Fun prog facts

Cesar Inca wrote:   " 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.

I think the stage announcements tell you Hugh Cornwall MSc was banged up in a London prison at the time (and it was common knowledge that he had been found guilty of hard drug possession -ironically I think his post grad degree was in biochemistry).

neil peart became the only member left of his family: his daughter & first wife died in a short time period.

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Peter Gabriel closed a live show at the Hamersmith Odeon singing "Me & My Teddy Bear". Oh and rumour has it he sang lead vocals with Genesis once...

Barbara Streisand wanted to do a cover of Wigwam's "Lost Without A Trace"

Apparently,  was once  with a large  by ,   and  during a U.S. tour in the mid 1970s. Emergency medical treatment removed the  from his  in time for the band's next gig, but he was never the same again.

Many people believe that this explains a) his subsequent hair loss and b) the run of commercially successful but artistically mediocre solo albums he enjoyed through the 1980s.

Sean Trane wrote: Tony Iomi of Black Sabbath played for three weeks in Jethro Tull after Abrahams left and before Martin Barre came in. For proof , if you listen to the Guitar solo on Cat's Squirrel from This Was and the solo of Iron Man in Sabbath's Paranoid.

I believe he was still with them when they appeared in The Rolling Stones' "Rock & Roll Circus"

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Christ, could you imagine the riff to 'Aqualung' played by Iommi?

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Tony Banks from Genesis:

(Selling England by The Pound) "There was one track I didn't want on the album and have never liked, which was 'After The Ordeal', an instrumental piece by Steve. I remember having lot of arguments about that. I didn't want it on. Peter didn't want it on. But unfortunately Peter weakened his case because he didn't want the end of 'Cinema Show' on either. So we couldn't agree amongst ourselves and put the lot on and had a ridiculousy long side"

(Taken from "The Complete Guide to the Music of Genesis", written by Chris Welch (1995))

(In Manfred Mann's interview - in The Evolution of Manfred Mann CD/DVD)

Mann tells about a replacement of a musician - I've forgotten names, maybe it was the singer's change Mick Rogers > Chris Thompson - and how everyone was reliefed when the Frank Zappa fan of the band left. The next guy comes to meet them - wearing a Frank Zappa T-shirt.

There is a story about Amon Düül 2 that is quite funny. They returned to their hotel after a concert (I think it was in Frankfurt or Munich, but can't remember at the moment; I would have to find the book I read it in first). Anyway, there was a banquet of some businessmen going on in one of the halls of the hotel, and the Düüls crashed into it in their freaky clothes and with their long hairand helped themselves to the good stuff with their nicotine-and-hashish-stained fingers. This led to a brawl, and since the Düüls were outnumbered they had to flee through the streets of Frankfurt or Munich, followed by angry businessmen in their Mercedes cars trying to run them over. One of them shouted: "You pig hit my brother; he has a pulmonary disease!" Hours later journalist Ingeborg Schober (who was closely related to the band at that time and tells about this incident in her biography of Amon Düül) paced the streets of the city, putting her head out of her car every now and then, shouting "Amon Düül?", this way picking up one by one. I'd like to see that whole scene in a movie!


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Cinema wrote: -- Yes' 90125 was orignally called "The New Yes Album" WHAT??????? Hopefully they didn't name it that way. The Yes Album and 90125 are in no way similar to each other. -- Jon Anderson's lyrics often have absolutely no meaning at all. He simply likes the way certainly strings of words sound when sung. I choose not to believe that.