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micky 
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 Topic: New "Classic" Rock" magazine Prog SpecialPosted: July 22 2007 at 19:50 |
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just found this today.... having a laugh about their album list and wondering why they didn't mention RPI in their PA's blurb hahhahahha
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Big Ears
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Posted: July 11 2007 at 11:38 |
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I remember buying progressive rock/ Emerson, Lake and Palmer dedicated magazines in the seventies. I've still got them. So, it's good to see their re-emergence after all this time, but I found this one (Classic Rock's) disappointing. The regular Classic Rock magazine can be OK, but there still seems to be an over-emphasis on American rock bands like Kiss and Aerosmith.
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Dick Heath
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Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12818 |
Posted: July 05 2007 at 05:30 |
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Yes my nom de deejaying.
Sid Smith often post some very well thought through views in his threads, and it appears he doesn't mind me hanging my halfpenny's worth in. (Sid once geve me a somewhat backhanded compliment wrt my record collection. On air Sid said when he died he wanted to be cremated and his ashes spread obver my albums...............he's a big lad though)..
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salmacis
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Posted: June 29 2007 at 13:29 |
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^I take it you were djaitch, Dick? Agreed on Styx, happy to see 'The Grand Illusion' included (all those who claim Styx have no place here have clearly never heard that album, imho) in CR's list.
CR's and Sid Smith's list are rather good, imho- a bit more wide reaching than the one Q did in their Prog special of 2005.
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Dick Heath
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Posted: June 29 2007 at 11:36 |
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Check Sid Smith's take on Classic Rocks Top 30 Prog albums, and his own well annotated list of 30, in his blog, Sid Smith from The Yellow Room:
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micky
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Posted: June 29 2007 at 06:40 |
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probably saw all all the Dream Theater (and Rush) reviews on the front page...and decided to drop a screen shot hahhaha. I've said we need to restrict the reviews shown on the front page to PR/collab only hahhaha Edited by micky - June 29 2007 at 06:40 |
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bucka001
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Posted: June 29 2007 at 06:35 |
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Is VdGG in there? I see they're not listed on the cover.
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mystic fred
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Posted: June 23 2007 at 10:07 |
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i just got my copy today - very good content except on p.129 they spelled Progarchives wrong (nobody notice?) and we didn't get a screen shot.....
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Frasse
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 14:25 |
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The mag hasn't reached Sweden yet. It won't come here until two or three weeks after the release in Britain I was told.
  Don't really care if it isn't good, as some of you claim. I have nothing better to do while living far away from home during summer. I bought the Blues Rock issue and found it quite good, way better that the usual Classic Rock Magazine issue. Edited by Frasse - June 21 2007 at 14:26 |
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Peter
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 11:15 |
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Okay Tony -- missed the "
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(We converse so infrequently these days -- that felt a wee bit cold.)
Maybe it's the cloudy sky, cool weather, and MASSIVE CHORE LIST that's getting me down today....
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Tony R
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 11:05 |
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How does that song go:
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Peter
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 10:59 |
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That wasn't very nice, now was it, Tony? Not even a wink.
 I see now it was a different mag. i know Genesis (or even Hackett) weren't in it, nor was there a DVD.
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Tony R
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 10:55 |
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wanna borrow some glasses, Peter?  Edited by Tony R - June 21 2007 at 10:55 |
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Peter
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 10:40 |
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Don't know if it was that one, but I recently leafed through a guitar mag "prog" special.The focus was mostly on prog metal. That's where the money/market is, these days.
Nice to see any "prog" get a look-in in the media, though, even if it's not my kind of "prog."
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Sean Trane
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 10:37 |
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No way Eric, The Dutch press agents are dutching you out of the DVD .
We get them in Belgium or in France.
I missed the Blues Rock (with the Cream DVD) edition with the DVD, but I'll make sure I get this one
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Tony R
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 10:27 |
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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 07:01 |
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I stopped buying Clasic rock ages ago for many reasons.
Same bands featured too regularly
Cover price went up.
Inclusion of many non "Classic Rock" bands.
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salmacis
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 06:34 |
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^Bad research springs to mind when I saw the page about prog websites- Prog Archives cropped up and it jokingly bemoaned that there were no reviews of Druid's 'Fluid Druid' on the site! There are a couple, actually...what were Classic Rock talking about??
I've had a flick through this and I'm not sure it's worth me paying out £7.99 for it- certainly nothing all that interesting in there, imho, and some of the articles are recycled from earlier issues. I'm glad Classic Rock 'keep the faith' with the genre but I've become disenchanted with their magazines of late. I dig out the old ones from around 4 or 5 years ago and imho, there's a marked difference in quality- too many sex/drug anecdotes and pandering to sleaze/hair bands, not to mention the pathetic over-reverence to Guns 'N' Roses.
I think that including punk and indie/grunge in the mag was a mistake as well- there are distinct double standards in operation; whilst praising those genres, sometimes the writers on those genres feel the need to take potshots at prog and heavy rock/metal that ultimately is the reason why most of the readers buy that mag anyway. If I wanted to read about punk or indie and the potshots that go with it towards other genres I would get Q or NME.
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Dick Heath
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Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12818 |
Posted: June 21 2007 at 05:32 |
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I've got a hand-me-down copy, since no way would I pay that price. A disappointment. But I always am by Classic Rock publications: as usual uncontrolled enthusiasm affected by bad research, and regurgitation were evident here. And that piece on jazz rock - all that was need was to read the first few chapters of Stuart Nicholson's Jazz Rock A History and produce a suitable precised version. I hope newbies who are out to learn, don't read this magazine and take this as genuine reflection of history.
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Endless Wire
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Joined: April 27 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 403 |
Posted: June 14 2007 at 16:24 |
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This post reminded me of something I forgot to mention a while back (or maybe I did mention it, I really can't remember
 ). Guitar One recently did a prog issue featuring Dream Theater, Rush, Marillion, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, and Yes. It's about time someone did that...
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