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From: pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: tubular bells
Date: 9 Jan 93 18:37:40 GMT
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham

In article <1ilgq2INNck1@bigboote.WPI.EDU> martino@wpi.WPI.EDU (Robert Paul Martino Jr) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.171510.19493@cs.nott.ac.uk> pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan7.151846.2676@dct.ac.uk> aesba1ii@dct.ac.uk writes:
>>>is tubular bells 2 a remake of the origional or is it different?
>>>
>>>ian
>>
>>It's vaguely a remake of the original, but with the themes re-written.
>>All the same bits are there, but with different tunes! - i.e. it starts
>>off with a piano riff, there's an introductory passage at the end of side
>>one, a bagpipe bit halfway through side 2 and a silly bit at the end..
>>
>>Personally, while its better than most of his recent stuff (Amarok excepted)
>>I don't think its in the same league as the original.
>>
>>Keith.
>
>Actually, I am probably an unusual person in that I really dont like the
>original Tubular Bells that much.  TB 2 blows it away, IMO.  Themes
>are better developed, better quality recording, overall much more mature
>from a musical point of view.
>
>Rob
>

The quality of recording might be beter, but musically TB2 is nowhere near as
complete and "mature" as TB1 (IMHO!). The themes through the first
album hang together and gradually progress, like a classical piece - I
don't think TB2 really does this at all  - its just several bits stuck
together.

As far as the recording quality goes, you have to remember that he
played virtually everything himself, so each line had to be separately
overdubbed. In those days this was a fairly major achievement in
itself, let alone doing it with good sound quality.

Keith.
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From: christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: ASIA AQUA --> Excuse me, but ...
Date: 9 Jan 93 22:48:04 GMT
Organization: Temple University
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Can I be a flamer and say that any discussion of the new and improved
ASIA does not belong in alt.music.progressive?   ;)

----
Carl Christensen
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From: mikebo@timesink.chi.il.us (Michael Borowiec)
Subject: Re: : Lots of stuff: Hackett, Pallas, Vangelis, Genesis, etc...
Organization: HAM Radio Station N9EUZ, Naperville, IL
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:51:09 GMT

In article <CHRISLEY.93Jan11115758@black.oxford.ac.uk> chrisley@oxford.ac.uk (Ronald L Chrisley) writes:
>
>Does anyone know anything about the (unreleased) Hackett album
>"Feedback"?  I'll trade you lots of goodies for it!
>
Is this a boot or a promo? What else does "unreleased" mean?

>Genesis were given 1 star for The Longs!
>
What are the tunes on this CD?

- Mike

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From: johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: AAgh! Where do I put a query
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:09:55 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc.

In article <1il6teINN297@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jmm25@po.CWRU.Edu (Jessica M. Mcgeary) writes:
|
|about music by Jackson Browne? I can't figure which bloody newsgroup
|this belongs in. I'm just looking for hte damned lyrics to "Doctor My Eyes"
|and now I'm hopelessly lost... where should I go, d'you know?

If you don't know which group to post a music question in use rec.music.misc.
Almost anything which deals with recorded music meets the charter for that
group.
From: arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Andrew Brooks)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Popol Vuh
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:02:10 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

I have just seen this in Classic CD #30 and thought it was amusing:

Q: Do you have any information regarding Popol Vuh, listed as providing the
music for Werner Herzog's 1979 film Nosferatu the Vampyre?

A: Well, there's no composer called Popol Vuh as far as we know, though it
is the name of the Maya story of creation, written down after the Spanish
Conquest (in the Roman alphabet, not in Maya script) possibly as a rival to
the invaders' Old Testament.  It is the title of a 1975 orchestral piece by
the Argentinian Alberto Ginastera (1919-1983) which has been recorded on RCA
by the St.Louis SO/Slatkin for release early 1993.

-- 
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From: SATELLITE@eldi.epfl.ch (Uncle Alias)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: 1992 Progressive releases
Date: 4 Jan 93 12:32:10 GMT
Organization: Satellite -- Enjoy!.. -- EPFL Students pub
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In <9301011830.AA22831@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> borella@cs.ucdavis.edu writes:

> 
> I'm compiling a list of progressive releases from 1992 for a survey that
> I'll be posting soon.  If you know of any that I haven't listed below, 
> please let me know about them.  This is a list of albums recorded in 1992,
> not re-releases of previously recorded music.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> List of 1992 Progressive Rock releases (not re-releases)
> --------------------------------------------------------

	You can add to these the very recently issued

	Arrakeen - Mosaiques
	 and 
	Chandelier - Facing Gravity.

