Hello George.
03 Mar 97 00:01, George Erdner wrote to Steven Van Impe:
SVI>> I am thinkin about making a text file with all sorts of ProgRock
SVI>> bands, hyperlinked to other.
GE> If you are going to do that, you should first change the definition of
GE> Prog-Rock the echo is based on away from one that defines MUSIC and
GE> instead one that defines ARTISTS.
I've just posted my definition in which I do this, sorta. In short: Prog 
bands are bands that have certain aspects that are unbreakebly related to 
ProgRock (length, cover art, instruments, ...). If a band is found Prog, then 
all of its music is Prog.
GE> Now, does that fact that only two compositions out of a band's catalog
GE> of hundreds of works fit the definition fo Prog-Rock mean that those
GE> two isolated works must be excluded by the Prog-Rock police? Does the
GE> fact that Genesis has recorded a few songs that don't fit the
GE> Prog-Rock definition mean that all their works that do fit should then
GE> be excluded?
This is also solved in my definition (this is getting scary): Non-Prog bands 
can make Prog songs. These songs must also have some Prog aspects (unusual 
instruments, strange music, deeper lyrics, ...).
Of course, this definition can be stretched. And I definitely need more 
criteria.
-/_-,
Steven
NP: ECHOES.MID - Pink Floyd (This is really the best .MID I ever heard)
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