Even though I don't know their music, I gotta say congrats on learning that!
Porupine Tree are great, I reckon you'd like 'um. They started around late 80s-early 90s (can't remember) and they're prog-metal (most of their stuff) with a hint of psychedelia. =3
Oddly enough (or not?) I knew someone with the album Brain Salad Surgery, though I never heard it. And they moved away years ago.
I saved the ELP youtube links, thanks! And as for your description of "Knife Edge" - tortured moogs sounds good, because moogs are great, and so is going crazy on a song!
Cool about Saga! That'd be funny if I looked them up myself and became the biggest fan...all because of a Halloween cartoon special I've loved since I was 3!
Emailing Snowbird's Floyd cover when ya get a chance would be cool, thank you!
That's cool being an audiophile, I think it's cool to try to get the most lossless quality of a recording..nothin' wrong with that! Does your dad love Prog, too? Also. vinyl had great big artwork...that attention to detail was lost with CDs (and even sad when an album cover from the vinyl age was shrunk for the CD release!) And now...a tiny little jpg on an ipod (I guess it's a jpg...no ipod yet, myself...)
Very cool you like the Moodies 80s stuff, too, and hopefully they will play by you someday! I know a tour is coming up - not sure of all the venues...
Mike Oldfield sounds familiar...I'm thinking of that "bells" song. But I may be way off!
It's great to hear strange and almost unknown artists! I could make a thread on them...but I'll just list some here:
Strange:
Jandek (it doesn't get stranger than him! I respect him too, though I can't say I am a "fan"...however, I find how secret he is, as well as how prolific he is, and his music fascinating! Also, how from 1978 to 2004 he put out albums but never did a live show, and no one knew if the guy on his covers was even him. And since 2004 he's played all over...but doesn't address the audience from the stage...just played his stuff and goes. Whoo-hoo!
Almost unknown:
Kenny Owens (I've heard some songs, but not sure when they were recorded...but I'm 99% sure it's the 50's or VERY early 60's.)
Thanks for the recommendations!
I'll look them up, and I will certainly keep my eyes peeled. I've never heard of them, but for some reason Kenny Owens sounds rather familiar (perhaps I'm thinking of Kenny *Loggins*...? *lol*). Thanks again!
And that's actually not a bad idea, starting a thread about unknown musicians- I reckon it would be pretty popular! =3 I know I have a few I'd like to mention. I picked up a record a while back and apparently only 1000 were made. It was (re)released -the record, that is- in 1997, but the actual recordings are from around 1967. It's called
Alice Through the Looking Glass, based on the book, obviously, and it's performed by two blokes called Peter Howell and John Ferndinado (yeah... I'd never heard of them until I bough the album, and suprisingly enough while I had it in my arms in the shop a guy who was browsing asked if he could have a look, saying he had the first part-
Alice in Wonderland! I actually offered it to him, but he didn't seem fussed and insisted that I should keep it). the album is quite Syd-ish, esp. vocal-wise. I'm also a fan of a lot of (usually female-fronted) hard rock bands from the late 80s-90s.
Hey, you were almost spot on there! Yes, Mike Oldfield was the one who recorded
Tubular Bells from '74, which... quite literally turned the music world upside down. It's quite proggy, almost new age-y, really. He's bloody talented, I'll give him that. I have quite a few of his albums, but
Tubular Bells is my fave.
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Hergest Ridge, Ommodawn and
Incantations are the new-agey ones, but they're very good.
Platinum's good, too- sort of disco inspired- but not too much!)
Yeah, I LOVE artwork. I have a coffee-table book of my mum's (which she gave to her brother -my uncle- in 1979, but I ended up getting it) which has a wonderful collection of album artwork- I think they've re-released the book, actually. That's one of the many why I like records (and CDs too, even though they *are* smaller. But the come with cool notes sometimes!) as opposed to the invisible enemy, mp3- downloading. Yeah, being a audiophile is really good because you pick up on things but you can also become a sound snob, like myself *lol* (for example: you'll complain and complain about the way headphones/ear-buds sound). And yes, my dad loves prog! He actually didn't know the term progressive/prog rock until I explained to him what it was a couple of years back, heehee. But yes, he loves Pink Floyd (I have his PF records: Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals, and I've added to that), Rick Wakeman (he has his three main solo albums: The 6 Wives of Henry the 8th, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and King Arthur), some ELP (he has their "Works" album, but I own the more proggy stuff) and... if it weren't for his Tubular Bells record, I wouldn't've ever heard of Mike Oldfield! My mum also like prog: she loved Floyd, King Crimson and Jethro Tull growing up, and she still does. =)
Cool then, I shall email you the song sometime on thursday (it's tuesday, here). Is it okay if you PM me your email?
I take you like the clips of ELP then? ;D I hope so, but you don't have to *lol*. Tortured moogs, yes, that pretty much sums Keith Emerson's music up! "Knife Edge" is so bizarre! I do recommend Brain Salad Surgery, but just warnin' ya now, it's very weird. I mean that in a good way. xD Secondly, you're a prog fan, so you prol'ly won't be as scarred by it then say... a modern R&B fan. x33
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Yeah, I've been a Tull fan for quite some time, I like a fair bit of "folk prog". 
Last last year I went to this massive record market, and I saw a bloke holding an original copy of Barrett! The re-released one is 36 bucks around these parts... hrrrmm.