spyro gyra
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Topic: spyro gyra
Posted By: Aaron
Subject: spyro gyra
Date Posted: March 02 2005 at 14:54
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i acquired a few of their albums about a year ago along with a crap load of other prog albums, never seen any body call them prog, so i never gave them a spin, should I? Aaron |
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Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: March 02 2005 at 16:13
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Their sax player did the sax solos on Another Day and some other Dream Theater stuff.
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 02 2005 at 16:21
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I love everything Spyro Gyra released from 1978 until 1990. Their music is a kind of soft jazz-rock. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: mirco
Date Posted: March 02 2005 at 17:23
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In my understandement, they are more jazz than other thing. Maybe towards fussion, but hard on the jazz side. ------------- Please forgive me for my crappy english! |
Posted By: Lunarscape
Date Posted: March 02 2005 at 18:02
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Soft jazz-fusion with stains of Bossa Nova, Spyro Gyra was/is a ligther version of German Passport. Japanese Cassiopeia could be considered the "darker & heavy" side of Spyro Gyra. Its nice background music to have when non-prog friends comes by for a glass of vine...
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: March 02 2005 at 23:38
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Spyro Gyra is great, fresh and lively: i have the very good carnival album! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 02:17
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It's funny until a few years ago I always mixed Spyro Gyra with the Folk/Prog band Spirogyra, now it's clear. I had the luck that a friend of USA who was hosted in my parents house for a month, left me his Spirogyra albums with Bill Bruford: St. Radigunds (1971) Old Boot Wine (1972) and Bells Boots & Shambles (1973). I used to believe the two were the same band, but after listening a couple of Spyro Gyra albums, it was obvious that they were totally different, so I stay with Spirogyra. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 02:41
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Hi Ivan: I also did not get this at first. There is the early 70's slightly proggish folk group you speak of, and there is the fusion (latino influenced ) of the late 70's - early 80's. The second one is best known . I saw them in concert at the CNE grandstand in Toronto back in 81 and they were probably partly responsible for my invenstigation into jazz-rock (as it was called then). However I never found their albums quite as good as that concert. Today , I prefer the folk band but it is comparing apples and oranges. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 03:48
Give them a spin - the music may not always be to your taste, but you'll have to admire the musicianship; soft jazz, yes, but none the worse for that. ------------- 
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Aaron wrote:Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 10:18
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Absolutely agree with yiu Sean, there are few similar points between a latin oriented Fussion and Folk/Prog except for the name, which was my only point. We say in Spanish it's like comparing "Papas y Camotes" (Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes). Iván -------------
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Posted By: mirco
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 10:32
By the way, in Venezuela we say "¿que tiene que ver el culo con las pestañas? (what is the relation between ass and eyelashes?) ------------- Please forgive me for my crappy english! |
Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 10:49
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ok, i just checked the album that i had and i believe it is the s/t (it's got a few squares on the cover with a space background and some fruity DNA sh*t in the middle) so you are saying i should listen to this? Aaron |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 10:57
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Mirco asks:
Yes Mirco both are different bands, they even coexisted during a short period in 1999 when Spirogyra joined for a gig when they released the compilatory "We Were a Happy Crew" and Spyro Gyra released "Got the Magic". Iván -------------
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Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: March 03 2005 at 11:37
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yeah, so i am finally spinning this album, it's really good Aaron |