Great east coooaster (Canadian ) sounding or celtic prog.
Still miss this guy.
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Norway!
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If you’re a musician, Combination Head is kinda of a prog musician’s royal conservatory’s study & exercise cocaine - very addictive. I can’t find many vids but check out (on Tidal or WHY) tracks: Cloud Cover, Solid Ground, New City, Consumer Fool, Particle Zoo, For What…
Great stuff!
And the epitome of prog jazz fusion - if you can drum to this - you get ANY audition. Such a beautiful song.
And seeing as so little prog stuff sounds great in a revealing soundroom, I will once again refer you to this re-post. Very well recorded.
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If you have a kick-azz subwoofer - you’re in for a real treat!
I saw Max Webster in 1996 Ottawa Hippodrone. They made the crowd wait until about 10:00pm and then played until just passed Midnight with one Encore. They did not disappoint even though my view sucked because I’m so freakin’ short !
I was too young to see them at Maple Leaf Gardens co-headlining with Rush. It’s a shame they never played Battle Scar during the last Toronto show (which I missed) in 2015.
Toronto Tonto’s Forever ! (even though I’m from Hamilton…LOL).
Nice!
I’ve seen Rush at least 8 times and Kim twice - if ONLY I’d seen them play Battlescar together…
So, what is the best PROG to audition a system?
Got a friend coming over (big audiophile) and he usually brings his playlist of jazzy, environmental standards to listen to the system.
I like to listen to the music and a lot of the PROG I like is not ideally recorded IMHO. Why I say that, if I play some of the usual “AXPONA” tracks or one of the tracks from the multiple playlists out there to audition speakers, my system is mindblowing. Then I go play say Marillions An hour… and it sounds like the singer is trapped in a room. Then I play for example 5:06 from Pros and Cons and its awesome.
So, what do you all recommend?
When is the audition?
My first thought for sheer impact and wow effect would be Chocolate Chip Trip by Tool.
Not something you’d listen to often but a good exampler…
I’m playing out others in my head - what a good excuse to hit the soundroom and make a playlist
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Gus is coming over this weekend. I have his playlist and listened to bits of his tracks, cool to highlight a system’s ups/downs but not my music…
Funny enough I have Tool on my list: Schism and Sober
I love Saga but the frequency response of the recordings is pretty bad.
Passage to Bangkok is good as is Silent Lucidity and Timothy Pure’s records.
His playlist:
Birds Dominique Fils-Aime
Bubbles Ypsi Horikawa
Calypso Minor Abdullah Ibrahim
Minimal 8 Uakti
Stavanger Marthias Eick…
You’re My Chocolate Savages
Anything by lunatic soul is amazing…to my ears
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Rain tree crow is another great sounding prog album/cd
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Great band! Have their music.
My biggest issue is that in my experience most prog albums have a weird mix. Sound great in a car but on a “proper” system the soundstage is gone.
My concern too with prog bands, but I believe that I am properly set up in my dedicated sound room and those 2 bands that I suggested sound very well in my room. 
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I’ll report later today! Thanks
Are you on the Tidal wave? Qobuz?
Qobuz and Amazon HD
I wish that we could get qobuz in Canada…sigh