In 2006
Nell James was a teenage prog rocker, writing, playing and singing all instruments, and self-producing an album in her bedroom studio that paid homage to 1970s English art rock, a genre that arguably passed its zenith when her parent were in kindergarten. The result,
Tempus, received positive reviews in the re-emging prog rock press. Also impressive was her cover/re-arrangement of Gentle Giant's
On Reflection.
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posted by Herodios
on Aug 8, 2008 -
15 comments
Original Rush drummer is John Rutsey dead at 55. Rush was one of the most successful prog rock acts of the 70s and 80s. Much of this success can be attributed to Neil Peart, whose airy, transcendent lyrics and virtuoso drumming in large part defined the band. But there was another drummer--more in the heavy style of John Bonham--who gripped the rhythmic helm on their first album: one
John Rutsey. Mr Rutsey left the band early after a diagnosis of diabetes. This month he succumbed to a heart attack, a common complication. Unfortunately, a discursive look at youtube revealed no live footage of Mr Rutsey in action.
Here is a pic from his heyday.
posted by zorro astor
on May 18, 2008 -
22 comments
If you love the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (and who in their right mind doesn't?) and enjoyed the Japanese version of Smoke on the Water, you might just barely tolerate
this.
Warning: contains five minutes of repackaged progressivepretentious rock and images of cello-based dorkiness. I gave it 98/100.
posted by wendell
on Apr 13, 2008 -
26 comments
Anglo-Finnish artist
Sanna Annukka's vibrant, flat design work (especially her
Icons series) got me curious about her, well, iconography.
She mentioned
The Kalevala previously, the Finnish national epic poem (
in Finnish here), a tale of creation and heroism that arguably spurred the Finns to independence from the Russians.
Like so much else epic and awesome, it spawned a '70s prog band, with
three albums.
posted by klangklangston
on Feb 25, 2008 -
23 comments
Rush Rush is a
Canadian rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist
Gary Lee Weinrib, guitarist
Alexander Zivojinovich, and drummer and lyricist
Neil Ellwood Peart.
Bewitched by
Ayn Rand, obsessed by nuclear war and enraptured by
cheap science fiction, Rush were role models to
geeks everywhere,
yearning to be cool, but
failing. Still,
they rocked, in their own way.
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posted by psmealey
on Oct 15, 2007 -
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