Cat Stevens & Marillion

Thanks You Too Threefates....you're not so bad yourself

psss....did you see my post on Featured CDS...ya might want to retract that

Thanks Sigod..I needed something uplifting after this lousy weekend

threefates wrote: I also think that "Young Lust" from the Wall is funny... especially the ending phone call back to the UK..... and on AHM... Funky Dung... it may be an instrumental, but with a name like that back then it couldn't help but be funny... and the story about the pig from the DSOT tour (AMLOR album) is true, they did indeed have a pig with big genitals... and it was because Roger had the Pig design from the Animals tour copyrighted (for some ungodly reason) cause I believe the idea was Storms originally.... (I read your post wrong the first time)

Ok...you win...but after watching the Wall movie I am going to make you retract Young Lust as humorous.., but I still don't thinK Gentle Giant was as stuffy as you say...but then again you tend to have 1st hand experience with alot of these bands so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on this subject. (See- a progger can admit he's wrong sometimes....but don't expect it very often...at least not from me!!!

threefates wrote: sigod wrote: Floyd without a sense of humour? Have you seen those 70's haircuts? The cover of Atom Heart Mother? Yeh, or 'Careful with that Axe, Eugene'... or 'Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict'... among others.. Floyd had lots of humor... ever read the words to 'Bike'...

I agree that Syd had a sense of humor but I purposely skipped that era of Floyd to make the point. Personally I never thought Careful With That Axe Eugene was funny(the Live Version on Uma Gumma still gives me shivers when Roger does his bloodcurdling screams) and I never thought one way or another about the cover of Atom Heart Mother..although I will agree with Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in A Cave and Grooving With a Pict 

Yep,I don't doubt that the pig appreared on the the animals tour. However, they did bring the pig back for the MLOR tour in the UK And I can vouch that it had a  big er...well, er....

Did the Animals tour pig have a large...um...(cough, cough) as well then?

Floyd without a sense of humour?

Have you seen those 70's haircuts?

The cover of Atom Heart Mother?

Actually, I agree with you gdub in the main that they were more 'serious' than most however, there is a great tale about the 'Momentary Lapse Of Reason' tour. One of the many grand set pieces of the show was the pig that flew over the audience heads for (of all things) 'One Of These Days'. Apparently the band's management were so afraid that Roger Waters might try and sue the band over infringement of copyright (not sure how, but anyway), that the now famous was outfitted with generous genitals (6 ft in length) to differentiate it from its album cover cousin. I can confirm the latter as I was directly underneath it as it waggled about.

For my part; I was laughing my arse off...

IQ are always taking the piss, and I love 'em for it. They know full well that there is an absurd aspect to prog. In addition, there is a UK comedian called Bill Bailey, who is a rabid proghead and he hosted a 'top ten best prog acts' on TV featuring, Camel, Rush, King Crimson (hooray!!), Genesis, Floyd, etc. His links were hilarious. He's also no slouch on keyboards and guitar either.  

But the music wasn't lighthearted at all... A little over complicated.  The Pretenious title wasn't as humorous as it was true...

Yes, Gentle Giant were a bit po-faced weren't they. I think humour is always a good thing in prog. It lightens the load a little.

By the way, a quick (but suprisingly Zen) Blonde joke:

Two blondes meet as they walk along opposite sides of a small river. One shouts;

'How to you get to the orther side?'

The second blonde looks puzzled and shouts 'You ARE on the other side!'

Yeh, Gentle Giant did play some songs over 10 minutes... especially on that first live album... over 10 minutes of songs that shouldn't be 10 minutes.. but actually I was referring to lack of humor... or more specifically... too complicated...

Q: Why do blondes have bruises around their belly button?

A: Because there are blond guys, too.

sigod wrote: Trim posts??? This is a prog forum; it's in our nature to write long compositions... ...sometimes with several parts or movements .........................possibly while wearing a wizard's hat too

Maybe so.. but you need to know where to insert the humor... as you just did, or you start to realize what happened to Gentle Giant....