	Both of them excellent, if you ask me...

	"Fire in Harmony!.."					Alias
From: piscine@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (Mike Taylor)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: Dixie Dregs on Tonight Show
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:43:31 GMT
Organization: Tulane Museum of Natural History
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-18162]: rs1.tcs.tulane.edu

> Jay Leno just stated tonight that the Dixie Dregs would be on this
> week on the tonight show...anyone know what day?

I have a note that says the 7th of January.


Mike

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From: ptt00@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (  179  Peter Thelen)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: Masque
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:13:55 GMT
Reply-To: ptt00@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <C0I3wJ.F8q@ccsun.strath.ac.uk> clar27@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("j.forssell") writes:
>MASQUE is a Swedish band, based in Gothenburg (second largest city in Sweden).
>They released their first CD this year on a French label. If there are any

Hmmm. The date on the disk sez 91, but it may well be that it wasn't
released until 92.

>The music is quite similar to how SAGA used to sound in the early days. Since
>the texts are written by a poet, they are quite advanced and this kept the
>reviewers grade down when they were judged in the papers.

I agree this band is pretty good, especially after the first two tracks
when they stop sounding Saga derivative and poppy. The balance of the
album is quite excellent. btw/ the title is _Flesh That Understands_ and
it's on Musea. Eurock stocked it at one time.

peter (ptt00@duts.ccc.amdahl.com)  "The Lighthouse Keeper"
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 19:32:43 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)

jroberts@morpheus.UWaterloo.ca (J. P. Robertson) writes:

> A second question for that album is, in the song Five Miles Out,
> the lyrics give "IMC. CU. NIMB. Icing".  How is that actually
> sung?  Is it "EYE-EM-CEE  CEE-YOU  EN-EYE-EM-BEE" or what?
> I can't catch what Mike says, but it seems to be faster than
> the above form.

The lyrics are actually a weather report.
I'm not sure what IMC stands for ( Instrument Meterological Conditions?)
CU is Cumulus cloud
NIMB is Nimbus cloud
(Or possible the two combined are cumulonimbus)

Icing means just that.

it's likely that the first letter group is letterised, and the following
groups are spoken uncontracted. (That appears to be normal practise
for the weather reoport tapes running at control towers)
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From: reaume@bmerh962.bnr.ca (Andy Reaume)
Subject: Obnoxious Nitpick #1
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 07:57:26 GMT

In article <CHRISLEY.93Jan11114545@black.oxford.ac.uk>, chrisley@oxford.ac.uk (Ronald L Chrisley) writes:
> In article <1993Jan9.214806.29660@bmerh85.bnr.ca> reaume@bmerh962.bnr.ca (Andy Reaume) writes:
> 
> 	   Even though the original ASIA was a commercial format, Howe
>    could still find room to innovate, such as the guitar synth on 
>    _Soul Survivor_
> 
> Hey, now I din't know that Howe played on a Michael Bolton album!
> Wow! Gotta get it...

	ARGH!! As you can tell I'm an engineer, not an english major!
O.K.

		``Sole Survivor''!!!
		  ^^^^

> 
> 
> Oh, for the humour/sarcasm impaired:  ;-)

In the immortal words of Monty Python, 

 	``Tis but a scratch!''

--- Andy
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From: feathers@serss0 (Michael Feathers)
Subject: Re: ASIA AQUA --> Excuse me, but ...
Organization: Florida International University, Miami
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:22:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.224804.11050@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen) writes:
>Can I be a flamer and say that any discussion of the new and improved
>ASIA does not belong in alt.music.progressive?   ;)
>
>----
>Carl Christensen

That doesn't bother me at all.  In fact, listening to _Asia Live in Moscow_
I got the impression that Asia lost its last progressive element when Wetton
lost his singing partner.

Who was his partner?  Steve Howe's guitar.  One of the most fascinating things
about the early Asia sound was the interplay between Wetton's voice and
Steve Howe's voice-like guitar.  Especially in songs like 'Time Will Tell.'

