Daily Doug Reaction

Hi,

The sad thing was, that even in concert they did not do the whole thing on its own, and it may have been something that helped and pleased the record company, not necessarily the band. It helped sell the albums ... folks in 2 LA stations could not get enough of the two songs, because they were massive fingers to the industry, and to the folks that eventually bought their FM stations and took them all down ... (ask Jim Ladd about that ... he knows about it, but I think he has been paid to not say anything!)

And, to me, realizing that now, is really a shame, but it tells you the power of the rock music machine, by that time ... you could not do a "suite in 9 parts", because you are not Beethoven, or Tchaikovsky. You are a crap band that sold a few albums, and we want you to sell some more, just like you do! Within this context, the two songs in it are very important, although really different and on their own. But having Roy Harper to sing one of them, and add his sense to it, makes it fantastic, and I'm not sure that we see that ... since all we think about is just another rock song. The way this is sung, is way more than a rock song. And in many ways, it might have been the band saying ... we're not interested in hit songs ... which didn't happen in their next album but then in THE WALL it all caved in as some things were too good to miss, and all of a sudden when 3 minutes were taken and a whole bunch of millions of kids bought the single ... wow ... it sold more than the other albums, except DSOTM which was still in the charts and would be for at least 10 more years!

Hi,

It is never my intention to be negative at all, although I tend to be cynical and rebellious when it comes to "populist" views and thoughts, not on a lot of our "favorite" bands, and certainly not the majority of the progressive list of folks in PA, for example.

Yes, I will make fun of Genesis and YES, in their later years, but it is not meant in a bad way, other than just having a good laugh. You and I can NOT, in any way, make any sense of Picasso's history of painting ... any more than we can of Genesis' discography, and us thinking one is better than the other is the thing that bothers me the most ... yeah as a favorite, but better or worse is too subjective to the listener and should not be applied to the artist ... I think that it means we're jealous ... they can do bad stuff and we can't get away with it, because we can't do epics, like they did! Something silly like that.

All in all, my main tone, is making sure that "progressive/prog" music is elevated, though some fan one time asked me how many floors! So you can imagine that mentality of it all, and how to present things and not be sick and silly all the time. My name is not Gonzo, and I am not exactly a person that enjoyed his work a whole lot, specially when he was actually also throwing a finger at RS and getting paid for it!

I simply have seen too much history and story since the 1950's. It all factors into my "definition" of things, and somehow, to me, there is no demarcation line between the arts, other than a different paint brush, and a different electric guitar, and now a computer instead of a typewriter .... and this is the hard part ... I'm not sure that the majority of folks commenting can see their appreciation in time. You can't look at Chuck, and Miles and Frank, and Mickey Mouse (Fantasia that is!) as just another "hit" like the ones you know.