Crack The Sky

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Have you heard these guy's music? If so, what do you think?

>>By pdad   (Wednesday, 10 Sep 2008 07:42)



Great American progressive rock band. Great music. I am mostly familiar with their music from the late '70's and early '80's.

>>By headrush77   (Sunday, 19 Oct 2008 09:26)



Man, you have me hankering for some CrackTheSky music.

>>By headrush77   (Sunday, 19 Oct 2008 09:31)



Crack The Sky's music falls somewhere inbetween the classic branch of progressive rock played by bands Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer and the metal branch of progressive rock played by the band, Savatage.

Visualize a Randy Newman or a Warren Zevon heading up the band Savatage and bringing a pop sensibility to Savatage. That may best describe the music of Crack The Sky.

>>By headrush77   (Sunday, 19 Oct 2008 11:01)



i remember the first song i heard of theirs was "robots for ronnie," and i was hooked. stylistically, they were hard to pin down, which could account for their being currently relatively unknown. i went to see them once at a small club right after their first album came out, and they had to cancel due to someone blowing out the sound system. the next time i saw them was at the tower theater in philadelphia, and they ended their concert with "i am the walrus," a beatles cover. the music was mainly lyric based, with a lot of tight playing by the band. john palumbo, the lead singer and guy who wrote most of the songs, played keyboards. i think part of the reason they didn't become more popular was that they didn't really have one recognizable style for people to grasp on to...also, their lyrics always had a bit of dark humor behind them,,,kind of like the humor you might find in the old rocky and bullwinkle show...not everyone's cup of tea and sometimes over peoples heads. i think headrush77's comparison to warren zevon is pretty close...zevon was also quirky, had some really tight songs with dark humored lyrics..."lawyers, guns and money" was a typical example. i think palumbo had some david bowie bravado in him as well. i probably went on too long, but i still like a lot of their songs...perhaps because i listened to them so much. maybe anything you kind of like that you wind up listening to a lot at one time in your life or another becomes a kind of self-nostalgia...where you can bring back the feeling of the time when you listened to that kind of music.

>>By pattern   (Tuesday, 21 Oct 2008 18:43)



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