The Father of Prog Speaks

[A. Scherze]

The Father of Prog Rock speaks: Exclusive interview with Billy Ritchie (1-2-3 and Clouds)

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/t..._billy_ritchie



Meet the Father of Prog Rock

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/m...r_of_prog_rock

[rcarlberg]

Has he passed a paternity test?

[Adinfinitum]

Has he passed a paternity test?

Now that is funny. Is being on Jerry Springer next for him?

[Mr. Toad]

Now that is funny. Is being on Jerry Springer next for him?

HA HA HA HA! Thanks for the chuckles.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Yeah, how would anyone dare use an otherwise as pedestrian tag as "Father of fuckin' Prog" for a name about which we know next to nothing?

Billy Ritchie made some greatly influential and thoroughly interesting music, especially with Clouds, and unlike the profoundly dated and often rightfully ridiculed works of many an artist at Whom We Might Not Laugh, much of Ritchie's stuff has actually endured.

[Svetonio]

As per progarchives' database, Clouds were a "prog-related" i.e. non prog band. A bullshit catagorization as such is due to their wierd cult that teaching that there wasn't any prog band nor any prog album released before In the Court of the Crimson King the album was released in October 1969









How much big idiot(s) ought to be to put this earliest British prog band in a prog database but as a non-prog band!
As per progarchives, Clouds didn't deserved to be called a prog band because they were playing prog in an epicentre of London's undeground scene before King Crimson released a debut album

[A. Scherze]

[Svetonio]

A very first British prog band is in the same progarchives' category with Led Zeppelin, Queen, Japan and Iron Maiden
Well, it is obvious that post-industrial information age is also post-intellectual age where a part of prog audience would always to believe more in what some shitty "influential fan" wrote on the Internet than what they really heard by their own ears.