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From: kalang@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (kenneth.lang)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: Gentle Giant - where are they now?
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:13:03 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <167C11677.TZELGOV@vm.bgu.ac.il> TZELGOV@vm.bgu.ac.il writes:
>>2)  Are there more albums abailable on CD other than
>>    a) Gentle Giant
>>    b) Acquiring the Taste
>>    c) Three Friends
>>    d) Octopus
>>    e) Gentle Giant "the official" Live?
>>    available?
>
>    Well, I have "Power and the Glory" on CD (or, rather, a recording from a

Free Hand is also available.

As to the breakup, it occurred around 1980 after the album `Civilian' (very
rare but disappointing compared to their older stuff).

Ray Shulman is a big shot at one of the major record companies and most recently
produced The Sundays' album from last year.

With the exception of Ray and Gary Green (who supposedly gigs with a local band
somewhere in the USA), all have left the music business. One owns and operates
an antiques store somewhere in England.

In an interview I saw with Ray in some magazine not long ago, he said something
to the effect of "If a band like Gentle Giant came to me today, I wouldn't
sign them."

Maybeone day we'll see a reunion, but I very much doubt it.

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Friday, 10 Apr 1992 18:14:24 EDT
From: <LPR100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: YES fans please read this!
 <1992Apr10.165414.10108@midway.uchicago.edu>

>Here goes...
>1968-1970: Anderson, Pete Banks (guitar), Squire, Bruford, Kaye
>_Yes_  (Don't have the #)
>_Time and a Word_
>I'm a drooling Yes fan and I don't even have these ablums.  "Time
>and a Word" is a good song, however.

These albums are worth getting, for a Yes fan at least, but I wouldn't
recommend them unless you've heard a lot of the other Yes first.
_Time and a Word_ is a great album, and I love the orchestrial additions
to many of the songs.

>-80: Pat Moraz leaves to join the Moody Blues.  Wakeman returns.
>_Going For the One_ 19106-2
>_Tormato_ 7 82277-2

This is my favorite period for Yes music, I heartily recommend these two.


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From: pfloyd@omar.WPI.EDU (Adam Johnson)
Subject: Re: 3 best songs in a row
Reply-To: pfloyd@omar.WPI.EDU (Adam Johnson)
Organization: Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:17:37 GMT

Pink Floyd
	Another Brick in the Wall part 1, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, Another Brick in the Wall part 2

PF again
	Welcome to the Machine, Have a Cigar, Wish You Were Here

ZZ Top
	Gimme All Your Lovin, Got Me Under Pressure, Sharp Dressed Man

ZZ again
	Waitin for the Bus, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers

PF again again
	Learning to Fly, Dogs of War, One Slip

PF
	the final cut, not now john, two suns in the sunset


no particular order...

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pfloyd@wpi.wpi.edu	Ein, zwei, drei, aha!
	A soul in tension that's learning to fly
	Condition grounded but determined to try
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think
	Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
	I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
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From: costis@csi.forth.gr (Costis Aivalis)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll,rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: frank zappa
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:30:40 GMT
Followup-To: alt.rock-n-roll

mschenk@research.ptt.nl (Mike Schenk) writes:

>In article <1992Apr3.193914.17907@clpd.kodak.com>, benham@anion.serum.kodak.com (Todd Benham (x37354)) writes:
>> Would someone tell me which of Frank Zappa's albums are good/best or that
>"De antwoorden zijn altijd al aanwezig"
>    	- Ad van den Berg in Steve Vai's, Answers

"The Grand Wazoo" is another great one!
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From: jwisdom@ais.org (Joseph Wisdom)
Subject: Re: No Taste... (was Re: Def Leppard)
Organization: UMCC - Ann Arbor, MI  USA
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:58:37 GMT

afcanav@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (VIC CANACCI) writes:

>>	4)	"Pour Some Sugar On Me" was the NUMBER ONE song of the 
>>		decade 1980-1990 (according to the forementioned top 100 list)
>> 
>> Any questions?

>YES!!!  I could accept that Pour Some Sugar On Me is in the Top 100 Rock 
>songs of the 80's reluctantly, but THE NUMBER ONE SONG OF THE 80's???

>Come on, its an ok song, but I can name many more songs that have much more 
>staying power than that one. When was the last time that you heard that 
>song? I haven't even heard it since the new album has been released as part 
>of a two-fer Tuesday, or a block party triple play! and some radio station  
>makes it the best of the whole decade? I would put it AT LEAST third ON THE 
>ALBUM behind Animal & Hysteria!

>OK, I'm done now. Any other comments??

>Vic Canacci, Sverdrup Tech., NASA Lewis Cleveland

They probably could mean it was number one in the '80's on that particular
radio station, or number one on the Album Oriented Rock charts (although
I could think of other songs that probably would be better qualified.)

