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Originally Posted by roger
so, I'm hearing Glass Hammer's The High Place right now, and the beginning is nearly a direct steal from Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, specifically the Sanctus. can anyone give me any background on Glass Hammer and their intentions? I don't know the band really at all, other than what I've heard here on the moon.
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well I'll try. I have to tread on eggshells here. They're good friends with Salem Hill and some good friends of mine really like them...
but I find them boring. The latest one may be better - it's getting great reviews, but I don't find them interesting. They played in 1995 at Progscape in Baltimore, and they were very much like ELP. Since then their sound has grown and they've done some concept records and put out a lot of records. When I saw them at Nearfest several years back they had a chorus. I fell asleep until Rich Williams came out and played "Portrait (He Knew)" with them.
There's a side project "Wyzards", and they have a song that I have on a sampler, played it on the show once. Great tune.
As for intentions, I'd be very surpised if anything sneaky was going on. It may be just lifted, there's countless others. Spaz explained how "Carry On Wayward Son" was lifted directly from a Journey tune and explained how it happened. And he's right, but I still love the song. Listen to the start of Enchant's "Paint the Picture", it's Xanadu. Or the start of Iluvatar's "New Found Key", it's Watcher of the Skies. Hell even "In The Dead of Night" has a part that sounds just like "Gypsies Tramps and Thieves" (sorry for the visual).
I'd go their web site and ask them. I'll bet there's an explanation, and I think they're approachable enough to give you an answer. Hey you could even say you're researching it for your class!