Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

You could always play ahinton's 2 1/4 hour string quintet (see 'Quintets' thread)

[rubbernecker]

The silence, being defeaning, I could oFFer to Fill the void!

Go on then, Cloughie. Do your worst. You know you want to. (He said, regretting it almost immediately...)

[cloughie]

Go on then, Cloughie. Do your worst. You know you want to. (He said, regretting it almost immediately...)

An F linking New Zealand, Scotland and 60s Prog.

[Flay]

You could always play ahinton's 2 1/4 hour string quintet (see 'Quintets' thread)

Or Sorabji's Opus clavicembalisticum - that should keep you going until bed-time

[Flay]

Has anyone ever listened to Clav Bal? Dedicated "To the everlasting glory of those few men blessed and sanctified in the curses and execrations of those many whose praise is eternal damnation."

As he apparently wrote to a friend: "With a wracking head and literally my whole body shaking as with ague I write this and tell you I have just this afternoon early finished Clavicembalisticum... The closing 4 pages are so cataclysmic and catastrophic as anything I've ever done — the harmony bites like nitric acid — the counterpoint grinds like the mills of God..."

[rubbernecker]

60s Prog.

And what the F is that supposed to mean? Progressive rock? A TV programme? Bath salts...???

[Flay]

I suspect that Sorabji had Asperger's (cf the "music education" thread).

[cloughie]

And what the F is that supposed to be? Progressive rock? A TV programme? Bath salts...???

I do try to keep the links musical!

[rubbernecker]

I do try to keep the links musical!

That's very laudable of you. Thanks

[Flay]

Progressive rock bands of the 1960s included The Moody Blues (1964), Pink Floyd (1965), Soft Machine (1966), Barclay James Harvest (1966), Gong (1967), Genesis (1967), Jethro Tull (1967), The Nice (1967), Procol Harum (1967), The United States of America (1967), Van der Graaf Generator (1967), Yes (1968), Rush (1968), Caravan (1968), King Crimson (1969), Supertramp (1969), and Gentle Giant (1969).

We will be here until tea-time. Help!!!

[Flay]

Matthew Fisher played the organ on "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum.
There are plenty of Fishermen in Scotland and Nez.

QED.

[cloughie]

Progressive rock bands of the 1960s included The Moody Blues (1964), Pink Floyd (1965), Soft Machine (1966), Barclay James Harvest (1966), Gong (1967), Genesis (1967), Jethro Tull (1967), The Nice (1967), Procol Harum (1967), The United States of America (1967), Van der Graaf Generator (1967), Yes (1968), Rush (1968), Caravan (1968), King Crimson (1969), Supertramp (1969), and Gentle Giant (1969).

We will be here until tea-time. Help!!!

A three-piece, originally unaccompanied folk group!

[rubbernecker]

"With a wracking head and literally my whole body shaking as with ague I write this and tell you I have just this afternoon ...

... toyed joylessly with Faust, Fripp, Free, Fruupp and various Flowers (discounting Foxtrot, as that's 70s)

[cloughie]

The New Zealand and Scotland links are connected with the F and not connected with Prog!

[cloughie]

... toyed joylessly with Faust, Fripp, Free, Fruupp and various Flowers (discounting Foxtrot, as that's 70s)

None of them!