The guitarist they used in Moscow (Pat Thrall) doesn't know how to vocalize
with his guitar.
From: bain1@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: Grobschnitt, anyone? revisited...
Date: 4 Jan 93 13:51:05 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <phil.02eb@hyphen.equinox.gen.nz>, phil@hyphen.equinox.gen.nz (phil stuart-jone

 Ah, now wait a minute, I did hear some Grobschnitt a while ago, but it was so
unmemorable I've forgotten what it was like. Um, I seem to remember it was a
bit
like very bad Genesis with an influence from very bad Yes with someone who
sounded like Shirley Bassey on vocals. The steamy organ bits were OK if you
like that sort of thing. Sorry, can't be any more specific really.

  - Mark
From: warlock@halloween.EBay.Sun.COM (Dennis Montgomery)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: : Lots of stuff: Hackett, Pallas, Vangelis,
Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:54:26 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: warlock@halloween.EBay.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: halloween.ebay.sun.com

>In Q magazine, they're wondering what King Crimson song mentions "the
>flower seller's daughter".  Anyone want to write in to them and be a
>hero?

It's a trick question...the line is "A flower ladies daughter as sweet
as holy water..." from Ladies of the Road _Islands_

Dennis
From: upanisad@mcl.ucsb.edu (Academick Fraud)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: sylvian lyrics
Keywords: sylvian lyrics
Date: 9 Jan 93 05:10:52 GMT

Has anyone compiled lyrics from David Sylvian's albums, particularly the
lyrics from the long cd 'Gone to Earth?'  If so, I would greatly enjoy a copy...
-thanks in advance, elba.
-upanisad@mcl.ucsb.edu
From: jmm25@po.CWRU.Edu (Jessica M. Mcgeary)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: AAgh! Where do I put a query
Date: 9 Jan 1993 00:40:14 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


about music by Jackson Browne? I can't figure which bloody newsgroup
this belongs in. I'm just looking for hte damned lyrics to "Doctor My Eyes"
and now I'm hopelessly lost... where should I go, d'you know?

Screaming in frustration,
jmm25@po.cwru.edu
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From: malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes)
Subject: Re: Brand X in San Jose?
Organization: Wind River Systems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:55:06 GMT

REEKES@applelink.apple.com (Jim Reekes) writes:

>Postponed.  The band had troubles getting into the USA.

I'm still perplexed by this - they just did east coast shows last month, 
and I sort of had the impression that at least some of them might be based
in NY where the label for the new release and the management contact is
located. It's probably due to the ridiculous bullsh*t that artists have 
to go through for Visas that allow them to work in the USA or something
like that.

  - Malcolm

"The way out is via the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?"
                                                       - Confucius
From: jonathan@vinnie.cuc.ab.ca (Jonathan Levine)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Dregs dates?
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:53:44 GMT

I'm anxiously, of course, looking forward to the Leno gig tomorrow night.
Is the band touring, and if so, can someone please post a schedule?


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From: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: Yes, end of Relayer
Summary: My guess
Keywords: yes relayer to be over lyrics
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:12:14 GMT
Reply-To: ross@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ross Hippely - Manuals)
Followup-To: alt.music.progressive
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1993Jan8.005823.15553@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Carl Christensen) writes:
>Do any Yes fanatics with good ears know what the boys are singing
>at the end of 'To Be Over' on 'Relayer'?
>
>It sounds like a foreign language (Japanese?), like they're saying
>'Sayonara...' and something else.  If so, what's the translation?
>
>Carl Christensen

I've always wondered, too.  

I settled on one line being "Someday, someone" -- fits somewhat better than 
"Sayonara," anyway.

If Anderson himself can't come up with anything more cogent, I move that
this be declared a plausible stanza, and we build on it.  Anyone else?

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From: gjw@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Garry J. Wardrope)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive,alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive,bit.listserv.allmusic
Subject: Dave Foster
Keywords: Yes Foster
Date: 7 Jan 93 11:58:41 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.


  A while back I asked about David Foster who played with Yes in there earlier
years.  It was stated that he has worked with Chicago and Barbra Streisand as
a producer.  

  Janne Salmi added that she thought that this was not the same Foster.

  I can confirm that there are definatley two Fosters.  David the producer
and Dave who played with Yes.

  Garry
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From: Don Becker <grendel@jaflrn.UUCP>
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive,alt.rock-n-roll.metal.progressive,bit.listserv.allmusic
Subject: Re: Dave Foster
Keywords: Yes Foster
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 20:42:34 EST
Organization: The Wizzard's Cave, East Meadow, NY

gjw@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Garry J. Wardrope) writes:

> 
>   A while back I asked about David Foster who played with Yes in there earlie
> years.
 
