As already mentioned, it looks like the next session will be Yes again. Surely there are other bands with enough material to be considered. After all this will be the 3rd Yes session. I love Yes, but variety is the spice of life as they say.

How about Pink Floyd, King Crimson or Jethro Tull. I of course, could easily fill 24hrs with Marillion music.

As an alternative to one band, how about a theme (as mention in the mellotron thread). Focus on new music released since 2000 for example. The '21st Century Session'. This would still include bands like Yes and King Crimson who are still going strong but also feature newer bands like Mars Volta, Pocupine Tree, IQ, Spocks Beard, Pineapple Thief, Radiohead, Dream Theatre, Riverside et al. Thus illustrating what a healthy scene Progressive Rock still is.

Any other ideas?

I very much like the idea of a "recent music" session. 

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Just briefly, there are a few reasons why I chose 'Yes' for the next 'session' (again) :-

• I know that there are several 'new acquaintances' to the station that are 'Yes' fans and have missed the previous 'sessions'. They have recently e-mailed requesting 'Yes'.
• The 'Genesis' marathon proved a bigger success than expected. Even with the extra bandwidth on the main 96 Kbps server, full capacity was hit on several occasions during the 'session'. I wanted to strike while the iron was still hot, so scheduled the obvious choice of 'Yes'. This is due (in part) to ...
• 'Yes' are my favourite band and I simply have a huge amount of their material on file. It's a relatively easy task for me to compile a 'marathon' of their music. I hope that it's apparent there is more than a modicum of thought injected into any given playlist on SA . Especially so for a 'marathon' session. For me personally, I could compile a 'Yes' 'session playlist' blind-folded. Well, maybe not blind-folded but I'm sure you get the idea.

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Silver, this is a fantastic suggestion   - one that I would like to 'brew' for a couple of weeks. If anything, to let people chip-in what they feel should be played and (just as importantly !) to let me purchase any CDs that might be needed to accommodate it.

In conclusion, how about this :-

• 'Yes Session' - Friday 11th March
• 'Pink Floyd Session' - Friday 18th March
• '21st Century Session' - Friday 25th March

All those in favour, say 'aye' ...  

Dee

Aye!

aye....

Aye, Captain...warp speed!!

Aye!

I'm not nearly as in touch with the more recent bands, though I find that I'm usually just as likely to enjoy such a song as I am to be disappointed (from past experience).  I have some bands

I think an ELP marathon would be great, though I'm not sure if there would be enough material for it (maybe there is - who knows!).

Echoing still...BC  Tull would be great!
Would you include the branches as well?......Blodwyn Pig (Mick Abrahams), Maddy Prior (solo album w/ Martin Barre & Barrimore Barlow), Wild Turkey (Glenn Cornick), Fairport Convention (Dave Pegg & Dave Mattacks), Steeleye Span (Ian produced & played on 'Now There are Six'), plus the Ian Anderson & Martin Barre Solo Projects....
Wow sounds like 48 hours (!)

Cheers!

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