And who says that? one of progarhives' "prog gods" who gave only two stars for Tales from Topographic Oceans (Trane's review of TFTO you can read here), only two stars for Olias on Sunhillow (here) only 2 stars for Steve Hillage's space-rock masterpiece L (here), only 3 star for the best Kansas' album Leftoverture (here), and (lol) 5 stars for Lady Lake (here) - that really speaks enough about "musical knowledge" of this "sublime prog god" from progarchives.com.
In their case that is very, very hard - I would say even impossible - to find guiltiness of the industry, as they have been signed for then-major label RCA. Yeah, Mr Welch from Melody Maker was indeed too bad-mouthing to them - they certainly wasn't "worst band in the UK" back then, but on the other hand, in May 1972, New Musical Express pretty nicely reported that Gnidrolog was to appear at the Great Western Express Lincoln Festival on 26 May that year.(...) If Gni didn't pierce, it's for a variety of extra-musical reasons (including lack of industry support) that do not have much to do with their musical creation (though let's face it, their "aggressive" sonics didn't help them) or bad management. (...)
But, a way more important "detail" is that that when they were signed to RCA in 1972, prog was the most fashionable thing, so they got a golden opportunity to experiment more and to be way less derivative, to make their own style more stronger, and consenquently to take a better position in very strong league of the British progressive bands of the 70s.
Last but not least, I'd like to say a few words about their "bad management" hypothesis created ad hoc by our Prog God Trane. Actually, Gnidrolog having played concerts with well-know bands - King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Magma, Colosseum and Wishbone Ash. However, Gnidrolog have always remained relatively obscure. Why? I said due to lack of originality; Koreabruce said above something about that substantial, epic side of the music what, in despite of their undeniable musical virtousity, Gnidrolog's music didn't had enough to deal a higher place in the hierarchy of the 70s British Progressive music in despite of their undeniable musical virtousity.
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