STEVEN WILSON "THE HOLY DRINKER" (reaction)

Check out Sight After Dark reacting to "The Holy Drinker" by Steven Wilson!
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[@paulfenwick8767]

you know the drummer and guitarist, Marco Minnermann and Guthrie Govan from the Aristocrats. Steven always plays barefooted. The guy on Chapman stick/bass is Nick Beggs and is awesome, prefer him to Levin. He came to prominence in the 80's with pop/boy band Kagagoogoo. Keyboards is Adam Holzman who spent 4 of his early years playing with Miles Davis. Theo Travis is damn good too on sax/flute etc. He's played inSoft Machine, Gong, Robert Fripp and Dave Gilmour to name a few. Steven is a multi-instrumentalist and in a show will play lead and rhythm guitar, bass, keyboards. Brilliant and thanks for your reaction.

[@iDuckman]

"prefer him to Levin"!?! *Sacrilege!* Well, he is pretty good...

[@SightAfterDark]

Hey that’s awesome, we didn’t realize! Thanks for all the info Paul!

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Steve Wilson - long haired, tall, slim - the barefoot guy. Often credited with bringing prog back in UK; often compared to Pink Floyd. A side hustle - the go-to guy for remixing major old works (go find a list of those!) - a deft touch able to bring clarity and sparkle back to albums from the 60s/70s in particular. Does a decent mix then drags the old band members in and gets them to critique and point out what they intended to do. Great quality! "Everything he touches is gold". Big UK reputation :)

[@davetothebeard]

There is nothing greater than a finely tuned properly distorted electric guitar. Love this song.

[@davelafferty5728]

The drummer was Marco Minnemann. Him and the guitarist, Guthrie Govan, make up two thirds of The Aristocrats.

[@marcvanderiet5592]

Definately in my Steven Wilson top 3. Especially this version with the Aristocrats is outstanding. Very entertaining piece. Thanks guys!

[@SightAfterDark]

Glad you enjoyed Marc, thanks for watching!

[@andyshan]

Steven Wilson is already a legend

[@markclaypool5414]

He’s getting a pretty big following here. Steven Wilson is a musical genius.

[@markbyers1651]

saw Porcupine Tree with Opeth at Cleveland Agora great show

[@SEVENofTHEM]

Love this Steven Wilson tune. Love it more that Marco and Guthrie are up there jammin!

[@drimblewedge2789]

The bass player was in the 80’s pop group “Kajagoogoo.”

[@bokjedegeus3798]

Holy Art

[@robertnshine]

Steven Wilson - you’re favourite musicians’ favourite musician! Guthrie Govan on guitar and Marco Minneman on drums (both of the Aristocrats).

[@iDuckman]

I love this stuff! Gotta have moar. Have you guys done King Crimson?

[@SightAfterDark]

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[@rolfjamne8922]

Adam Holzman on keyboards , he was playing with Miles Davis back in the days. Jane Getter ,Adam Holzman's wife got her own Fusion / Prog band. Must be one of the most underrated band out there.Chad Wackerman(Frank Zappa ) on drums. Check out her last album.great stuff❤

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks Rolf!

[@haihechina]

Ahhh, this is why I am thinking I love this because I have heard it before. Thanks for the clarification of the who's who.

[@kengregory6026]

Nick Beggs...awesome

[@progperljungman8218]

Your patrons sure make classy choices!

[@SightAfterDark]

We love it! Thanks for watching!

[@timfeeley714-25]

That was good, but "Are You Drinking With Me Jesus" by Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon is my favorite religious drinking song !

[@stretchgilbert]

The guitar gave me Holdsworth vibes while the keyboard gave me Chick Corea vibes. There seems to be Middle Eastern undertones. Yes Sifa I was thinking King Crimson as well. Very nice.

[@SightAfterDark]

Nice blend! Thanks Billy!

[@Rowenband]

If you liked this and if you like good basslines, listen to Luminol from the same album. IMHO the best song on the album. The whole album is a kind of tribute to prog from the seventies. You can identify styles from all the big prog-bands from the 70'. Which is logical because who knows these bands better than Steven Wilson: he remixed all the best albums from those bands.

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks Chris!

[@saturninebear]

Much as I love Steven, and I've been a big fan for a long time (especially of No-Man, his project with Tim Bowness), this period of his work didn't totally connect with me. And at times it has a whiff of Spinal Tap going on. Amazing collection of musicians here. Complex music. But something just misses with me. It doesn't get me on an emotional level.

[@SightAfterDark]

We respect your opinion Saturninebear!

[@mikedemike5393]

what does progressive mean...they have been going around that circle for 60 years and have not progressed anywhere....I think anything with unusual time signatures with changes of tempo still with a rock edge,,ie:a guitar with amplification and distortion is called progressive.....Has a band been kennelled progressive that had NO guitar?....Interesting,,,too many orchestral stereotypical accented hits...

[@progperljungman8218]

E.g. Emerson, Lake & Palmer was a huge prog band in the 70's. Keyboards, bass and drums. There's actually a few without guitar. U.K.'s second and last studio album Danger Money - and the following live album Night after Night are also without a guitarist. To me, progressive isn't about a specific feature like time signatures. It's about going outside the mainstream box, mainly in composition. I would certainly say there's a mainstream "prog-box" as well and when artists limit themselves to that they're not being truly progressive. It's often a mix of tradition and truly progressive though.

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

Back in the day, no group called themselves "progressive". They called themselves rock bands; the label was stuck on retrospectively. However each wanted their own followers, fans wanting the bands unique sound - so explored relentlessly to find a unique vibe - that's how Black Sabbath "invented" metal. Really, their take on sounds others had used, dramatically presented and turned up to 11, finding a new sweet spot - and (inadvertently) launching a new genre. Black Sabbath are as progressive as any who used this explorative process. What cost throwing this approach away? Wall to wall radio friendly ditties following the youth market (or whoever demographic has $$ that year) - and the death of music by blandness (link to Steven Wilson / Porcupine Tree lamenting this issue: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qV6naWSOpcp1p6c)

[@progperljungman8218]

@@xlerb_again_to_music7908 Funny you should mention Black Sabbath as an example of early progressiveness. I've been told (was a tiny bit to young to experience it myself) that at least in Britain, record stores in the early 70's used to label both hard rock, psych, what we today label "prog" etc under "Progressive". "Prog", "Hard rock" and then "Heavy Metal" later became their own genre labels in the stores. It was a very practical thing to have labels as a guide when searching for stuff among tens of thousands of physical albums.