On 04-15-97 LAWRENCE LUCIER wrote to GEORGE ERDNER... 
 
 LL> 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. 
 
        Prog is so broad that there is probably no single 
        individual here or anywhere who likes all types of prog. 
        In effect that means that here we all need to get along 
        with other people who maybe don't like the same types of 
        music we do, even if it all fits in the same overall 
        category of progrock. 
 
        What that means, in practical terms, is that you and
        George should feel free to discuss Styx and Def Leppard 
        (but not Billy Joel and Elton John, since we have to draw 
        the line somewhere) without having others slag your 
        tastes as lowbrow and pedestrian. And on the other hand, 
        other people here should feel free to disuss Finnesterre 
        or the Plastic People of the Universe or Henry Cow 
        without being slagged as elitists/extremists. 
 
        Who knows, maybe we could all learn something from each 
        other around here? 
 
        FWIW, I liked Styx when they were on Wooden Nickel 
        records, before they got the contract with A&M, and I 
        have most of those albums on 8 track. They've still never 
        been able to re-release the original recording of "Lady" 
        so most people are only familiar with an inferior 
        substitute. Some of the later albums have their moments, 
        even and compare favourably to some of the better moments 
        of Kansas. It helps to use the CD program feature or copy 
        to cassette so you can edit out the lowbrow and 
        pedestrian filler in between the prog bits, tho. ;-) 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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