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    Posted: February 21 2005 at 20:46

OK People, let's have some fun. Enough with the let-band-in symplex, we need to move on. Here's a new game to occupy our salvitating prog minds, a facts about prog string along!!

I go first, then the next person with a strange or wild prog fact. It has to be real, that's the only catch (you hear me Fates? - Greg didn't appear in your bedroom in a puff of smoke, sparkling blouse undone or any of that, ok?...   )

 

OK, and so let's begin!

 

From Gentle Giant, I wondered where Alucard was from - turns out it is dracula spelled backwards!

 

Next!



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2005 at 20:52
Originally posted by Gaston Gaston wrote:

I go first, then the next person with a strange or wild prog fact. It has to be real, that's the only catch (you hear me Fates? - Greg didn't appear in your bedroom in a puff of smoke, sparkling blouse undone or any of that, ok?...   )

Uhh... How do you know that he didn't??

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2005 at 20:59

Dang, he did? Alright then, that was your fact!

Anybody else?

 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2005 at 21:12
This is an Opeth "fun" fact...

On their album STILL LIFE on the song "The Moor" about 10 minutes into the song, during the very quiet transitional part into the heavier ending of the song, if you listen carefully, you can hear a sigh on the recording.

Now here's the intersting part. They recorded that part late at night and they reported that when they listened back on the recording that night, the sigh they heard wasn't made by anyone in the studio and couldn't have been made by anyone else outside the studio because it was way too late at night and nobody was seen around the studio area at all.

Kinda spooky, but fun.

Good thread!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 21 2005 at 21:13
Jethro Tull played their first show opening for Pink Floyd.

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"Mister Fripp, your music is quite different than everything else out there. In one word, how would you describe it?"

"Progressive.... yeah, that's it..."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 01:17
Continuation of the Opeth fun fact...

Here's the actual story told by Mikael:

There was one day when me and Peter worked for almost 24hrs, and we ended up getting so f***king tired we hallucinated. It started with me hearing a cough while I was in the vocal booth. I looked out but saw no one. I asked Peter, "Man, did you cough?", "No, why?" I was terrified thinking that someone was there with us. Me and Peter went out probing the area after suspicious things. And mind you, the new Fredman studio is pretty big with several different rooms, and if that is not enough, it's located in an industrial area where no one  usually comes around in the middle of the night.

Anyways, we didn't find anything, but the rest of the day we were certainly affected by everything as there was indeed some kind of spooky feeling in the air. Sure enought it was just our tired brains that played us a trick. And the cough I mentioned had somehow been recorded on the tape. We still don't know who it is, and it's still there on the album in the 1st track (The Moor).

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Pretty cool, huh?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 01:29
Here's a bunch of fun CAMEL facts...

Album: CAMEL
Dave Williams the producer of the album, urged the band to find a real singer. The idea was finally dropped after the band auditioned a singer who started dancing on stage while the other were gigging through instrumental improvisations.

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Album: MIRAGE
The track "Supertwister" is named after the band SUPERSISTER.

Susan Hoover: "This was a Dutch band CAMEL toured with from time to time. They liked the band and the musician's and had a good time working with them. When searching for a title for the song, they decided to put a "twist" on the name SUPERSISTER and so called it "Supertwister."

In addition, Susan informs that the sound heard at the end of "Supertwister" is that of a beer can being opened by one of the members.

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Album: MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE SNOW GOOSE
Doug Ferguson's duffle coat, mentioned in the credits of the album, was used by Latimer and Ferguson to simulate a flapping of wings (Epitaph, 00:32) by waving it in the air.

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Album: MOONMADNESS
In Aristillus, the opening track, Andy Ward's voice in the background is saying "Aristillus Autolycus." Susan Hoover explains: "The band thought it sounded like 'Aristillus ought to like us' and so Andy repeated it during the song because he was the only one  who could say it over and over again without getting tongue-tied."

Album: MOONMADNESS
Andy Ward blew into a horse pipe for the intro effect on "Lunar Sea." Here's what Andy L. had to say about his drummer, "He was such an inventive drummer...blowing down  a horse pipe  into a bucket of water to create the intro to "Lunar Sea."

