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echo: 60s_70s_progrock
to: KENNETH NEWMAN
from: MICHAEL DOYLE
date: 1996-10-16 09:46:00
subject: RE: survival of PROG

KN> On 10-10-96 MIKE TAYLOR wrote to MICHAEL DOYLE...
KN> MT> Rather than the colorful flowers of a prairie in spring
KN>     bloom, Prog is now the prairie in summer, seen but ignored
KN>     by most folks as a field of grass.  A few people will always
KN>     take the time to appreciate the subtle beauty of the
KN>     prairie, appreciate the dynamic and complex interactiosn,
KN>     the harmonic existence of it's denizens....
KN>        I always thought prog was like a stream of bat's piss, a
KN>        brilliant shaft of gold illuminating the darkness.
KN> MT> well, my point is getting buried in metaphor.
KN>        So buried it may drown. I think all you can say is that
KN>        prog was big in the 70's and we've all passed a lot of
KN>        water under the bridge since then.
How about:  "That one edible, delicious kernal of corn burried in
today's bowel movement?"  Damn, I'm disgusting.
-.\\.
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