Comments on: Today’s Apropos of Nothing, Non-Political Post

By: louielouie

louielouie — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:41:18 +0000

And I have loved Pink Floyd since the

what ever happend to mr. floyd?

ok…..enough already……someone had to say it.

By: Knemon

Knemon — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:40:32 +0000

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway? Good stuff.

By: dmac

dmac — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:29:54 +0000

Cream is now touring again, and reviews have said that they sound better than they did originally. Maybe some of these guys could’ve used a 20 – year sabattical; the Stones being one of the prime candidates.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:52:51 +0000

I don’t have much interest in prog rock at its most esoteric or artificially spooky (it always makes me think of Spinal Tap doing “Stonehenge”), but I’ve got some lingering affection for the descendents of prog rock. I particularly like Genesis in its “Three Sides Live” stage, when it was past the overly showy Peter Gabriel era but not quite into the overly pop stuff that Phil Collins preferred. And I’m a big fan of Rush from about the “Moving Pictures” era onward.

By: peter

peter — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:18:10 +0000

UMass? Blue Wall?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:56:59 +0000

too many steves, you should quit while you’re ahead…peter, regarding ELP, Yes, Moody Blues – yep, all so-called ‘prog’ rock has pretty much landed on the trash heap as far as I’m concerned…

By: too many steves

too many steves — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:15:31 +0000

And I have loved Pink Floyd since the first time I heard “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” on Ummagumma (circa 1969).

As to my earlier comment, I would take a moment of your time so that I might clarify.

In a possible “too clever by half” scenario, I now notice that my note about the Doors may be misconstrued. I first wrote: “The Doors got old once I stopped taking ‘ludes.” which I followed a bit later with “P.S. I never actually took ‘ludes (wink, wink)”. There are two possible interpretations (I think just two):

1. That I actually took ‘ludes and no longer enjoyed the Doors once I stopped,

2. I never actually took ‘ludes and, therefore, just didn’t enjoy The Doors.

So, for the record: I never enjoyed the Doors. Really. No, never. Well, except maybe ‘Riders on the Storm’. Once. Oh, and there was that time at UMass when I appreciated ‘The End’.

By: mtl

mtl — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:26:45 +0000

Funny but the Moody Blues were thrown out of the Musician’s guild because they used a tape of an orchestra, instead of hiring one. Unions can be rough.

They were my first contact buzz….sweet.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:58:06 +0000

Bands which didn’t hold up: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer; Yes; the Moody Blues; and anyone else who used an orchestra (except the Beatles)

The Doors? I still can’t listen to Light My Fire without immediately thinking about driving my father’s car on hot summer nights down at the Jersey shore…

By: Knemon

Knemon — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:47:25 +0000

In the “bands that *do* hold up over time” category, I’d put: Cream, Love, Zappa and the Mothers (questionable), Zombies.