Obscure Prog Facts

In 1971, Santana was going to play in the Communist San Marcos University, they sold 100,000 tickets, according to my older friends (I was 6 or 7)  everything was prepared for a mega show.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - September 03 2011 at 19:51

Just a prog-related obscure footnote to my previous post about the Lluis Llach song with ITCOTKC sequence of notes.

Sometimes German prog band Triumvirat would feature music they had written into their live set a while before it would ever be recorded onto one of their studio albums

         In early 1972, they featured live a partial section of what would later comprise the "Mister Ten Percent" suite recorded onto their album "Illusions On A Double Dimple" released in 1974. In this truncated version of about one third of the music in the subsequent suite, the lyrics were a bit different as well, with the taxman a little less greedy!

             "Hands off, Mister Five Percent!
               We've got a gig tonight, hah ,hah!..........

               "At first you took five, tomorrow, it's ten,
                    The more we get, the more you want"

          also, in 1974, they featured as an opener at the Academy Of Music in New York, an instrumental track that would later be recorded onto the 1975 album Spartacus called "The Burning Sword Of Capua"


Edited by presdoug - September 12 2011 at 09:59

sturoc wrote: I think a lot of groups played their new material live before recording it

I had a feeling that possibly someone might nit pick at me for that one point!
          I am not trying to say that groups playing material live before recording it is an unknown or obscure trait
          it is  the details i have stated regarding Triumvirat's doing that that are definitely obscure facts
       

          


Edited by presdoug - September 11 2011 at 10:43

Wow.  Renaissance has hired different singers nearly as often as Yes has hired that  Wakeman guy.

presdoug wrote: Pat Travers was inspired to pick up guitar playing after watching Hendrix open for The Monkees in Ottawa, Canada in the late sixties

Errata Corrige recorded an albun in a restaurant, but im not sure if this is a obscure fact.

Edited by desistindo - September 26 2011 at 18:46

Typing mistakes you might think? Far from it, these are telling vestiges of the peculiar political situation of 1970’s Spain. Max’s family name is catalan, and its catalan spelling is Sunyer. In catalan pronunciation the ‘ny’ has the same sound as the Spanish (castilian) ‘ñ’, and the last ‘r’ is mute (and no accent is applicable in order to have the emphasis on the last syllable). The dictator Franco persecuted and prohibited everything related to the catalan language and culture, to the point that his administration changed the names (family or first) which sounded ‘too catalan’ and re-inscribed them in the official registers with castilian spelling. So during Franco’s time Max’s family saw their official name changed to Suñé which is the castilian spelling for the same phonetic pronunciation. Incidentally I myself suffered this crazy policy. My parents gave me the first name Gerard which is catalan, but it was forbidden with this spelling so officially they had to register me with the castilian version ‘Gerardo’. In our private lives most of us were using our catalan names but for official purposes we had to use the castilian ones. A few years after Franco’s death in November ’75 the new democratic government approved a law by which those who had had their names changed during the dictatorship could apply for recovering their original names. I myself applied and since then my official name is Gerard. Iceberg’s albums were released between 1975 and 1979, and this was a time of much confusion, the so-called ‘transition’. Even with Franco dead, many public officers were still of his “old guard” and the public administration began to consist of a weird mix of old fascists and new fresh democrats. Depending on which one did you get across you might be lucky and get a tolerant democrat or unlucky with an embittered fascist still trying to impose censorship, you never knew. Some would accept you to use your catalan name in non-official purposes (the possibility for changing your official name would still take some years) and others would not.

Very interesting, good post.

I'd already read about this changing of names, but never actually heard about a real case.

I imagine the same happened with the basque or gallego names? 

Fascinating stuff, Gerard.