All my friends say they will be voting Yes and this gladdens my heart, because there was a time when it was shameful to be fan of that band.

I'm not sure it's even legal these days. When I saw them they had to call themselves Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford and?

Relayer, all the dying cry before you!

But I have a great fondness for Tangerine Dream.

Can only admit to knowing and liking Yes' I've Seen All Good People / Your Move because Cameron Crowe included it on the Almost Famous soundtrack. It's a beautiful?

I'm actually quite fond of the oft-overlooked Relayer!

Yes indeed. Which reminds me: add to that list of fans in their ones and twos the listener who nominated a track (part of Gates of Delirium, I think) from that album for the best song ever written on Jim Mora's show.

I have this theory about listening to music you really like – basically?

I burned with the kind of obsession only a teenage geek boy can sustain...Three years and thirty?

Also have a copy of Relayer, bought second hand in a book and record exchange in Greerton. Mostly for the cover art.

Note to self: Must buy a "record player".

But fortunately a 70s?

The panel of ex musos & music writers were presented with a video of a one hit wonder from years past, and in this case it was Picketywitch, featuring the fetching?

I've had a soft spot for Yes since I saw Rick Wakeman on some Channel 4 quiz show about music.

Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Recommended.

(and I remember pickettywitch. 'I still get that same old feeling...' was their hit, I think.

As for Jethro Tull...really don't mind, if I sit this one out...[insert cute flute bit....]

That's the problem with prog. The whimsy.

You're missing the point – prog IS whimsy (this is also what makes it a quintessentially English genre). For the exception that proves the rule, see Owner of a Lonely Heart – mortified at having recorded a straightforward rock anthem, they had the?

And out in?

You're missing the point – prog IS whimsy (this is also what makes it a quintessentially English genre).

Yeah, y'see... I can't go for that. (No can do.)

What sort of customer is drawn to a cafe where the special?

But?

You're missing the point – prog IS whimsy (this is also what makes it a quintessentially English genre).

I don't think that's quite right... the problem with prog is it is whimsy which at the same time takes itself a little too seriously.?

What sort of customer is drawn to a cafe where the special o' the day board has become a deaths o' the day board?

Yes Robin! Exactly. Thankxs for that.

"No, I'm far too upset about Micheal[sic] Jackson and Farah[sic] Fawcett to eat."?

Should that be [ded]?
[Stet]

With the best cover too.

There was whimsy a-plenty along with the conceptual aspect but it never got too po-faced.

That's really true, and probably explains why I love The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, yet get stabby when I hear Yes-like things. Also: do not underestimate the power of three good musical?

Vivian Stanshall RIP
21 March 1943 ? 5 March 1995
(do have a field day in the Bonzos'
other tracks on YouTube)

and Reggae gives ya cancer...

... but what can a poor boy to do?

yrs
Amon Doole
__Vertigo Rekkids fan?

You Done My Brain In.

It's conceivable that we could partly blame Paul McCartney, too, with all that music hall vaudevillian stuff. But Paul gets enough blame for things as it is. :) )

I've been thinking about all of the people who went into a studio with Paul who are no longer with us.?

My only question, is the blonde, who I presume Polly Brown, channelling Sue Kedgeley, or the other way around?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lJW1AmfZkA

That's really true, and probably explains why I love The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society,

Ditto. The thing...well, one of the things...about VGPS is it is like a radio play (albiet a plotless one). Like a good radio play (or maybe a poem) it is 'evocative' in the?

I've been thinking about all of the people who went into a studio with Paul who are no longer with us....Could there be some kind of deadly Dorian Grey thing going on here?

Or.... something even more sinister.

Maybe those freaks was right when they said he was dead. He?

I'm not sure it's even legal these days. When I saw them they had to call themselves Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford and Howe, which is a bit wordy for a referendum bumper sticker.

Am (or am not) voting B.W.A.H. would fit, whichever meaning of bwah you wish to use.

Ah, Yes. Nothing wrong with a bit of prog rock.

Ah prog rock, concept albums – yes, they were/are great

[...]

Also: do not underestimate the power of three good musical minutes. Get in, get out, don't faff about.

Again, less is more.

OMG, PA just recapitulated the entire 70's?

The thing...well, one of the things...about VGPS is it is like a radio play (albiet a plotless one).

Also, it sounds like it was recorded off the radio.

My only question, is the blonde, who I presume Polly Brown, channelling Sue Kedgeley, or the other way around?

Well I've never seen them together in the same room... do you think Rick would recognise Sue from behind?

Could there be some kind of deadly Dorian Grey thing going on here?

Hope not. He got up with Neil Young in Hyde park yesterday to sing A Day In The Life. Not time for Neil to go yet. (Do I sound obsessive?)

OMG, PA just recapitulated the entire 70's in microcosm.

And managed to avoid disco and the Carpenters.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/2549554/Tests-confirm-St-Pauls-bones-Pope.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/2549554/Tests-confirm-St-Pauls-bones-Pope.

