Hello all!
Another week passed and it is time for my Juke Box post. This last week I listened to lots of music and mostly Progressive Rock, because I was preparing the radio show. But there were times I wanted to listed to something different, because I felt I was having a
Progressive ovedose! hehehe
So, these are my 5 most favorite songs for the past week:
Genesis: Dancing of the Moonlight Knight
(Selling England by the Pound) (1973) Tool: Vicarious (10.000 Days) (2006) Rush: Jacob's Ladder (Permanent Waves) (1980) Fruupp: The Perfect Wish (The Prince of Heaven's Eyes) (1974) Suede: We are the Pigs (Dog Man Star) (1994)
Hello! :)
That is a post concerning last night's broadcast.
It was our first one, so I will write my impressions here... Well, it was great! :)
Our broadcast lasted for 2 hours, and both us and the visitors had some great time as far as I know!
The chatbox was on fire, and at some points we were laughing a lot with the crazy comments there.
Because it was out first radio show, we wanted to have a theme.
And the theme was: 'The Prog round of the world in 2 hours'.
So we played music from bands all over the world. (Well, almost!). We surely left many out, but we did the best we could in these 2 hours.
Some of the bands we played were: Genesis, Marillion, Arena, Rush, Pavlov's Dog, Kansas, Sienna Root, The Mars Volta, Kingston Wall, Focus, Jane, PFM,Will-O-the-Wisp,
and we kept Dead Can Dance for the end...
Many people visited and listened to our show, and many didn't.
We knew some of them, and we got to know the others.
We were a nice warm company last night, and that was something I really enjoyed.
Now I am waiting for the next show, and I hope we will make it even better!
I want to thank you for spending 2 hours with us, because together we made a very warm and beautiful night...
Thank you all! :)
Hello everybody! It is my pleasure to announce that from next Thursday 25/9 and every Thursday after this, me & my wife will have a 2-hour Radio show at an internet radio.
The broadcasting will be in 2 languages: Greek and English, so many people will be able to understand what we will be talking about. Otherwise it will be all Greek to you! :P hehehe
The show it is called 'Prog & Roll', and it will be about Progressive Rock music, but with a very wide use of the term 'Progressive'. The best term it would be 'Progressive Orientated'.
We will be playing music from the '60's up to our days.
The show will start at 21.00 GMT and will be finishing 2 hours later at 23.00. (at night). According to the country you live, you can add or substract a few hours in order to see what time it will be in your country. For example in Greece will be between 23.00 - 01.00, in England 21.00 - 23.00, etc...
On Sunday morning we did our first trial broadcasting, and tomorrow we have the second and last one.Tomorrow's trial will be at 10.00 GMT (in the morning) and will last 1 hour.
If anyone is in the mood, he/she can log in and listen.
Now, the name of this on-line radio is: JustIn Case Progressive Radio, and you can find it here: http://www.justincaseradio.com/
AC/DC are going to release their first live album in the last 20 years.
The album will be released in November, and the title will be:'Live at River Plate'.
The recordings were made on December 2009, at the 3 nights that AC/DC performed live in front of almost 200.000 people at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires.
These live performaces has been released the year before in DVD, but now they will be released in double cd, and triple vinyl record.
And here is the tracklist:
Rock N Roll Train
Hell Ain’t A Bad Place
To Be
Back In Black
Big Jack
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Shot Down In Flames
Thunderstruck
Black Ice
The Jack
Hells Bells
Shoot To Thrill
War Machine
Dog Eat Dog
You Shook Me All Night Long
T.N.T.
Whole Lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock
Highway To Hell
For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
In the following video you can watch them perform live from Argentina the song 'Hells Bells'
Hello everybody! One more Sarturday came and I'm here to post my Top-5.
Last week I have been rather busy so I couldn't listen to so much music.
And in the other hand I was in a mood for Progressive Rock...
So most of the times I had the time to listen to music I listened to Prog...
