Obscure Prog Facts

Dayvenkirq wrote: DisgruntledPorcupine wrote: Dayvenkirq wrote:  ^ I don't trust Wikipedia. The so-called unreliability of Wikipedia is massively exaggerated. And considering this has citations everywhere, it's 100% definitely legit. If I catch a piece of evidence useful for my counter-argument, I'll let you know  . BTW, just caught a rendition of Floyd's 'The Thin Ice' performed by Ian Anderson, Gary Green, and Tony Levin on MySpace ... come to think of that.

I've got the album that song is from... it's a cover album of the whole "Wall", performed by various artists, and produced by Billy Sherwood or something like that (he appears in many of the songs). Ian Anderson also appears in "Is there Anybody Out There" (I think also with Gary Green). John Wetton performs the song Mother with Adrian Belew on guitars. And so on. Billy Sherwood was also involved in another cover album for Dark Side of the Moon, also with various artists involved, and another Pink Floyd covers album with songs from various albums. As well as a Led Zeppelin tribute album, and a Beatles tribute album, etc.

Not very obscure, but I've always been intrigued by all the Hendrix/ELP stories.  Apparently, the HELP rumors were cooked up by the British Press.  On the latest Genesis Boxed sets, Peter Gabriel claims that Jimi Hendrix wanted to join The Nice.  The only thing that is certain is that Lake and Mitch Mitchell had discussed jamming with Emerson and Hendrix, but it never happened.  Who knows beyond that (or what would have been)?

The band Medicine Head released an album called Dark Side Of The Moon just a few months before Pink Floyd did.

Both of Triumvirat's and ELP's 1978 "pop rock" albums "A La Carte" and "Love Beach", respectively, both had songs on them called "For You" (not the exact same song, though)

ProgSeeker wrote: Not to mention "Lucky Girl" from Triumvirat's Illusions of a Double Dimple.  No accident there!

^A great song, and a great album!

ProgSeeker wrote: Not to mention "Lucky Girl" from Triumvirat's Illusions of a Double Dimple.  No accident there!

Two Mikes, Mike Oldfield and Mike Ratledge, as well as a bunch of other musicians were performing "Tubular Bells" together live in 1973 (I believe it was on BBC).

^ 0:53-1:00 - look at Page's face, all malformed. He could take part in a theatrical production of "Frankenstein".

Dean wrote: Dayvenkirq wrote: Two Mikes, Mike Oldfield and Mike Ratledge, as well as a bunch of other musicians were performing "Tubular Bells" together live in 1973 (I believe it was on BBC). It's not that obscure, it's know as the BBC 2nd House version and featured many artists signed to Virgin at the time: Fred Frith (and other members of Henry Cow), Steve Hillage, Pierre Moerlen, Tom Newman, Mike Ratledge, Mick Taylor, Karl Jenkins and others.   It's available on Elements DVD compilation and the 2009 Deluxe Edition Tubby Bells reissue/repackage.   and looks like this:

 

^ Yes, the instrument is actually a bunch of straight bells. As for the iconic logo ... this is what Wiki says:

Edited by Dayvenkirq - June 28 2012 at 15:50