The Strange Omissions of the Archives

BrufordFreak wrote: I just discovered that Tony Patterson's 2016 solo release, Equations of Meaning was rejected for submission despite the fact that it was originally posted on PA under the "Tony Patterson (Regenesis, Steve Hackett, Nick Magnus)& Brendan Eyre (Nine Stones Close, Riversea)" entry and despite including some of the most gorgeous Neo-1977 Genesis/Ant Phillips/Alan Parsons Project music I've ever heard and despite having the participation of fellow prog artists Nick Magnus, Andy Gray (Tori Amos and far too many other artists and songs to list), Adrian Jones (Nine Stones Close, Jet Black Sea, Gjallarhorn, Riversea), and Brendan Eyre.      I find it difficult to fathom anyone hearing this album not feeling as if they were totally immersed in the synth and 12-string washes of "Entangled" or "Afterglow" or some of Ant's "Private Parts & Pieces" or something from APP's I Robot. To me it feels as if I'm back in the smoke-filled concert hall listening to Genesis in March of 1977 (though the last song is pure America "I Need You"). Strange ...

 

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To avoid such injection, I have had to go into my Member Control Panel, then click on Forum preferences, and then disable the WYSIWYG post editor. I've helped some people with this advice who weren't able to remove the programs that were causing the injection.

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Edited by siLLy puPPy - October 05 2019 at 20:42

siLLy puPPy wrote: Also the Grateful Dead will NEVER be included here because NOBODY is going to add all one million live albums

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 05 2019 at 20:20

Also the Grateful Dead will NEVER be included here because NOBODY is going to add all one million live albums

octopus-4 wrote: BaldJean wrote: this is of course a personal opinion, but there are a lot of strange omissions in the archives. I know many will disagree; please feel free to add your 5 cents' worth. psychedelic rock is arguably one of the roots of progressive rock, so I would expect to have the foremost bands of that genre in here. Jefferson Airplane can indeed be found, but other important artists are strangely missing. let me list some: The Grateful Dead. I have seen derogatory comments about The Grateful Dead in here like "they were just a jam band", to which I would say "so what? many short-lived Krautrock bands were nothing else". anyway, just one listen to the amazing "Live/Dead" album from 1969 should be enough to blow that opinion to smithereens. The 13th Floor Elevators. why the first two albums of this amazing band are not celebrated as forerunners of progressive rock on this site is completely beyond me. Steppenwolf. one of my absolute favorite bands that started out in the 60s and definitely forerunners of prog rock, with "Born to be Wild" and "The Pusher" being two songs from one of the most famous cult movies ever, "Easy Rider". Big Brother and the Holding Company. another band that does not get the credit it deserves on this site. featuring one of the most prominent members of the "Club 27" on their first two albums (Janis Joplin) that can rightly be named cornerstones of psychedelic rock. again, this is just my opinion, but since I am a trained historian I think the omission of some of the historic roots of prog rock is a bit weird I quite agree on all the 4 above.

I don't get this, instead of raising questions about bands that haven't been added, why don't you just propose them in the New Bands section?

@BaldJean:- I'm a big fan of Psychedelic Rock, as you can probably guess from my username, and I like all of those bands you mentioned, including Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Company, 13th Floor Elevators & Steppenwolf, but I don't believe any of those artists should be included on Prog Archives, simply because they're not Prog-Rock.  Although Psychedelic Rock is considered a forerunner of Progressive Rock,  there are distinct and discernible differences between the two very different genres of music.  

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - September 27 2019 at 04:51