And here are my best 5 songs:
Genesis: Dancing of the Moonlight Knight
(Selling England by the Pound) (1973) The Mars Volta: Widow (Franced the Mute) (2005) Curved Air: Metamorphosis (Air Cut) (1973) Pink Floyd: High Hopes (The Division Bell) (1994) Trader Horne: 3 Rings for Elven Kings (Morning Way) (1970)
I have to admit that although I knew for a long time now that I couldn't go to this concert, and as the days are closing by, I feel more and more sad...
I am a fan of them since 1989, I have seen them live twice, but that doesn't make it any easier...
Anyway, I tried to find some information for all of you that will go on next Friday or Sunday to see them on stage. (On Friday is the concert in Thessaloniki and on Sunday in Athens).
I have read some great reviews about their concerts in the States and Europe so far, so get ready!
For those who like surprises, do not read this post because you will learn the setlist.
I made a small research and I found various setlists from many concerts. As I found out, their playlists are almost the same with only a couple of changes.
In a few shows they didn't play "The Host of Seraphim", but in the majority they did. Also they play one cover version of Tim Buckley's 'Song to the Siren'. But again in a few shows they don't.
Now, as you might have known already, they play one Greek song. (Well, that is the second cover version of their show). Is the song "Ειμαι πρεζακιας" from Roza Eskenazi. (The song is called "Ime prezakias" which means 'I am a junkie', and is a very old song from a specific category called "Rebetiko").
I may have an idea of what's gonna happen when they play this song in Greece... ;)
And closing this post I'm posting one setlist in order to get an idea of what you are gonna see in a few days...
The setlist is from their concert in Atlanta USA, on the 5th of September...
Children of the Sun
Anabasis
Rakim
Kiko
Lamma Bada
Agape
Amnesia
Sanvean
Nierika
Opium
The Host of Seraphim
Ime Prezakias
Now we are Free
All in Good time Encore
The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove
Dreams made Flesh Encore No.2
Song to the Siren
Return of the She-King Encore No.3
Rising of the Moon
Once upon a time there was a Rock band called
Led Zeppelin which happens to be one of the greatest Rock bands, period!
This great band was split up in 1980
after the death of their drummer John Bohnam. Since then, from time to time rumors
were spreading around about a reunion, about a new record, about live shows
etc… But unfortunately they were never true…
A few years ago a new rumor came out and
spread out quickly like a fire: Led Zeppelin will make a reunion for one and
only concert, in order to honor the memory of Ahmet Ertegun, the Atlantic
Records’ boss that recently had passed… Net profit from the tickets wouldgo to the ‘Ahmet Ertegun Education Fund’,
which provides scholarships for gifted children.
This live show would be held in the Q2 Arena in London.A new site was opened for the needs of the
concert, and everyone who wanted could register for a ticket and waiting to see
if he/she would be one of the lucky ones. Because the tickets would be given
after lottery.
The result? Almost 10.000.000 applications for
about 20.000 tickets!
These 20.000 VERY lucky ticket owners
travelled from all over the world to London, and on the night of 10th December
2007 watched an unforgettable show, leaving the rest 9.980.000 of us wondering
for life how it would be like to be there that night.
The concert it was a magnet not only for the
fans, but for the celebrities as well. Many showed up in the Q2 Arena with
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Kate Moss, members of Oasis and Genesis, Steve
Winwood (Traffic)and Marilyn Manson
being some of them…
And now, almost 5 years later, this concert is
going to be on the cinemas! Like the first time with ‘The Song Remains the
Same’ (1976), ‘Celebration Day’ will be on the cinemas on the 17th of October.
But to which cinemas? That is a question that
I don’t have an answer to give.
You will be able to buy tickets from the
official website of Led Zeppelin: www.LedZeppelin.com
But that’s not all. After a while ‘Celebration
Day’ will be released in DVD/Blue Ray, and there are also rumors about a CD
release. (But nothing is certain yet).
