Glad you like them, Brian! When I first heard them, I was 16 or so and wanted to play the drums, and I was totally floored by Jürgen Rosenthal’s drumming on the live album and the battery of roto-toms he had in his kit.
Cool bass and nice synths as well… you just need to get past that German accent 
(and I say that as someone born and raised in Germany 
) - it can be a bit painful at times 
Hey @joergkutter,
Listened to a lot of their music today, I am a fan of prog rock so I will delv a little deeper over the next few days.
They have played at some of the venues that I have watched Ramses play live at on youtube, balvour hall one I recall.
I got into Ramses in the late seventies when I was about the same age as you.
There was a German guy who had a record shop in a little arcade in Melbourne, called pipe imported records,
I spent plenty of time in that shop.
I have been in contact with the Ramses bass player through their web page and have bought some t shirts and I have their catalogue on CD now, and they all autographed them for me.
I surprised you don’t like Kansas, or maybe you do?
Similarities to both bands, actually Scorpions do a good cover of their song dust in the wind.
The drummer in Kansas is pretty awesome.
I could go on and on and on.
Cheers
I hope I never said that!?! It’s not that I don’t like them, but I am actually not very familiar with all their music. When I started listening to prog, I almost immediately got more drawn to UK-based prog: Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, UK, … I guess I thought Kansas was too “commercial” back then, if that makes any sense. I liked Camel, though 
And then, Zappa… (so, not necessarily any rhyme or reason to all this - I can’t say I approached it “methodically”…)
Ooh very good. LOL at their name too.
Kind of a post-Hawkwind 
Love Hawkwind,
Warrior at the edge of time is a great album, Magnu is my favourite song 
So I thought I might give this funky bass line a go 
And ended up playing this …
Hi, you should have a listen to “Icarus ll Icarus and “the wall” they are 3 really good songs they have.
Cheers
Hi @joergkutter,
You should have a listen to their sons Icarus ll , Icarus and “the wall”
All great songs.
Cheers Brian
Well, that escalated quickly… 
Nice Spector in that first vid
Ramones are of course awesome too.
Hey @Mac,
Like get the funk out, nice bass line
But not a fan of the Ramones song.
Cheers Brian
Oh man!
I completely forgot that song. I don’t even know how I stumbled upon it in the first place. I didn’t know the band or anything but I like the song very much.
Thanks for reminding me of it.
This one might appeal mostly to club music history buffs more than anything.
Dance/club music remixes are nothing new now, but the trend basically took off in '80s clubs and spread underground through various remixers. And the absolute gold standard for this in the '80s was Razormaid.
And someone uploaded a whole lot of them.
sample:
Still awesome.
Hi @howard,
Love the pink bass, don’t understand any thing they are saying but good music
Cheers
Playing the bass and kazoo at the same time takes talent with both
they obviously love what they do and that’s awesome
@howard
I struggle smoking a cigarette and playing the bass at the same time never mind about making a tune in time with other musicians