The Prog & Psychedelic Rock Recommendations Thread
 

Circus Maximus - Wind
 

Circus Maximus was a United States band in the late 1960s, who combined influences from folk music, rock, and jazz into a form of psychedelic rock.
The band was formed in 1967 by Bob Bruno and Jerry Jeff Walker. Bruno's song "Wind", from their eponymous first album, became a minor hit in the United States, particularly through airplay on "progressive" FM radio stations.
I stumbled across this band & song around a year ago while looking for material by another technical rock band named Circus Maximus also.
This song 'Wind' released in 1967 has a unique sound & recording that grows on a person after listening to it a couple of times.
The Folk influence with the Jazz is very different in style, especially the folk guitar throughout the song.

YouTube - Circus Maximus - Wind

Hey guys, I'm not exatly sure about this genre, but will like to learn more, anyone recommend some bands to get me started?

Gong - best of both worlds.

Prog -

Pink Floyd - WYWH
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey & Pink
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound, A trick ...
Gentle Giant - Octopus, Gentle Giant
King Crimson - Lizard
The Mars Volta - De-loused in the comatorium
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Anglagard - Hybris
* Mansun - Six
* The Fall of Troy - S/T

For the 1970`s to start of with (Marillion are the 80`):
Yes-The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge
Genesis-Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King, In the Wake of Poseiden, Lizard, Islands, Larks Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, Red
Wishbone Ash-Argus
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
Jethro Tull-Aqualung, Thick as a Brick
Emerson, Lake & Palmer- S/T, Brain Salad Surgery
Kansas-Masque, Leftoverture, Point of Know Return
Marillion-Script For a Jesters Tear, Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood

And selected albums by Camel, Gentle Giant, Caravan

If you want present day artists try- The Mars Volta, Flower Kings, Pain of Salvation, Porcupine Tree, Spock`s Beard, Evergrey, Amorphis

Thanks for the recommendations guys, will be giving them a listen.
Already have my collection of Pink Floyd. But some of those other bands caught my attention.

Jefferson Airplane- After Bathing at Baxter's

Pretty Things - SF Sorrow

Gong - best of both worlds. [2]

King Crimson
Yes
Earth & Fire (is a Dutch band and their earlier work is worthwhile)

Nice! Thanks, Freebase! Don't we already have a thread dedicated to Prog Rock, though?

You guys already know what I'm going to suggest. I've been all over psychedelic rock lately. Sure, I love Pink Floyd and King Crimson, but I've been sucked into the more up-to-date stuff (well, with the exception of a couple of the bands I'm about to talk about).

First off, Can! They are a 60s/70s rock band out of Germany. I already know many of you dig 'em. Some of there stuff is most definitely Psychedelic, but they are so experimental, their range of sound really put them under the avantgarde genre for me.



Next is Dead Meadow. I first listened to them a few years ago and never really got it until more recently. They're so ****ing heavy sometimes, I love it. Naturally, that gives a lot of their music a stoner rock feel, but it fits. If you listened to this track, I don't think you peg them as a psychedelic band until you heard the vocals. Even then, it's not as psychy as a lot of their other stuff.



And of course, you know I'm going to suggest Black Mountain, a Canadian band with a couple of other side projects that I've not dabbled into quite yet. I just grabbed their newest album, Wilderness Heart a week ago, and that was the first I'd heard of them. I really got into and started moving backwards to In the Future and was hooked. Amber Webber's voice through me off a little bit, and I almost turned the music off. I've never been into a mixture of male and female vocals before with the exception of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, but that was mainly because Carla Kilhstedt is a phenomenal artist. As I delved deeper into the album, I became very impressed to how well the vocals synchronized.

The sound on my computer just screwed up, so here's a link:
Black Mountain - In the Future

I really enjoyed this :)

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...1595393786.gif
Thank you

£10 says you won't get through all 17 minutes of Aumgn

Urb, hate to say this but I kinda miss you, buddy.

Gimme an eighth and you'll be out $10. This music is perfect for studying, as well.

Isn't $10 worth about £1.50 now?

*sob* I missed you too, you've always been my tied favourite member with a 3 in their username.

I guess that makes me a cheap date, haha. Now, cough it up; I've just finished it.

Ha! This is where I (a) cut myself or (b) cut Big3.

Edit: How did you like it, Spike?

I liked it very much, thank you :) I will be adding a station onto my Pandora account for Can.

You should get this one next.
It's their mellow album...

http://intothemusic.ca/images/sized/...ys-274x274.jpg

Ha ha, "Spray" by "Can"

You're easily amused :p:

Agreed on Future Days. After that, Ege Bamyasi ! You have some homework to do, Spike! Also, the Can station on Pandora is pretttttty pretttttttttty good.

Don't know how many would classify it as prog rock but Saga's The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes always seems to fit that genre well. Besides it's a really good album

Make a station on Pandora.com Thats a great way to get new artists super similar to what you like.

Peanut Butter Lovesicle, a Cosmic psychedelic blues rock group based out of Brooklyn, NY playing at Arlenes grocery in Manhattan this Thursday Jan 6th @ 12am. Free PBR during their set too.

Van Der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One

Seconded, Tore. Definitely. :tramp:

Transatlantic - Whirlwind

Seconded. Definitely. Just got the DVD 3 hours of awesome. Loved the Return of the Giant Hogweed cover... amazing!

can I just say I hate Transatlantic

I guess you can. But are you sure? Maybe you just hate Neal Morse, the singer? I don't see how anyone can not like Roine Stolt, Mike Portnoy, or Whatshisface Trewavas... esp. Stolt and Portnoy.

Did you hear the new CD?

Yeah, I went for the DVD version too.

my opinions are based on SMPTe

Circus Maximus
 

I hung out with Bob Bruno some years ago in the DC area --He was quite a psychedelic artist, also. He used to recount stories of hanging out with Jimi Hendrix at the Electric Circus in NYC.

I now like to listen the imaginative ramblings of North of 90. (They're on MySpace and CDBaby.)

I'm looking for something maybe a bit dark.. It would be nice to have classical instruments in it, and have some experimental (possibly avant-garde) sound would be appreciated. Pretty much anything within that are (it's not completely limited to just that though).