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Vibrationbaby 
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 Topic: Babe Ruth
Posted: January 19 2005 at 15:49 |
My vote went to the Yes side. Jennifer is one of my favourite female vocalists and Shacklock's guitar work and compositional abilities astounded me when I was a curious and fledging fan of prog back in the early seventies.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 15:50 |
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Babe Ruth is in the lead with100% of the vote.
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frenchie
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 16:23 |
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isnt babe ruth a baseball legend? i know nothing of american sports tho
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Sweetnighter
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 16:25 |
 frenchie wrote:
isnt babe ruth a baseball legend? i know nothing of american sports tho |
ach, silly brits 
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frenchie
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 16:26 |
Sweetnighter wrote:
frenchie wrote:
isnt babe ruth a baseball legend? i know nothing of american sports tho |
ach, silly brits
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my specialty i am on a hunger strike at the moment for 3 days to raise money at school for the tsunami appeal. how silly am i?!
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Dick Heath
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Posted: January 19 2005 at 19:32 |
Vibrationbaby wrote:
Jennifer is one of my favourite female vocalists
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Janita I thought and later one of the voices of the Memorex adverts -
and wasn't she supposed to be the first British woman to sign to Tamla
Motown....... Saw Babe Ruth at my uni soon after First Base
was released, Jenny Haan could belt the songs out. The support
was a rather good English band likened to the Byrds pre-country,
recorded one album (with CBS?) and for the life of me I would
like to remember their name, just in case I see their album again -
HELP! Anybody remember Canadian band McKendre Spring from the early 70's, another obscure band that passed this way?
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hoedown
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Posted: January 20 2005 at 16:10 |
Found this quote.. I once had this album and can agree totally with the comments ...
"Now this is real music! Jenny (Janita) Haan is credited on the original album sleeve as 'vocal power' and that's an accurate description. She belts out the songs incredibly powerfully and her voice never seems to even approach the limits of her range. The rest of the band are accomplished and solid musicians. Something that they are obviously proud of since the sleeve notes announce that the cover of the Frank Zappa 'King Kong' is done in one take with no overdubs.
They are:
Dave Hewitt on bass and vocals
Dick Powell on drums and percussion
Dave Punshon on electric piano and piano
Alan Shacklock on guitars, vocals, organ and percussion
Alan Shacklock is responsible for the string arrangements that underpin 'The Runaways'.
The cover is by Roger Dean."
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Blind_Eye
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Posted: July 17 2005 at 16:44 |
Babe Ruth is a very good band! First Base is not their best album though. I like most of their albums and they are certainly just as proggressive as many artists already included at progarchives...
I think they should be added.
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laztraz
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Posted: July 17 2005 at 21:46 |
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Babe Ruth was very progressive. He was a homerun hitter in a sport where home runs were not a big thing yet. Ty Cobb once lead the league with nine homeruns. Also there were years where Babe Ruth would hit more homeruns than most teams..oh, I'm sorry you were talking about the band.
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coffeeintheface
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Posted: August 03 2005 at 15:50 |
No, but I think Mark McGwire should be. 
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coffeeintheface
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Posted: August 03 2005 at 15:50 |
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Oh, let's not forget LaTroy Hawkins.
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Trotsky
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Posted: August 03 2005 at 23:02 |
Yes, even though I've only ever gotten to first base ... I mean I only have First Base ...
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