					-jw
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From: thane@bluemoon.rn.com (Aron Gamman)
Subject: Re: Performers who can't hear
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 14:11:24 EDT

bandwen@eagle.larc.nasa.gov (bando) writes:

> 
> Is it true that Alex Van Halen is 90% deaf in one ear or something like 
> that?  I know Pete Toownshend has lost a significant amount of hearing
> also.  How do these performers keep their "musical ear" when they've
> played live for so long and at such a high decible level without any
> protection?--Just curious
> --Bando

I don't know anything about Alex Van Halen, but if you remember the Who's 
last farewell tour, Pete Townshed played acoustic guitar through 90% of 
the show. He also was placed in a position where the decibal levels were 
safe for him.
 
By the way, Pete Townshend has tinitis (sp?) which causes a constant 
ringing in his ears. He blames it on his exposure to headphones in the 
studio quite a bit more than when he played in concert, by the way.

 This is from
     thane@bluemoon.rn.com
who doesn't have their own obnoxious signature yet
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From: Darrin Snider <djsnider@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Clapton Question
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 12:46:10 -0500

In <1992Apr5.174624.20429@panix.com> derek@panix.com (Derek Vadala) writes:



>On The History of Eric Clapton and a previous release that I cannot remember
>the name of, there is a song that Clapton did with Jimmy Page called Tribute
>to Elmore. Who is Elmore?

That would be Elmore James, one of the forefathers of delta blues.  He
wrote a lot of the standards that people like Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn
have covered.

Neo
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From: mbraun@neptune.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Matt The Hoople)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: ALAN PARSON'S PROJECT
Keywords: Misinformation--we want Miss Information
Date: 7 Apr 92 04:27:19 GMT
Reply-To: mbraun@urbana.mcd.mot.com
Followup-To: alt.rock-n-roll
Distribution: usa
Organization: Somewhere in Motorola


In article <1992Apr4.203839.1@acad3.alaska.edu>, fsmlm2@acad3.alaska.edu
writes:
|> In article <1992Mar28.214258.19466@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>,
venketra@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Tharakad S. Venketram) writes:
|> >   can somebody enlighten me a bit more about this group ? like , is it 
|> >   true that all of them have degrees in music , etc... 
Sure.  There's an Alan Parsons Project mailing list.  Send mail to 
burnett@cs.purdue.edu (Andy Burnett) to join it.  There's lotsa neat stuff
there, including a very informative interview in which Alan and Eric discuss
their careers up to the point of the "Eye In The Sky" album (when the
interview was conducted.)

|> APP has been around since 1981.
As many previous posters have mentioned, this isn't true.  _Tales_Of_Mystery_
_And_Imagination came out in 1976.

|>  Eric Woolfson as far as I know did write most of APP's music.  
He writes the lyrics, but the music is composed jointly by Woolfson and
Parsons.

|> I heard rumour that they all do have degrees in music however,
It's false.

|> Alan Parsons who produces the albums does not read music, play an
|> instrument, 
Also false.  He plays guitar and keyboards.  

|> no[r] does he sing.  (not bad for someone who was voted best male
|> singer in 1984 by some poll!)
And three wrongs make a hat trick. He did the vocals (through a vocorder)
for "The Raven" on the _Tales_Of_Mystery_And_Imagination_ album, as well as
the backing vocals in "To One In Paradise" off of the same album.
(Furthermore, the nomination for vocalist was actually in 1976, the year he
did these vocals.)

|> If you like APP, I suggest you get ahold of "Pyramid", "Robot"
|> "Tales of Edgar Alan Poe"
(Ahem. that's _I,_Robot_ and _Tales_Of_Mystery_And_Imagination_)
_Turn_Of_A_Friendly_Card_, _Eye_In_The_Sky_ and _Ammonia_Avenue_ also
come highly recommended.

					m@

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From: jager@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Riaan de Jager)
Subject: Re: Axl Rose Sucks
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:16:43 GMT

Hmm
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From: cma@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (christine.m.dakes)
Subject: Re: Gandalf - new band with Steve Hackett!!! (know anything?!?)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:11:49 GMT
Summary: Gandalf

In article <1992Apr14.154839.28735@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>, kalang@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (kenneth.lang) writes:
> In article <1992Apr13.213131.7661@cs.mcgill.ca> narpet@cs.mcgill.ca (Greg WARD) writes:
> >
> >Folks -- I was in a music store the other day, and saw on their "Upcoming
> >Releases" board a band called Gandalf, and underneath was written
> >"With Steve Hackett!!!"  (My exclamation marks, being a Hackett fan.)
> >
> >Does anyone know anything about this band or album?  I don't recall
> >seeing them on the Recnt & Upcoming Releases list lately (although I've
> 
> In the prog-rock section of my local CD store (Ocean, NJ, USA) I've seen at
> least one album by Gandalf, that's been there a few months. I don't know
> if this is the same band or not & I don't know if I want to spend $22 to find
> out. Maybe some courageaous record company decided to release this
> domestically (like the Gentle Giant albums.) Now if they'd only do the same
> for Caravan.
> 


Is this the same Gandalf that's been playing local Allentown, PA
clubs for years?  And the jersey shore?  Didn't think they had a
real album out.......

