John Wesley - Prog Related/Crossover?

Bryan Adams didn't even make it into the charts. Comparing him with Wesley is like comparing Pendragon with Dokken - both arguably belonging in a similar musical territory, but with substantial differences in terms of compositional structures, elements and effects utilized as well as general level of sophistication ;-)

Wesley's addition to Crossover was cleared by a majority vote of two Admins and a SC on the Crossover Team.

Kotro wrote: progkidjoel wrote: Kotro wrote: I'm sorry, I've heard all his solo stuff more than once, and apart maybe from Shiver, I can't tell what makes him that different from Bryan Adams, who he constantly reminds of - hey, let's had HIM to Crossover instead. Seriously, I like John's solo stuff, it's nice and pretty pop, but if you want to keep him here, move him to Prog-Related. Personaly, I don't even think his conections merit inclusion in PA (it's quite clear to me that his music alone doesn't cut it). As Marty said, he was already approved by the crossover team. If you want to make a thread to put him in prog related, feel free, but I can't see why it matters in the slightest which sub genre he's in. He's already here now, and caring about moving him to another genre is incredibly petty.   Wanting to improve the site by making it more accurate is being petty?

Sorry, I didn't mean it like that. Its just massively non-constructive in comparison to A LOT of other things one could be doing to help the site. Reviewing, adding albums/artists, writing bios., etc. Also, that accuracy is a matter of opinion. He was placed in Crossover by the crossover team; if the admins and genre teams thought he belonged in prog related, then he would've been put there.

Also, if you really feel he should be moved, why didn't you bring it up... Oh, I don't know, before he had been added to the site under crossover?

But he was approved by crossover team, so what was the reason ?

It's a fair point joel, no need to shout. ;-) Typically when a sample is included in a post, it's for the purpose of showing that the artist belongs here, not just so we can hear notes coming out of his guitar, so you can imagine why some of us would be surprised when it's that.

how the hell was "Thanksgiving Day" a good example of  his alleged progginess? If Toby Keith wrote/sang that exact same song, it would have never been anywhere near ProgArchives

Thanks a million Windhawk - I'll start reviewing over the next few days.

I will also do reviews for his works of good length.

sure - if you've the time to waste - much better to prepare it after he's been approved then your time would not have been spent in vain if rejected.