LL>  GE> I don't believe it! Someone else who can appreciate and enjoy
LL>  GE> Prog-Rock songs that are mixed in with non-Prog-Rock songs and
LL>  GE> that were recorded by a band that doesn't have a reputation as
LL>  GE> Prog-Rock purists!
LL>  Another here that agrees with this concept, George.  I've been sitting 
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LL> reading quietly and holding my peace about this subject.  My conclusions 

LL> the posts I've read?  Some posters in this echo have an overly tendancy 
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LL> elitists/extremists on this issue.
That is an understatement!
LL> An example, (totally taken from my own
LL> personal experience and views), of what you are talking about, is the 
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LL> song, "A Day" which if I remember right appeared right after their big 
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LL> "Lady" on their second ablum.  I hadn't twigged on to this particular 
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LL> until quite a few years had passed after the ablums release and it just 
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LL> away that they were capable of anything like it, especially in light of 
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LL> albums by them.  About the only real cut I liked by them (and still very 

LL> do) on their later ablums is "Boat on the River" (at least I think that's 
LL> it's called  weren't much! (grin)>).
My ex-wife ended up with most of my Styx albums in the divorce, but I
recall those particular songs and agree that they are not only
Prog-Rock, they are rather GOOD Prog-Rock.
LL> Actually my fave prog-rock is the 1812 Overture...........pity it was 
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LL> way before the 1960's - 1970's as it's off topic for this echo! 
Then give a listen to PDQ Bach's "1912 Overture". Zappa doesn't have a
monopoly on creative musical zaniness. Also, listen to "After the
Storm", from Jim Steinman's "Bad for Good" album. It's hard to find,
having been out of print for a long time. It is a full fledged symphonic
opus. I find it very reminiscient of the movie sound track music of
Dimitri Tiomkin or John Williams, or Richard Rogers' soundtrack for the
50's documentary "Victory at Sea". It seems that the best new classical
music (which sounds like an oxymoron) are works written as soundtracks.
Of course, I'm not sure where the line is drawn between Prog-Rock, which
has classical influences, and "real" classical music, as far as
discussing it in this echo goes.
 * OLX 2.1 TD * The Surgeon General offered me a cigarette!
--- Renegade
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