You've started a progressive rock band...

[salvorhardin]

What do you call it? What is your sound and who are your influences?
Just a little game to help take the edge off what's been a horrible day. I'll start.


Edgar Frog -- Neo-Prog Metal; Dream Theater, RUSH, King Crimson
Glomar Explorer -- Canterbury/Jazz Fusion; Soft Machine, Caravan, National Health
Salvor Hardin -- Mostly RIO (Rock In Opposition) and Krautrock; Henry Cow, Ash Ra Temple, Kraftwerk

On Edit:
Optional question: What's playing on your tour bus right now?
The Cure -- Fascination Street

[Ariana Celeste]

1. oooh.

Ariana & the Super Flies feat. DJ CJ.

Grunge with a hippy-esque twist and a splash of Janis Joplin meets the Beastie Boys.

Influences- Jerry Cantrell, Trent Reznor, Janis Joplin, Mellissa Ethridge, Vanilla Ice.

What's playing on my tour bus? The Howdy Doody theme.


*claps* :bounce:

[salvorhardin]

4. Trent Reznor meets Melissa Etheridge

I'd pay to see that.

[HEyHEY]

2. Who are Al Hedges

[Aristus]

3. Western Myth.

Influences: Concrete Blonde, Green Day and Pearl Jam.

[salvorhardin]

5. Good one!

Not exactly progressive rock but it'll do. Great band name.

[Elidor]

6. Tongue in Socket

Fusion. Influences: King Crimson, Tosca, DJ Shadow, Brubeck and Edvard Grieg.

[salvorhardin]

8. I predict

There's lots of grass at your concerts. :smoke:

[Elidor]

11. We're so stoned we've never made it to a gig yet

:D

[Ariana Celeste]

10. Oh man... LOVE King Crimson.

Most people my age (19) have never heard of them! It's a shame... awesome AWESOME music.

[Elidor]

12. They are the bomb

I'm hoping to catch them live the next time they come through Nashville. They play beyond the threshold of pain. My SO met Adrian Belew at Home Depot once–I'm so jealous!

[Ariana Celeste]

17. oh damn

I would LOVE to see them live....

as it stands, we only have a record, and our record player has a broken needle! good thing we recorded it onto the computer, though it's bad quality.... sounds so much better on the record player, man. good music to smoke to!

[sendero]

35. That record....

... (In the Court of the Crimson King), along with the later "Larks' Tongues in Aspic", "Starless and Bible Black" and "Red" are absolute classics of the prog rock genre that will never be equalled by anyone!

Period! End of story!

[salvorhardin]

36. I agree

King Crimson is great. I Talk To The Wind is on my top 100 tunes list.

[drumwolf]

7. "Shatterhand"

DESCRIPTION:
Pretty much influenced by early-'70s proto-metal with a psychedelic edge.


INFLUENCES:
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Stooges
MC5
Frank Zappa
Pretty Things
Pink Fairies
Ash Ra Tempel
Thee Hypnotics
Guru Guru
Sun Ra
Art Blakey


CD'S ON MY TOUR BUS:
John Coltrane
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Augustus Pablo
Buzzcocks
Misfits
Kruder and Dorfmeister
Paul Oakenfold
Chemical Brothers
El-P
Meat Beat Manifesto


ON EDIT -- OTHER POSSIBLE NAMES:
"Mayfair Underground"
"Revolver Stone"

[salvorhardin]

9. Your band is most likely

to have their drummer die in a bizarre and tragic accident first.

[drumwolf]

22. let me guess

a bizarre gardening accident, right?

[salvorhardin]

37. is there any other kind?

:-)

[asthmaticeog]

13. Polyhymnia

A cross between Neu! and Japanese neo-prog, with a clarinetist instead of a lead guitar, and an actual mellotron instead of synths.

Playing on the tour bus: Gong.

[salvorhardin]

14. I love Japanese neo-prog

and mellotrons rule!

[Wat_Tyler]

15. I'd be too busy commiting suicide.

[salvorhardin]

29. Hmm... I'm not sure

if that band name has commercial appeal. :-)

[Wat_Tyler]

48. Never underestimate the lack of taste in the marketplace.

[Squeech]

16. Once upon a time I had this idea

I found out there was a combination of equations in physics that were collectively known as the Grand Canonical Ensemble. I had no idea what the equations did, or even what branch of physics, but I loved the name. So I put together the band in my head. The idea was that everybody would be a prodigious multi-instrumentalist, and in the course of a concert, they'd litter the stage with discarded instruments :-) They'd start out as a string quartet, then (gradually) morph into folk-rock with a Gentle Giant medieval edge, then crank up the guitars and headbang, then one guy would sit down at a Rhodes and they'd do Soft Machiney fusion, and finally they'd all have humongous modular analog synths at the back of the stage and they'd make Stockhausen-style klangfarben.

