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zravkapt wrote:

A Trick Of The Tail was Princess Diana's favourite album

Really? How come no one else seems to know? Source please! Tongue

zravkapt wrote:

I read that years ago.

Ok then!

zravkapt wrote:

A Trick Of The Tail was Princess Diana's favourite album

You win the prize for the best obscure fact of 2010 Clap

I remember seeing this ages ago, and you are spot on Big smile

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cstack3 wrote:

Peter Banks and Robert Fripp were roommates in London in the early days! This interview is great!

-And Robert Fripp ended up living with you in the same flat in Fulham where you used to live with Yes before. Is that right?

Yes, when Flash we were rehearsing in '72. That was a strange thing when Robert Fripp moved in because Bill (Bruford) was the last one who moved out and that was a little bit strange because Bill and I we were still sharing this flat along with his girlfriend and my girlfriend, and I actually got fired from Yes, and it was a bit of a strange thing.

http://www.themarqueeclub.net/interview-peter-banks-yes

This reminded me that also Greg Lake and Chris Squire shared an apartment in London in the late 60's, given that they had become friends because of their mutual interest in bass. And during this time they both discovered the use of wire-wound strings for the Bass guitar.

Greg Lake also shared a flat with Robert Fripp at one point and during this time Greg introduced Robert to the fine art of picking up girls. LOL

zravkapt wrote:

A Trick Of The Tail was Princess Diana's favourite album

Amazing! That's a new one to me.

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The translation and / or legend of some Romanian prog band names:

Kumm means "sand" in Tartar. The band was born on the beach, and there are still some Tartars living on the Black Sea coast. The pre-Kumm band (which is also on PA) was called Talitha Qumi, which is from the New Testament and means "Get Up And Walk".

Celelante Cuvinte means "The Other Words".

RE the prog-folk band Bucium, this is what a "bucium" is:

Negura Bunget consists of two archaic words, the first meaning "dark fog", and the second "old/thick forest".

Nu & Apa Neagra means "No & The Black Water".

They haven't toured much so I'm not sure how aware they are of this issue. However, the way it is pronounced is different in Tartar and Romanian - the u in Kumm is pronounced like the u sound from, say, soup or spoon. That does make the difference more clear, I suppose.

When Budgie's debut album was recorded in the early seventies (produced by Rodger Bain), it was freezing cold, so much so that bass player Burke Shelley had to literally wear gloves when playing his instrument, and the producer kidded after about how that was the secret to his "heavy bass sound"

zravkapt wrote:

A Trick Of The Tail was Princess Diana's favourite album

That's just an old rumor. Her favorite album was "Larks Tongue in Aspic" by King Crimson, and she listened to "LTIA, Part 2" day in and day out.

Camilla told me.

fuxi wrote:

I guess this will come as OLD NEWS to many of you, but Alan White played the drums on John Lennon's original recording of "Imagine" and Pat Mastelotto (of King Crimson fame) played the drums on "I'll be there for you", the theme tune to a certain well-known (and supremely annoying) sitcom.

I heard that Patrick Moraz played keyboards on Patrick Hernandez' cheesy disco tune "Born To Be Alive" from 1979.