Dreamy prog songs

Supertramp - Crime of the Century (song), Soapbox Opera, Wating so Long

 

That would be easy ... all we have to do is send Dean a copy of "Our Song" ... I think he will get it real quick and appreciate the humor! And add it to the PA. You and I get to write the reviews. I have 4 of his albums! Right Through is the best of them I think!

 

oh, and maybe even more important thing - I'M NOT THE STUDENT OF MUSIC ACADEMY, only Culture Studies, so in my work, that "listeners" aspect is really important. Cheers.

 

I'll tell you what was a lot more surreal to prog music that few people got to see ... both the London, LA, NY and Paris scenes had their own "crazies" and in Hollywood, the one that got that award was "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" which while not exactly being progressive, the whole thing was actually quite progressive in both presentation and style.  London's crazy area probably started with the Royal Shakespeare Company doing Shakespeare in the middle of a kids playground (Diana Rigg and David Warner), but it may have really had its first glow with Ken Russell having a party in all of his films, usually at the end to blow th ewhole thing apart. So if you didn't get Glenda Jackson going crazy, you got the nuns in Loudon! Paris had its own art scene mostly writers and that cafe culture. NY of course was stuck in the Warhol thing big time. But LA ... was THE trip ... so, I caught 2001,  A Space Odyssey at the old place that had 180 degree screen, and then went next door to catch HAIR at the Aquarius Theater. And then (not supposed to say this here!) ... went down a few blocks to 5th and Hill to catch that one porno that hit really big and is still one of the top midnight movies around ... wonder if they are going to remaster that?

 

Later on, a couple of years, it was Babe Ruth/Iggy and the Stooges (Whiskey A GoGo) on the Sunset Strip, go next door to Tower Records and spend 50 bux on the newest Peter Hammill, or newest Can, or newest Tangerine Dream ... and then walk on up the street to the Roxy and catch Frank Zappa late, or Rocky Horror Picture Show ... I think I saw it twice. Maybe 3 times.

 

Ohhh ... and the following week drove back down because Led Zeppelin was in town ... so, who cares about "progressive" ... it was just a whole lot of massive fun and beautiful music and film! Pink Floyd was a couple of months later and I first saw them at the Hollywood Bowl in August (or September - can't remember!) 1972.

 

See what happens when you have fun in the big city?

 

By the end of the night ... it was enough! But it was a heck of a lot of fun ... and no drugs were necessary.