I never met anybody who could do it, so I never attempted to write any of the material.

What I want to do now is a Charles Ives version of the Beach Boys, but I don't have a name for it.

[eyepaddle]

20. Oooohh Man,

Gentle Giant! Nice call!
Raconteur Troubadour! :)

[salvorhardin]

25. Great! I love it!

Both ideas!

Grand Canonical Ensemble is a wonderful band idea and Charles Ives arranging Beach Boys tunes is absolutely surreal.

[kodi]

18. The Renegade Priests of Freedom

get that whole church/state shit goin' on there.

starting point is recognizing that the drive for freedom and the drive to understand one's place in the universe are the two most powerful forces of humanity.

the latter, thru religion has its holy people, shamen, priests, etc. and so should the former. those who espouse human freedom as the highest form of human endeavor need to have they're walking, talking, and rocking human avatars of freedom.

motto? DANCE TO THE RHYTHM OF THE UNIVERSE!

music? straight out road house rock, infusion of mississippi delta blues, a touch of louisiana swamp zydeco, throw in slide guitar from an appalachian moutain hollow, a fiddle, a reggae back beat and bass line, blend in some west african steel guitar picking, and and and somewhere in there a 12 string gee-tar..........viola!

Renegade Priests of FREEDOM

[salvorhardin]

26. Wonderful

but Paul Simon would be glomming your sound right away. Sure, there'd be the big PBS special but then you'd quickly fade into relative obscurity so deep that there wouldn't even be the VH1 Behind the Music special.

[eyepaddle]

19. Heavy Duty Judy and the Master's of Public Health

(From a Frank Zappa song and the graduate degree)

Influences: Yes, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Iluvatar, Karnataka, OSI. Obviously there's a focus on guitar--and a ton of wailing, but mixed in with enrgetic bass, atmospheric keys, and if possible ethereal vocals.

In the tour bus: Judas Priest--Stained Class.

PS King Crimson rocks, so does ELP and Jethro Tull, as long as we're at it!

Hey Prog fans:hi:

[salvorhardin]

27. Would it be bombastic?

'cause if it was, I forsee you shooting to stardom faster than you can say "Neal Peart".

[eyepaddle]

31. Well, let me put it like this--

it won't be entirely bombast free! Probably more straight up pretentious than bombastic though. ;)

[salvorhardin]

38. Well, if you can pull off

a sustained level of pretentiousness so high that it would make both Jean Michael Jarre and Arjen Lucassen cry then I'd say you're going to be a runaway success.

[eyepaddle]

43. Okay, I'm signing off right after this

But my name is Dennis--what hope do I have of competing with those two? I suppose I could try and pronnce it Denee.

I could make up for my "pretension handicap" by naming songs such things as Valles Marineris or Utopia Planitia. Thank you astronomy, just for being there!

And on furhter review, I could always listen to a little TSO to help pipe up the BOMBAST!

[salvorhardin]

44. You could always...

dress on-stage in a English school boy uniform. That's always worth some points on the pretentious scale I'd say. If you got a lot of large tatoos that would score you bad-ass points to make up for the lack of bombast. Go with Denee, the astronomically influenced song titles and play every instrument yourself via neural implant and you're gonna be a star.


Denne... LMAO!!

[salvorhardin]

50. Oh, and I just have to say

Being named Dennis never stopped Dennis DeYoung from being pretentious! Ne dis jamais jamais!

[no name no slogan]

21. Jushua's Sword

Fundamentalist Christian Prog/Wave Death Metal is the sound, with lots of Old Testament lines in the lyrics. Latest single is "Repent or Die".
Also featuring a mad-crazy electric violinist/viola-ist who runs her fiddle through several Marshall stacks.

Influences include: Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, Petra, Metallica, Stryper, King Crimson, Curved Air, early Genesis, Marillion, Megadeth, Wire.

