Progressive Nonsense

Ipacial Section wrote: Radiohead arn't Prog.

Their not in my opinion

Peter Gabriel was booted out of Genesis rather than left of his own accord

Moogtron III wrote: I read somewhere that Bill Bruford left Yes in '72 because he thought the band was moving towards a direction that was too much commercially oriented

It is true. I heard the same from one of the radio interviews with YES members. YES direction on "Close To The Edge" seemed commercial only to Bill Bruford, it doesn't mean the band was commercial in general.

RaphaelT wrote:   What is most ridiculous false information you have heard or read about prog music, from newspapers or from friends?

Russian edition of the "Classic Rock" magazine (not a bad magazine at all) is sometimes a "king of small nonsenses". Most of articles are taken from English edition, but it seems people who make translations often are far from rock music. 

Examples.

1. Chrissie Hynde from PRETENDERS changed her sex twice in one magazine. One article told "he" about Chrissie, while another article described her as a female singer.

2. About John Wetton after leaving URIAH HEEP : "Later he played in Great Britain and Asia". 

3. About Heather Findlay of MOSTLY AUTUMN: "His harsh voice in such songs like Black Rain..."

I read in a prog magazine that The War of the Worlds featured Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Jen Luc Ponty, Ian Anderson on flute and Bill Bruford.

The owner of this Peruvian magazine was a friend that recieved a cassette copy with no credits the same day I recieved it, the guy that made the copies told us the story, but my friend printed it in his magazine without checking the info as I suggested him (On those days without Internet the Prog news were almost unvaillable in Perú).

Poor guy, this was the second and last number, because he recieved so many letters that had to give up.

Iván

PS: Eugene Salamati wrote:

About John Wetton after leaving URIAH HEEP : "Later he played in Great Britain and Asia".

LMAO

It was discussed on another thread but I also heard that Steve Howe couldn't read music. I also heard he couldn't really play the guitar before joining Yes and he wrote "Clap" and "Mood For A Day" by ear and experimentation.

There was also play certain albums or songs backwards and you got various satanic or subliminal messages. 

Then there's Ian Anderson photos being labelled as Jethro Tull as if that was his name.

Then there's Pink Floyd referred to as "He" insted of "They". Also, there's Pink Floyd albums under "F" in the stacks of music stores. 

EDIT: I also remember a rumour an album coming out with Downes, Lake and Palmer. Either never materialized or just a rumour. Who knows?