Prog rock - the psychedelic 70s

florerider

from the band who started it all - the one and only Moody Blues



Played on the original NAD 2020 and Dual CS505 with Mission 700 speakers

What did you have?

team47b

King Crimson - in the court of the crimson king, played through the biggest Marshall speakers seen outside of the *Rainbow


(*theatre that is, not the optical and meteorological phenomenon that is caused by both reflection and refraction of light in water droplets in Earth's atmosphere)

florerider

from this:



to this



what has the world come to :roll:

BelgianBeerGeek

I do enjoy a bit of Prog. The Yes Album is ace. Might go home and dig out some Caravan.

drlodge

florerider wrote:

from the band who started it all - the one and only Moody Blues



Played on the original NAD 2020 and Dual CS505 with Mission 700 speakers

What did you have?

My setup isn't quite that old. Acoustic Research (AR) EB101 turntable, Musical Fidelity A100 amp (class A) and Epos ES14 speakers. My brother has the amp now, I still have the rest as my second hifi with MF XP-100/XA-200 power amps. (with a Meridian 206B CD Player)

florerider

replaced by a Cyrus system some years ago. Now pretty much into classical only.

Still some psychedelic covers though:



perhaps this should be a then and now thread too?

capt_slog

I didn't have any fancy kit, just a little record player that i used to plug my headphones in and turn it up LOUD!

But I still enjoyed the music just as much*. I listened to a lot of Yes, Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, Led Zep, Floyd, and Steve Hillage. There was a lot of other too but you wouldn't call those psychdelic.



*In fact I often heard a lot more from my bass-lacking system than those that drowned out all the rest of the music by having the bass so loud. I remember whistleing something one day and my mates couldn't work out what it was. They had the same records but never heard the same music.

graham.

I remember Rick Wakeman saying he wrote to the NME because they spelled his name "Rock Wankman"

Rick. "You've spelled my name wrong"
NME. "No we haven't"

Yellow Peril

Can't believe that there is a thread on Prog Rock and no-one has mentioned Focus...you infidels!

tlw1

what about a bit of Barclay James Harvest? (only because I bought a house of one of them & didn't have a clue who they were when looking at the gold discs on the wall)!

rayjay

Rush

random man

I was going to say prog rock was a load of pretentious, overblown b@llocks but then Focus and Barclay James Harvest got mentioned, and I liked them, but I didn't think they were pretentious though

Sirius631

Got Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Fanfare for the Common Man on 7" vinyl but I'm not sure that counts as it is too short and is a rearrangement of a classical piece.

Probably too recent to be called prog rock, I have King Crimson's album, Three of a Perfect Pair on 12" vinyl.

I have a turntable to play side vinyl on, but it's mostly used for ripping my vinyl to hard drive.

On CD, I have Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson, Yes 35th Anniversary compilation and Yes Stories compilation.

socrates

Stand Up - Jethro Tull

mrfpb

Listening to "Seconds Out" by Genesis. At their best, I think.

BelgianBeerGeek

mrfpb wrote:

Listening to "Seconds Out" by Genesis. At their best, I think.

Selling England by the Pound is also a nice listen.

florerider

Yellow Peril wrote:

Can't believe that there is a thread on Prog Rock and no-one has mentioned Focus...you infidels!

Yup, had their first album too

pinno

florerider wrote:

Yellow Peril wrote:

Can't believe that there is a thread on Prog Rock and no-one has mentioned Focus...you infidels!

Yup, had their first album too

Yodeling and rock - interesting mix

RonB

Yellow Peril wrote:

Can't believe that there is a thread on Prog Rock and no-one has mentioned Focus...you infidels!

YudedarYudedarYudedarYudedarYudedarYudedarYumpompom

pinno

RonB wrote:

Yellow Peril wrote:

Can't believe that there is a thread on Prog Rock and no-one has mentioned Focus...you infidels!

YudedarYudedarYudedarYudedarYudedarYudedarYumpompom

Are you sure you weren't in the band?

BTW folks, RonB makes a rare appearance. RonB: chief designer of the aggieboy basement.

florerider

surprised no one put this one up

Captain Slackbladder

Its a genre of music i've never really got into. Give me the punk and new wave bands that followed any day.

Sirius631

florerider wrote:

surprised no one put this one up

Although formed in1970, Kraftwerk are definitely not prog rock.

pinno

Are Kraft werk not Bosch Werk Prog Bop bang diddley beep?

I'll get my coat.

arthur_scrimshaw

Hawkwind, saw them at Worthing Assembly Rooms, no Stacia though
The first record I ever bought was Tarkus by ELP, crock of ****,

diamonddog

Carmen - Fandangos In Space, flamenco prog rock still sounds a bit different.

Alain Quay

It was a grim time

arthur_scrimshaw

I was a fan back in the day, saw them live just after Fragile came out. Lyrics were bizarre. Loved the artwork and also bought Greenslade's bedside manners were extra on the strength of the album cover, life was simple back then!

bill57

I still have Focus 3. Trivia - if I remember, in 1973 Focus were the first band since The Shadows to have two instrumentals in the Top Ten at the same time, ie Hocus Pocus and Sylvia

SickAsAParrot

Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:

Hawkwind, saw them at Worthing Assembly Rooms, no Stacia though
The first record I ever bought was Tarkus by ELP, crock of ****,

Big fan of Hawkwind, seen them about 5 times since the mid 80's, but wouldn't really call them prog, just ordinary rock awash with synthesizer spacey-ness.

Close to the Edge is my favourite proggy album.

PedalPedant

Not the 70s or particularly psychedelic but Numberphile did a Pi Prog Rock for "Pi Month":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E36qMxXGo3A

PP