Wait, he did what to the Pope? Does god know about this?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/2549554/Tests-confirm-St-Pauls-bones-Pope.

Wait, he did what to the Pope? Does god know about this?

I LOLed, quite hard. I'm going to Hell.

Then I thought, St Pauls? A whole Cathedral? Ow.

*Although if you want to know my opinion, I wholly endorse what he said.

Well, I have to bow to the superior expertise of a Sunday Sneer-Whines columnist when it comes to "small-minded smugness". Meanwhile, its interesting seeing Barnardo's running the line that its outrageous this amount of money is?

I'd like to see those 77% (or whatever it was) who think it's a waste of money vote "yes" just to piss them off.

But that's not very mature, and I'm not holding?

And managed to avoid disco and the Carpenters.

But disco won.

Karen Carpenter's voice was something else, though. She sounds so pure and warm.

Karen Carpenter's voice was something else, though. She sounds so pure and warm.

And a funky drummer to boot.

Debating with you usually seems pointless, Craig, but I can't ignore your 'sneer'. He's a friend, I value his opinion and I think it's a pretty weak argument in the face of the evidence to describe his work as either small minded or smug.

David: I've met MacDonald all of?

Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Recommended.

Double recommended. Also Rockwiz – Australian variation shot at the Espy in St Kilda, Melbourne with the gloriously talented Julia Zemiro. Great version of the Church's Under the Milky Way avail on website. Spicks and Specks too (starring expat Hawera boy, Alan Brough)

But anyone who shares a op-ed stable with the routinely vile Michael Laws might want to be cautious about pointing the bone of "small-minded smugness" at others

Finlay MacDonald is a diamond in the rough, but I thought anyone who shares a web forum stable with this routinely liberal, thoughtful?

But anyone who shares a op-ed stable with the routinely vile Michael Laws might want to be cautious about pointing the bone of "small-minded smugness" at others.

Craig, don't you contribute a piece to Radio Live, which also stables Michael Laws?

Fact is, there are only a handful of large-circulation print publications in this country, and they all suck more-or-less – thems the breaks.

And it's not as if Craig doesn't "share an op-ed stable with the routinely vile Michael Laws" himself.

... and then my general feeling of wellbeing will end when some sort of fucking *whimsy* will occur.

There is a sure-fire cure for that. Turn this one up to 11 and sing along:

In ancient times...
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of?

the routinely vile Michael Laws" himself

believes that "to love and be loved" is what it's all about – life, that is. Now, ain't that sweet? As heard on Radio Live the other day ....

maybe he's turning into a mallowpuff.

Took the Tull and Yes mickey-takers to get me to register :-)

Tull – one of the British great Bands. Waaayy ahead of Genesis, not in the same league.
I confess – spent quite some nights in the 70's listening to Journey to the?

Tull – one of the British great Bands.

I have seen Jethro Tull. Twice. (Ex-boyfriend, say no more.) I've heard every single album multiple times, too. I suppose if you can get past The Breathy One-Legged Rock Flute (and it does take a LOT of getting past), and you really?

yrs,
in seventh heaven?

I still feel a guilty pleasure when I hear Jethro Tull's Aqualung, or anything by Genesis in their period before Peter?

Here, have a prog-rock antidote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U5PW0JPfXY

I have seen Jethro Tull. Twice.

Did they do the routine where they got on stage coming out of an ambulance, being helped by paramedics? That never failed to amuse. (And they did it both times I saw them. I cannot even blame an ex girlfriend, it was all my?

("should never failing to not amuse be legitimate grounds for crminalising good progressive-rock behaviour?")

maybe a side business somewhere there for David?

I suppose if you can get past The Breathy One-Legged Rock Flute (and it does take a LOT of getting past), and you really like that sort of thing, yeah...

...I tell you, every time he lifts his leg I die a little inside. :)

Don't sugar it up like?

He played Jethro Tull tapes the whole way. Nine hours.?

blood pressure going like locomotive breath.

You just reminded me it's the only song I can play on a guitar. Or could, more likely, I'd have to try.

I guess I'm just becoming a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W46NgJcaxU&feature=related

(that's a mere taste...)

This is the real thing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4V9pQsOc30

a delicacy in some circles – and let's not forget Hawkwind and Deep Fix and yes I'll own?

I blame 'A Quick One, While He's Away': the proto- Tommy.

Yeahh...maybe. The live version on 'Kids are Alright' from 'The Rolling Stones Rock n Roll Circus' though is awesome. According to legend, its the reason the Stones didn't release the Circus for years: they thought the Who had blown?

This conversation has helped me calibrate the average age of PASers... 'cept ScottY, I know he's too young for all this but he'd 'fessed to that.

Maybe too young but never too foolish.

Young and foolish
Why is it wrong to be
Young and foolish
We haven't long to be?

Gray skies are gonna clear up,
Put on a happy face;
Brush off the clouds and cheer up,
Put on a happy face.
Take off the gloomy mask of tragedy,
It's not your style;
You'll look so good that you'll be glad
Ya'?

Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey

Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon – come Armageddon!
Come, Armageddon! Come!

Thanks for bringing us all down, dude.

And no one's mentioned all those prog jazz records who kicked the whole thing off, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea, Spyra Gyra, Pat Metheny.(I?

This conversation has helped me calibrate the average age of PASers

Heh, I actually postdate Close To The Edge by 10 years. For me and a friend of mine, listening to his Dad's Yes and Pink Floyd records was our own little rebellion against the vapidity of Hansen, Spice Girls?

They seem to me to be the ideal sound for movie soundtracks, I'm not sure why. I like the way the flute fits?

Hands up anyone who owns the Orb's first two albums,

We got Orblivion but it is t'other halfs.

For utter miserableness Morrisey is unrivalled.

Thanks for bringing us all down, dude.

How 'bout Babybird for great cheerful lyrics?
"Razor blades in the ice cream"...

I still put ISDN on late at night to encourage people to leave parties

Would've thought 'Dead Cities' would have been more effective.

I'll see your 'Orb', and raise you a 'Banco de Gaia', for your 'prog rock of the '90's' argument.

I don't know, Rob, that's still a lot of whimsy to take on board first thing in the morning. A chocolate fish to Danielle if she can watch the whole thing through.

Do I earn the chocolate fish for actually owning the Rock n Roll Circus DVD?

The first three?

Mind you, I thought Easy Rider was a great and a well acted movie then as well....

And as for the most underated song ever, 'Since I've been loving you' Led Zep from Zep III

Me too. Steppenwolf and Byrds albums followed – still rather like "the Weight" – and?

Of course, if Keith Moon had been a bit less keen on general badassery, he might still be with us.

I've got tickets to The Specials,
Hallelujah Picassos on casette
Lucinda Williams plucks my strings
And I'm a near-obsessive Stones fan.

The Trojan 3-disk ska sets,?

I FEEL LIKE HANK WILLIAMS TONIGHT

Well, I could live my whole life, without a phone call
The likes of which I got today.
It was only my wife, said ?hello? then ?goodbye?.
And told me she's going away.

Well I didn't?

''Fabulous band! Saw them at Cleo's Derby too! ALSO at the Kings Hall Derby. The bassist/singer used to sit in a wingbacked armchair, under?

Do I earn the chocolate fish for actually owning the Rock n Roll Circus DVD?

I should think that earns you a truckload of choclatey marshmellowy sugar rush badness.

From memory, Jethro Tull is on that as well. The 'Stones sang but mimed their instrumentation to backing tracks..again, this is?

Every Kind of Music But Country

Well, I've been hounding her for such a long time
Trying to impress her with my hillbilly whine
But she told me I was barking up the wrong tree
She?

I was a bit disappointed in it, to be honest

Yep, there's a reason it went unreleased for thirty years.

I read somewhere the Stones were so disappointed by their performance they offered the footage to the Who to rebrand it "The Who's Rock n Roll Circus". Apparently they'd been?

I heard some of their choons at the end of the first series of Life On Mars the other day and had to go resurrect a couple of albums. Great stuff.

still rather like "the Weight"

Well, glad you brought The Band into it.....The Last Waltz has to be one of the greatest concerts ever, we owe Scorcese a favour for that one. Of the many great performances, hard to pick the best but Joni Mitchells 'Coyote' is just brilliant...never tire?

How about Jerry Jeff?

Now 've seen everything A Jerry Jeff reference on PA. He was alt country before alt country if you know what I mean.

A trawl of your local interwebs might find a copy somewhere.

The complete soundboard recording was used for this elaborate four CD set of The Band's farewell show of Thanksgiving Day 1976. Recorded at San Francisco's Winterland, the concert was?

There is also an official "Complete Last Waltz," at 4 CDs, but apparently the bootleg version is quite different (official version remixed, I suspect.)

The original LP release was a triple disc set, and I think it was expanded for CD to four CDs. The main difference (apparently) is that?

Oh, and Van Morrison's flares.

As I recall, this ridiculousness is exacerbated by his squat little rock kicks. I suppose we can blame all the blow they were doing backstage.

they also had 'Song Remains the Same'

Don't you reckon the added dimension of pictures (John Bonham being a country squire) made Moby Dick even more boring? The rest of it (for viewing context, see the post that starts this thread) was pretty exciting for a country boy like me.

As I recall, this ridiculousness is exacerbated by his squat little rock kicks. I suppose we can blame all the blow they were doing backstage.

Which brings in the story of Neil Young's nose candy being air brushed out of the movie.

Hey, Tony. Thoughts on Archives ?

Well I had most of it anyway-even some of the unreleased stuff but the sound quality is excellent. Including 2 live discs already released was a bit off though. Only went with cd set as Blu Ray would have worked out at $500-$600 before?

Don't you reckon the added dimension of pictures (John Bonham being a country squire) made Moby Dick even more boring?

At least it gave us something to watch while we wondered "when will this end?"

Moby Dick has a killer start and end. It's just a pity about the endless?