Well, that it.

Hope you learned something.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 03:43
When Marillion were recording the "Prayer" section in "Forgotten Sons", the band noticed that the recording booth suddenly went very cold - and there are sounds on the Master tapes that the band swear they never recorded.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 05:00

Originally posted by Vegetableman Vegetableman wrote:

Jethro Tull played their first show opening for Pink Floyd.

Queen in one of their earliest professional gigs opened for Yes.

U2 were originally a Yes tribute/covers band in Dublin.

Rumour has it the two lead guitarists of GTR, had once played for major prog bandsLOL

Robert Fripp, Steve Hillage and Peter Hammill all played once with the punk band the Stranglers.

Chris Spedding (Nucleus, Sharks, Jack Bruce, Roy Harper Band, Roxy Music), invented the opening riff heard on the first Sex Pistols' single.

Ginger Baker, Tony Williams, Steve Vai, Jonas Hellborg have all played on Johnnie 'Rotten' Lyden record(s).

Chick Corea has played straight rock on a Rick Derringer album.

Derek & The Dominoes made more records than some people think - check out the Apple Jams on George Harrison's All Things Must Passed.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 07:43
I believe Yes opened the show at the Royal Albert Hall which saw the last performance by Cream (also on the bill, a very young Rory Gallagher with his band Taste).

Robert Fripp played on tour with Peter Gabriel, but sat out of sight behind the band's backline.

Film exists of Phil Collins playing drums with Jethro Tull.

Phil Collins was the first Artful Dodger in the London production of 'Oliver', and as a child model appeared on several knitting patterns .

Lead guitar on Joe Cocker's 'with a little help from my friends' was played by Jimmy Page.

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

U2 were originally a Yes tribute/covers band in Dublin

To paraphrase Brando in Apocalypse now, "the horror, the horror"


One final fact - strange as it may seem, there are those who consider Pallas to be a good prog rock band.... strange, but true (sorry, couldn't resist).

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 07:50
A GOOD FUN THREAD!!, KEEP THE FACTS COMING!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 08:22

 

" Robert Fripp, Steve Hillage and Peter Hammill all played once with the punk band the Stranglers "

That was a benefit concert for the Stranglers themselves, after having their guitarist-vocalist arrested in France. Another prog musician played in that concert: Hawkwind's former sax player Nick Turner.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 08:25

 

One of the keyboardists that auditioned for the first FLASH line-up was Patrick Moraz... but was rejected by Peter Banks, something that he would soon regret, since the best keyboardist that Flash could afford afterwards - Tony Kaye - agreed to play in the band for just one album as a part-time member. He was more interested in his other band, BADGER, which was more into R'n'B and not that progressive.

Kaye instead of Moraz... that's really a laugh!!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 08:51
The IQ track Wurensh is an anagram of new rush. An obseravtion made more pertinent by the fact that the album it came from (Are You Sitting Comfortably?) was produced by ex-Rush producer Terry Brown.

The track 'Paperlate' by Genesis began as a soundcheck jam by the band as Collins sang the words 'Paperlate, said a voice from the crowd' from 'Dancing With The Moonlit Knight'.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 09:02
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

 

U2 were originally a Yes tribute/covers band in Dublin.

Dick, I take it this is a joke!!!! I remember U2 in their pre-Boy days and they barely knew how to hold guitars the right way round, never mind play them and certainly never mind playing Siberian Khatru

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 09:15
I can't really believe it either...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 22 2005 at 20:27

Ya the U2 thing is scary. Does anybody have a solid link to that claim?



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 23 2005 at 03:30
Bono does occasionally stand close to The Edge.....

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2005 at 11:42
Journey opened for ELP on their 1977 arena tour, after the orchestra was dropped. This was right before Steve Perry joined and Robert Fleischman was the lead singer, along with keyboardist Gregg Rolie.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 25 2005 at 11:43
Journey actually used to play an interesting mix of fusion, hard rock and prog, believe it or not.
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