Progressive rock / metal

(Would be cool if the thread title was renamed to Progressive rock/metal :P)

Anyway, second album of Martin Lopez's band Soen. They sound like a mix between Opeth and Tool, no growls though.

 
To yes fans.... @SinisterMinisterX @Brigantium @Mosh

Chris Squire, bass-player of Yes, has been diagnosed with acute erythroid leukemia.
"Acute erythroid leukemia (M6) has a relatively poor prognosis. A 2010 study of 124 patients found a median overall survival of 8 months." (Wikipedia) :/

In a way, he is the Steve Harris of Yes. Perhaps not as a leader or main songwriter, but he's the only member who was there all the time, up til this point. Both have prominent aggressive, dynamic and melodic styles.


From the Yes website:
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Chris Squire to undergo treatment for Leukemia
Grammy Award-winning bass guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of Yes, Chris Squire, has been diagnosed with Acute Erythroid Leukemia (AEL), an uncommon form of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).

Chris will be receiving treatment in his hometown of Phoenix over the next few months.

YES will be honoring their commitments to their North American summer tour with Toto, as well as confirming their performances on the Cruise To The Edge in November.

Chris’s role in the band will be covered by YES alumnus Billy Sherwood.

To quote Chris, “This will be the first time since the band formed in 1968 that YES will have performed live without me. But the other guys and myself have agreed that Billy Sherwood will do an excellent job of covering my parts and the show as a whole will deliver the same YES experience that our fans have come to expect over the years.”
 
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Forostar said:
In a way, he is the Steve Harris of Yes. Perhaps not as a leader or main songwriter, but he's the only member who was there all the time, up til this point. Both have prominent aggressive, dynamic and melodic styles.
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Didn't Harris say Squire was his favorite bassist?
 
One of his favourites. The one that might have influenced him the most in particular, is probably Rinus Gerritsen from Golden Earring.
 
Very sad news. Chris Squire's bass playing was one of the things that really got me hooked on Yes when I started getting into them. He also does a lot of the backing vocals and even sang lead on a song from Fly From Here. One of the best rock bassists ever. He has a very upfront style like Steve Harris as well. The influence is very apparent.

It seems Yes (much like Kiss) is going to be one of those bands that keeps going even after no original members are left. Though it almost makes sense for them, as they've never had a stable lineup.
 
Bass players and Harris:

http://maidenfans.com/index.php?ACT=module&name=rwarticles&show=30
Steve: I do get a lot of people saying that I've influenced them, which; obviously is very flattering. But, the truth is, I'm really more interested in trying to write great songs. Maybe it's because I'm a bass player and I write a lot of the music. I grew up listening to a lot of different bass players like Chris Squire and John Entwistle. Also, Martin Turner from Wishbone Ash and Rinus Gerritsen from Golden Earring were both a very big influence on me. If you listen to some early Golden Earring records, you can really hear the influence!

http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads...ars-of-the-beast-available.12511/#post-140781
The influences for Harris bass studies were wide and varied. It was no surprise that in a golden era for rock he focused on such prominent musicians as Chris Squire of Yes and The Whos John Entwistle. There was also Wishbone Ashs Martin Turner and, more obscurely, Rinus Gerritsen from Golden Earring whose style had a major impact on the young Harris. He would later often credit Golden Earring as steering much of his upfront image.
Harris did not take lessons, preferring to teach himself from records. "I used to listen to early Free, early Sabbath, stuff like that. I liked some of the Free bass lines, fairly simple, but really nice technique."

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/iron-maiden-bassist-talks-about-his-technique-and-influences/
Steve Harris: "Because they're bloody boring, that’s why. In all they years I've been seing bands, there have been only three bassists who played interesting solos: Billy Sheehan, Rinus Gerritsen of GOLDEN EARRING, and Hellmut Hattler of the German cult band KRAAN. Billy Sheehan's playing is outrageously different."

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=29558
Bass Player: Who were the players you most admired when you were young?
Steve: Loads of them. I'm more into songs than players, but I'd say John Entwistle [THE WHO], Chris Squire [YES], Martin Turner [WISHBONE ASH], Rinus Garritsen [GOLDEN EARRING], and Andy Fraser [FREE]. Those guys are all very different, and I picked up little bits and pieces from all of them. I didn't try to sound like them; I just wanted to play the songs I liked.
 
