This is one that always makes me smile. 
 

Hi,
 
NP: The Clams - Close to You (I swear ... Bapu and Craig have to hear this!)

Watching the Wakeman and Cousins DVD, from Strawbs 40th Anniversary Celebration.

Love the tone of Rick's Fazoli Grand and Dave's Banjo on "Witchwood" is sublime.

There is some humourous banter as you would expect from those two.

Prog Day!
  

 
Got this album from a friend - NICE!!!  Looking forward to more from them. 
 
Check out the band's pedigree:
 

Lifesigns is a British progressive rock band. As of 2014, the band's members are John Young (Bonnie Tyler, Scorpions, Greenslade, Qango, Asia) on keyboards & vocals, Jon Poole (ex-Cardiacs, Wildhearts, Dowling Poole) on bass & vocals, Martin "Frosty" Beedle (ex-Cutting Crew) on drums, percussion & vocals) and Niko Tsonev (ex-Steven Wilson Band) on guitars & vocals.

Lifesigns was conceived in 2008 by John Young. Working together with sound engineer Steve Rispin, John had started to lay the grounds for the Lifesigns album in 2008. In 2010, John was joined by longtime friend Nick Beggs on bass, Chapman Stick and background vocals, and by drummer Martin "Frosty" Beedle to complete the first lineup of the band.

The band worked for over two years to complete their debut self-titled album, with notable guest stars such as progressive rock legend Steve Hackett (Genesis), Jakko Jakszyk (King Crimson), Thijs Van Leer (from Focus) on flute, and Robin Boult (from Fish) on guitar. "Lifesigns" was released in January of 2013.

This is a very catchy, quirky tune....Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes. Love that creamy Mike Oldfield style guitar tone. 
 

Been listening to this. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/inexile6
by one of our own. Keni.
 
I think this is my favorite Keni album:  I get a kick out of the name. I can relate!
 
J
 

Prog rock fans! I just discovered these crazy Norwegian loons....
 

 

Continuing my random musical journey tonight, check this out. Song is amazing and the video is an absolute work of art. 
 

T.M. Stevens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18QjulOxBUI

If such a thing as being in love with a piece of music is possible, then I am deeply in love with the second movement of Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, by my "favorite band", J.E. Gardiner and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
 
 
 
I can't say how many times I've listened to that album in the last week, much less how many times I've played that second movement on its own...
 
 

Forgot to include this poignant gem...
 

 
 
1916
 
16 years old when I went to the war
To fight for a land fit for heroes
God on my side, and a gun in my hand
Chasing my days down to zero

And I marched and I fought and I bled and I died
And I never did get any older
But I knew at the time that a year in the line
Was a long enough life for a soldier

We all volunteered and we wrote down our names
And we added two years to our ages
Eager for life and ahead of the game
Ready for history's pages

And we brawled and we fought and we whored 'til we stood
Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder
A thirst for the Hun we were food for the gun
And that's what you are when you're soldiers

I heard my friend cry and he sank to his knees
Coughing blood as he screamed for his mother
And I fell by his side and that's how we died
Clinging like kids to each other

And I lay in the mud and the guts and the blood
And I wept as his body grew colder
And I called for my mother and she never came
Though it wasn't my fault and I wasn't to blame
The day not half over and ten thousand slain
And now there's nobody remembers our names

And that's how it is for a soldier

From one of the Prog top-10 lists:
 

craigb
This is one that always makes me smile. 

NP: Chicago 2

One of my favourite pop songs..yep, I like 'em when they're well done.
 

jamesg1213

Loved that "Big Muff".......very nice blues and that acoustic bass just carried the song. 
 
Your fav. pop song gave me an error: "This video contains content from safe mgmt. It is not available in your country".
What's up with sending these "unsafe content" James.....don't like these Amerikaans?