A Conversation with NEKTAR | featuring Derek "Mo" Moore, Ryche Chlanda, & Maryann Castello | Ep 962

Saw them in concert in St Louis (1975)? All of Remember the Future... Ron Powell helped them make it here if I remember correctly

Nice. We listened to them a fair bit back in the day.

Excellent interview. Remember the Future is a great lp. Nicely done, Doug.

Could you react to the King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album PetroDragonic Apocalypse? It's a metal record by them and I would love to see your analysis, there's a lot to digest. If not the whole album I would recommend the track "Witchcraft", some
neat time signature stuff going on there.

Recycled is an all time classic prog album. Discovered then in 1980 at UNC. Have all their albums.

An entire release being only 30-35 minutes these days is fairly ludicrous. Assigning it to "vinyl quality" in the age of CDs and digital downloads makes the quality argument kinda mute. That being said I love Nektar since discovering them in 1980.

could you react to alice in chain songs? i think you would be greatly amused !

amazing!! Also I must say Doug the people are BEGGING you to review Radiohead In Rainbows!!!! ❤️

Thank you for this interview, Doug. I love Nektar's "A Tab in the Ocean" and their other classic releases. Really high class prog rock.

May I suggest a song for you to review? It's Tame Impala's "Let It Happen". Tame Impala is a solo project by one person (Kevin Parker) who plays everything in his releases (drums, keys, guitars, bass, vocals and even kazoo) and his story is really interesting. He started as an underground classic psych rock artist making music in the vein of Cream, The Doors, Pink Floyd etc. After his second album, he modernized his sound a bit by including more synthesizers and disco/funk influences, but it's still extremely well crafted and interesting music. His third album ("Currents") brought him mainstream success and nowadays he writes and produces for some of the biggest pop stars of our era (Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga etc.). While these collaborations are not exciting as his early material, they are still very well written, played and produced and to me they stand head and shoulders above the boring contemporary pop garbage.

"Let It Happen" is the first song of "Currents" and most Tame Impala fans would probably agree that it's Kevin's best song. It's a very interesting (I'd say progressive without being "prog") mixture of psych rock and synth pop with creative use of digital glitches, Beatles-esque strings, gibberish vocals and hypnotic drum beats. One extremely interesting characteristic of the song is how its first part feels like it SHOULD resolve to C#, but never does... you feel like you'll hear the C# chord any moment, but it never comes. I will be very interested to hear your explanation of how this C# illusion is achieved. And I think that you will truly like the song, it's really unique.

I've seen you do video game music reactions, react to crysis theme by hanz zimmer, assassin's creed 2 ezio theme and far cry 3 main theme please

Love this band Doug! Thank you so much for this interview! Fingers crossed you get to react to the 2nd side of Remember the Future soon. Cheers!

Great conversation and some neat background stories.

Mo, when I previously met you last year at Dunellen Theater in Dunellen, NJ, I forgot to mention a dear longtime friend from Germany saw you guys in the late ‘60s/1970ish at some small music club close to Bonn - I’m blanking on the name of that club. Anyway, when I told him I had been to a Nektar gig, he immediately recalled the group and shared that anecdote. Prog Rock and I haven’t always been the closest friends, but “Mission to Mars” and your other music is really cool!😎