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To yes fans.... @SinisterMinisterX @Brigantium @Mosh

Chris Squire, bass-player of Yes, has been diagnosed with acute erythroid leukemia.
"Acute erythroid leukemia (M6) has a relatively poor prognosis. A 2010 study of 124 patients found a median overall survival of 8 months." (Wikipedia) :/

In a way, he is the Steve Harris of Yes. Perhaps not as a leader or main songwriter, but he's the only member who was there all the time, up til this point. Both have prominent aggressive, dynamic and melodic styles.


From the Yes website:
- - - - - - -

Chris Squire to undergo treatment for Leukemia
Grammy Award-winning bass guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of Yes, Chris Squire, has been diagnosed with Acute Erythroid Leukemia (AEL), an uncommon form of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).

Chris will be receiving treatment in his hometown of Phoenix over the next few months.

YES will be honoring their commitments to their North American summer tour with Toto, as well as confirming their performances on the Cruise To The Edge in November.

Chris’s role in the band will be covered by YES alumnus Billy Sherwood.

To quote Chris, “This will be the first time since the band formed in 1968 that YES will have performed live without me. But the other guys and myself have agreed that Billy Sherwood will do an excellent job of covering my parts and the show as a whole will deliver the same YES experience that our fans have come to expect over the years.”
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Yeah, I know. :( I was going to post that yesterday, but I couldn't find a Yes thread and I must have overlooked this one.

It's a year since I saw Yes, I was very impressed by his playing then.
 
Forostar said:
In a way, he is the Steve Harris of Yes. Perhaps not as a leader or main songwriter, but he's the only member who was there all the time, up til this point.
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Actually, he was the leader most of the time, along with Anderson. Those two started Yes together, it was always mostly their band.
 
Progsnobs can now raise their children with quality children's music.

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https://nadavlazar.bandcamp.com/music
 
Do you guys know Treshold, from Surrey, UK? They're making albums since 1993. The debut and third album was done with Damien Wilson, who returned to the band a couple of years ago, doing the latest two albums.

Last year, I read that Treshold's latest album, For the Journey, was met with strong reviews. Hadn't checked it out yet. Quite like this. Catchy chorus.

From 1998 til 2007 the band was fronted by Andrew "Mac" McDermott who died in 2011 of kidney failure. Check this song from 2001, with a really nice balance by heavy riffs and melodic passages. Great rhythms and solos too!
 
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From the entry for Selling England by the Pound:
Dreams of Merrie Olde England turn into consumerist nightmares on Genesis's third album...
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Oh, Rolling Stone, where would we be without you... ::)

Mostly the usual suspects on the list. Most were familiar to me, but I'm more of a proghead than CFH. Not bad, all things considered.
 
RS also stated in this list that Animals was Roger Waters' attack on capitalism in England "during Margaret Thatcher's term as England's prime minister" -- even though the album was released in 1977, two years before Thatcher became Prime Minister. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
 
*shakes head over Dark Side of the Moon as number one*
Terribly overrated. Come on, it is one of the most famous albums they did, and the best selling one. But you know why? Because it is the least proggiest.
 
The reasons for calling Pink Floyd "prog" have always been different from other prog bands. It's the least proggiest by the usual standards of what we call prog now. However, I'd still say that their approach to the overall album was pushing the frontiers for 1974 (I think that's the right year?). You have to take a wider view on what prog is to account for Floyd. Which doesn't make Foro wrong, I'm just saying there's another way to see it.

Floyd is like Zappa or Tool; they get lumped into "prog" because that's the closest label we have to what they did.
 
I'd have picked another album of theirs, if a Pink Floyd album had to top this list.

Darkside of the Moon is certainly one of their most accessible, least complex albums. The album with the least changes in their songs (in both structure and mood). I find it odd that something like that tops this list. But then again, perhaps it's not odd since this magazine is Rolling Stone, a magazine that thinks commercial. They want to please all the people who are over the moon by this legendary classic album.
 
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I must be one of those people then. :bigsmile:

I think it's a reasonable choice for #1. Maybe not the best, but fully reasonable. They also ranked other good contenders like Selling England and Close to the Edge in their top 10. Given the source, and how horrible the RS lists usually are, this is a surprisingly good list. If there were someone totally ignorant of prog asking where to start, this list is actually not bad. It covers all the classics. That's about as good as you can hope for with RS.
 
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