  Christine
  Def Lep's #1 fan and Queen of the 'Ryche

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Organization: Washington University, St. Louis
Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 92 20:02:33 CST
From:         JEFF <C31002RY@WUVMD>
To:           NETNEWS@WUVMD
Subject:      Re: Recent and Upcoming Album Releases (92-13)
Newsgroups:   alt.rock-n-roll,rec.music.cd,rec.music.misc

This newest RECENT AND UPCOMING ALBUM RELEASES now includes Roger Waters
with an album due out in May and Pink Floyd with one out in September.
Does anybody have any information to verify or deny this report?
After all the rumors that were flying around several weeks ago I am
a bit skeptical... (BUT VERY HOPEFUL!!!!)
Any information would be appreciated! Thanx!
-JEFF
From: cthulhu@raybans.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Kupper)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: Three Greatest Consecutive Albums
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:09:19 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

In article <cubsfan.703210285@camelot> cubsfan@camelot.bradley.edu (Michael Silverman) writes:
>How about "Best 13 Albums in a Row:"
	         ^^
	         should be 9!!
Rush
>Fly By Night
>Caress of Steel
>2112
>A Farewell to KIngs
>Hemispheres
>Permanent Waves
>Moving Pictures
>Signals
From: jlarouch@sobeco.com (Jacques Larouche)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: Use of term "progressive rock"
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:22:52 GMT
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young

In <92098.193128IO11330@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO11330@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (the DM) writes:
>not qualify..........  But then do Invisible touch, or 90125 fall into this
>line too???????  Too many questions.........

Genesis is no longer in the *progressive* type since a long time (from
when Hackett left the band - in '78).
Yes got more into 'commercial-rock' (still well done) with 90125 and Big
generator but are back to their roots with their last effort - Union.

Long live to Yes

Jacques
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From: patterjd@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Jeffrey D Patterson)
Subject: GEDDY LEE"S real name
Reply-To: patterjd@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Jeffrey D Patterson)
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:08:50 GMT

It is true, Geddy Lee's real name is Gary Lee, but his mother had a thick
Yiddish accent, so it sounded like Geddy.  The name just stuck!!!!
It sounds cool though, doesn't it?
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From: iew21308@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ian E. Wickram)
Subject: The New Jesus?
Keywords: REview?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:54:47 GMT

	Anyone bought the new Jesus and the Mary Chain albulm yet?  If so
	please post or e-mail your response to it.  I am interested in 
	particular to how it compares with their last few works.
						Yrs in Tawil-at-Ulmr,
							Ian Wickram!!!
							iew21308@
							uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Be Realistic,
EXpecT A miRaclE!!!
Bag Sri Raj.
From: fierro@uts.amdahl.com (Doug Fierro)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: new Black Crowes single- Remedy!
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:33:59 GMT
Reply-To: fierro@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Doug Fierro)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA


  The song "Remedy" from the Black Crowes new upcoming release "Southern 
Harmony and Musical Companion" was played for the first time on radio
(at least around here) yesterday.

  The song is great!  Definitely the Black Crowes sound, but not a 
re-hash of "Shake Your Moneymaker".  Chris Robinson, the lead singer
of the Black Crowes, stated in a interview that they didn't have much
control on producing their debut album , but this latest release was produced
the way they wanted it to be, and they are very proud of it.  

  The song has a rock/bluesy sound to it, with some dynamite backing vocals.
Try to catch it on the radio if you can.

  Doug
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From: ap72@linus.umd.edu (CMSC 330)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: Lyrics to Nirvana's Smells like Teen Spirit""
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:32:02 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Apr15.022612.25627@wam.umd.edu> bianc@next09cville.wam.umd.edu (WierdnesS) writes:
>In article <14APR92.18492489@vax.clarku.edu> tsolis@vax.clarku.edu writes:
>> The words are in the album but they do not match with the song.  Has  
>anybody
>> else noticed this fact.  The words are slightly different!  What's with
>> that?!!!
>
>hey, it's Nirvana -- do they ever make sense?


They have lyrics to that and other Nirvana songs at the ftp site. I think it's
ftp cs.uwp.edu, in /pub/music/lyrics. I also have lyrics to "Smells like..."
if anyone wants them.


