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    Posted: March 20 2007 at 04:53

Here's another game: I have 10 quotes, parts of interviews, biographies etc. that have something to do with prog. The question is simple: who said what? If you would like to play this game, put down a list like 1-h, 2-b etcetera. I won't give any clues in the next day or even next few days, I will only tell how many you guessed right! The person who guessed the most quotes, wins. Then someone else can make another list with 10 quotes. Have fun!

 

  1. I had a problem with this art rock thing. Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer… I didn’t think that we were part of it.
  2. Time changes are like testosterone: you grow out of it.
  3.  (About Gentle Giant): They had interesting lyrics with a philosophical content.
  4. Genesis & Yes? Ridiculous music! Those guys cannot write one proper melody! (interview late ‘70’s)
  5. I always said: Floyd is boring, Tull is boring.
  6. Then I hear the first two Roxy (Music) albums and I think: come on, let’s work! (interview early to mid – ‘80’s)
  7. My secret ambition is to play the piano with the Rolling Stones.
  8. Symphonic rock? That sounds like strawberry bricks.
  9. Interviewer (puzzled): Next time you’ll be saying that you like Emerson, Lake & Palmer. X: Hey, Emerson, Lake & Palmer is a great band!
  10. Those intellectuals should keep away from rock! (interview early ‘70’s)

 

a. Chris Squire

b. John Wetton

c. Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)

d. Kerry Livgren

e. Tony Banks

f. Elvis Costello

g. Phil Collins

h. Jim Kerr (Simple Minds)

i. Tony Kaye

j. John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)



Edited by Moogtron III - March 20 2007 at 04:54
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My guesses:
1g, 2b, 3d, 4f, 5a, 6h, 7e, 8c, 9i, 10j
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Originally posted by Uroboros Uroboros wrote:

My guesses:
1g, 2b, 3d, 4f, 5a, 6h, 7e, 8c, 9i, 10j
 
That's 5 out of 10 Clap 
 
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Okay, since nobody else seems to be playing, Uroboros is the winner StarStarStarStarStar, and 5 quotes right is pretty good  Clap . I'll give the right answers now.

1e: I had a problem with this art rock thing. Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer… I didn’t think that we were part of it. It was Tony Banks who said that. Well, everybody's entitled to his own opinion, right?

2b. Time changes are like testosterone: you grow out of it. John Wetton. Well, at least he still plays some of the old tunes. 

 
3d. (About Gentle Giant): They had interesting lyrics with a philosophical content. That was Kerry Livgren (Kansas) in his excellent autobiography Seeds Of Change. He spent quite some pages on his influences (both rock and classical music), and he was in particular impressed by Gentle Giant, not only by their music, but also their attitude (see liner notes on Acquiring The Taste): that they were striving to make high quality music, regardless if it people would buy it or not.
 
4f. Genesis & Yes? Ridiculous music! Those guys cannot write one proper melody! (interview late ‘70’s) Elvis Costello in his early years. Don't hate him for it: he's come a long way since that and has later on actually played with Genesis. By then it was only the rock press which was criticizing Genesis and Yes, not Elvis anymore. 
 

5g. I always said: Floyd is boring, Tull is boring. In the early '90's, Phil Collins never understood why Genesis was being mentioned alongside the bands that he mentioned in the quote. He didn't understand the comparison with Yes either, because Yes were virtuoso's. 

 
6h. Then I hear the first two Roxy (Music) albums and I think: come on, let’s work! (interview early to mid – ‘80’s) Jim Kerr revealed that he was (is?) a big fan of early Roxy Music, and listening to that band makes that he wants to create such sensational music himself.
 

7i My secret ambition is to play the piano with the Rolling Stones. Keyboard player, in the '70's and '80's part of Yes, wishes to expand his horizons. Tony Kaye! 

 
8a Symphonic rock? That sounds like strawberry bricks. Well, you have to call it something, mr. Squire.
 

9c Interviewer (puzzled): Next time you’ll be saying that you like Emerson, Lake & Palmer. X: Hey, Emerson, Lake & Palmer is a great band! How could someone from a (more or less) punk background like Billy Corgan, actually  like Emerson, Lake & Palmer? That's something that the press couldn't understand. But Billy Corgan obviously believes that in music there should be no artificial boundaries. Good for you, Billy! 

 
10j Those intellectuals should keep away from rock! (interview early ‘70’s) And John Fogerty should stop making such comments and playing some more of those simple, but very infectuous rock songs as he did in the late '60's and early '70's. And he did: he's still very active these days!

 



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Really interesting Moogtron. Tongue

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