And
here is the playlist from the concert:
1. Good Times, Bad Times
2. Ramble On
3. Black Dog
4. In My Time Of Dying
5. For Your Life (live debut)
6. Trampled Underfoot
7. Nobody's Fault But Mine
8. No Quarter
9. Since I've Been Lovin' You
10. Dazed And Confused
11. Stairway To Heaven
12. The Song Remains the Same
13. Misty Mountain Hop
14. Kashmir
15. Whole Lotta Love
16. Rock And Roll
Hello all!
It is time to post my Top-5 songs for this past week...
Without further delay, here they are:
Mercury Rev: The Funny Bird (Deserter's Songs) (1998) Traffic: When the Eagle Flies (When the Eagle Flies) (1974) Arena: Solomon (Songs from the Lion's Cage) (1995) Sabbath Assembly: Hymn of the Consecration
(Restored to One) (2010) Ultimate Spinach: Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess
(Ultimate Spinach) (1967)
This is a band I didn’t put in the Prog-Rock encyclopedia on
purpose, because I wanted to make a separate presentation here…
Anglagard is a Swedish band formed during the summer of
1991, by guitarist Tord Lindman and bassistJohan Hogborg. In order to find members for the band, they placed ads
asking for musicians willing to play Progressive Rock in the style of the big
bands of the ‘70’s. Their ads were answered by Thomas Johnson (keyboards) and
Jonas Engdegard (guitar) at start, and a little later 2 more members were
added. Mathias Olsson (drums) and Anna Holmgren (flute).
One year later (1992) they released their first album under
the name ‘Hybris’. The album was well received, and the band performed live in
a few Prog-Rock festivals in Europe and USA.
Their sound resembles the sound of the Progressive bands of the
‘70’s, and especially the ones of King Crimson, Genesis, and Van Der Graaf
Generator.Their songs are long, complicated, mostly instrumental , with a heavy
sound filled with mellotron.
A special mention must be made in the virtuoso
percussionist’s way of playing drums.
‘Hybris’ was named ‘album of the year’by many music magazines, and the band gained
a lot of reputation in the Progressive Rock circles.
In 1994 they released their second album , named ‘Epilog’.
Their music style is the same, but the compositions seemed more inspired. Again
they participated in many Progressive Rock festivals, but after a while the
band splited up.
The recordings from these live performances were released in
1996 in the album named ‘Buried Alive’.
In 2009 rumours spread that the band was reforming after 15
years. That was proved to be absolutely right, and presently they released
their 3rd studio album after 18 years of silence.
The band is at 5/6 the same, with the exception of Thomas
Lindman.In addition they have 3 more musicians added in the band. Tove
Tornberg (cello),Daniel Borgegård Älgå (clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone
saxophone) and Ulf Åkerstedt (bass tuba, bass trumpet, contrabass trumpet).
The new album is called ‘Vijiana Oga’, and it contains 4
intrumental songs of an average length 15 minutes each…Upon its release it reached at No.6 in the
Swedish charts, and was sold out.
The latest news are that a re-print is on the way.
As for the future of the band? Well, I guess we will have to
wait to find out…
In the following video you can listen to the (15 minute long) Höstsejd from the album 'Epilog'.
What
do you get when you take about 5 keyboards 3 guitars, 3 bass guitars, and God
knows how many different percussion tools? You get a Box of Crayons album!
That’s
a rather unknown American band, that I have decided to put in this encyclopedia
mostly because of their weird line up and their effort to play something
unique.
As
you probably understood already, the keyboards is the main ingredient in this
band's music, that in somecases is
‘flirting’ with the sound of Marillion and Camel(among others). And on the top of that, the
singer's voice reminds in some parts the voice of Peter Hammill.
Hmmm
they don’t sound so unique finally eh? And they are not. They have made a mix
of many styles of the ‘70’s, they have added many percussions and many
keyboards, and they tried to make something that looked original, but they
failed.
That’s
why maybe they managed to release only one studio album (Colorblind Chameleon –
1997), that it featured no less than 17 (!) musicians. (Except the keyboards
and the percussions you can hear many other ‘unusual’ instruments as well, such
as clarinets, trumpets etc)…
It
was a band that mixed too many ingredients together and failed to make a proper
cake…
BRAINTICKET
They were formed in 1968 and although they
considered a German band they were actually rather Pan-European, having members
from Germany Belgium and Switzerland.
