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Post by progressiveband on Apr 30, 2013 20:29:18 GMT -5
Barrie, I have a good friend... Drummer.. Larry Levine from Saratoga NY. He is fairly accomplished as well. I would love to know if you remember a band who did some opening shows for you guy's way back in 1973....? "FAT MAX" they were a cover band doing early King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant...and yes.. Jethro Tull material... before this music was called PROGRESSIVE... whatever that is anyway.... I was hoping to find some piece of memorabilia that had the name Fat Max and Jethro Tull on it from that tour. I'd love to buy it and give it to Larry... He has taken me under his wing so to speak.... as 40 years later he has found it interesting that I am trying to form a band doing this same music...including so many more as well..... Thanks Hope this rings a bell. Randy
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Post by progressiveband on May 23, 2011 16:31:01 GMT -5
Thank you all, I have been doing some of the Jethro Tull material as part of my solo act for a long time. I love the difference that Tull brings to the sound of our project. I mean Tull absolutely rocks but so far we have picked some very cool but lighter songs to include in the sets, in fact I am opening with Skating Away for the second set. That piece is one of my favorites as the lyrics are timeless and the feel of the music is pure acoustic brilliance and we get to throw some mandolin in on this piece. Any of you who do make the show there is not a lot of any one of the bands we do but since you all seem to have excellent taste in music you'll be very pleased with what you will hear. We hope that this concept we have will be well accepted as we plan to present each band just as acurately as we possibly can. I am the lead vocalist and I have some of the biggest names in rock history to cover. My position is no less daunting than any of the guy's when you think about it. Once you go through the list of musicians in your head and then you write it down we are talking about over 50 of the very best there ever were and not only were they good, they were unique in their sounds and playing styles and difficult to copy, all.... You have to admit just watching the band change its sounds and playing style for each song...(and we switch them all night no two in a row here) .... you'll have a blast just trying to remember what we played by the end of the night. Please hang when its done.... we always will have an encore. This is our time... not the audiences... but this is part of our show... and we hope it will become a favorite part for some. We have music "we" want to do so you never know what it might be. that's the fun of it. We seriously have spent some time now on doing some work from Focus, Atomic Rooster, even Jon Luc Ponty and Steely Dan and Sting.....How about Love Reign ore me from The Who or Rain Song from Zeppelin....? you just don't hear those very much anymore and I swear I hate how the other tribute bands sing this great work.....we might try out a new YES piece or Genesis to see how we are doing with it some night. it's endless. Enjoy. I won't be wearing any green tights though.....sorry....... thats for Ian.
Thanks again Randy
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Post by progressiveband on May 22, 2011 5:42:51 GMT -5
Please allow me to introduce a new tribute band that always plays some Jethro Tull. We are Downing Grey and we are paying tribute to the entire era of Classic Progressive Rock. Jethro Tull made our list of bands that must be covered in an evening, If your from the upstate NY area please try and catch this show it will be unlike anything you've ever seen on stage. Our encore set is for US (the musicians in the band) and for the faithful who want someting different and fun...this end of the night set... will become known as the most fun a prog head has ever had as we might do something crazy like the entire Hamburger Concerto album from Focus or even some Steely Dan or Atomic Rooster one fine night just for fun. Check us out if you can. Nice site you have here, seems to be a lot activity and more than a few intelligent people that love music as we do. Thanks for the invite Randy Decker www.downinggrey.com/
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