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From: icb@next08cville.wam.umd.edu (The Madcap Piper)
Subject: Re: Pink Floyd
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 06:51:33 GMT

In article <92103.161342BSE101@psuvm.psu.edu> BSE101@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> Whoever says that Meddle has instrumental tracks is just expressing an  
opinion,
> and not reality.  I have a copy of all the words to all the Pink Floyd  
albums,
> and the songs that are instrumental(in the pure sense of the word) are  
clearly
> marked as such.  And as for "Echoes", there are most definitely words to  
the so
> ng if you listen to more than a few minutes of it.  It starts something  
like
> "Overhead the albatross..." and if you can't hear that then you must be  
going d
> eaf.

	If you are going to call instrumentals in the truest terms, no  
words at all, then there are alot of Floyd ablums that qualify(most of  
them as a matter of fact)

				The Madcap Piper
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From: icb@next08cville.wam.umd.edu (The Madcap Piper)
Subject: Re: Pink Floyd
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 06:48:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.213318.899@acsu.buffalo.edu> becker@acsu.buffalo.edu  
(Don Becker) writes:
> disc5e6@rosie.uh.edu (92S00302) writes:
> 
> >In article <1992Apr11.072923.15111@acsu.buffalo.edu>,  
becker@acsu.buffalo.edu (Don Becker) writes...
> >>rone@skat.usc.edu (Ron A. Echeverri) writes:
> >> 
> >>>Is there a Pink Floyd album besides "The Final Cut" in which there is  
not at
> >>>least one instrumental track? 
> >> 
> >>Meddle
> >>Wish You Were Here
> >>Animals
> >> 
> >>None of these have instrumentals.
> >> 
> >>--Don

YES WE ARE GOING TO NITPICK !!!!!!! if you knew your floyd ....

				The Madacp Piper

> 
> >   None of those have instumentals?  Since when....
> >Meddle is one of the most instumental albums of all.
> >First it has "One of these days" .  With only  the one line
> >"one of these days I'm going to chop...." it can hardly be called
> >anything but an instumental.  Esspecially since this line is not sung.
> 
> OK...Got me there. :)
> 
> >If "ECHOES" has any lyrics I'd sure like to know cause I've always  
thought
> >of it as a half-hour instumental.
> 
> Well, since Echoes is not split into nine different parts, it's hard to
> consider it to be an instrumental track.
> 
> Lyrics to echoes are available via ftp from syrinx.umd.edu in  
floyd/lyrics
> and from cs.uwp.edu in pub/music/lyrics/files/pink.floyd
> 
> >And while technically Wish you Were Here has no instumentals , 
> >"Shine on you crazy Diamond" has nine parts and most of these are
> >instrumentals.
> 
> Well, if you want to nitpick... :)
> 
> --Don
> 
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Date: Friday, 10 Apr 1992 15:51:16 EDT
From: Charles Fee <CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.music.rush

Since when is an RFD required for an alt group?
From: fscll@acad3.alaska.edu (Chris Lott)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Vito Bratta? Where is he now?
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:35:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: acad3.1992Apr15.133553.1
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Does anyone know what Vito Bratta is doing nowadays? I know White Lion is
broken up or at least he has left, but is he coming out with Solo material
anytime soon?

I didn't like white lion that much as a whole but his guitar playing was
pretty hot, and when I saw them in concert he just stood off to one side and
let his music do the talking.. reminded me a lot playing-wise of earlier, more
innovative Van Halen... 

thanks in advance.. 

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From: wcsvic@alfred.carleton.ca (Victor Kamutzki)
Subject: Re: RFD: alt.music newsgroups
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 10:52:00 GMT

maple@seas.gwu.edu (Maple Moriji) muses:

>After reading all the reponses about the reorganization of the
>music newsgroups, how about the following changes:

>alt.rock-n-roll                 => alt.music.rock
>alt.rock-n-roll.acdc            => alt.music.rock.acdc
>alt.rock-n-roll.metal           => alt.music.metal
>alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy     => alt.music.metal.speed
>alt.rock-n-roll.metal.metallica => alt.music.metal.metallica

>And the creation of the following newsgroups:

>alt.music.rock.hard
>alt.music.guitar.tab

Problem with that is you're leaving out several important genres.
Here are a few others that we couldn't do without (as long as we're
creating new groups and all):

alt.music.metal.grunge _or_
alt.music.metal.grindcore
alt.music.metal.formative  (for bands like Blue Cheer and MC5)
alt.music.metal.classic
alt.music.metal.death
alt.music.metal.humorous

I'd suggest a similar hierarchy in the alt.music.punk.* vein as well.
And about the .tabs newsgroups, you should probably go with:

alt.music.tabs.guitar
alt.music.tabs.bass
alt.music.tabs.zither
alt.music.tabs.banjo
alt.music.tabs.dulcimer
alt.music.tabs.violin...

Unless, of course, you want to put it under alt.rock-n-roll.tabs.*, in
which case most of the instruments other than guitar and bass will be
irrelevant. 

That's all I can think of for now.  Probably more later.

Victor
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