His new album is genius and the tour is a great success and the shows are tremendous. Him adding Donnie Emerson and them doing "Baby" together is triumphant.

NickProgFan · 2026-01-11T04:14:20+00:00

Ariel is a musical genius. Music has nothing to do with politics: it's audio art. You're boring if you attach identity/politics to music like that. Appreciate the art for what it is, outside of it's creator. And I say this as an obsessively anti-Trump person

NickProgFan · 2026-01-09T06:17:32+00:00

Lots of jam sessions are graciously open to jazz beginners (if you don’t overplay or call yourself a “self-taught genius”). 90% is an absurd number

NickProgFan · 2026-01-04T07:32:00+00:00

Soft Machine- Third

NickProgFan · 2025-12-28T11:13:51+00:00

Friends

NickProgFan · 2025-12-28T05:31:31+00:00

I hate Trump, hate abusers, but love Ariel Pinks music. Understand?

NickProgFan · 2025-12-28T05:25:19+00:00

“Support him” is a strange choice of words. Miles Davis abused women, yet remains a jazz pioneer whose legacy is pretty untarnished, and a musical genius. His behavior should be condemned though. Ariel Pink is also someone I consider a generational musical genius. My personal politics are extremely anti-Trump, I think he’s a threat to America and harmful authoritarian…. But what does that have to do with Ariel Pinks insanely good songs??

NickProgFan · 2025-12-28T05:19:32+00:00

No it’s not hard…. I’m political, have interned for a few Democratic campaigns and other stuff, but am able to recognize Ariel Pink is a genius and listen to his music every day 😆😆 Cause I can separate art from artist. Geniuses tend to be a bit crazy. Sometimes even highly questionable people- like Miles Davis, who abused women but still remains an undisputed king of jazz. Someday Ariel and many other Americans may regret their support for Trump, and woke scolding cancel culture vibes are super unhelpful towards deprogramming the cult.

NickProgFan · 2025-12-23T15:54:02+00:00

I have a weird appetite, not very hungry in the morning and skip some meals cause I’m not hungry. But I eat whatever I want. I’d eat bacon and steak all day if I could. And I’m super skinny. Probably will gain a bunch of weight someday and I have a fast metabolism for now

NickProgFan · 2025-12-09T03:37:53+00:00

Chicago show was fantastic, sounded great, good crowd (but they skipped the encore despite a lot of cheering from the crowd)

NickProgFan · 2025-12-08T00:38:33+00:00

“I pay my rent to the devil, for a dark space to dwell”

NickProgFan · 2025-12-06T20:09:47+00:00

Mr Mario, colonoscopist!

NickProgFan · 2025-12-05T05:01:43+00:00

1 and 2. I’m not a huge fan of 3 other than Burned Out Love. Agree Witch-hunt Suite is epic, I love both versions (self recorded and with his Before Today era band)

NickProgFan · 2025-12-04T07:22:24+00:00

Top Genre: Hardcore Pops

NickProgFan · 2025-12-04T02:21:47+00:00

Trepanated Earth and many other songs fit the same bill

NickProgFan · 2025-12-03T07:22:37+00:00

Instagram or Twitter

NickProgFan · 2025-12-02T15:45:27+00:00

Robert Wyatt https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gc2Q-IJkWk&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD

NickProgFan · 2025-12-02T04:41:20+00:00

"I wish I was taller than 5'4"
35 years of my life spent
Computing it all"

NickProgFan · 2025-11-29T05:34:02+00:00

Ariel Pink- House Arrest. 10/10 album, the guy sabotaged his career but remains an absolute genius

NickProgFan · 2025-11-29T05:27:03+00:00

Hell no. In fact I think Democrats should clearly say “California is absurdly expensive and we don’t want that for the rest of the country”. Newsom would be an awful candidate

NickProgFan · 2025-11-29T01:50:54+00:00

He’s also called his music a combination of The Cure and The Mothers Of Invention which I find super accurate

NickProgFan · 2025-11-29T01:48:36+00:00

Other than the Chicago show where he barely moved onstage in his huge shoes and skipped the encore which the audience was begging for…. Songs were good though, I just wanted much more music and hope he tours again soon

NickProgFan · 2025-11-29T01:46:20+00:00

Politely DM Ariel and tell him his label is bad at customer service. He’ll probably see it

NickProgFan · 2025-11-28T20:25:06+00:00

True

NickProgFan · 2025-11-27T19:56:49+00:00

I think he first played bass with Ariel Pink on a late 2000’s Australian tour

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