Posted on 01/25/2020 2:59:22 PM PST by SamAdams76
I think I played this song at least 10 times today.
I discovered this because I am building a playlist of songs that were popular a half century ago. I intend to carry this through for the rest of my life. The playlist is called "50 Years".
I was born in 1962 so I only started remembering music around the year 1970 but back then, it was Partridge Family, Archies, that type of stuff, because I was only 7 years old, you know.
But this song by King Crimson is EPIC. Turns out that the late Greg Lake did vocals. It's a 10+ minute masterpiece. Said to be the first real "prog-rock" album.
Anyhow, it's great to discover music a half century after it came out. The album art is ugly but I'll post a lion down below, which is pretty cool.
LOL, I just thought it would be cute to include that line from Genesis’ “It” (from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway).
Wow.. Fun stuff! Amazing brass!!
Rachel is amazing. She also did a version of “Trilogy”.
Born in 63 in Detroit! Lots of awesome music thats been laying dormant
I was more partial to the Discipline album, particularly “Sheltering Sky”
Thank you.
I didn’t know where to start. ;)
King Crimson is an acquired taste. Very proggy, like Hawkwind, Yes, ELP, bands like that. If you want to hear a band I’d like to see go down in a firey plane crash, it’s the Moody Blues. Hearing ‘Knights in White Satin’ makes me want to on a killing spree.
..AND Locomotive Breath. The BEST. Imho
Check out Rory Gallagher as well.
No idea of what that means. Grunge is the only noise I can ID when I hear it.
And don’t overlook Uriah Heep!
Try “Stealin’”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqLh3OcwvyI&list=RDBEEI-UaoETc&index=12
(and here they are in more recent live versions of the song, more energetic! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiRFW8QSQYY
and 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbb7du0Sgy8
LOL, they’re aging well).
Or try “Easy Living”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNRlCrI_Q-s
or “The Magician’s Birthday” from the live album “Uriah Heep Live January 1973.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkEzoxk_Gy8
For old women?
Spookytooth, “Cotton Growing Man,” from “You broke my heart so I busted your jaw,” released 1973.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfMiwDsEOPI
Rory Gallagher was amazing. Definitely a Top 5 Guitarist for me.
Was just thinking of that album reading this thread. Incredible LP sound, almost too sharp.
A couple of other more obscure Progressive bands that I discovered and really like are “Gentle Giant” and “Van der Graaf Generator”.
Omgosh.. Did you see this?! www.OnTheBlueCruise.com
Welcome! Glad to have you in the club.
I made it through a couple of minutes, but this is not my music either.
Still, I'm glad to see this thread. It is a rare, wonderful experience to find a new piece of music that connects on so many levels that you have to listen to it dozens of times. Come to think of it, that could be the basis for an FR thread.
Steve Morse is the lead guitarist, he is better known as the guitarist for Deep Purple. I saw them twice last year on their reunion tour.
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