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| From | ronald and karen sanchez <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: Neal Morse in concert |
| Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:41:02 -0800 |
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Kerry Kompost wrote:
> Joe Field wrote:
>
> > Made the trip south to see Neal Morse
> ..........
>
> Ronald Sanchez wrote:
>
> > Someone sent me a tape of a Spock's
> > album..snip...that was the last time
> > I played that tape.
>
> No slam on our esteemed Mr. Sanchez (love your posts,
> by the way), but prog music requires what used to be
> known in the industry as an "attention span" --
Ho ho.... look, I've been accused of making prog records, let along
listening to them. I was walking out of crappy Gentle Giant concerts (I
was going to say "before you were born, but I can't assume to know what
you were doing in 1974) a long time ago... I sat through all of
Topographic Oceans...blah blah blah... saw the Soft Machine in '68....
....I should add I did produce a Man album with Pugwash (ex GG) on the
drums... ok, I'll put my papers away.
> you're
> not gonna get one or two hooks hammered endlessly for
> three-and-a-half minutes with this music -- but that's
> part of the fun of it: it takes time and effort to
> unlock the rewards. When you listen to a 30-minute
> epic like Neal's "All of the Above", there's a
> tangible sense of taking a journey and discovering
> things along the way. It is NOT simple music; it's not
> easy to write OR to listen to; it takes a genuine love
> of the music to really absorb everything.
funny someone trying to explain the genre to me. I was watching a Family
dvd the other day and there was some stuff from the Near Fest (?) and
one of the fans there to see Caravan was from San Jose...I didn't know
if I should be thrilled, or feel guilty... I were playing that stuff on
commercial radio in San Jose when it came out at the end of the
60's/early 70's. There was a time that I would walk into KSJO and find
albums by Caravan VDGG Egg etc and take 'em home and think, "hey this
stuff sort of sounds like the Soft Machine..." When I told my boss he
should be playing Man Who Sold The World, he said "never heard of the
Bowie guy..."
. Errr, you gotta fess up.... and I still like "the old stuff"...
>
>
> Of course, .......for me it's like the best of both
> worlds, an aural bridge between The Beatles and
> Emerson, Lake and Palmer (both HUGE influences on my
> own music). No wonder I dig his stuff so much!
>
> Also -- and no slam is meant to any of the pop bands I
> know, love, and support -- but there's something extra
> inspiring when musicians are able to perform at the
> peak of their abilities on their respective
> instruments. Sometimes, just strumming a jangly
> Rickenbacker is enough, but, face it, almost anyone
> one can do that -- seriously, it's not that tough to
> learn ....
Neither is playing in 7/8.
> For me
> anyway, it's always so much more gratifying to witness
> musicians testing the limits of their abilities,
> playing dazzling passages with finesse and grace,
> pushing themselves to go farther, faster, and further
> 'out there' than I might've imagined. As a musician,
> that type of advanced ability gives me something to
> strive for, something that's kept me utterly
> infatuated with the guitar, drums, and -- to a
> somewhat lesser extent -- keyboards over the last
> twenty years (gasp!) or so.
While I still buy King Crimson Collectors Club cds, most of these new
prog bands sound more like jazz-fusion/jam bands to me. See, you lose me
as soon as you say ELP. There is a band that might have been good, but
no, they aren't. Having met that horrid drummer and had him try to give
us shit as we were doing a very nice interview with him, live on the
radio...I'll never be able to even consider them as a possibility.
>
>
> Will wrote:
>
> > when I interviewed Marty Willson-Piper
> > of the Church he praised both Spock's
> > Beard and Porcupine Tree.
Another band I was told to check out, but thought they were really sub
par. Might be a couple of their cds in the sell stack out in the garage.
Nick Lowe once told me how he thought Yes were great when they first
came around....I agree, give me some of that fancy stuff crammed into a
song. I mean a 4 minute song.....
Bobby Sutliff (sorry to drag your name into this) is absolutely right,
it's a big step down after the Beatles.
damage done, back to trying to work on the piano part of my very own
prog song....
RS
>
>
> Prog-n-pop; it's not just for breakfast anymore.
>
> kErrY kOMpOsT
>
> www.tribecamusic.net
> www.mp3.com/kompost
> www.m-blog.com/kompost (more Neal concert notes here)
>
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