Nick Beggs, session musician extraordinaire and currently bassist for Steven Wilson’s band on tour right now coming to Toronto to play Massey Hall (amazing venue to see shows at btw) on the 1st of March (can’t wait!) has the new release with his put together band of other amazing musicians to form, “The Mute Gods“….
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Serpents in Camouflage?, Quick! Call Citizen Cain to the Rescue!
One thing I really love about Prog rock besides the obvious, the music, is the album covers. The bright and imaginative designs always make listening to the record such a bigger and more exciting experience. A lot of people claim that the 70’s Prog albums had the best covers, well, here’s one from the 90’s!…
Quoth the Raven, “It’s The Alan Parsons Project””
1976, not the big year for the major players in Progressive Rock to be on the field, it was more like a hiatus year to go on Hols, record or just whatever really. Mostly record to premiere 1977 with epic albums. But one great album came out in ’76 and it’s the first of many…
Ahhh The Smell of Magnolias Stolen by The Pineapple Thief
2014, not a year that you would expect to still be hearing about Progressive Rock now would you? Most people when they hear something about Prog Rock in the media it’s always the classic 70’s era of the genre; The Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Rush etc etc blah blah blah always the same…
Who’s That Sitting on The Park Bench? Oh Hehehe it’s Just Aqualung with His Friend Jethro Tull
Probably one of the most stout statements from the lyrics in a song about a dirty old man in town and the band’s biggest selling album and most well known album and song in their almost fifty year career since starting out in the shambles of 1968. I’ve always had a fight with “Jethro Tull”…
A Visit to Newport Hospital? Perhaps if You Slip on Egg’s 1971 Album “The Polite Force”
If you’ve ever been a fan of English music, in particularly English Prog music then at some point your friend who turned you on to it more than likely also introduced you to what was known as the Canterbury Scene of English Prog. You would have been exposed to bands like; “The Soft Machine“, “Caravan“,…
In To The Darkest Depths of Prog with Porcupine Tree’s In Absentia Album
16 tracks that leave you standing alone barefoot in the rain at the end of a gravel road littered with broken glass, empty cans & debris by the time it’s over contemplating your very existence after having barbarically assaulted your mind and senses with this record. An absolute must have album and one of my…
The Tirith Come Towering Down On Your Mind
Middle Earth wasn’t ready for the massive sounds of “The Tirith” when they were “Minas Tirith” in the seventies and the teleportation to their 21st Century Schizoid Selves today have brought them through to modern day and bring you their heavy Prog sound to level to a more Tolkien state of mind in the Gardens…
Have a Cigar Whilst Raving and Drooling Cuz You Gotta Be Crazy (Pink Floyd, Vancouver Firsts in ’75)
Probably one of the first ’75 bootlegs I ever bought of the Floyd was Vancouver April 8th 1975, it was the first CD bootleg I bought I should say because I got in a trade the Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Ontario show from June 1975 first. Who’d have thought that they would have played there…
Losing My King Crimson V-Card to Larks Tongues in Aspic at 16
Unlike most people who’s first King Crimson record was their first, An Observation by King Crimson, In The Court of the Crimson King (1969), My auditory senses were slaughtered by their 1973 Lp, Larks Tongues in Aspic. At 16 years old I was hungry for anything Progressive Rock so having just gone through my overdose…
Gentle Giant; King Arthur’s House Band
Well, if King Arthur could have had a house band it definitely would have been these guys! Certainly one of the more quirky, crafty and complex Prog bands of their time and for today even. More than a thinking man’s band but a sophisticated collaboration of sound and lyrics and style that put them a…
Steven Wilson, 4 1/2; Album Review
One of my favourite voices in Prog Rock, Steven Wilson. Having seen him for the first time live last March at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto I was blown away by his stage presence, humour, theatrics, music and his love for what he does. He returns to Toronto, Tuesday, March 1st at Massey Hall,…
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