So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Dave W]

[Alanko]

Gentle Giant!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38gA850AF0o&list=PL94gOvpr5yt2qr9Br8BNRbh8NnMbhEZ66&index=4

[amptech]

Gentle Giant!

#metoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvRd383NdiE&list=PL4228DBEF3699C944&index=6

EDIT: I think the album cover fits in here for some reason 

[Dave W]

Before Gentle Giant, the brothers Shulman were Simon Dupree and the Big Sound

[gearHed289]

Before Gentle Giant, the brothers Shulman were Simon Dupree and the Big Sound

I think I enjoyed that more than GG.  But wow, tempo is all over the place early in the track!

[uwe]

I spent great parts of Corona listening to the behemoth Gentle Giant Boxed Set "Unburied Treasure" - it drove Edith mad!



Dave, since when do you study the family trees of eclectic-esoteric British Proggies?

I hate it when you disappoint my preconceptions.

[Dave W]

I think I enjoyed that more than GG.  But wow, tempo is all over the place early in the track!

You noticed. 

There's a Little Picture Playhouse wasn't a hit, I'm aware of it b/c a Minneapolis band called Stillroven covered it back in the day. Good pop song.

This one got airplay. First YT comment: "That drummer is no John weathers that’s  for damn sure."

[uwe]

Would you believe, I listen to countrymen and -women of our (vocal) Dutch minority here ...

Holländers pretending to be Yanks and stealing (a national habit) Blue Öyster Cult riffs ... 



But it's very nicely done and très melodic!

[westen44]

They definitely aren't as cute as Ilse DeLange, but here is Golden Earring from 2015.

[Pilgrim]

Had to check this out after it was shared here recently. This sure shows off Cash's voice and how he could slide into a note.

[gearHed289]

Would you believe, I listen to countrymen and -women of our (vocal) Dutch minority here ...

Holländers pretending to be Yanks and stealing (a national habit) Blue Öyster Cult riffs ... 



But it's very nicely done and très melodic!

Not really in my wheelhouse, but that first tune "We Don't Make the Wind Blow" has great guitar tones and some cool chord changes, along with the great vocals.

[Dave W]

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Dave, since when do you study the family trees of eclectic-esoteric British Proggies?

I hate it when you disappoint my preconceptions.

Sorry I overlooked your comment.

"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives."

[uwe]

That's ok, ignore me, I'm used to it.

[uwe]

Not really in my wheelhouse, but that first tune "We Don't Make the Wind Blow" has great guitar tones and some cool chord changes, along with the great vocals.

Those harmony vox are pretty stellar. My wife had it on her  spotify and she played it to me. Sie used to sing in a choir, so harmony vocals always catch her attention.

[westen44]

Jack Bruce looks disheveled  here and was obviously on something.  But things gradually progress for the better.  Toward the middle, Ginger Baker starts playing drums.  There is a lot of spontaneous bass playing going on.  I just wish he could have playing the EB-1 like he did at the Cream reunion and with Robin Trower at Nijmegen.  But as has already been established somewhere in a Gibson thread, Jack Bruce didn't even have the EB-1 until later.