On 05-27-97 GEORGE ERDNER wrote to ALL... 
 
 GE> I'm curious. What Prog-Rock music did Tommy Bolin play? Are the 
 GE> recordings available? 
 
        Check out _Spectrum_ by Billy Cobham. Also, some of the 
        stuff Bolin played on that album also ends up on 
        occasional Cobham anthology. Otherwise the really good 
        stuff is long out of print and unavailable, such as 
        Alphonse Mouzon's solo album. 
 
 GE> How much Prog-Rock did Joe Walsh and/or the James Gang ever play? 
 
        Early James Gang albums delved pretty heavily into psych. 
 
 GE> And what about Marc Bolan and T-Rex? Are there any recordings of 
 GE> Prog-Rock from them? 
 
        Naw, but they used a mellotron pretty heavily on _Tanx_, 
        amongst other albums, and were well produced when Tony 
        Visconti was doing the job. And Flo & Eddie from the 
        Mothers sang back up on "Bang a Gong." Oh, and Ian 
        McDonald from King Crimson played sax on that cut. 
 
        But, if by some round about way you are implying that 
        maybe we should try to head discussion back a little more 
        focused on prog, the point is taken, and we probably 
        should. Leading by example is always a fine way to 
        accomplish this, rather than kvetching. Hint hint. :-) 
 
        Right now I'm listening, on 8 track, to Synergy 
        _Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra_. Kind of 
        nice. Wish I had it in quad. 
 
        Just recently I managed to snag quadraphonic 8 track 
        copies of Pink Floyd _Atom Heart Mother_ and _Wish You 
        Were Here_. It brought back to me how when I saw Floyd on 
        the _WYWH_ tour (Cap Centre, just outside of Wash DC) 
        they had a quad system in the arena and it was 
        incredible. Perhaps one can even say this piece was 
        composed for quad and was meant to be heard in quad. I 
        only wish they had released live shows in quad. The same 
        goes for ELP, who had a really good quad live show, too. 
 
        Other things I'm listening to are: 
 
        Korai Orom and Vizonto, a couple of bands from Hungary. 
        King Crimson - B'Boom 
        Anglagard - Buried Alive 
        Echolyn - When Matthew Sweet Turns Sour 
        Anekdoten - Nucleus 
        Shylock - Gialorgues 
        Naked City - Radio 
        Mike Keneally - Hat, Boil That Dustspeck 
        Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita 
        Landberk - One Man Tell's Another 
        Forgas - L'Oeil 
        Gandalf 
        Onehalf - Viperflat (another obscure Hungarian band, kind 
        of like a cross between 801 Live and Happy Family) 
        Nomad - Dah (a new band from Quebec, really nice) 
        Secret Oyster - Sea Son 
        Invisible Opera Company of Tibet - Jewel in the Lotus 
        Kraan - Wiederhoren, Fly Day 
        Gato Barbieri - Chapter Two : Hasta Siempre 
        John McLaughlin - Belo Horizonte (ok but not great) 
        Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency 
        Yes - Keys to Asencion 
        Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Sonic Geology 
        Silver Apples - Contac 
        Biota - Almost Never 
        Holy Modal Rounders - Good Taste is Always in Fashion 
        Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Live 
        Mike Westbrook (w/ Lindsay Cooper) - Westbrook..Rossini 
        Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) 
        Zappa - Lost Episodes (really starting to love this a
        lot) 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
 
 
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