Show 49 - "Long Tunes"

[Rick and Roll]

Celebrating the one of the staples of Prog, the long song.

1) Djam Karet - Strange Wine From A Twisted Fruit

From "Still No Commercial Potential", here's 28:53 of pretty much a continuous guitar lead. Might as well test your patience right off the bat

2) Asturius - Brilliant Streams

Shit, more like brilliant tune! The first six minutes and the last six minutes of this 22:43 piece is right up there with any composition I've heard.

3) Yes - The Remembering High The Memory

The baby of the group, at a mere 20:38 This is my favorite tune from Tales, IMO the highlight of Wakeman's (and other Yesmen of course) songwriting.

4) Galleon - The Ocean

IIRC, water is 71.4% of the Earth's surface. At 52:07, this song covers most of it Take a walk, go to the bathroom, take a long lunch. When you get back this will still be on. Disc 1 of this CD (From Land To Ocean) is even better!

5) Discipline - Into The Dream

This version is the Live at Orion. After 22:04 of this both band and crowd of 75-100 of us goofballs were spent. I think the song ends six times before it really does. And to think we called them out for encores after this.

6) Echolyn - Suite For the Everyman

28:13 of a collection of themes sometimes scotch taped together, but no less fun. The acoustic "Suffocating the Bloom" that closes out the piece is beautiful. A perfect example of the vocal back and forth of Ray Weston and Brett Kull. An excellent, biting look at our consumer-driven world.

I have a few more for next time, maybe in a couple of months.

To quote Ian....."Life's A Long Song"