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   Here's another one. In 1973 Focus were recording some tracks for a new album, but it wasn't very satisfactory. Some of the (unfinished) tracks would later appear on the album "Ship of memories" (1976). When you consider they released "Hamburger Concerto" in 1974 they did find some inspiration after all.

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Agemo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 05 2006 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 264	Posted: July 22 2008 at 14:26
	Here's another one. In 1973 Focus were recording some tracks for a new album, but it wasn't very satisfactory. Some of the (unfinished) tracks would later appear on the album "Ship of memories" (1976). When you consider they released "Hamburger Concerto" in 1974 they did find some inspiration after all.
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	Probably not a prog album, but a lost album from a sometimes prog-related band was recently released. From Amazon.com: "Sisyphus has attained legendary status among rock critics, Chicago fans, those who’ve heard parts of it and those who have only read about it." —from liner notes by Bill DeYoung Formed in its namesake city in 1967, Chicago is the first American band ever to propel albums into Billboard®’s pop Top 40 for five consecutive decades, and is among the most successfully charting U.S.-grown acts of all time. Now, another page in the band’s history is revealed with the long-awaited release of Stone Of Sisyphus, the once shelved album that has attained legendary status among fans and critics alike. Recorded in 1993 and originally intended as Chicago XXII, the disc marked a return to the genre-transcending, adventurous fusion of sounds that defined the group’s 1970s-era heyday. Three tracks from it surfaced on Rhino’s 2003 Chicago box, but the album itself is previously unissued—now, this momentous release also features four incredibly rare bonus tracks.


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	Good topic Agemo I guess one of the better known ones was the Jethro Tull recordings in France for the follow up to "Thick as a brick". These were abandoned at the time, but have subsequently become available on the "Nightcap" album. It seems to me that had those recordings been seen through to fruition, and been released instead of "Passion play", Jethro Tull might have followed a completly different course.

Agemo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 05 2006 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 264	Posted: July 22 2008 at 13:51
	The other day I was looking for information about Pink Floyd recording sessions for their never released album 'Household objects'. Now I am wondering, do you know of any other abonded sessions or never released albums by other prog artists? What great (or terribly bad) albums have we missed over the years? Here is a quote from the weblog that triggered this question (http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/music/2007/10/spooked_sounds_2_more_lost_alb.html): Pink Floyd - The "Household Objects" recordings, London, c. 1973 Whatever the contemporary consensus of Pink Floyd by current garage-indie-minimal-electro-punk hipsters, very few of these snobbish prog haters know of Waters and Co.’s DIY recordings in the fall 1973, otherwise known as the "household objects" experiment. It seems the band was attempting the ultimate punk statement years before Johnny Rotten famously sported an "I HATE PINK FLOYD" T-shirt in the Sex Pistols. Conceived by Waters in the wake of forays into the post-Syd Barrett ambience of Atom Heart Mother, Obscured by Clouds, and Meddle, "Household Objects" had the band using random, detuned objects d’trouve like wineglasses, rubber bands, and pots and pans to create what would have been a most bizarre follow-up to Darkside of the Moon. However sessions ground to a halt within a few months after the monolithic “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” began to take shape and the maximalist jazz-rock opus Wish You Were Here soon followed.
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