Obscure Prog Facts

LOL.  We all should be confused here.

There was a guitar player in Genesis between Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - July 15 2011 at 21:18

Martin Barre was irrationally afraid of dirty socks.

Rick Wakeman was a tennis player at an all-girls college.

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: Well, as you can imagine it's a typo or a counterfeit (not sure which) for Jethro Tull made by the label MGM (or by a guy who made an illegal recording),

It's a genuine typo - ironically the counterfeit copy fixes the typo:

Dean wrote: Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: Well, as you can imagine it's a typo or a counterfeit (not sure which) for Jethro Tull made by the label MGM (or by a guy who made an illegal recording),    It's a genuine typo - ironically the counterfeit copy fixes the typo:   (this is the counterfeit)

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - July 16 2011 at 11:25

GypsyJoker wrote: "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Two" was adapted for big band and used in the original soundtrack for the softcore porn film Emmanuelle.

,,,and done so WITHOUT Fripp's or anyone else's permission. Fripp sued - and won. Further Crimson obscuria...

1. On Crimson Mk2's last tour of North America in Spring 1972, the atmosphere within the band wasn't all it should have been. During one gig, Mel Collins acquired a screwdriver and spanner, and reduced his Mellotron to its component parts ON STAGE!
2. The only King Crimson musician to make a MUSICAL contribution to "In the Wake of Poseidon" was Fripp. During their first tour of the States, Ian MacDonald and Mike Giles announced they were leaving the band, but completed their duties. They officially left KC when they emerged from Passport Control on/about 18/12/69. That left Fripp and Lake (and Sinfield, but he wasn't a musician), but in early 1970, Lake went off to ELP. King Crimson were contractually obliged to release another album, so Fripp HIRED Lake (purely as a singer, as Fripp thought he wasn't a natural bass player), Mike Giles, his brother Peter on bass (accidently reforming Giles, Giles and Fripp) and Keith Tippett on piano. Mel Collins came in later. Fripp later asked Tippett to join Crimson, but Tippett declined. As payment, Lake demanded (and got) Crimson's PA system, even though he left the sessions early, requiring Fripp to bring in Gordon Haskell for "Cadence and Cascade".
3. It's been mentioned that Fripp was invited to replace Peter Banks in Yes, but he was also invited to join Aynsley Dunbar's Blue Whale, which he also declined.
4. Mark Charig contributed his cornet/trumpet to "Lizard", "Islands" and "Red". However, on the sleeve credits for "Red", they mis-spelled his name as MARC Charig.
5. It's also been mentioned that Crimson lyricist Richard Palmer James was Supertramp's first guitarist, but did you know that he auditioned for Supertramp and Wishbone Ash ON THE SAME DAY!
6. Not obscure at all, as it's on display to the world (if you've got the VYNIL album) but on the cover of "No Pussyfooting", Fripp and Eno are seen playing card games. If you look closely at the cards, they are pornographic (well, what would be considered pornograhic in 1973!)

Edited by John McIntyre - July 16 2011 at 18:05

Latimer Ferguson and Ward were playing for Philip Goodhand-Tait....

Bassist/vocalist Johnny Gustafson of The Big Three, Quatermass, Hard Stuff, etc. recorded a solo album in 1975 that was not released initially. Angel Air has issued it more recently on cd, and it is called "Goose Grease", a nickname Gustafson gave for one of his mother's "homemade cold remedies"

Gentle Giant was originally called Tuba-ma-ba