Notcigs Music Thread.

[spacekitty]

Maybe I'm just old school (or maybe I'm just old... ha!!) but I never really thought of Kansas as a 'prog' band...

And this is coming from someone who saw Pink Floyd on their Atom Heart Mother tour, back in the Fall of 1970 (in a 3,000 seat auditorium) complete with 25 piece orchestra and 50 voice choir!!

Here are a couple of my faves from the 70's:



Peter Hammill probably has one of the most intense voices I've ever heard...


...and Annie Haslam has one of the most beautiful!!!




(all of the key members in these bands have kept recording and performing through the years,
although VDGG is down to a 3-piece now...)

[Moonlit knight]

I definitely see how you could say Kansas wouldn't fit into prog genre. But some songs do make heavy use of synth and the violin has a synth quality to it at times. But I wouldn't argue with some who says, they are a straight up rock. I absolutly love Mother Russia the voice is beautiful.

[spacekitty]

Ok... one more, and that's it, I promise... LOL!! I saw these guys at the Whiskey a Go-go in Hollywood, CA about the same time that this film was made.
(sorry it is so horribly out of sync!!)




And I always thought that this was where Kansas got some of their sound...
YouTube - ‪Gentle Giant - Funny Ways - 16mm Film - 1974‬‏

[Bovinia]

Space, my husband salutes you! He named VDGG and the song title before he even got close enough to my screen to see it He was surprised anyone else knew who they are!

[spacekitty]

I definitely see how you could say Kansas wouldn't fit into prog genre. But some songs do make heavy use of synth and the violin has a synth quality to it at times. But I wouldn't argue with some who says, they are a straight up rock. I absolutly love Mother Russia the voice is beautiful.

I used to play the violin and I still love anything that has strings in it!!

David Garrett is one violinist who has gone from Classical to Rock now, trying to reach a different audience... and he's not too hard on the eyes, either... Ha!!

I like this one without the whole orchestra behind him...

[spacekitty]

Space, my husband salutes you! He named VDGG and the song title before he even got close enough to my screen to see it He was surprised anyone else knew who they are!

If you want your husband to really HATE me... tell him that I actually got to meet Peter Hammill when he was here in L.A. for some solo acoustic shows back in 1978. I went to both shows, all three nights, and he never played the same set twice!!

Then I saw him again in '79 with Graham Smith on violin, went to both shows for that night, too...

[Moonlit knight]

This is one of my all time favorites

[Wharf Rat]

Wow that's ESP Moon, was just following the thread and thought to pull up Yes.
Saw them mid '70s and had only heard Roundabout. They had this dude (Rick Wakeman) in a cape looking like a wizard. He had four keyboards around him. This was when quadraphonic has happening with speakers in all four corners. He would get on these keyboard solos and spin the sound around the auditorium. It blew us all away. It was a great concert.

[Wharf Rat]

I saw REO about the same time. It's the only other Quad setup (that I can remember ) The keyboard at the end of this was spinning around. We'd never heard anything like it.


http://youtu.be/zCeGCSvueM8

[Moonlit knight]

Yeah I got to see Yes 3 times they were on tour last year I think came to KC but I didn't go, regretfully. And REO was an Illinois band that moved to Cal.saw them a couple of times. Both look like they play hard. Boy I love YES