#beggars opera

[panzergeist]

Beggars Opera - Time Machine

[dadrockconfessions]

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

What’s your recommendation for prog rock songs? I want to get into it but some songs are just way too long.

Okay first: there's an issue with YouTube videos about getting into it. People show a handful of HUGE SUCCESSES and EPIC MILESTONE ALBUMS with 10 minute longtracks? They're used to 20 minute tracks and forget that seven minutes can be long for newcomers

How to get into prog

For me personally, the best way to get into the genre is to find one band or two that really are something you can build on. Then you fall into that circle of constantly discovering new (old).

To the songs: find your kind and grow on the music

I recommend to start with the 80s stuff and then dig deeper by the time

(songs get longer in order)

^ first progressive-proto metal song ever. Nobody talks bout it

don't start with Gong or Arthur Brown or Magma

Honestly I'm also at the beginning, started in April. The prog I like are the small obscure groups. Here a known one among the unknown

^ nice album (song gives strong summer vibes)

^ song that got me into progressive jazz fusion (⁠*⁠_⁠*⁠) you won't regret a short listen

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There's prog from all over the world. From Italy, from France, from the US

But Britain rules

There was prog in the 80s, there's prog in the 21th century

There's electronic prog, there's acoustic prog

There's evil prog, there's harmless catboy prog

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Take your time no rush y all

[krispyweiss]

David Bowie and Iggy Pop Collaborator Ricky Gardiner Dies at 73

- “Nicest guy who ever played guitar,” Pop says of former bandmate

Scottish guitarist Ricky Gardiner, best known for his 1970s work with David Bowie and Iggy Pop, has died at age 73.

“Another guitar genius and personal friend passed into the next world,” longtime Bowie producer Tony Visconti said in announcing the musician’s death, citing an email from Gardiner’s wife, Virginia.

“Very sorry to hear this news,” Blondie drummer Clem Burke, aka Elvis Ramone, tweeted.

Gardiner played on Bowie’s Low and Pop’s The Idiot and co-wrote “The Passenger” for the latter. The guitarist toured with Pop when Bowie was in the band as keyboardist.

“Dearest Ricky, lovely, lovely man, shirtless in your coveralls, nicest guy who ever played guitar,” Pop wrote on Twitter. “Thanks for the memories and the songs, rest eternal in peace.”

Prior to working with Bowie and Pop, Gardiner co-founded with the Scottish group Beggars Opera. Singer Martin Griffiths said Gardiner “lifted us with his beautiful guitar playing.”

“Ricky sent our songs into space,” Griffiths wrote on Facebook, adding: “When I think of the incredible times we had together … well …”

5/16/22

[zarzuelar]

the picture ever

[cosmonautroger]

[fodderstompferz]

beggars opera - waters of change (1971)

choice track: 'festival'

[ranithefishpeterson]

Beggars Opera 初描き。衣装は例のビートクラブを参考に