Hero and Heroine' by Strawbs.

- Many, many more...

I think threefates is fast becomming the Prog Archives official photographer

Great photos threefates.

Paco Fox wrote: Favourite prog moment: - Almost any 'Oldfield Climax (tm)'. Specially in 'Amarok' and 'Ommadawn Pt 1'. Nobody does this things like this guy. - As almost everybody in this world the 'Firth of Filth' solo - The start of ''Hero and Heroine' by Strawbs. - Many, many more...

Good choices! I would just like to add Camel - Airborn.

Actually, there are too many favorite bits, and it may change every day!

Some which come to mind:

Probably Trick of the tail has the most numerous perfect moments, with Oldfield's Amarok:

robbery assault & battery: the prog part

entangled: the end

ripples: the instrumental bit

los endos: after the extreme drums & bass intro: the floating keyboards.

mad man moon: after collind say: "sun & sand"

dance on a volcano: the part where the bass is at its highest speed, just before the end.

Collage: moonshine @ 10:30 the hackett-esque guitar sound (spectral mornings)!

the many changes on "in your eyes"

Many parts on Oldfield's Amarok.

Camel's nude: the keybords part on beached or docks (I do not remember which one)

Gilmour's solo on Supertramp's Brother were you bound.

Banco's Traccia 2.

Triumvirat's spartacus: the second part of this track.

The prog part od Rush's circunstances, after the small bells.

the jazz part on villa strangiato

the electrifying guitar solos on rush's power windows.

the piano on wakeman's statue of justice.

many many keyboards parts on eddie jobson's green album

zappa's redunzl, bogus pomp, drowning witch and inca roads

IQ: the beginning of fading senses & further away including the fretless bass

on further away, @ 8:25: this rutherford's smallcreep's day keyboards, followed by crystal clean melodic acoustic guitars & keyboards.

leap of faith: when the keyboards enter after 3  minutes, till the end

the mellow end of darkest hour.

seventh house: when nichols says "cathedral the man created"..., and from 6:35 to 11:30: absolutely delightful!

wrong side of weird: from 8:50 to 9:45: a great prog moment!

narrow margin: from 5:15 to 8:00; from 9:05 to 12:00; from 13:00 to 15:35: it is a watcher of the shy-esque prog part; from 18:00 till the end: an amazing mellow & emotional end!

failsafe: from 3:15 to 4:25; from 5:57 to 6:30;

speak my name: the fretless bass + piano on sleepless incidental

tunnel vision: the new age keyboards + bass from  5:00 to 7:10

intelligence quotient: from 5:15 till 6:50, it is one of my favorite moment of IQ!

capital letters: from 1:35 to 2:17: the bass is outstanding!

about lake 5: from 2:20 till the end: this Camel-esque bit is absolutely wonderful: listen to this wonderful fretless bass and the bluesy guitars!

I should add many bits on wake, lush attic, nomzamo and sitting comfortably!

Actually, every time there are fretless bass, I really enjoy it at its maximum!

So, i also like Eloy's fretless bass on at the gates of dawn (planets)

Ows about Never Comes they days by the Moody Blues, the bit as he sings "..if only you knew what's inside of me nooow", or the closing bit on Starless (KC), the bit after the fusiony bit where the Mellotron kicks back in and the original theme starts again to the end, this requires serious volume for maximum effect.

A couple of non proggy ones if you're familar;

Zombie Eaters (Faith No More), toward the end where Mike Patton shouts "WOOW".  Also Sowing The Seeds of Love (Tears For Fears) where he sings "read it in the books, in the crannies and the the nooks, there are books to read". 

Although I've probably got hundreds of these moments I aint got nearly enough so please post more.  Be as obscure (or not) as you like, I'll probably follow some up.  Anyone got any of these by the Italian prog bands?

• THe moog solo at the end of "Lucky Man"
• Carl Palmer's percussion synths on "Toccata"
• THe battle between man & machine - KE9 - 3
• I agree with the CN solo.. actually both of them...
• The opening solo to "Coming Back to Life".. and when David comes in with "Where were you...."
• THe beginning of SOYCD
• Greg Lake's acoustic solo at the beginning of "From the Beginning"
• Both choruses of Pete Sinfield's solo song:  "Still"
• The section of "I Get Up, I Get Down" from Close to the Edge
• Greg Lake's pronunciation and vocal tone on "ITCOTKC"
• Greg singing "Silent Night" on stage with a gospel choir behind him and fake snow falling - Dec. 1973- NYC
• The beginning of "A Venture" on the Yes Album
• "Ghosts" the Strawbs..
• The bassoon on "Lament" - Gryphon

Jools wrote: Ows about Never Comes they days by the Moody Blues, the bit as he sings "..if only you knew what's inside of me nooow",

Jools, you brought back a long forgotten memory for me with that! I had just started work in 1973, and was trying to impress a slightly older girl with my appreciation of lyrics. I quoted the Moodies "If only you knew what's inside of me now, you wouldn't want to know me somehow".

"Oh really?!" she replied suspiciously, and walked off.

