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    Posted: March 27 2014 at 13:18
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/03/25/prog-rockers-yes-wow-edmonton-boomers 
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http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/03/25/prog-rockers-yes-wow-edmonton-boomers

Who the hell is  Frank Frazetta?
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Points: 6673 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 27 2014 at 13:49
no clue! Was he referring to Roger? Oh well, positive review  though
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Apparently he did this, not quite Roger Dean.
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The more I read it, the more I think he just made a mistake

"For while those outworldly album covers by Frank Frazetta made the band’s music seem better than it actually was, when you were at that point in the evening where you were pulling out the Yes records from your record shelf, you and your friends were probably aware that the LSD had finally taken effect."


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Indeed he was mistaken about the Frazetta thing. I still don't understand why this guys, if they hate prog so much, keep up torturing themselves listening to it and going to their concerts so that they can make a review and say how bad it is and how wrong it is to try to make art out of rock and so on. Though this guy was weird, in some way he seemed to be able to enjoy a little bit of the music, but at the same time he was critizising it. Plus, he seemed to talk about some things without really knowing about it... specially about the drugs thing. I mean, surely many of the prog artists drugged themselves, but as far as I understand it wasn't like something they all did. I remember reading about one of them saying (Steve Howe, perhaps), that drugging themselves would only get in the way of performing properly.
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Indeed he was mistaken about the Frazetta thing. I still don't understand why this guys, if they hate prog so much, keep up torturing themselves listening to it and going to their concerts so that they can make a review and say how bad it is and how wrong it is to try to make art out of rock and so on. Though this guy was weird, in some way he seemed to be able to enjoy a little bit of the music, but at the same time he was critizising it. Plus, he seemed to talk about some things without really knowing about it... specially about the drugs thing. I mean, surely many of the prog artists drugged themselves, but as far as I understand it wasn't like something they all did. I remember reading about one of them saying (Steve Howe, perhaps), that drugging themselves would only get in the way of performing properly.

I don't think the review is critical.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:


Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Indeed he was mistaken about the Frazetta thing. I still don't understand why this guys, if they hate prog so much, keep up torturing themselves listening to it and going to their concerts so that they can make a review and say how bad it is and how wrong it is to try to make art out of rock and so on. Though this guy was weird, in some way he seemed to be able to enjoy a little bit of the music, but at the same time he was critizising it. Plus, he seemed to talk about some things without really knowing about it... specially about the drugs thing. I mean, surely many of the prog artists drugged themselves, but as far as I understand it wasn't like something they all did. I remember reading about one of them saying (Steve Howe, perhaps), that drugging themselves would only get in the way of performing properly.

I don't think the review is critical.


Nor me - tongue firmly in cheek certainly, but critical? No.

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:


Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Indeed he was mistaken about the Frazetta thing. I still don't understand why this guys, if they hate prog so much, keep up torturing themselves listening to it and going to their concerts so that they can make a review and say how bad it is and how wrong it is to try to make art out of rock and so on. Though this guy was weird, in some way he seemed to be able to enjoy a little bit of the music, but at the same time he was critizising it. Plus, he seemed to talk about some things without really knowing about it... specially about the drugs thing. I mean, surely many of the prog artists drugged themselves, but as far as I understand it wasn't like something they all did. I remember reading about one of them saying (Steve Howe, perhaps), that drugging themselves would only get in the way of performing properly.

I don't think the review is critical.


Nor me - tongue firmly in cheek certainly, but critical? No.


It was a mixed review. It seems clear to me that he knows the band and prog in general, and is capable of apreciating in to a degree. But at the same time, I don't think he was particularly fond of the genre, and would be on the side of labelling it pretentious and so on (not exactly the words he used, though).
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