Curious about Tony Banks - Genesis

GregC · Post by **GregC** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:50 pm

I was impressed that Bill Buford played drums with Phil Collins

wan · Post by **wan** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:02 am

GregC wrote:I was impressed that Bill Buford played drums with Phil Collins

+1

alanjpearson · Post by **alanjpearson** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:57 am

GregC wrote:I was impressed that Bill Buford played drums with Phil Collins

Why? (BTW it's Bill BRuford..........)

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Alan

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:30 pm

You have to just love the old Genesis stuff from the golden days of progressive rock. I'm glad to see that there is finally and has been for several years a resurgence of music and plying of this calibre.
Just out of curiosity, what prog bands do any of you like these days?

alanjpearson · Post by **alanjpearson** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:04 pm

jeremykeys wrote:You have to just love the old Genesis stuff from the golden days of progressive rock. I'm glad to see that there is finally and has been for several years a resurgence of music and plying of this calibre.
Just out of curiosity, what prog bands do any of you like these days?

I don't know about resurgence - I started my Genesis tribute in 2003!

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Alan

BrickPilot · Post by **BrickPilot** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:07 pm

jeremykeys wrote:You have to just love the old Genesis stuff from the golden days of progressive rock. I'm glad to see that there is finally and has been for several years a resurgence of music and plying of this calibre.
Just out of curiosity, what prog bands do any of you like these days?

I realize they split up a while back, but Spocks Beard had some good chops. Snow was a good concept album, IMO.

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:29 pm

Actually Spock's Beard haven't split up. Neal Morse left but the rest of the band has kept on going. As far as I know they have a new album coming out shortly. They are one of my current favourite bands still carrying the prog flag.

BrickPilot · Post by **BrickPilot** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:54 am

jeremykeys wrote:Actually Spock's Beard haven't split up. Neal Morse left but the rest of the band has kept on going. As far as I know they have a new album coming out shortly. They are one of my current favourite bands still carrying the prog flag.

Riiiiight, I stand corrected. I have the first post-Neal album. There's a couple good tunes on there. Interested to see if they can put anything together of the impact and quality as when Morse was there.

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:39 pm

Ooops. I thought they had a new CD coming out but it's a live one from the latest tour.

http://www.spocksbeard.com/index.html

I have several of their CD's and I like them all. Too bad the band isn't more popular. Don't understand that at all.
We're you ever into Gentle Giant?

BrickPilot · Post by **BrickPilot** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:52 pm

jeremykeys wrote:I have several of their CD's and I like them all. Too bad the band isn't more popular. Don't understand that at all.
We're you ever into Gentle Giant?

Hmm. Never heard of 'em.

jeremykeys · Post by **jeremykeys** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:40 pm

Gentle Giant was a prog band from the 70's. Difficult to describe as they sound was all over the place. They tended to do a lot of contrapuntal music and at times had a bit of a medieval sound. Very good though.

jimknopf · Post by **jimknopf** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 1:41 pm

Best description are Gentle Giant live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMrYSTz ... re=related

BrickPilot · Post by **BrickPilot** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:00 pm

jimknopf wrote:Best description are Gentle Giant live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMrYSTz ... re=related

Interesting. Sounds very Zappa.

blinkofanI · Post by **blinkofanI** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:53 pm

Hi guys,
3 of the original GG members are on tour these days. Their band is called Three Friends. I saw them last year(or was it 2 years ago?), quite a music lesson to see those guys play. Sorry i can't upload directly on this site as i got an image of me and guitarist Gary Green. Needless to say, quite a moment in my life!! And the guy is a genuine great guy...

Blink

BillW · Post by **BillW** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:11 pm

blinkofanI wrote:Hi guys,
3 of the original GG members are on tour these days. Their band is called Three Friends. I saw them last year(or was it 2 years ago?), quite a music lesson to see those guys play. Sorry i can't upload directly on this site as i got an image of me and guitarist Gary Green. Needless to say, quite a moment in my life!! And the guy is a genuine great guy...

Blink

I thought that came to and end in 2011.