On the tourbus:
Frame by Frame -- King Crimson
Paranoid -- Black Sabbath
To Hell With the Devil -- Stryper
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
In Search of Space -- Hawkwind
The Metal Box (Seond Edition) -- Public Image Ltd.
Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis (for chillin' out)
all 80s records released by Petra, on vinyl
Pet Sounds -- The Beach Boys
The White Album -- The Beatles
Music for Airports -- Eno

Band will split up within 18 months due to "creative differences".

[salvorhardin]

28. Of course...

after the very messy, very public split up the violinist would come to notoriety when she co-stars in a hard-core porno with Paris Hilton. When's the reunion tour?

[no name no slogan]

53. 2014, I recon

...after two things happen:

* JS is featured on VH1's "I Love the 00's"
* They are tapped for an episode of VH1's "Bands Reunited", and it becomes the most-watched event in the history of TV.

Of course, they'll need a "guest" drummer, as the original one went off and joined a cult somewhere in the high Andes.

[St. Jarvitude]

23. Cellular Violet

The Men of 45th Street
Garbologists
Liquid Laugh

[Biased Liberal Media]

24. Biased Liberal Media

Seriously...

It'd be a mix of hip hop/rap and System of a down. LOL...

[salvorhardin]

30. I don't know

Biased Liberal Media sounds more like a Zeuhl band to me. :-)

[eyepaddle]

32. I just wanna state, on the record

that this thread is awesome! It's giving me a smile right before I crash! Gonna go practice for a few minutes though.

:yourock:

[salvorhardin]

33. Thanks

I was worried it was too abstract a concept, but it's really giving me a grin too. :-)


Though I'm really surprised no one has commented on the origins behind the name Edgar Frog -- and I thought you all were hip. :-(

[eyepaddle]

34. Have a good one

I'm gonna wail for a few--then crash!

[ZombieNixon]

39. By "progressive rock band"

do you mean a rock band whose members hold progressive political views? Because I'm thinking of starting one of those. Or do you mean a band that plays "progressive rock," 'cuz then...not really my thing.

[salvorhardin]

40. Well

I suppose you could interpret it either way, whichever floats your boat, but I intended "progressive rock" which is a term so nebulous that it could mean just about anything except Lynnard Skynnard (or the Eagles).

[clovis29]

41. I'm just a singer in a progressive band...

Moody Blues

[salvorhardin]

42. Prog snobs immediately declare

your band derivative, too commercial and unworthy of their attention. Your lead singer has a nervous breakdown and is put away in a padded cell after being arrested while molesting a chicken in a Tube station. He is replaced by David Hasselhoff and the band eeks out a meager living touring former Soviet bloc Eastern European countries. Your groupies are very hairy.

[tigereye]

45. intriguing thread- thanks.

brings back memories of my progressive rock days and their mutation to alternative ala King Crimson. Once saw Adrian Belew give a guitar talk at a uni here. Haven't heard anyone mention Henry Cow for a long time, either. I was a Yes, ELP, Genesis, Tull kid back in the day.

Some of my cronies used to have great noise/experimental radio shows, complete with old-fashioned synthesizers.

Me - I'd be more likely now to have a punk cover band for fun, but in my band days, my bands were sort of Zappaesque/punk/alt - pretty weird, with lots of tape loops, jazz influcences, women wailing, poetry, and esperanto mixed in.

oh, if I had a tour bus. Hmmm. Art Ensemble. Chet Baker. Le Tigre. Richard Hell. Meredith Monk. Tuvan throat singing. Osibisa. Mr. T Experience. ( I'm pretty eclectic in my tastes)

[salvorhardin]

46. You know, if anyone every told

me even a couple years ago that I'd actually like Henry Cow, I'd have said they were crazy -- then one day it suddenly clicked and now I can't imagine never having enjoyed them.

[no name no slogan]

54. So funny how a Crimso fixation does that to people

I made my "jump" from prog rock to alt-rock in the 1980s via two bands: King Crimson and Roxy Music. I always wondered if that happened to other people. Now I know!

[salvorhardin]

47. One last one before I hit the sack

Dalek Invasion -- Trance/Electronica & Folk; Oriental Wind, Faust, Radiohead and Peter, Paul and Mary

On the tour bus right now: an old Iris Dement album and E. Lots of E.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

49. Damn Long Tracks

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2471521

[Spider Jerusalem]

51. "The Drugged-Out Pompous Wankers".

Sounds like every other progressive rock band you've heard, only more so. Bad lyrics that people will find "deep", musical wanking that people will say is "amazing"...you know, that sort of thing.

[eyepaddle]

52. Hey thanks for that bit of input!

Do you feel better now?