Well if you "have" to know, in the late 70s I went to a Rush/Blue Oyster Cult show. Arena venue, the Nassau Collisium. BOC was at the height of their popularity, Rush opened for them. I wont say which band my friend and I left for , but I will say we enjoyed Godzilla.
I rarely leave a show early,the 2 shows mentioned were as a kid. A period I count separately from more recent times. Tastes changed, my extracurricular activities that I was convinced enhanced life experiances, changed. More recently I have left shows early ,I don't combine the early list with later ones. Most recently I left the KC show in NYC ,last year, after 45 minutes. Bored to death. I will say though, the range ,and type of music I listen to and go to see at present is fairly broad. I don't see myself as snobbish or narrowminded, on the the subject of music at least. But I wont sit through something Im really not enjoying.
Well I've just YouTubed Dust in the Wind, and it is vaguely familiar. I presume I've heard it on The Simpsons or something, which is where I get all my American cultural references from...
Did you guys find the song(DitW) to be "complex and hard rocking?"
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Pop music - too many to count - let's just say 95% of them
Bon Jovi (in fact, every hair metal band)
The Doors
Chicago
Beach Boys
Gentle Giant
Saga
The Zombies
.38 Special
Badfinger
Frank Zappa
Blur
Stone Roses
Elvis Costello
Blood Sweat & Tears
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Sex Pistols
Kate Bush
Steve Miller
Journey
The Go-Gos
The Moody Blues
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Interesting Jerjo. What is your favored genre?
I can understand the Moody Blues being labeled pop even though they did influence the prog genre. But Gentle Giant and Frank Zappa? That's just wrong. :P
This is tangential, but I've never heard a single note of the Yes album "Open Your Eyes."
Consider yourself lucky. I haven't heard the latest but I've heard that is pretty lame too. Out of all the YES albums I have heard(all but the latest), OYE is imo the weakest and should have been a Conspiracy album(I'm not the only one who thinks that either).
I will say though that I do like the opening track and there are one or two others that aren't that bad but for the most part it falls way short of the kind of album you would expect from YES. I'd say it makes Tormato sound like CTTE and that's no easy feat.
^^ I like Heaven & Earth.
So Do I....
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Excellent progressive folk duo
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
On the contrary, it's absolutely right. Both artists dwelled in an admittedly wide spectrum of popular music formats - i.e. pop music. The "prog genre" you're speaking of was never one but several parallell genres, if you go by the academic notion of "genre" as concept.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Bay City Rollers
Compact Disk brought high fidelity to the masses and audiophiles will never forgive it for that
I've never owned anything by:
AC/DC
Jon Bovi
John Denver
Ramones (or anyone that sounds remotely like them)
Any big hair arena metal band of the late 70s or 80s.
Any hip hop/rap artist (not saying I hate it all, just never cared enough to actually buy any of it-too many great albums out there to buy)
Abba
Tom Petty
Guns & Roses
Elvis Presley
ABBA is the only one of those I own anything by.
I used to have no fewer than THREE John Denver albums, all lost in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy. As I said on another thread, though, his albums are very patchy, and I doubt I'll be replacing them. Maybe "Windsong" - that one had the fewest clunkers.
I have a couple of Petty albums on cassette, but that hardly counts as I recorded them from other people's albums. Mind you I quite like Damn the Torpedoes, but probably not enough to actually buy it.
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