Fun prog facts
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Topic: Fun prog facts
Posted By: Gaston
Subject: Fun prog facts
Date Posted: February 21 2005 at 20:46
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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!
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Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: February 21 2005 at 20:52
Uhh... How do you know that he didn't?? ------------- THIS IS ELP 
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Gaston wrote:Posted By: Gaston
Date Posted: February 21 2005 at 20:59
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Dang, he did? Alright then, that was your fact! Anybody else?
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Posted By: billyshears'67
Date Posted: February 21 2005 at 21:12
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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! Peace |
Posted By: Vegetableman
Date Posted: February 21 2005 at 21:13
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Jethro Tull played their first show opening for Pink Floyd. ------------- "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..." |
Posted By: billyshears'67
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 01:17
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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). End. Pretty cool, huh? Peace |
Posted By: billyshears'67
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 01:29
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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. ================================================== 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. ================================================== 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. ================================================== 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. Peace & take care |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date 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. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 05:00
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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 bands 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. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 07:43
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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.
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). ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 07:50
A GOOD FUN THREAD!!, KEEP THE FACTS COMING!!
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 08:22
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" 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. |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 08:25
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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!! |
Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 08:51
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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'. Kool Prog Guru is actually Elvis, who is living on Venus and communicating with Earth via a psychic broadband internet link developed by Buddy Holly. ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 09:02
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 |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 09:15
I can't really believe it either... 
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Posted By: Gaston
Date Posted: February 22 2005 at 20:27
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Ya the U2 thing is scary. Does anybody have a solid link to that claim? -------------
It's the same guy. Great minds think alike. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 23 2005 at 03:30
Bono does occasionally stand close to The Edge.....  -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: topographic2112
Date Posted: March 25 2005 at 11:42
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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. ------------- "Rock is the medium of our generation." - Yes - "Release, Release" |
Posted By: topographic2112
Date Posted: March 25 2005 at 11:43
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Journey actually used to play an interesting mix of fusion, hard rock and prog, believe it or not. ------------- "Rock is the medium of our generation." - Yes - "Release, Release" |
Posted By: topographic2112
Date Posted: March 25 2005 at 11:44
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Chicago made some good music in the 70's, some music I can actually consider prog, or close to it anyway. Check out CTA, Chicago II, and III. ------------- "Rock is the medium of our generation." - Yes - "Release, Release" |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 27 2005 at 17:38
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). |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 27 2005 at 17:40
CTA was played to death by John Peel up 5 or 6 weeks before its UK release. I would argue with what to write here! |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: March 28 2005 at 21:21
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neil peart became the only member left of his family: his daughter & first wife died in a short time period. ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 08:18
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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. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Moribund
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 08:35
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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... ------------- New Progressive Rock Live show now touring UK theatres! www.masterpiecestheconcert.co.uk |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 00:16
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Fun! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
We are not a band to be enjoyed. - R. Fripp
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: June 18 2005 at 11:33
Barbara Streisand wanted to do a cover of Wigwam's "Lost Without A Trace" 
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 18 2005 at 14:22
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When Genesis recorded "Foxtrot" they were in a primitive studio, and a
bunch of kids always came in and disturbed them, until the band finally
decided to occupy the kids. They made them sing the part "We will rock
you, rock you little snake, we will keep you snug and warm" in
"Supper's Ready", and suddenly the kids, feeling very important, never
disturbed them again but listened to them during the rest of the
recording.
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: June 18 2005 at 14:24
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Apparently, 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. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
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and Posted By: Cinema
Date Posted: June 27 2005 at 01:40
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-- "Yes" was not the band's original name. It was "Life." At the eleventh hour,
Peter Banks suggested the name Yes, and the rest, as they say, is history. -- Yes' 90125 was orignally called "The New Yes Album" -- Tormato's orignal name was Yes Tor. -- Jon Anderson's lyrics often have absolutely no meaning at all. He simply likes the way certainly strings of words sound when sung. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 27 2005 at 07:38
I believe he was still with them when they appeared in The Rolling Stones' "Rock & Roll Circus" EDIT: Christ, could you imagine the riff to 'Aqualung' played by Iommi? -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 08 2005 at 20:18
| Keith Emerson was the first person ever to play the moog live. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 10:30
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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)) ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: AtomHeartMother
Date Posted: July 23 2005 at 00:49
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David Gilmour taught Syd how to play guitar during work breaks, when Syd didn't know how to play a part of a Rolling Stone song David taught it to him. Pink Floyd started out as Roger- Lead Guitar ------------- "http://tinypic.com""> 
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Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: July 27 2005 at 06:00
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(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. |
Posted By: italprogfan
Date Posted: August 21 2005 at 05:03
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the one i have the hardest time with is the image of jimi hendrix opening for the monkees in 1967. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 21 2005 at 05:56
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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! ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: August 21 2005 at 06:24
Ahhh that's nice
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Posted By: Odysseus
Date Posted: September 13 2005 at 11:12
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