kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h5dkms94u6vPh5s.htmlsi=nldaUymIZveq0DYu Gene playing Zappa recently.

Ween did a cover of Zappas song “what’s the ugliest part of my body?” Yeah they really don’t like him that much. They are nothing alike musically. Ween actually said they didn’t like devo initially either but now they say they like devo. Perhaps they are trying to distance themselves from their obvious influences.

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Oooooh…. You had me for all of 30 seconds…. They have their comedic elements and general weirdness but they’ve never been a “joke” band. Not. In. The. Slightest.

Good Day from New York City, the Fourth of July, I appreciate your love of this great and under appreciated band. "Live! In The Air Age" charted at here in the United States at #65 while "Modern Music" was their highest charting studio album here charting at #88. "Sunburst Finish" peaked at #96 and "Drastic Plastic" at #95.

How about just because it's not very good? I've never heard a Zappa song that left me feeling like I need that song in my life. I don't blame Ween for not caring for it either.

Fan of both but I don't get the Bowie comparison.

Bill and the boys bring me back to my salad days.Such sweet memories of youth.

I didnt even read RS in the 70s when people stilI read magazines. I chose better magazines to read, like Mad Magazine.

Rolling Stone has always been trash. They always panned the greatest rock bands in history. They promoted dangerous lifestyles and idolized marxist pigs.

Hawkwind,live 79 ,will blow you away,period,awesome band,🎼🎵🎵🎶🎶❤️

You say Bill Nelson isn't 'great' at any particular thing, and then describe Sleep That Burns as a 'tour de force' of a bunch of things that he's amazing at. I'm going with the latter assessment: Nelson is brilliant at pretty much everything he does.

I will go a step further and say it is not only good, but a great album. Not perfect, no. It is not as consistently great as the Close to the Edge album. Sides one and four have only short moments that drag on a bit. Side two has a longer stretch that does this. But that leaves the rest of these three sides, some forty minutes of music, right up there near their very best work. Close to the Edge and The Gates of Delirium are epic length full-side tracks that are consistently good throughout the 18 to 20 minutes. That may not be what we have here with Tales, but there is much more about this album that is good rather than that which is not. Most fans agree that side three is the weakest side. I listen to sides one, two, and four as much as any music I own. With regard to Steve Howe: He is brilliant. Period.

Ween and Tenacious D in the same sentence? Wtf? Come on bro. I’ve been listening to ween since the nineties and really don’t agree with much of what you are saying. Meh!

No one cares about "prog-rock", except people like you, that are oh-so special and know so-much better. Wonder why...

Where have all the rebels gone?

The most beautiful guitar solo of all time is on Adventure in a Yorkshire Landscape from the Airage album

10:48 Yes. I thought it was transparent at times too. 🤙

Zappa made great music. But his lyrics were stupid

Frank Zappa probably mimicked their schtick similar to the AI nonsense going on. He was also giving off cointelpro vibes. Zappa was suspicious as fvck along with the sex offenders in the band and his dad from deep inside the military.

Wow do I disagree with you in the first 2 minutes.. like completely disagree. Cheers

Brilliant band I got into them after reading an item in melody maker

What a boring review. I couldn’t finish listening to it. Let me go listen to some Ween.

If you are referring to Ween as a joke band, then you are the joke!!!!!

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Super helpful! 👊🏼

You perfectly put into words why I've only ever been able to admire Zappa from a distance but love Ween (and Tim Heidecker, and Beefheart for the matter)

The Nice (featuring Keith Emerson) were doing prog in 1968.

Bebop and Bill Nelson did amazing things and Bill's solo instrumental music is astounding. Listen to Crying to the Sky off Sunburst Finish, totally perfect guitar rock.

You covered a lot but the main thing that separates Prog from other forums of music is this: Average music has it's theme and it just hangs around it with some garnishment then it returns to the theme and then it's over Prog keeps progressing forward with the theme and in time. Beginning, moving forward 🕕the theme, progessing fordwad,➡️➡️➡️➡️ return to the theme and to the end

tranquility base slander, come on man use a Q-Tip

Is this a joke podcast with a joke host? Does that answer the question? No joke, all original...except a couple covers.

I was a teenager at the start of the 70's. Procal Harum's A Whiter Shade Of Pale ticks all the boxes and deserves credit for putting down the first piece of the Prog Rock jigsaw puzzle. Also "Fire" by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, and also The Moody Blues. My take on what makes a Prog band or album, is that it rejectes the American influences of Blues, Country, Rock and Roll, Soul and RnB. and took inspiration from the world of Folk, Classical and medieval/Church music. Two of my favourite bands of the time were Curved Air and Barclay James Harvest.

A fine example of what this vid delves into would be "Lost Horizons" by the Gin Blossoms. It was the opener of their biggest-selling album, and should have been a hit. It's every bit as good as "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You." No surprise; these are all Doug Hopkins tunes. I raise my glass to the deceased artist who got a raw deal at his moment of triumph.

i love the insight that they're super geniune

Curious that you choose "Ships In The Night" since it was not a favourite of Bill. I was/ am a huge fan of Be Bop and everything Bill has done since...under-rated as you say. Futurama is brilliant. I recommend his Red Noise album Sound On Sound.

I disagree with all of this. Ween has refined rock music for years.

07:20 Confused...Does that McCartney song 'go through the Diatonic circle of fifths' in a minor key? The first 2 5 1 appears to be in C major ie Dm G C then there's an F chord that links up with the Am key (ie F is IV of C major key and VI of the Am key) , as you demonstrate, what follows is B Dim E7 Am 2 5 1 . So did it move around the Circlle of Fifths there? It simply goes from C major to A minor. A true movement around the Circle of Fitfhs in a minor key would be Am key to Em key to Bm key or anti-clockwise Am key to Dm key to Gm key.

You're just playing their goofiest shit; they put out some pure ear candy, too.

Gloria Gaynor's ' I will survive' appears to start with m VI m II then V then I in key of C i.e. Am Dm G C then the IV ie F appears to fly off to an E key; where V Bm resolves to a Tonic E sus/ E major.

Surreÿ means to ride a small horse drawn carriage.

I think Zappa certainly had moments of brilliance and he trained some of the best musicians of the late 20th century but I would much rather listen to any album by Ween. I think they are much more interesting and they are wildly entertaining live.

I was contemplating this song a few days ago, and I think this is some of the the most religious music ever written by a human! This song connects me with my own soul and the soul of humanity (lost my way, hey, hey, hey) in a most profound way. Thank you, beautiful soul Brian Wilson! "Surf's Up" is a MASTERPIECE next to "Pet Sounds."...and the whole Beach Boys catalogue! Genius, genius, genius! Strong analysis, THANK YOU!

Jet Silver was an ode to David Bowie. Jets at Dawn was for his father.

Used to follow be bop allover in the 70 ti's supurb one of the best gigs for me fairways in Leeds Sunday afternoon

2 1/2 more minutes and I would classify this video as a progressive YT video!

If Kate bush is prog then Britney Spears is prog

Pink Floyd is psychedelic rock there’s nothing progressive about their music per se.

Technically brilliant musicians but no hooks or memorable melodies like the big prog bands we all know ....so no, they weren't underrated. Nelson's solo career in the 80s, now you're talking.

By 1976, I knew at least a dozen Americans who were acquainted with BBD. Sunburst Finish was their breakthrough album in my part of the country, Gainesville, Florida. Some tracks off Modern Music were played on the Univ. of Florida radio station, WUFR. The group did open for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on several dates in 1977, none of them in Florida! At least I have six treasured albums as reminders of their greatness.