Umm...David Foster didn't play with Yes, per se. He was a member of 
The Warriors with Jon Anderson in the mid-'60's, and co-wrote two tracks 
from _Time And A Word_. He also formed Badger with Tony Kaye.
 
Which leads me to a question: Someone recently posted that a vinyl copy of 
Badger's _One Live Badger_ was for sale. Has this album ever made it to CD?
 
--Don

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From: chrisley@oxford.ac.uk (Ronald L Chrisley)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: ASIA AQUA --> Excuse me, but ...
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:45:45 GMT
	<1993Jan9.152513.4224@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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Organization: School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences, Univ. of Sussex
In-reply-to: reaume@bmerh962.bnr.ca's message of 9 Jan 93 21:48:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.214806.29660@bmerh85.bnr.ca> reaume@bmerh962.bnr.ca (Andy Reaume) writes:

	   Even though the original ASIA was a commercial format, Howe
   could still find room to innovate, such as the guitar synth on 
   _Soul Survivor_

Hey, now I din't know that Howe played on a Michael Bolton album!
Wow! Gotta get it...


Oh, for the humour/sarcasm impaired:  ;-)
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From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Subject: Re: Kit Watkins questions 
Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:01:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.181923.11397@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, dmarkfie@nyx.cs.du.edu (David Markfield) writes:
|> 
|> For those of us who can't seem t hang onto anything can someone repost the
|> address of where to get the Kit Watkins sampler CD from.
|> 
|> thanx
|> 
|> dave

Linden Music
P.O. Box 520
Linden, VA 22642
USA
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From: pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall)
Subject: Re: tubular bells
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:15:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.151846.2676@dct.ac.uk> aesba1ii@dct.ac.uk writes:
>is tubular bells 2 a remake of the origional or is it different?
>
>ian

It's vaguely a remake of the original, but with the themes re-written.
All the same bits are there, but with different tunes! - i.e. it starts
off with a piano riff, there's an introductory passage at the end of side
one, a bagpipe bit halfway through side 2 and a silly bit at the end..

Personally, while its better than most of his recent stuff (Amarok excepted)
I don't think its in the same league as the original.

Keith.
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From: jarnot@kin.lap.upenn.edu (Kevin J. Jarnot)
Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
Subject: Re: Drama is pop?
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:15:39 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Language Analysis Center

In article <9301110338.AA00401@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> borella@cs.ucdavis.edu (Mike Borella) writes:
> >Whoa!  Are you serious?  I would hardly call _Drama_ pop...
> 
> Though this does not have a terribly interesting potential for
> discussion, it does lead to a point that is important - when you
> consider something "progressive", it is largely based on comparision.
> Compared to late Asia, Drama is likely to be categorized as
> progressive.  Compared to the Art Bears, Univers Zero, Etron Fou,
> Iconoclasta, or Steve Roach, it's more likely viewed as pop.

True, but that's like saying "Gershwin isn't classical compared to
Mozart", or "Chick Corea isn't jazz compared to Brubeck".  Different
ends of the same spectrum...




Kevin


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From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Subject: Re: Kit Watkins Sampler
Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:16:48 GMT

In article <9301092301.AA08967@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu>, borella@cs.ucdavis.edu (Mike Borella) writes:
|> 
|> >I would urge netters to get Kit's sampler CD ($3.50 for 73 min of
|> >music).  This has selections from all his solo albums. Kit has a few 
|> >new-agey albums but the majority are not. 
|> 
|> I have to respectfully disagree.  I found this CD awful, not worth the
|> $3.95 + $2 shipping.  The music was more pop and newage than anything
|> else.  This is something for Kit fans rather than people trying to get
|> into the band.  For the latter, I recommend the first two HtM cds.

Well we get into the personal preferences here. Kit's solo stuff is
different from HTM and as someone on the net mentioned the HTM is
more technically interesting whereas I find Kit's solo stuff more
musically interesting. His stuff is anything but pop though -
when was the last time you heard a pop tune in 7/8 or 5/4 ??

Several of my friends who are into prog got the sampler and liked it
as much as I did. Judging from the responses on the net though,
you either love his stuff or hate his stuff. I personally think
spending $6 for a CD sampler is a great deal and I don't understand
why you are discouraging people from making up their own minds.

I heard about the Kit Watkin's sampler through Gibraltar digest, where
several people reccomended it. So clearly there are proggers who like
Kit's solo stuff. Let them spend the $6 and make up their own minds !!
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