Progressive Mind

… When Marillion Freaks Met …

Well, it was Tuesday evening

26 July 2005

when four MARILLION freaks: Icann, Tatan, Wita and myself met at Chianti Resto, Mega Kuningan. Uugghh .. man … what a great meeting that night; we had a full of FUN together talking every single thing about music. Icann is a truly crazy guy. Why? In 1997 he went to meet each individual member of Marillion: Fish (first singer), Hogarth (later singer), Ian Mosley, Pete Trewavas, Mark Kelly, Steve Rothery. He even had a close up photo “cheek-to-cheek” with Steve Hogarth! Galileo man … Honest, I envy on him!!!! Damn on you Icann ….!!!

We talked, we laughed, and .. we sung together at that night without taking any care (at all!) to other guests at surrounding tables. One of mind-boggling lyrics that we sung was when I started: “On the outskirt of nowhere” and Icann plus others followed with “..on the ring road to somewhere. I’m virgil indecision …” wow man … we made a lot of FUN at that night. What a memorable meeting, I would say …

Icann taught me a lot about how if we have been in love with a certain band like Marillion we should stay with the band even though they have changed personnel like what happened with MARILLION when Fish left the band. Well, he got the points damn right! As a result, I wrote two reviews about MARILLION Hogarth era:

MARILLION - Seasons End

MARILLION - Brave

Wita also talked about how she was engrossed with MARILLION Recital of The Script DVD. The show was powerful, according to her.

We didn’t talk only about Marillion as Tatan also explained to us about the meaning of “Stairway to Heaven” by the legendary Led Zeppelin. FYI, Tatan is probably the only Led Zeppelin icon in

Indonesia

! He has hundred collections of CDs / LPs on various LZ bootleg albums!

Keep on proggin’ ….!!!!

Music is contagious. This morning, when I did a very personal thing in my bathroom while playing Marillion “Misplaced Childhood” at my CD player, I sent an SMS to my prog-mates that said: ”Huddled in the city of pseudo silk kimono wearing bracelet of smoke – naked of understanding .. - What a nice thing man … after the morning pray I played Misplaced Childhood CD ..tuoobzz!!!”. Not more than 1 minutes I received two replies saying that because of my SMS they were going to play the same album at their CD player. Note: it was still

5:40

in the morning my friend ..and three people were playing this wonderfully crafted concept album together. Oh man .. this album was released 1985 but the beauty of its music has carried over until today – even it sounds better today because a lot of great memories have stacked up through twenty years walks of life for all of us who love this album.

As usual, while playing the CD we sent exchange our feelings toward the album to each other and it made the music much more meaningful. My prog mate Purwanto Setiadi (a senior journalist and editor of large newspaper company in

Indonesia

) sent me this message: “This album has great memories for me as this was the first time about Marillion” [Pity you, mas Pur!] . While my friend Agung Surjoatmodjo (a Supply Chain Manager of multinational fast moving consumer good company in

Jakarta

) sent another message: “I had two cassettes of this album by Yess Bandung and the other one by Team Records because it had the printed lyrics. I was triggered to sing while listening!”. He also sent another interesting message: “Having been that long listening to this album it’s still a great one to enjoy!!! It deserves five diamond stars!!!”. Hua ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha … kuak kak kak kak kak kak kak kak ….

The following part is DAMN BEAUTIFUL man …. I’m fully NGGEBLAK!!!

Misplaced Rendezvous

It’s getting late, for scribbling and scratching on the paper

Something’s gonna give under this pressure

And the cracks are already beginning to show

It’s too late

The weekend career girl never boarded the plane

They said this could never happen again

So wrong, so wrong

This time it seems to be another misplaced rendezvous

This time, it’s looking like another misplaced rendezvous

With you

The parallel of you, you

Windswept Thumb

On the outskirts of nowhere

On the ringroad to somewhere

On the verge of indecision

I’ll always take the roundabout way

Waiting on the rain

For I was born with a habit, from a sign

The habit of a windswept thumb

And the sign of the rain

It’s started raining

MARILLION RULESZZZZ!!!!!!!

Cheers,

Gatot Fugaziyanto

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What a dream comes true man … I’ve just heard from a post in m-claro milis that the band will play in Jakarta sometimes in November? Oh man … It’ll be great!

Is this true???? I HOPE so ….!!!

My DT reviews:

Octavarium

Live at Budokan (DVD)

Train of Thought

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

… and many more reviews that I have written in www.progarchives.com. Have a look!!!

Keep on proggin’ ..!!

Gatot Widayanto

Special Collaborator at www.progarchives.com

CD & DVD Reviewer at www.dprp.net

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What a great experience having heard that the prime members of Pink Floyd did a reunion concert during the Live8 event in London couple of days ago. Hope that the band will continue the reunion and do some more albums!

Based on that event, I was triggered to write some reviews "related" to Pink Floyd recently (and quite sometime ago) and you can click the following link:

Pink Floyd P-U-L-S-E

David Gilmour In Concert (DVD)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Have a pleasant read!

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Keep on proggin’ ..!!!

Cheers,

Gatot

        Internet has made it happen. On Tuesday, 5 July 2005, executives of the Indonesian Progressive Society (IPS), namely: Andy Julias (Chairman), Nengah Rikon,  Anto Sulistianto (ProgNite Chief), and myself met with our new friend in prog music from France : Vernerey Jean-Baptiste (usually called as JB) at Babe  Salam the Nasi Uduk cafe at Sarinah. The chief agenda of that meeting was really simple: discuss about our aspirations in prog music. We knew JB from an email that I received couple of days before where he sent me a message about my revies at www.progarchives.com commenting about his similar taste with me through my review on The Flower Kings and The Tangent. As JB has been a regular traveler to Indonesia, he planned to take the holiday in July and Agustus in Indonesia (Yogya and Semarang), so I offered him to stop by in Jakarta.

      We talked a lot about prog music in general and in details till dawn while enjoying the sayur asem, tempe bacem, empal goreng and the delicious nasi uduk by Babe Salam. Basically, we had fun Nothing is more important than music in our daily lives so we exchanged about how we knew prog at first time. Something unique happened because as a matter of fact JB knew prog sometime in mid eighties where he heard YES 90125 (which most of progheads regret about this poppy album by legendariy prog head YES). Since than he explored his boundaries by collecting all previous albums of YES. Surprisingly, he enjoyed all of YES albums. Hmmm … a new learning emerges … So, actually people would love prog music to death if they ever heard the music - otherwise, how would they love prog? ANd actually prog music can be popular.

     JB was also amazed with the level of enthusiasm about prog in Indonesia because I handed over three CD albums from Indonesian prog bands: Nerv, Imanissimo and In Memoriam. (Psstt .. interesting to note here while JB was expressing how he was delighted with meeting the top guys from IPS, Nengah Rikon was whispering to Anto telling this "Hey, don’t you see that France woman in the next table? She is so beautiful!". I reconfirmed.). Well, basically five of us were enjoying the discussion. JB also handed over to me two CDs from Magma and another newly established France prog band: We Insist! (weird name, isn’t it?). GW

For prog music review by GW please click:

http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=46

Do you know Indonesian prog band MAKARA ?

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