Porcupine Tree

So it's clearly a lot more expensive.

It's not the first time Stephen Wilson has complained about the cost because the last Porcupine Tree gig, of the original Lionel, the big lineup, was at the Albert Hall, and that wasn't filmed.

There was only ever sort of a few tracks on a live album, but they didn't film that for reasons of image rights, I understand.

Yeah, well, I remember they charged a lot even for confetti.

Do you recognize that name? I knew the name when I read it, but I put him in the wrong band.

Stephen Wilson is a founding member of Porcupine Tree.

I got him confused for a very quick moment with Steve Hogarth from Marillion, which is a band that influenced Porcupine Tree.

Very simple mistake, but I got it all sorted out now.

If you're unfamiliar with porcupine tree, it is a prog rock band or prog adjacent band, if you will, or neoprog.

So as expected, there's a lot of that DNA present here with a basket of bees.

lots of really good texture, what I will describe as movements within the song, really interesting rhythmic choices, changes in time signature, all the things that make progressive music awesome.

And I'm going to let Alan talk about the porks.

Yeah, Porcupine Tree has an album out in 96 called Signify.

And I agree, it's not one of my favorites either.

It's a good album.

I don't think it's the prime example of what Porcupine Tree does or can do.

My favorite tracks on it are Waiting, Phases 1 and 2.

And together, that's about an 11-minute piece.

And I love those songs.

And look, let's go beyond even those, the musical bounds, which is all that really truly matters.

But like even the presentation and packaging of a lot of this stuff, like this looks like an album designed by whoever would have designed maybe Oliver and Porcupine Tree albums.

Like it's kind of like, like if you look at the book, like if you look at the booklet, like it's really good and it's modern, but it's also creative and arty and its own thing.

yeah it's like yeah come on fucking if you're in the grocery store listening on your earbuds push that old lady out of the way get your groceries and then get the discogs okay come on i don't mean to be authoritarian here we need less of that in this country but i will say i think you need to do that if you're all turned on because you know copy is going to be going fast fast we have a lot we have a lot of influence out there anyway let's move on this is moloch

It's Gavin Jones, yeah.

But you forget, you forget when I first met Gavin, it was obviously, oh my God, this is Gavin Harrison, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree and all the rest.

Yeah.

Obviously 10 years later.

Yeah.

And that leads us into Gavin Harrison, Porcupine Tree being the next guest drummer.

And much like Danny Carey, I don't know a lot about Porcupine Tree, but Gavin Harrison is an incredible drummer.

An

incredible

drummer too.

Also, I am not that much into Porcupine Tree.

I've heard a bunch of songs.