unlucky prog bands
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Topic: unlucky prog bands
Posted By: magog
Subject: unlucky prog bands
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 04:41
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Hello everybody, I'd like to ask you which is your favourite band among 10 I choose in a wide group (I could select hundreds of others groups with the same characters) that I called unlucky prog bands: for different reasons infact, even wonderful bands with amazing debuts album did'nt become famous. Tell me what you think about! |
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Posted By: magog
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 06:00
Come on don't be shy, it's my first poll, somebody please reply!
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Posted By: Drachen Theaker
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 06:05
Okay, Okay! 
I voted for Refugee - Lee Jackson and Brian Davison definitely have to be two of the unluckiest guys in prog. First Emerson ditched them in The Nice for ELP and then Patrick Moraz left Refugee to join Yes (after making an excellent debut album). Anyway, welcome to the Archives Magog!  ------------- "It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt |
Posted By: magog
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 06:18
Thank you!!! |
Drachen Theaker wrote:Posted By: Politician
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 07:46
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CATAPILLA. Absolutely amazing Canterbury fusion, and Anna Meek's
incredible vocals were punk five years before the fact. But I wonder what they would have sounded like had her sister Jo (their original singer, later with JULIAN JAY SAVARIN) remained? |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 08:00
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Hi Magog,
Balletto di Bronzo, for me! See you soon! |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 08:35
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I agree with Refugee -------------  |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 09:17
| I'd love to take part, but I've never heard of any of these bands. Sorry. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 09:27
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Catapilla and Arzachel; I absolutely agree about the vocals of Anna Meek. Robert Calvert, sax-player of Catapilla (and not to be confused with the Hawkwind singer of the same name), later joined Mother Gong -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: magog
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 09:48
I voted Fields -one-album wonderful band- but my second is Catapilla! |
Posted By: Mnemosyne
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 13:00
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Arzachel- Great one, really unlucky ------------- I'm a Man-Owl-Fish. Creator-Observer-Muse. |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 15 2005 at 13:32
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How bout some Psychotic Walz? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Wolf Spider
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 04:53
They are so unlucky they didn`t even catch up for the list  ------------- http://www.lastfm.pl/user/tomash33 - Last.fm |
Posted By: Ed_The_Dead
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 10:32
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So they win for me ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ed_the_dead/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5">
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 10:33
| Interesting selection. Out of that bunch it's gotta be Il Balletto for me! |
Posted By: Under
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 10:52
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There must be something in my eye. I read "Unlucky"while it should be "Unknown". I do not know any of these bands!!! Who are they? Why are they unlucky? I would say Genesis was very unlucky when the talented young Phil Collins joined. Who would kwno that he would lost his love for prog as long with his hair. (That sound like the story of Samson)
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 12:01
Because they produced fantastic debuts that never got the recognition they deserved and they quickly slipped under the radar. My ultimate example of such a band, though, would be the astounding Gnidrolog. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 12:38
| Some great bands there- the most accessible album there, and my favourite, would have been by Fields, which I really love- far more than those post Graham Field Rare Bird albums. Not sure if Arzachel were all that unlucky, as they'd have later success in Gong, Egg and Hatfield And The North (I find the Arzachel album to be patchy anyway) and Refugee, who also had a modicum of success in The Nice before, and Moraz with Yes. However, in terms of deserving more success, pretty much most of those bands did. |
Posted By: magog
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 13:28
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Posted By: Mlaen
Date Posted: September 16 2005 at 15:36
Don't know if they were all "unlucky", but among listed bands I pick
Arzachel. Totally crazy songs, just listen to Metempsychosis.  And Steve Hillage is a great guitar player.
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Posted By: krauthead
Date Posted: October 17 2005 at 18:05
Arzachel got my vote and I'm proud of it  ------------- *Dancing madly backwards on a sea of air* - Captain Beyond |