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    Posted: October 17 2006 at 08:01
I got the "wolf in sheeps clothing" impression about the whole thing, there seemed to be rather too many underlying jibes and snidey comments whilst they were just doing lip service to "how great is prog".............. also thought they were fairly out of touch with the real world of prog, i go to a fair ammount of gigs and keep in touch with whats going on, and what i thought I knew about the proggie world bore absoloutely no resemblence to some of the impression the articles gave. (Maybe I am getting it all wrong???)
There certainly seems to be more women at gigs these days!
(Although you are right about the loo's Vicky!!!)

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Read the Prog issue from cover to cover - boiled for a time about the comments why women don't like prog... but at least at a prog gig there is never a Q for the ladies loos ! keep it that way. Allowed Jim to read it - after all it is my subscription !
Good CD - enjoyed in car on long journey
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Points: 2747 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2006 at 17:17
Good one

i like the CD too


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Points: 12812 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 22 2006 at 07:24
Somebody loaned me their copy. Alas Classic Rock remains persistent in being under-researched (too much of the attitude "Nobody will really remember that so let's make things up, it's more fun"),  and hence lacks credibility. (So probably source for a lot of tosh written up in Wikepedia).  My distrust started when somebody wrote Allan Holdsworth was going to replace Seve Howe in Asia..........................................

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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 15:27
The October edition is not prog focused, but it still has some good stuff.
 
The accompanying DVD has performances from the Montreux Jazz festival, many released for the first time. The artists on it include Deep Purple (guess which song! Clue, we all went out to...?), Mike Oldfield (Platinum), ELP (Tiger..), Moody Blues, Canned heat, Gary Moore and Jeff Healey.
 
The magazine has a feature on Bat out of hell 3, sleeeve notes for "The lamb lies down on Broadway", a major article on Freddie Mercury, articles on Mountain, Love, Cactus (Vanilla Fudge offshoot) and Horslips.
 
A good read.
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Yeah, I got the CD too...


You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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Points: 758 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 12:57
I bought this issue today and have just spent the afternoon reading it. Instead of study as I'm supposed to do.
 
A damn lot of albums I have to buy now...
 
Quite good articles. I especially liked the artice revealing the truth about the myth that Punk killed Prog.
 
Eric Neuteboom mentioned earlier that "The bonus CD is only available inside the UK .. Cry" but it is included here in Sweden too...
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

I just bought MoJo for the first time this year >> with Elton John on the cover.
 
and coming with it is the best free CD compilation I have ever heard
 
The Quiet Revolution >> about the Folk revoval
 
Bert Jansch, Vashti Bunyan, Pentangle, Pete Brown, Kevin Ayers, Josephine Foster >>> all classy stuff


Wow, that sounds much better. I find Josephine Foster a hundred times more interesting than retro folkrockers Circulus. 
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I just bought MoJo for the first time this year >> with Elton John on the cover.
 
and coming with it is the best free CD compilation I have ever heard
 
The Quiet Revolution >> about the Folk revoval
 
Bert Jansch, Vashti Bunyan, Pentangle, Pete Brown, Kevin Ayers, Josephine Foster >>> all classy stuff
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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Points: 1823 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 03:57
I was in the supermarket on Saturday and I saw it in the newsagents there from about 10 metres away. If it hadn't been for this thread, I never would have seen it. Thanks! It's a great magazine. I'm going to have a listen to the CD now ...


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Thanks for the tip off Bob. Sounds interesting.


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Just got it. Great issue indeed. I especially enjoyed the cross-over between Fripp and Strummer.

Edited by Kleynan - September 05 2006 at 09:54


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Yup Circulus is the onlt thing more or less listenable past the TFK track.
 
Not much for me in that CD and when the better tracks come Spock, TFK (hate those vocals though) and Porcupine Tree, one can be a bit afraid of the impact this compilation will have
 
I am just about to start reading the cover stories. I always keep those for last as I read the front and back sections first >> more urgent and up-to-date.
 
 
I just saw it in Holland for a whopping €10.50 without the CDs >> systematically taken out but I also believe there is a lot of stealing.
 
In belgium I paid 8.50 and the Cd was included.
 
 
 
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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 15:52
Rafaella, there are 4 other Circulus tracks available at http://www.myspace.com/circulus.
They do sound pretty good, particularly "Swallow".
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2006 at 15:44
I got the mag at home this morning, and of course I immediately put the CD on. As most of you said, that Circulus song is really remarkable - I can't wait to hear more about this band! As to the mag itself, I haven't started reading it yet (I'll probably take it with me on the trip I'm going on over the weekend), but it does look interesting - and they gave a very high rating to Maiden's new album as well!Thumbs Up
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Points: 20240 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 29 2006 at 10:55
I was sad to see that even in a prog special they had to describe "Olias of Sunhillow" as "preposterous" and TFTO as "stupefyingly boring". >>> sorry but for once that classy Crock is on the buttonTongue!!!!
especially when earlier they say that prog is an "unfairly maligned genre".
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

The bonus CD is only available inside the UK .. Cry 


As a subscriber, I get all the bonus material included in the mag. As a matter of fact, my flat is full of CR bonus CDs and DVDs. Some of them are quite good too, like the Led Zep tribute in the last but one issue.
 
 
We get the bonus cds in Belgium through the stores, though!! Smile
 
I think the Dutch shop owners take away the free bonus cd and sell it apart. Tongue
 
Picked this up only this WE, though. *
 
Not available before!
 
 
 


Edited by Sean Trane - August 29 2006 at 10:59
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Points: 4252 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:55
Some very interesting stuff in this mag, pleased to see Prog getting some press!! good cd too. they claim the new Iron Maiden album is prog metal so i'll have to listen to that one, and the "Prog Summit" article ( by Steven Wilson, Fish,  Greg Lake and Steve Hackett ) commenting on the state of prog today was very interesting too. Hope to see more issues like this in the future - or a regular Prog mag! Clap
 
 
 
 
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:51
Hope I'll get it at home one of these days... I can't wait to hear the CD, as well as read those comments you have just mentioned. Anyway, I do agree about "Olias..." (I found it very boring, apart from the great cover art), and this thing about TfTO bugs me as well... but it's become a sort of reflex to so-called critics to point it out as the prog album people love to hate.
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Points: 3928 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 15:46
I'm afraid I do find 'Olias Of Sunhillow' 'preposterous' personally as well (based on the few times I've ever played it...), but in no way is TFTO 'stupefyingly boring'- sadly Classic Rock regularly give that album a bashing. But personally I don't see why that should be- there isn't anything stylistically speaking, wildly different from the Yes albums of before (CTTE) and after (Relayer) yet those albums are showered with acclaim on a regular basis. I can't work it out, really.
 
Some good stuff on the CD- Circulus were about the best I heard of the new acts.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

A bit late I know, but I picked this up on the way home from my holiday yesterday. The CD is good, Circulus and Frost are worth checking out. The State of Prog article is interesting but a lot of the interviews are old and I was sad to see that even in a prog special they had to describe "Olias of Sunhillow" as "preposterous" and TFTO as "stupefyingly boring". especially when earlier they say that prog is an "unfairly maligned genre".


I agree why in a Prog special did they have to be so negative about classic albums?

Other than that it was an interesting read and the CD is fantastic.
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