Obscure Prog Facts

Dean wrote: ^ ps: that most of the people in the video were also on Zappa's Joe's Garage is a better Prog linkage.

Well done, sir.

Tom Ozric wrote: I have that 7" of 'Words' - it's credited to Bozzio & Cuccurullo. The B-side is a song called 'I Like Boys' - needless to say, I don't spin this side........(as much of a fox Dale was at the time.....)

I should have known better as I know both the Bee Gee's and MP's songs....what threw me was that some of the lyric websites credit the MP song as being written by the Gibb brothers.

In the late seventies, Patrick Moraz almost joined a brazilian prog band!
The name of the band is Vimana and they released an EP. They also recorded a full LP but it was never released and it remains completely unheard even today. Patrick discovered the band and wanted the members to join him in a project callled "The Patrick Moraz Band". In fact, he called everyone but their singer and guitar player, Lulu Santos, which he despised. The other members disliked his attitude about Santos and decided to disband. Some people said that they actually rehearsed togheter but this more a legend than a fact.

After they disbanded, three of the member became very big acts in Brazil; their drummer, Lobão, composed widely known radio hits and today keeps doing very good music, sometimes prog-related. Ritchie, the lead singer of Vimana and an english man that came to live in Brazil, reached the top with a song called Menina Veneno. He is know as a one hit wonder but this song alone made him absurdely famous here. Lulu Santos, the guy Patrick Moraz hated, is the most successful one of the bunch, with lots of hit singles in the eighties and nineties. The guy plays guitar very well and his songs, albeit quite radio-friendly, are very interesting, sometimes flirting with jazzy chords and even proggy keyboards.




Edited by Matheusms - September 09 2013 at 09:57

Nik Turner recorded a bunch of flute pieces inside the Great pyramid of Giza, and then brought them home with him to Wales. The album that popped out the other end was Xitintoday. 

Took me awhile to get used to the narrative side of it, but now I just love it. Prefer it over anything that I've heard from Hawkwind to be honest.

timothy leary wrote: Todd Rundgren's youngest son is named Re Bop.

Also, were Ozzy Osbourne recorded his album Blizzard of Ozz supposly it was habitated by a poltergeist because every morning everything was destroyed even though the owner of the studio insisted that every night they getted drunk and destroyed the studio but Ozzy said that it was habitated by a poltergeist.

Guldbamsen wrote: Nik Turner recorded a bunch of flute pieces inside the Great pyramid of Giza, and then brought them home with him to Wales. The album that popped out the other end was Xitintoday.

Now that is something...really something. Makes me want to go to Egypt even more.

Dean wrote: presdoug wrote: The band Medicine Head released an album called Dark Side Of The Moon just a few months before Pink Floyd did. ...which annoyed PF immensely because had Medicine Head been a success they would have had to use the the working title of the album instead, which was Eclipse.   One of the tracks on the MH DSotM was titled "Back To The Wall"

And Seventies / sixties MOR crooner, Vince Hill, released an album called Wish You Were Here the same year as PF

That is very interesting...at least they didn't call it, Dark Side of The Womb.