George Erdner @ 1:129/230 wrote on 04-15-97 00:02 about *Recent Purchases 
(aka New*
 GE> I don't believe it! Someone else who can appreciate and enjoy
 GE> Prog-Rock songs that are mixed in with non-Prog-Rock songs and
 GE> that were recorded by a band that doesn't have a reputation as
 GE> Prog-Rock purists!
 Another here that agrees with this concept, George.  I've been sitting here 
reading quietly and holding my peace about this subject.  My conclusions from 
the posts I've read?  Some posters in this echo have an overly tendancy to be 
elitists/extremists on this issue.  An example, (totally taken from my own 
personal experience and views), of what you are talking about, is the Styx 
song, "A Day" which if I remember right appeared right after their big hit 
song "Lady" on their second ablum.  I hadn't twigged on to this particular 
number until quite a few years had passed after the ablums release and it 
just blew me away that they were capable of anything like it, especially in 
light of later albums by them.  About the only real cut I liked by them (and 
still very much do) on their later ablums is "Boat on the River" (at least I 
think that's what it's called ). 
Actually my fave prog-rock is the 1812 Overture...........pity it was written 
way before the 1960's - 1970's as it's off topic for this echo! 
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