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timothy leary 
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I suppose it is, obscure does not mean bad.
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Gerinski
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Posted: January 08 2013 at 03:20 |
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The artwork of Mike Oldfield's Five Miles Out was inspired by an episode Mike had while piloting a Piper Navajo aircraft on August 1980 over the Pyrenees mountains in Spain and got caught in a thunderstorm, in his own words:
"We were tossed about like a pancake and there was ice collecting on the propellers and rain on the windscreen and everybody was going aaargh!" |
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Astral Traveller
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Posted: January 09 2013 at 07:00 |
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Fripp wrote the Windows Vista Beta logon chime Eno wrote the original Microsoft Sound Mike Oldfield's Amarok has a hidden message in morse code that when translated say "F**K OFF R.B." |
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A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. -Robert Fripp |
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The Mystical
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Posted: January 10 2013 at 20:48 |
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Not too obscure, but certainly unknown by many.
Nick Mason, drummer of Pink Floyd, produced Gong's "Shamal" and produced Steve Hillage's "Green". |
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: January 10 2013 at 21:11 |
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Tony Iommi was offered a spot in Yes
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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
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octopus-4
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Posted: January 10 2013 at 23:30 |
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Mason produced (and played in) this: Rick Wright played on it, too
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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Josef_K
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That I have never heard before... he doesn't mention it in his biography :S Do you know when this was? Either way, it would have sounded quite funny with Jon's vocals over those crushing, dark riffs. Then again, I guess Ozzy didn't have the heaviest voice either ^^
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Leave the past to burn,
At least that's been his own - Peter Hammill |
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Atavachron
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Posted: January 11 2013 at 23:00 |
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apparently Iommi was offered a spot in every British band of the period.. and I wouldn't doubt it
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: January 11 2013 at 23:33 |
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I read that when I purchased the Yes Album, it was mentioned somewhere in there, it was c.1970-1971 Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - January 11 2013 at 23:34 |
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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
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zravkapt
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He also produced an album by The Damned after they couldn't get a reclusive Syd Barrett to do it. |
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Magma America Great Make Again
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: January 13 2013 at 04:56 |
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Elton John auditioned as the lead vocalist for King Crimson
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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
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He also sung for a while in a trio with the Giles brothers
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: January 14 2013 at 00:59 |
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Freddie Mercury had a very valuable postage stamp collection. I'd say that's obscure....... |
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Triumvirat invited Mick Jagger to take part in the recording of their album A La Carte.
Jagger never showed. |
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: January 20 2013 at 12:56 |
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^ Whoa.
Edited by Dayvenkirq - January 20 2013 at 12:57 |
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The Mystical
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Awesome! I am a good fan of both.
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Posted: February 05 2013 at 00:22 |
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John Myung tackled James LaBrie once during a live show for a bet.
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ProgMetaller2112
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Posted: February 05 2013 at 00:24 |
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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
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And he played with Jean Luc Ponty. |
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 Actor and comedian Ben Miller (of Amstrong & Miller, Primeval and the BBC detective series Death In Paradise) was once in school prog band.
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What?
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