New "Classic" Rock" magazine Prog Special
Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Progressive Music Lounges
Forum Name: Prog News, Press Releases
Forum Description: Submit press releases, news , new releases, prog music news and other interesting things happening in the world of progressive music (featured in home and artist page)
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=38992
Printed Date: February 06 2025 at 16:14
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: New "Classic" Rock" magazine Prog Special
Posted By: Easy Livin
Subject: New "Classic" Rock" magazine Prog Special
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 11:09
|
Classic Rock magazine has published another Prog special, complete with a Yes DVD. The DVD contains unreleased material, but seems to be in the form of interviews rather than music.
Looks like a nice publication, if a bit on the expensive side at £8.
|
Replies:
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 11:12
|
£8!!!!!!
Thats a nada from me.
Good info though, thanks EL. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
|
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 11:35
| Took me ages to spot the price too, it's in very small print on the back cover, about half way down! Had to put the reading glasses on the see it. |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 12:51
Outside the UK no free DVD included 
|
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 12:54
|
^^Nobody can buy it for you and send it? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
|
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 12:56
Perhaps I can buy it when I go to Scotland between July 9th and July 13th, good idea Snow Dog, you must have sleep very well this night 
|
Posted By: elpprogster
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 16:01
| Where did you see that ad? There´s neither about it on the mag´s website nor at July´s edition (G´nRs cover)... |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 13 2007 at 17:32
|
The magazine is in the shops now, in the UK at least. It is one of the "specials" though, not the regular magazine. |
Posted By: puma
Date Posted: June 14 2007 at 00:53
| too bad...my university sold it in their bookstore, now I actually want to be back there just to buy this issue |
Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: June 14 2007 at 10:18
I just got home from WHS with my copy...... I did blanch at the £8 price too...... which I didn't spot, until the lady at the till said the price 
But when I get my mitts on it, it looks like it could be a good read! (it's been nabbed by another houshold member  )
Will let you know what I think once I've had a read! PC x |
Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: June 14 2007 at 12:57
|
Still at the 'flicking through' stage........ but nice to note that the good ol' PA got a mention .......in the Neo section!
|
Posted By: Endless Wire
Date Posted: June 14 2007 at 16:24
This post reminded me of something I forgot to mention a while back (or maybe I did mention it, I really can't remember ). Guitar One recently did a prog issue featuring Dream Theater, Rush, Marillion, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, and Yes. It's about time someone did that...------------- . |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 05:32
|
I've got a hand-me-down copy, since no way would I pay that price. A disappointment. But I always am by Classic Rock publications: as usual uncontrolled enthusiasm affected by bad research, and regurgitation were evident here. And that piece on jazz rock - all that was need was to read the first few chapters of Stuart Nicholson's Jazz Rock A History and produce a suitable precised version. I hope newbies who are out to learn, don't read this magazine and take this as genuine reflection of history. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 06:34
^Bad research springs to mind when I saw the page about prog websites- Prog Archives cropped up and it jokingly bemoaned that there were no reviews of Druid's 'Fluid Druid' on the site! There are a couple, actually...what were Classic Rock talking about??
I've had a flick through this and I'm not sure it's worth me paying out £7.99 for it- certainly nothing all that interesting in there, imho, and some of the articles are recycled from earlier issues. I'm glad Classic Rock 'keep the faith' with the genre but I've become disenchanted with their magazines of late. I dig out the old ones from around 4 or 5 years ago and imho, there's a marked difference in quality- too many sex/drug anecdotes and pandering to sleaze/hair bands, not to mention the pathetic over-reverence to Guns 'N' Roses.
I think that including punk and indie/grunge in the mag was a mistake as well- there are distinct double standards in operation; whilst praising those genres, sometimes the writers on those genres feel the need to take potshots at prog and heavy rock/metal that ultimately is the reason why most of the readers buy that mag anyway. If I wanted to read about punk or indie and the potshots that go with it towards other genres I would get Q or NME.
 |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 07:01
|
I stopped buying Clasic rock ages ago for many reasons.
Same bands featured too regularly
Cover price went up.
Inclusion of many non "Classic Rock" bands. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
|
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 10:27
 |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 10:37
No way Eric, The Dutch press agents are dutching you out of the DVD .
We get them in Belgium or in France.
I missed the Blues Rock (with the Cream DVD) edition with the DVD, but I'll make sure I get this one
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
erik neuteboom wrote:Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 10:40
 Don't know if it was that one, but I recently leafed through a guitar mag "prog" special.The focus was mostly on prog metal. That's where the money/market is, these days.
Nice to see any "prog" get a look-in in the media, though, even if it's not my kind of "prog."  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 10:55
wanna borrow some glasses, Peter? |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 10:59
That wasn't very nice, now was it, Tony? Not even a wink.
 I see now it was a different mag. i know Genesis (or even Hackett) weren't in it, nor was there a DVD.
------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 11:05
|
How does that song go: "if you dont know me by now..."  |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 11:15
Okay Tony -- missed the " " though.
(We converse so infrequently these days -- that felt a wee bit cold.)
Maybe it's the cloudy sky, cool weather, and MASSIVE CHORE LIST that's getting me down today.... ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 14:25
The mag hasn't reached Sweden yet. It won't come here until two or three weeks after the release in Britain I was told.  Don't really care if it isn't good, as some of you claim. I have nothing better to do while living far away from home during summer. I bought the Blues Rock issue and found it quite good, way better that the usual Classic Rock Magazine issue. |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: June 23 2007 at 10:07
|
i just got my copy today - very good content except on p.129 they spelled Progarchives wrong (nobody notice?) and we didn't get a screen shot.....
-------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
|
Posted By: bucka001
Date Posted: June 29 2007 at 06:35
Is VdGG in there? I see they're not listed on the cover. ------------- jc |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 29 2007 at 06:40
probably saw all all the Dream Theater (and Rush) reviews on the front page...and decided to drop a screen shot hahhaha. I've said we need to restrict the reviews shown on the front page to PR/collab only hahhaha ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: June 29 2007 at 11:36
|
Check Sid Smith's take on Classic Rocks Top 30 Prog albums, and his own well annotated list of 30, in his blog, Sid Smith from The Yellow Room:
http://sidsmith.blogspot.com/2007/06/return-of-giant-prog-list.html - http://sidsmith.blogspot.com/2007/06/return-of-giant-prog-list.html ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: June 29 2007 at 13:29
|
^I take it you were djaitch, Dick? Agreed on Styx, happy to see 'The Grand Illusion' included (all those who claim Styx have no place here have clearly never heard that album, imho) in CR's list.
CR's and Sid Smith's list are rather good, imho- a bit more wide reaching than the one Q did in their Prog special of 2005.
|
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: July 05 2007 at 05:30
Yes my nom de deejaying.
Sid Smith often post some very well thought through views in his threads, and it appears he doesn't mind me hanging my halfpenny's worth in. (Sid once geve me a somewhat backhanded compliment wrt my record collection. On air Sid said when he died he wanted to be cremated and his ashes spread obver my albums...............he's a big lad though).. ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: Big Ears
Date Posted: July 11 2007 at 11:38
| I remember buying progressive rock/ Emerson, Lake and Palmer dedicated magazines in the seventies. I've still got them. So, it's good to see their re-emergence after all this time, but I found this one (Classic Rock's) disappointing. The regular Classic Rock magazine can be OK, but there still seems to be an over-emphasis on American rock bands like Kiss and Aerosmith. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 22 2007 at 19:50
|
just found this today.... having a laugh about their album list and wondering why they didn't mention RPI in their PA's blurb hahhahahha
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |