Rare Prog Rock Bands

Is all the Tangs stuff funereally paced?
Not at all but I get why you ask. FWIW I find the earlier 'classic' albums dull. They hit a more upbeat accessible and textured approach from Stratosphere onwards. Force Majore is my personal favourite and almost Floydian. 80s stuff is new to me but loving it. Really makes my system work out (play it loud -it throbs as well as plinkity plonks along. Tangram and hyperboria are making me buzz at moment...
 
Do you think lots of people, who know Collins, don't realise how good a drummer he was (I say is simply because he doesn't seem to be fit to play anymore - I'm bored shitless of the running Blue Moon gag)?
I'd say that very few people who know him simply as a crooner know what a good drummer he is. And even fewer know that he's got a good feel for ternary rhythms (i.e. jazz-style drumming).
By the way, I don't know about the running gag. Do tell.
 
Not at all but I get why you ask. FWIW I find the earlier 'classic' albums dull. They hit a more upbeat accessible and textured approach from Stratosphere onwards. Force Majore is my personal favourite and almost Floydian. 80s stuff is new to me but loving it. Really makes my system work out (play it loud -it throbs as well as plinkity plonks along. Tangram and hyperboria are making me buzz at moment...

I never got into them back in the day. I have a compilation cd that has just five tracks from '74 - '76 incl. Phaedra & Rubycon (Pt1). Stratosfear is on there and the only track that is not really slow.

I love a good box set but 20 hours of slow ambient synth would be tooo much.
 
Do you think lots of people, who know Collins, don't realise how good a drummer he was (I say is simply because he doesn't seem to be fit to play anymore - I'm bored shitless of the running Blue Moon gag)?

The box set of him playing with lots of different artists is well worth investigating.

Bought tickets to see Genesis reunion but can't imagine the rearranged gigs will happen in April so who knows if and when they will.
Collins, as you say, was a brilliant drummer but that Gorilla could teach him a thing or two.
 
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Snow goose brings me back to the seventies round at a mates house. Up in his room in a large Victorian semi a bunch of us would gather maybe after the pub, a few joints, occasionally mushrooms or other psychedelics and he'd put on albums. So there would be Gong, Daevid Allen, Fish Rising from Hillage, Grateful Dead live Dark star). Maybe classed as more Hippie than prog. But offbeat prog albums would be Camel, Jade Warrior, Edgar Broughton (Oora), Soft Machine, Kevin Ayres. As well as the more obvious stuff. Saw Tractor at Deeply Vale free festival. Any other blues go?
Fish Rising ,great album... Saw Hillage at a small venue in Cambridge last year, maybe the year before , he was doing a couple of trial gigs.. Then he was going to play some bigger gigs... What a fantastic gig, brilliant,, did stuff just from that album, Green etc ,, just the good albums
 
Did indeed. I think I saw them about four times over the following twelve months. By putting RIP I presume you mean that what he did after Genesis was not very interesting?
Collins is a much better drummer technically than people in general know. Listen to his work with Eno, on Another Green World.
By the way, everybody only had eyes for Peter Gabriel, of course. I think everybody was wondering, where the fuck did this come from?
You’ve been a member on here for 7 years yet still think Phil’s alive!
 
The Edgar Broughton Band are one of my favourite 'rare;' progressive rock bands.

IMO it's well worth trawling through their catalogue as they produced a plethora of sounds and there's one there for everyone.




Wow, loved the first track .. I will have to look them up. Cheers
 
Wow, loved the first track .. I will have to look them up. Cheers

If that kinda hippy trippy side of the band ticked your boxes then bless your ears with a listen to this.
I've loved the herb for decades but never been inspired to take a hallucinogen. However, this track and a tab of old school acid are on the bucket list for some future day.

 

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