With the passing years it became obvious that
Brainticket was actually the personal project of the very talented Belgian
Keyboard/flute player Joel Vandroogenbroeck.
They released their first album under the name
Cottonwoolhill in 1971. An extremely experimental & psychedelic album,
followed by ‘Psychonaut’ one year later. Psychonaut was more pleasant and kind
of ethnic for its era.
On 1974 they released ‘Celestial Ocean’. The
music style of this record is more Krautrock than the previous 2 albums, filled
with heavy keyboards sounds,and a bizarre
concept-based Egyptian Mythology as the main theme.
That was the last album they recorded before
disbanding a few months later.
In the early ‘80’s they re-appeared, released
2 more albums (Adventure-1980 and Voyage-1982), before dissapearing again.
One more album was released in 2000 (Alchemic
Universe).
Latest news is that J.Vandroogenbroeck formed
the band again with a new line-up, and since 2011 they are touring together
with Nektar. On 17th of August 2011 they performed live for the very first
time in the USA, in a club in New York.
BRUFORD BILL
William Scott ‘Bill’ Bruford was born on the 17th of May 1949 in Kent
England.
He is a percussionist, composer, producer, and
a record label owner.
But above all, he is one of the best drummers
in Rock music.
He worked with great musicians and very big
bands in his career, and participated in many records as guest musician.
He started his career in 1968 as a former
member of ‘Yes’.Together they release
some great records that made them extremely famous. (Yes, Time and a Word,
Fragile etc). At the peak of their success, he decides to leave the band and
search for something new and more challenging.
And he found it almost immediately. A few
months after quitting Yes he joined King Crimson, a band he was interested for a
long time. The comparison of these two bands was described very clearly by him
a few years later:
"In Yes, there was an endless debate
about should it be F natural in the bass with G sharp on top by the organ. In
King Crimson...you were just supposed to know"
With King Crimson they released some of the
most influential records in the Progressive Rock scene, before Robert Fripp
decided to disband them in 1974.
After King Crimsonhe worked as a session drummer and he saw his
name in the credits of many records in the 2 following years.Just to name a few: Chris Squirel (ex-Yes): Fish out of Water
(1975), Steve Howe (ex-Yes): Beginnings (1975),
Pavlov’s Dog: At the sound of the bell (1976) are some of these records.
Between 1976-1977 he joined Genesis and toured with them
for about 6 months. From this tour 2 live albums came out: ‘Seconds out’ and
‘Three sides live’. In the meantime Phil Collins was trying to adapt himself as
the new frontman of Genesis…
The same year he formed his own band named
‘Bruford’ and decided to explore more Jazz/fusion forms, leaving aside Rock for
a while.
From 1977 until 1981 he worked again as
a session drummer, until Robert Fripp decided to re-unite King Crimson . In 1981
he joined King Crimson for the second time, and together they released 3 more
records before they disbanded again in 1984.
In 1985 he was approached by ex-Led Zeppelin’s
guitarist Jimmy Page, in order to join him and Paul Rogers in the new band they
were trying to set up. After a few rehearsals B.Bruford decided that he didn’t
like the style of the band and left.
From 1985 and up, he participated in numberless
projects, recordings, live shows etc, with many different (but always top
class) musicians.
In 1990 the readers of ‘Modern Drummer’
magazine voted for him to enter into the magazine’s Hall of Fame…
Bill Buford’s discography (as a member of a
band or guest musician) must exceed 60 records in total…
In the following videos you can see him together with Genesis performing live the songs "Carpet Crawlers" and the second part of "Supper's Ready'. Best moment when Phil Collins joins him on drums and they play together...
This last week I listened to lots of music and mostly Progressive Rock, because I was preparing the radio show. But there were times I wanted to listed to something different, because I felt I was having a
This last week I listened to lots of music and mostly Progressive Rock, because I was preparing the radio show. But there were times I wanted to listed to something different, because I felt I was having a
