You deepest, darkest Prog secrets.

Oh yes, Book of Saturday is my favourite song of Larks' Tongues in Aspic. 

I love the Strawbs & Sandy Denny album recorded back in 1967 not released until 1973!

Hercules wrote: octopus-4 wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: I have the complete discographies of IQ, Marillion, Pendragon & Twelfth Night And I've been to Marillion gigs three times  I saw Marillion at Nostell Priory in 1982 and had drunk so much Theakstons, I thought they were The Enid. An early pre Script picture on here: http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/nostell-priory-1982.html They were very good. My hangover next day wasn't.

^ and nearly 40 years later he is still a prick

When I'm back in Yorkshire (which is pretty much ever year) I drink "Standard" which is half Best Bitter & half Old Peculier. Lovely pint but it'll put you on your back after 6 or 7.

I love Sade. Have all their albums, both DVD's, and think that the album Love Deluxe is a 5 star beauty !! No joke.
Also love Kajagoogoo, but then we all know that by now.........

Rednight wrote: I met John Wetton who was promoting Danger Money at a Licorice Pizza record store in '79, asked him a question about his past involvement with Crimso, and he looked away with an expression of sheer boredom on his face. It hurt my little fee-wings. At least I got the autograph.

I had a similar experience with I asked Adrian Belew about the then upcoming King Crimson live shows that are still going at the moment after the Crimson ProjKCt concert in Melbourne. They had just been announced, so there wasn't much in the way of news, and I innocently asked, as he was signing a few of my Crimso CD's, if he was going to be a part of those shows, and he kind of froze up and said:

"No. Because. I. Was. Not. Asked. To. Be. A. Part. Of. Those..."

in this kind of fuming, seething manner, and then handed me my discs back and turned away and walked of

Glad he was already in the process of signing then I asked!

I didn't ask Tony Levin about it, and I think he WAS part of those shows, but he also signed them!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - October 11 2016 at 03:18

Many years ago I kept it secret I liked Genesis. I couldn't win. If I did say I was a fan of this prog band then I was a BOF and out of touch with the current pop scene (which I wasn't but would have preferred to have done so). Or I was some trendy pop fan (worst possible accusation) who had no interest in substantial music i.e. prog or symphonic rock to give it's genre specific term.

All that might very well have been true but it meant I had to keep it all secret. Like how now only me and the neighbours know I'm listening to Beethoven Piano sonatas.

Gutural vocal like Opeth and black metal is unlistenable and unacceptable. Completely retarded 12 year old making vocals "from hell", no more, no less. I´d rather listen to Justin Bieber -- who I've never listened to yet. Prog should be about originality, not "competition of retarded 12 year old boys to sound like 12 old boys, to check who of them sound more like a cartoon scaring devil". what comes next? jerkinf off competition?  

Edited by Devoncir - October 11 2016 at 07:28

I'm a big fan of the 1979 album A Cut Above the Rest by Sweet because of its slight but sugary foray into somewhat proggy keyboards on a few of its numbers (a la bad Triumvirat). At the time, I was hoping for further elements of the genre to pop up on subsequent efforts, but the remaining trio called it quits one putridly awful album later.