On 3/24/97, George Erdner grokked "Aaron Copland", and said to David 
Marheine: 
  GE> There's so little Prog-Rock out there in the first place, why does
  GE> everyone reject discussion of Prog-Rock songs by artists who don't
  GE> limit themselves to that genre exclusively, yet embrace discussion of
  GE> artists who only do Prog-Rock but that no one has ever heard of (much
  GE> less heard)? 
Why? I'll tell you why. 
Because 9-times out of ten, the stuff you can find on the radio, you can find 
on the radio again. 
The Obscure stuff you will NEVER find if it weren't for a group like this. I 
want to know about the obscure and difficult to find stuff, because that is 
what I love most; hearing something I have NEVER heard before. 
I like Billy Joel, I appreciate his huge gobs of talent, but it really isn't 
very likely he will go full-tilt PROG at any time in the forseeable future 
(GOD what a monster he would make though) so therefore while I do not 
currently own any billy joel albums, I am not likely to buy any in the near 
future even though I like his music. ANd since I can hear most of his catalog 
on the radio any time I want, I choose to seek out that which ESCAPES the 
average listener completely.. the stuff they don't listen to because the 
"Don't GET it" (as in "cannot understand what it's (the music) about")
I want to hear about bands and artists that you just can't FIND locally and 
that you will NEVER sadly EVER find in Colombia House catalogs:
Anglagard*
5uu's*
Ozric Tentacles
Premiata Forneria Marconi
Triumvirat
Eloy
Magma
Marillion
Steve Tibbetts
Gentle Giant
Adrian Belew
Hatfield & The North
Happy The Man*
Camel*
White Willow*
(just off the top of my head)
*= indicates stuff I haven't even heard yet, but that have stuck in my mind 
because of all the talk about them in here.
--- MacWoof 1.5.3; just keeps going and ...
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