SRG>   GE> There's so little Prog-Rock out there in the first place, why does
SRG>   GE> everyone reject discussion of Prog-Rock songs by artists who don't
SRG>   GE> limit themselves to that genre exclusively, yet embrace discussion 
SRG>   GE> artists who only do Prog-Rock but that no one has ever heard of 
mu
SRG>   GE> less heard)?
SRG> Why? I'll tell you why.
SRG> Because 9-times out of ten, the stuff you can find on the radio, you can 
SRG> on the radio again.
AH-HA!!! You've made my point. The radio seldom plays more than one
or two cuts off of any albums, no matter how popular the album is.
Therefore, if there are some Prog-Rock cuts on an album that aren't the
cuts that are played on the radio, then those cuts are almost as obscure
as entire albums from which no cuts are played!
SRG> The Obscure stuff you will NEVER find if it weren't for a group like 
his
SRG> want to know about the obscure and difficult to find stuff, because that 
SRG> what I love most; hearing something I have NEVER heard before.
If the only exposure you've had to an album recorded by someone who
isn't a Prog-Rock specialist is the few cuts that got radio airplay,
then the Prog-Rock cuts off of those albums are ALSO something you've
probably never heard before!! The only difference between finding out
about some Prog-Rock songs from sources that you never knew included
Prog-Rock in their mix of music and finding out about obscure albums
that are totally Prog-Rock is that the former are obscure but easy to
find, while the latter are obscure and HARD to find. But in both cases,
you're finding about about Prog-Rock music you haven't heard yet.
SRG> I like Billy Joel, I appreciate his huge gobs of talent, but it really 
s
SRG> very likely he will go full-tilt PROG at any time in the forseeable 
utur
SRG> what a monster he would make though) so therefore while I do not 
urrentl
SRG> any billy joel albums, I am not likely to buy any in the near future 
ven
SRG> though I like his music. ANd since I can hear most of his catalog on the 
SRG> any time I want, I choose to seek out that which ESCAPES the average 
ist
SRG> completely.. the stuff they don't listen to because the "Don't GET it" 
a
SRG> "cannot understand what it's (the music) about")
I don't suggest you BUY any Billy Joel albums. But it wouldn't hurt to
BORROW one from someone to listen to those songs in his catalog that get
the exact same amount of airplay as any of the obscure Prog-Rock
specialists you've named -- which is zip, zero, zilch, nada. Because the
simple fact is that even for the most popular artists on the planet, the
majority of their stuff is never played on the radio.
I don't want to belabor the point, but even an ultra buble-gum band like
"The Turtles" had some very proggish works on the "B" side of some of
their teenybopper singles that no one ever heard played on the radio.
Why else do you think that Frank Zappa was impressed with their work
enough to include Howard Kaylan & Mark Volman (Flo & Eddie) in the
Mothers for a while?
SRG> I want to hear about bands and artists that you just can't FIND locally 

SRG> that you will NEVER sadly EVER find in Colombia House catalogs:
Great. But what's wrong with ALSO finding about even MORE Prog-Rock that
isn't impossible to find -- stuff that is very accessible, even if it's
equally as obscure to everyone who doesn't own a copy of the album?
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