7/4

exit 19 (as I recall, I drive past it all the time on my Albany trips).

I know I didn't like it as much as their older albums, the hit's were OK. But I got tired of the hits over the years. I think it's much slicker & polished than the previous albums...don't really care about the labels.

To Know Him Is To Love Him is the interesting tune...I'm not a fan of the Wall.

thanks for turning me on to the article, I heard about this last week and I think it's cool they're playing @ the VV.

I haven't listened to or watched the news since I heard about it this morning. life's good.

Varèse Live on ICE.

If that indeed was what they chose to play, that was one concert best avoided. Yeah, because Lord knows you can always see them on their frequent tours... but look at the tunes...ugh!

more here An Intrepid Group Surveys an Idiosyncratic Composer more...

In the early 80s we in NJ started calling it progrock because it was shorter to say. simple as that.

pretty fucking hot...100.

The Blue Note logo always seems to be looking at me.

I went to an open house and tapped on them a bit. I don't think it cost a cent.

I have that one...haven't heard it in years. Stars playing the Partch instruments.

Happy Birthday Harry Partch.

Happy birthday Terry!

Larks Tongues in Aspic, Starless And Bible Black, Discipline...the League of Gentlemen.

Frippertronics are beautiful. I think it all sounds good...old fuzz pedals and reel-to-reel tape loops.

Nice vid of Knife Edge! I love that first album.

I thought that was the classical influence, The Rite of Spring and Petrushka are like that too. Relayer may be the album where they got the closest to that music, they barely got there* with Wakeman in the band. Perhaps. Though with Stravinsky's 'cut and paste' there's a melodic, harmonic or rhythmic logic that unites the disparate parts. They might seem episodic but it hangs together and I'm sure anyone with a score and an analytical brain could trace the links. I don't get that sense with Yes (understandably...they were working in a quite different environment) - seems more 'This sounds good, lets add this bit, how about this." It always sounded natural to me. I remember seeing on the net - years ago- how someone had analysed Close to the Edge and decided it was in the same form as a sonata/concerto. I don't know enough about that sort of thing to know if it's true.

On Relayer: I thought that was the classical influence, The Rite of Spring and Petrushka are like that too. Relayer may be the album where they got the closest to that music, they barely got there* with Wakeman in the band. *there = sort of like Stravinsky. they opened most concerts with a recording of the Firebird, but did they really show his influence in their music?

some call it minimalism, some call it prog..it's just some lightweight instrumental pop.

spinning this right now. melodic, no guitar/keyboard/percussion heroes on this one.

Yes...& prog-rock too a while longer. probably a bigger influence on Pat Metheny!

I always felt it was his reaction to early Mahavishnu, maybe their heaviest album.