On 03-01-97 GEORGE ERDNER wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 KN> for the purposes of this echo "PROG" is not an adjective 
 KN> but a category 
 
 GE> I see. In that case, so long, & thanks for all the fish. 
 
        Well, no one is asking you to leave and you are certainly 
        more than welcome to stay if you want to talk about prog. 
 
        Your point about prog music vs prog artists is well 
        taken. 
 
        Traditionally on the echo people can talk about any group 
        or artist who has been in the past identified as a 
        progrocker. Thus people can talk about virtually any old 
        stuff released by Genesis, Ambrosia, Kansas, Rush, Saga, 
        FM, Peter Gabriel, and countless others even though it 
        might have been 20 years since they did anything proggy. 
 
        Whereas yes, there are artists who have not been 
        identified as progrockers who have done the odd proggy 
        bit here and there. Hey, I even have a Commander Cody 
        album with a prog tune on it. In cases such as these, 
        discussions of the bands/artists are limited only to 
        those tunes they have done which can be considered 
        progrock tunes. 
 
        So, Genesis "I Missed Again" is on topic while Billy 
        Joel's "Uptown Girl" is not. 
 
        The thread of "prog in unsuspected places" ie progrock 
        tunes by non-progrockers is always on topic and even 
        encouraged. 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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