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Thanks so much for the suggestion! I'm on Progarchives right now, listening to their samples, and from the first few seconds of "Big Puzzle" I already have a good feeling about it. I'm gonna check them out some more, but I think you may have just given me another favorite artist! =DTheMarsh-WiggleQuester wrote:If you want to here something new and at the same time with a classic feel of the prog of the 70's I humbly recommend The Flower Kings. They rock hardly too!
If you get any album from them, from the first to the last, just like GH, you'll find very good stuff that really hooks up. You can check on youtube some of their music. Their last album "The Sum of No Evil" has very good epics. Roine Stolt guitar and lyrics are good too [they tend to make even more sense than Neal Morse's lyrics on SB albuns before Snow, and his convertion]. Of course they share themes about christianity and transcendental aproaching, but you can check it out with no fear.
In the sound you'll find awesome guitar work, as well lots of keyboard freakness. If you listened to Transatlantic, is just easier to imagine TFK is Transatlantic without Neal Morse....or I'm just exagerating.
Anyway, this is my suggestion.
Godspeed!
And this is only their last track from the first album. They have 3 double albums, and one of the biggest epics of all time [at least for now, we can expect everything from Babb&Schendel...] called Garden of Dreams from the Flower Power album. Don't forget to check out the youtube videos!Japes wrote:Thanks so much for the suggestion! I'm on Progarchives right now, listening to their samples, and from the first few seconds of "Big Puzzle" I already have a good feeling about it. I'm gonna check them out some more, but I think you may have just given me another favorite artist! =DTheMarsh-WiggleQuester wrote:If you want to here something new and at the same time with a classic feel of the prog of the 70's I humbly recommend The Flower Kings. They rock hardly too!
If you get any album from them, from the first to the last, just like GH, you'll find very good stuff that really hooks up. You can check on youtube some of their music. Their last album "The Sum of No Evil" has very good epics. Roine Stolt guitar and lyrics are good too [they tend to make even more sense than Neal Morse's lyrics on SB albuns before Snow, and his convertion]. Of course they share themes about christianity and transcendental aproaching, but you can check it out with no fear.
In the sound you'll find awesome guitar work, as well lots of keyboard freakness. If you listened to Transatlantic, is just easier to imagine TFK is Transatlantic without Neal Morse....or I'm just exagerating.
Anyway, this is my suggestion.
Godspeed!
God bless!
-Japes
I sure will, oh, and my brother just gave me Spock's Beard's newest album, and I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but I really enjoyed the first track.TheMarsh-WiggleQuester wrote:And this is only their last track from the first album. They have 3 double albums, and one of the biggest epics of all time [at least for now, we can expect everything from Babb&Schendel...] called Garden of Dreams from the Flower Power album. Don't forget to check out the youtube videos!Japes wrote:Thanks so much for the suggestion! I'm on Progarchives right now, listening to their samples, and from the first few seconds of "Big Puzzle" I already have a good feeling about it. I'm gonna check them out some more, but I think you may have just given me another favorite artist! =DTheMarsh-WiggleQuester wrote:If you want to here something new and at the same time with a classic feel of the prog of the 70's I humbly recommend The Flower Kings. They rock hardly too!
If you get any album from them, from the first to the last, just like GH, you'll find very good stuff that really hooks up. You can check on youtube some of their music. Their last album "The Sum of No Evil" has very good epics. Roine Stolt guitar and lyrics are good too [they tend to make even more sense than Neal Morse's lyrics on SB albuns before Snow, and his convertion]. Of course they share themes about christianity and transcendental aproaching, but you can check it out with no fear.
In the sound you'll find awesome guitar work, as well lots of keyboard freakness. If you listened to Transatlantic, is just easier to imagine TFK is Transatlantic without Neal Morse....or I'm just exagerating.
Anyway, this is my suggestion.
Godspeed!
God bless!
-Japes
Godspeed!
Well, if it IS jazzy I probably WILL "dig it." I've gotten into a bit of Spyro Gyra and Dave Matthews (maybe some Dave Weckl) lately.FredProgGH wrote:If you can track it down give UK's Danger Money a shot. A bit ELP-esque with lots of organ but more synth as well, good vocals and electric violin instead of guitar! It's mostly a pretty heavy album too for being a keyboard driven album. Skip the 1st UK album for now; it's great IMO but a bit more jazzy. Although it does have the great Alan Holdsworth shedding on guitar so you might dig it.
You really can't go wrong with Stardust We Are. If you haven't found Retropolis, it is well worth a listen. The music on it really does go back to the 70s...Japes wrote:Anywho, if I buy a Flower Kings album soon, it will probably be Stardust We Are, though I don't know yet (I don't like spending money on a whim). I'll continue looking into it.
Ah well- then check it out and also look into the Bruford solo albums One Of A Kind and Gradually Going Tornado, which were big influences on my album.Japes wrote:Well, if it IS jazzy I probably WILL "dig it." I've gotten into a bit of Spyro Gyra and Dave Matthews (maybe some Dave Weckl) lately.FredProgGH wrote:If you can track it down give UK's Danger Money a shot. A bit ELP-esque with lots of organ but more synth as well, good vocals and electric violin instead of guitar! It's mostly a pretty heavy album too for being a keyboard driven album. Skip the 1st UK album for now; it's great IMO but a bit more jazzy. Although it does have the great Alan Holdsworth shedding on guitar so you might dig it.
That's real truth!Physicist wrote:You really can't go wrong with Stardust We Are. If you haven't found Retropolis, it is well worth a listen. The music on it really does go back to the 70s...Japes wrote:Anywho, if I buy a Flower Kings album soon, it will probably be Stardust We Are, though I don't know yet (I don't like spending money on a whim). I'll continue looking into it.
That is a fair statement. Having said that, you might be intrigued by Camel's Stationary Traveller. It is a concept album about the people who tried to escape East Germany through Berlin, a very dangerous undertaking under the best of conditions. The title song is an instrumental anchored by some nicely distorted guitar.Japes wrote:From what I've heard of Camel, they just didn't have enough... I don't know... "oomph" for my tastes, though perhaps that's just what I heard.
Thanks, I'll check it out. My brother just gave me some Dream Theater, Symphony X, and newer Spock's Beard albums I'm going to start familiarizing my self with now, though. I'm gonna have quite a long Christmas list come December!Physicist wrote:That is a fair statement. Having said that, you might be intrigued by Camel's Stationary Traveller. It is a concept album about the people who tried to escape East Germany through Berlin, a very dangerous undertaking under the best of conditions. The title song is an instrumental anchored by some nicely distorted guitar.Japes wrote:From what I've heard of Camel, they just didn't have enough... I don't know... "oomph" for my tastes, though perhaps that's just what I heard.