PsychoDad wrote: Paco Fox wrote: Favourite prog moment: - Almost any 'Oldfield Climax (tm)'. Specially in 'Amarok' and 'Ommadawn Pt 1'. Nobody does this things like this guy. - As almost everybody in this world the 'Firth of Filth' solo - The start of ''Hero and Heroine' by Strawbs. - Many, many more... Good choices! I would just like to add Camel - Airborn.

Yeeeesssss! Specially the end of the song.

Talkning about Camel, I should also add the moment of 'Lady Fantasy' when the agressive part near the end climaxes and the (gorgeous, astounding) main theme starts again.

Dark Side of the Moon - The opening "Speak to Me" and the way it rolls into "Breath"; the buildup of "Time" with the pendulum and bass; "Great Gig in the Sky"; the climax of "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse" Wish You Were Here - The beginning of "SOYCD Part 2 (of the 9); most of the title track Animals - The opening of "Dogs"; the mid part of "Pigs"; most of "Sheep" The Wall - "In the Flesh?"; "Another Brick in the Wall (parts 1-3) and "The Happiest Days of Our Lives"; the shattering TV's at the end of "Don't Leave Me Now"; the "bum ba BUM bum..." repeated riff in "Hey You"; all of "Is there anybody out there?"; the intro to the live version of "Run Like Hell"; the climax in "Waiting for the Worms"; the tearing down of the Wall Meddle - the climax of "One of theses Days"; the intro of "Echoes" and the movement from air to land (reprise-type section)

The Yes Album - The solo on "Yours is No Disgrace"; the Wurm section of "Starship Trooper" Fragile - "Roundabout"; the soft piano solo in "South Side of the Sky"; all of "Heart of the Sunrise" Close to the Edge - the intro; the "I get up I get down" climax; the ending Relayer - most of "Gates of Delirium"

A Change of Seasons - the "Crimson Sunrise" and "Sunset" Scenes from a Memory - "Overture 1928"; the climax of "Fatal Tradgedy"

More Later...

1. The organ solo in Stones of Years and Mass from Tarkus-ELP

2. The transition in Karn Evil 1st Impression Pt 1-ELP

3. The Great Gates of Kiev- ELP

4. The Musical Box by Genesis

5. The Opening to Watcher of the Skies

6. Mood for a Day and Keyboard solo off of Yessongs

7. Journey to Mariabronn by Kansas

8. The Opening and the Instumental middle part to Song For America

9. The opening to In a Glass House by Gentle Giant

10. The World Became a World by PFM

11. Thick as A Brick most all of it - Jethro Tull

12. Miracles out of Nowhere by Kansas

13. Pirates- ELP

14. The Second half of Suppers Ready- Genesis

15. Way too many more to mention

The Wurm section to Starship Trooper is good but obvious and a deliberate climax, I much prefer the vocal harmony bit, similar to what Queen did most famously on Bohemian Rhapsody, predates it by about 4 years an all. 

The guitar solo at the end of Falling Apart at the seems (IQ) on the Forever Live CD (not heard the studio version yet).

And the bits when they sing:

"And I fear tomorrow I'll be crying"  (Epitaph)

"Varicose, comatose, senile"  (Faith No More, Land of Sunshine)

"Last night you said I was cold..." (Misplaced Childhood)

"In with a left hook came the Bethnal Green Butcher..." (Battle of Epping Forest).

The guitar/keyboard joust between Howe and Wakeman on Starship Trooper,from the live Keys To Ascension CD and DVD,is very satisfying.

Some of my 2004 favourite prog moments:

- the climaxes to Leaven & Theophany, two of the most outstanding tracks in Proto-Kaw's 'Before Became After'

- the sequence of tracks 7-11 in Peter Hammill's 'Incoherence'

- the dramatic contrasts between the acoustic and electric moments in the title track to Amarok's 'Quentadharken'

- the harder parts in tracks 5-7 of White Willow's 'Storm Season'

- the rockier parts in Harvest of Souls, and the creepy ambiences in Red Dust Shadow & Born Brilliant, all of them in IQ's 'Dark Matter'

- the Celtic passages in Ayreon's 'The Human Equation'

Regards.

Cool pic ThreeFates. Christ, he's in good nick isn't he? If I tried that I'd be in traction.

 Just of the top of my head, how about the bit in Nobody Home off The Wall where Waters sings: "...and I got a strong urge to fly, but I got nowhere to fly to." Shiver up the spine every time.

threefates wrote:

I've very few respect for a musician who breaks his instruments

(except hendrix of course)

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

Easy Livin wrote: Have to agree 3f8's. It always struck me there was nothing random about where he put those knives, he knew exactly what he was doing.

Yep... the knives had the same place to go all the time.  actually he used them to change the pitch most time... make it warble.... he is genius... I saw him a couple of times go so into it.. that he and the organ tumbled over in the orchestra pit. At one show, the audience actually lifted the organ back on stage for him....

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.)

My fave prog moment?

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!

That part ROCKS, man!

 What an interesting thread!

Here comes the GOOD part -- shut up!

Glorp!

(Is anyone really reading all these lists, or  -- gawd forbid -- timing this stuff out on their CD player?)

Ok, the eternal cynic will go to bed now.... Sorry!

Eddy wrote: 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

Um....Peter was joking there Eddy

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)

__________

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....

You never cease to amaze me with your encyclopedic knowledge Dick!

Blue Weaver was Wynder K Frog!?