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The Vortex is listing something else for October 5th, see http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/events/2015-10-05/ - anyone know what's happened?

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1441628710' post='2860350'] How long was the set roughly? I too am having minor journey home concerns... [/quote] You should be on your way before 10pm.

I was at Brighton on Saturday. No spoilers but you're in for some hot tickles. (Setlists from the tour so far are available at setlist.fm and dgmlive.com for the curious). Full steam ahead for Hackney tomorrow. Kick off is very soon after the advertised 7.30, and there's no interval nor support. I suspect my journey home from Brighton to SW London will be faster than my journey home from Hackney.

This is tonight! Doors at 7pm, running order pretty much as above. Recent Velcro Pelmet gig have seen material originally by Weather Report, Miles Davis, Billy Cobham, Mike Stern, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny and others, plus the occasional VP original. The Far Meadow are prog rock, check them out at https://thefarmeadow.bandcamp.com/ Good old rock'n'roll/surf covers from Young Scientists

He's doing a warm-up gig at the Brighton Centre tomorrow night. That's a warm-up gig, at the Brighton Centre. I'd have considered it but King Crimson are on at the Dome at the same time. The town's going to be lifting with prog fans.

After a break over the summer we're back at the Tooting Tram & Social this Sunday, September 6th for another jazz and related night. We (Velcro Pelmet) are on last at about 9.30pm, before us are Young Scientists (7.30pm) and The Far Meadow (8.30pm). Sign up and see more details at https://www.facebook.com/events/458591000984924/ - you'll see previous setlists listed on the event pages for our other gigs. We've got a few numbers lined up that haven't seen light at the Tramshed yet.

Bargain from Sonuus if you ask me: buy a Voluum or Wahoo pedal and get a free i2M midi interface: http://shop.sonuus.com/index.php?cPath=24

I used to enjoy a 2-bass band called Tits Of Death. *drifts off into happy place*

[quote name='Shockwave' timestamp='1440521875' post='2851551'] 6 til 7 PM. Just rang up wunjos to confirm. [/quote] Thanks. In! 1. Shockwave 2. such 3. Ordep 4. toneknob 5. (maybe post in General Discussion as well?)

I'm in, depending on start time. Any idea?

Accidentally bosh them with increasingly massive/painful pieces of equipment each time you pass.

As well as the original two albums, also worth checking out are the two archival releases Hatwise Choice and Hattitude, and a more recent release on CD and DVD of Access All Areas, a live recording from the 80s with Richard Sinclair, Pip Pyle, Phil Miller and Sophia Domancich on keys. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIAuBpZbtSU[/media]

See you at The Vortex - any idea when tickets go on sale? I first heard JH on the Trace Elliot compilation "Also Available In Green", released in 1994. He's got one track on there, a 7-minute edit of "Regicide", which originally appeared on his Ars Moriende album in its full 23 minutes. (The edited version starts about 16 minutes in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=993isHsG2Y4

Just play root notes.

Check out Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit's first self-titled and live album. It's on spotify ... https://open.spotify.com/album/32l3J1s8bRTQqEACQjdEfx

Should I stay or should I go? If I go there will be trouble, and if I stay it will be double. (sounds like "go" is the slightly preferable option then tbh)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMvN45sjo4 Woo, fireworks

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1439814579' post='2845941'] Graham worked on my '62 Refin P. Very decent bloke. [/quote] Yeah. He sorted out the unplayable 8-string neck on a Shergold double-neck for me as well. Lovely little workshop he's got down there. Don't think I've ever seen him outside it.

It's D major. There's no need to shoehorn passing notes or chords into the overall tonality of the song.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1439466453' post='2843056'] Greenslade were major prog!!! [/quote] Greenslade's album "The Pentatech of the Cosmogeny" came in a double vinyl box set with accompanying hardback book. From wikipedia "The story and artwork within 'Pentateuch' concerns the discovery of an abandoned spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter, and the project to decipher the ideograms in the pentateuch 'document' discovered within. Most of the book is a retelling of the document, in much the same way as a modern translator might retell the contents of a Babylonian tablet or Egyptian papyrus scroll. Particularly remarkable is the combinatorial ideographic script created by Woodroffe and used throughout the artwork". A selection of song titles from the album includes Birds & Bats & Dragonflies, Fresco/Kashrinn, Vivat Regina, Miasma Generator. I think we can include Greenslade as prog! That's something else not mentioned so far in the "but is it prog?" debate - packaging. What other examples of packaging excess are there in the genre? Both Yes and ELP did triple live albums, for example: Yessongs and WBMFTTSTNE...L&GEL&P

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1439405081' post='2842591'] Good stuff folks, glad it all worked out! [/quote] Expect a deluge of "now how the heck do I do ...." type questions from now on

Wow, thanks for the tip - this has just made a huge difference to another beginner Quad Capture user. Nice one!

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1439369451' post='2842153'] I don't think that anyone has mentioned The Yes Album yet? My favourite, probably because it isn't 'too proggy'! [/quote] [color=#252525][font=sans-serif]Perpetual Change, Starship Trooper and YIND are among my top Yes songs. Shame that All Good People quickly outstays its welcome and lets the side down a bit.[/font][/color]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1439367717' post='2842131'] I was thinking as I was driving to work this morning. Hardly any mention for the other Canterbury Scene bands: National Health, Hatfield and the North, Egg, Matching Mole etc. I struggled with some of them at the time because I probably wasn't ready for it but I quite liked National Health and Hatfield and the North (The Rotters Club). I kind of thik of some of the as Jazz Rock (Soft Machine?) rather than Prog but I think there are blurred lines with these guys. [/quote] Hatfield are great, there's been a few "archive" releases since their first two albums. Hatwise Choice and Hattitude have some gems on them but can go on a bit. More recently live album/DVD Access All Areas is a cracker. I never really "got" Soft Machine, but have enjoyed their renaissance gigs as Soft Machine Legacy - it was great to see Hugh Hopper before he left us. For an up to date Canterbury sound, have a listen to Syd Arthur, their first album On And On is recommended.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1439224567' post='2841018'] The gated snare drum sound has it's origins in Peter Gabriel's 3rd album from 1980. [/quote] Yep, from Intruder. (Hence my earlier "Blame Phil Collins" mention).