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[Iggy]

Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd.

[Steve Jones]

The Flower Kings - @Live Recording 2003.

Lovely morning here, frosty, sunny and generally festive.  TFK is just the upbeat soundtrack to complement this

[Teunis]

Peter Gee - The Spiritual World
Martin Orford - The Old Road

[Steve Jones]

Galahad - Empires Never Last.

[Iggy]

Satellite - Evening Games and Fear of Gravity

[The Butterfly Man]

NP: Marillion - Pudding On The Ritz

Yeah I got it as well Steve!

Little St. Nick is hands down the BEST christmas song they ever recorded. Really nice!

Tom

[Iggy]

Led Zeppelin BBC sessions absolutely awesome   

[maddox]

The Flower Kings - Back In The World Of Adventures

[The Butterfly Man]

NP: Neal Morse - ?

Tom

[maddox]

Coldplay - Life In Technicolor

[Nicky007]

NP  Jeff Loomis:  Zero Order Phase  (on MySpace)

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=31641186

Awesome !!!  (a word I rarely use)

Jeff is the guitarist of Nevermore.

Reminds me of some of Steve Vai's instrumental stuff, but Jeff is more complex.

Tom, as a guitarist, whaddaya think ?

Nicky.

[Nicky007]

NP  Pantera:  The Great Southern Trendkill

Pantera are a highly original band. They seem more alert than most other heavies; there are constant shifts and changes, both in the instrumentation and in Phil's singing, and basically no cliches like long thrash passages.

It's unpleasant music, a bad thing for most people, but for me it's an incentive.

I got Trendkill and Reinventing The Steel some time ago somewhat casually, but now I'v decided to get properly into these crazy guys 

Already on first proper run, this stuff grips me; that makes it easy 

Anyone else into Pantera ?

Nicky.

[maddox]

Demians - Building An Empire

Track: Sand

[h9]

NP : Dream Of Me - The Violet Hour

Nice voice and of course great flute.

[The Butterfly Man]

NP  Jeff Loomis:  Zero Order Phase  (on MySpace)

Tom, as a guitarist, whaddaya think ?

I'll give it a listen when I'm home tonight and let you know (I don't have a soundcard on my pc at work)!

NP: Riverside - Second Life Syndrome (on my iPod)

I'm preparing for their gig tomorrow in Amsterdam!

Tom

[Steve Jones]

Porcupine Tree - Recordings.

[The Butterfly Man]

NP: Sigur Rós - Sæglópur

Tom

[PH]

Today I played:
Marillion - Marbles
Marillion - Happiness Is The Road (Vol. 1: Essence)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

And now:
Ritual - The Hemulic Voluntary Band
6. A Dangerous Journey
An epic (26:29 minutes) and a great song! Beautiful.

Anybody loving that album? (Excluding Steve Jones and Iggy)

[Teunis]

Shadowland - Mad As A Hatter

[maddox]

Ritual - The Hemulic Voluntary Band
6. A Dangerous Journey
An epic (26:29 minutes) and a great song! Beautiful.

Anybody loving that album? (Excluding Steve Jones and Iggy)

Funny, i haven't heard anything of Ritual. Strange actually.
If i recall correctly the guitarist of Ritual is also the guitarist of Kaipa and that one i do like.

Must dive into Ritual. 

NP> Amaseffer - Exodus: Slaves For Live

Without a doubt the best album of this year and i even dare to say that it's the best prog-album ever made! 

[PH]

Funny, i haven't heard anything of Ritual. Strange actually.

haha very funny indeed! You NEED to hear this. I think you'll really like it!
I don't know the other Ritual albums though. (From samples I can say that I don't like them as much as The Hemulic Voluntary Band.)

If i recall correctly the guitarist of Ritual is also the guitarist of Kaipa and that one i do like.

You silly. The vocalist/guitarist of Ritual is also the vocalist of Kaipa.
The guitarist of Kaipa is Per Nilsson (and formerly Roine Stolt of course, but I guess you knew THAT! )

Must dive into Ritual. 

At least this album.

NP> Amaseffer - Exodus: Slaves For Live

And I need to get that one.

Without a doubt the best album of this year and i even dare to say that it's the best prog-album ever made! 

Those are very daring words!
Must REALLY check it out then!! (It's already on my wish list by the way)


Now playing:
Arena - Immortal?
5. Climbing The Net


-Paco

[Iggy]

Today I played:
Marillion - Marbles
Marillion - Happiness Is The Road (Vol. 1: Essence)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

And now:
Ritual - The Hemulic Voluntary Band
6. A Dangerous Journey
An epic (26:29 minutes) and a great song! Beautiful.

Anybody loving that album? (Excluding Steve Jones and Iggy)

I haven't got that album but thanks for the reminder.

NP Atom Heart Mother an under rated little album by Pink Floyd

[Nicky007]

NP  Pantera: Floods  (on Trendkill, on repeat)

Terrific song 

I'v really become captivated by Pantera recently, and they'v become one of my fave groups. I find'm far more exciting than Metallica.

For some strange reason, Pantera are usually classified together with groups like Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax, but in my experience, they have far more to offer than these other bands, more intensity, anguish, forthrightness, imagination, somehow.

Now I'm talkin about their last two albums, Trendkill and Reinventing. I'm not familiar with their earlier albums, which according to Wikipedia are more glam metal like.

I'l get some more of their albums when finances allow, but I have a hunch that these two albums represent the most exciting period in Pantera's development, 1995-2001.

NP  Atom Heart Mother, an underrated album by Pink Floyd

Right, Iggy, even the Floyd guys seem to disown it.

When I was a teenager, AHM meant just as much to me as Dark Side Of The Moon, which was supermuch !

Nicky.

[Steve Jones]

Wizzard - Wizzard Brew.

And no, it doesn't include 'I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday'!

[h9]

Without a doubt the best album of this year and i even dare to say that it's the best prog-album ever made!

Wow. Is anybody will make a different opinion about this album?. It really makes me curious.
NP: Pygmalion - Triangle