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Takeshi Kovacs View Drop Down

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Posted: May 02 2009 at 16:33

Great stuff !

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Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/

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Posted: May 03 2009 at 05:43

bravo

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Posted: May 04 2009 at 10:27

I don`t understand why all these magazines include a CD that drives up the cover price. They all say free CD when it should say free magazine with CD.

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Posted: May 08 2009 at 13:04

Vibrationbaby wrote:

I don`t understand why all these magazines include a CD that drives up the cover price. They all say free CD when it should say free magazine with CD.

I agree. The Prog issue is selling for $15.99 @ Borders. I'd like to get it but like you said it's like paying for a CD and getting the magazine free.

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Posted: May 08 2009 at 17:45

I know. I once picked an issue on Glam Rock for $2 (the distributor used to drop the unsold copies at a local second hand shop). I was mostly interested in the CD which had some 15 new(er) glam bands. For the most part, they were really just bad hair metal bands that likely wanted to avoid that tag.
And frankly, I can't see any music scene or genre that can't generate 15 new & good bands with at least one decent song.

"Here I am talking to some of the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice,” Lieutenant Columbo, episode The Bye-Bye Sky-High I.Q. Murder Case.

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Posted: May 08 2009 at 23:04

crimhead wrote:

Vibrationbaby wrote:

I don`t understand why all these magazines include a CD that drives up the cover price. They all say free CD when it should say free magazine with CD.

I agree. The Prog issue is selling for $15.99 @ Borders. I'd like to get it but like you said it's like paying for a CD and getting the magazine free.

The cover price was bothersome to me as well but moreso because there is no way to get a feel for the actual content because of the idiotic adition of outside packaging. I didn't want to spend $15 bucks on a prog magazine whose packaging indicated it was so heavy on new bands I don't really care for. For those who've bought it: how much do they delve into the past and what classic bands to they feature?

Edited by manofmystery - May 08 2009 at 23:05

Time always wins.

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Posted: May 09 2009 at 01:23

manofmystery wrote:

crimhead wrote:

Vibrationbaby wrote:

I don`t understand why all these magazines include a CD that drives up the cover price. They all say free CD when it should say free magazine with CD.

I agree. The Prog issue is selling for $15.99 @ Borders. I'd like to get it but like you said it's like paying for a CD and getting the magazine free.

There are some nice stories about Yes,Wakeman,Asia,ELP and PF in it. Very few reviews on books,CD's etc. There is quite a bit on new bands. Next issue will have Radiohead,Mars Volta,KC and VDGG. Not sure if I will plunk down the $15 again though.

13 issues of Classic Rock airmailed to you 3 weeks prior to them being on the shelves here is $116.11, $232.22 for 2 years. They don't even give you a discount for ordering 2 years like most mags do. Nothing on the website about Classic Rock presents Prog.

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Posted: May 09 2009 at 13:58

M@X wrote:

According to CLASSIC ROCK, Progarchives.com is the most influential website about PROG and will present www.progarchives.com in their next issue CLASSIC ROCK PRESENTS PROG !

Conformation of what I already knew for a long time Cool

. Congrat to all !

A day without prog is a wasted day

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Posted: May 09 2009 at 22:53

crimhead wrote:

manofmystery wrote:

crimhead wrote:

Vibrationbaby wrote:

I don`t understand why all these magazines include a CD that drives up the cover price. They all say free CD when it should say free magazine with CD.

I agree. The Prog issue is selling for $15.99 @ Borders. I'd like to get it but like you said it's like paying for a CD and getting the magazine free.

so beyond Yes, Wakeman, and ELP not much on the era I'm interested in. You know, the important one.

Time always wins.

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Posted: May 11 2009 at 13:07

All the articles featuring the classic bands were more or less rehash anyway. But then again how much more can you say about ELP, KC or Yes.

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Posted: May 19 2009 at 22:35

That's it the Issue #2 will be out on May 20, 2009

There is a special file about Progarchives.com !

Please report and comments about it ;-)

Prog On !

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Posted: May 19 2009 at 22:42

Why did they relegate Fripp, Bruford and Hammill to the sidelines while putting nobodies at the centre and in colour?!?

Cry

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Posted: May 19 2009 at 23:35

I will rush out and buy the 2nd edition later today. I will report back tonight (if not someone else has beaten me to it).

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Posted: May 20 2009 at 00:01

Awesome.

I feel special. :D

Promotion so blatant that it's sad:

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Posted: May 20 2009 at 00:16

WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Why did they relegate Fripp, Bruford and Hammill to the sidelines while putting nobodies at the centre and in colour?!?

Cry

Trolling, right? Nobodies? You know as well as I that the musicians featured on the cover have sold more records than Fripp, Bruford and Hammill. You may not like them, but they ain't nobodies.

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Posted: May 20 2009 at 02:30

M@X wrote:

That's it the Issue #2 will be out on May 20, 2009There is a special file about Progarchives.com !Please report and comments about it ;-)

Nice one Max - maybe get a few more members on the back of this, too.

Jon Lord 1941 - 2012

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Posted: May 20 2009 at 02:34

M@X wrote:

That's it the Issue #2 will be out on May 20, 2009

There is a special file about Progarchives.com !

Please report and comments about it ;-)

Radiohead and Muse are Prog?

Promotion so blatant that it's sad:

Jim Garten View Drop Down

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Posted: May 20 2009 at 05:42

Albertmond wrote:

Radiohead and Muse are Prog?

Don't let's get into that again...

russellk wrote:

WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Why did they relegate Fripp, Bruford and Hammill to the sidelines while putting nobodies at the centre and in colour?!? Cry

Trolling, right? Nobodies? You know as well as I that the musicians featured on the cover have sold more records than Fripp, Bruford and Hammill. You may not like them, but they ain't nobodies.

These 'nobodies' are out there flying the flag for new progressive rock; there are many out there who have gone back to the greats after hearing them.

This is the first magazine in the UK specifically centering on prog rock and this will be only its 2nd issue - a bit early to be putting it down in my opinion...

Edited by Jim Garten - May 20 2009 at 05:44

Jon Lord 1941 - 2012

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Posted: May 20 2009 at 05:44

Well, I suppose that's just the start of the waiting game for us in the USA... The first issue got here about one and a half months after its British release, so we can expect the second to be here around the end of June or so.

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Posted: May 20 2009 at 08:22

First Impressions !!

I have had the magazine in my hands for the last ten minutes and here is my first impressions:

Behind this commercial cover, you find a very informative interview with our M@X at page 16. You will also find stuff about Dave Stewart, VDGG, Bill Bruford, DT and more of "our" bands. There are some reviews here too. But then again; so have PA..... I can see myself reading this magazine from front to back. Which means hours of interesting reading and then a good reference source for the coming years.

I am not going to knock it. My first impression is very good. But I guess that's open for debate. Both my personal preferences and this magazine.

4 stars from me based on the first impression.