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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2006 at 16:50
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by Useful_Idiot Useful_Idiot wrote:

So is it okay to just copy the biography from another site (say... the band's official one) and then list it as the source at the end of said biography?

This might require the expressed written consent..... It might be easier to paraphrase a text than avoid all possibilities of author's rights and eventual royalties.

although I could not even begin to picture a band suing another site for including a text from their site as a promotion tool on another site.

 
Unless somebody adds Metallica to the site. Wink LOL
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2006 at 00:47
Uploaded Australian's bio of Spanish band - Jesdat.
 
Thanks, Austrlian.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 12 2006 at 12:25
I uploaded Chamberry biography and picture of the band Vinegar:
http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=2308

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 02 2006 at 12:31
Just to let everyone know that the Symphonic team is going all over it's bands and adding bio's where there are none and adding to incomplete bio's.
They have so far done many bio's (don't remember how much) and are now towards the end of the ABC.
 
The Zeuhl/Avant/RIO Team (ZART for short) is doing the same and we have an easier job since we have much less bands. We added 5-6 bio's and will don the rest in the coming while (personal obligations are holding us back a bit).
 
Any member wishing to write a bio, correct or improve an existing one which is not complete or informative enough (a few lines), may PM a member of the team assigned to the genre to which the band belongs to, or can post it here.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2007 at 11:20
Noticed Steve Thorne hasn't got a biography yet.
 
I wrote a little something, needs improvements i think, but just for starters.
 
 

Prolific multi-instrumentalist Steve Thorne started his solo carreer after playing in the little known bands Colony Earth and the Salamander Poject, which supported Jadis on their European tour. The tour was well received, and Steve got signed to GEP, the IQ record compagny, which gave him a head start when he recorded his solo debut album. His connections with Jadis and IQ resulted in notable guest appearances of many well known progressive rock musicians, like John Jowitt (IQ-Arena), Gary Chandler (Jadis), Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, etc.), Geoff Downes (Asia, Yes), Paul Cook (IQ) and many more. Which resulted in a very eclectic style, ranging from Folk to pop, with symphonic influences, often in the Jadis/IQ style. The main style of his music can be described as singer/songwriter, best comparable with the likes of Guy Manning.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2007 at 11:40
I have e-mailed Chilean band Astralis to send me their biography because it's not on Internet. I hope to add Astralis soon to Prog Archives.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 15 2008 at 13:04
Eh, I know it's an old thread, but how many of the bands listed (including new bands) still lack a description?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2008 at 08:30
I just filled in Contraction and will work on Ptarmigan fornext week.  Centipede and Riff Raff coming up
 
A few weeks back, I filled in a few of these band/artistes bio (from the letter S to Z), but I forgot to signal them to whomever is worrying about this (I think it's EL)
 
that list is:
popol vuh/ace
Warm dust
Universal totem Orch
Trader Horne
Titus Goran
Saga Ragnar Lodbrock
Quantum Jump
 
 
had been done before: Rainbow theatre, Connivence & Conventum.
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2008 at 13:55
Hi I'm not hugely into the band RPWL but I just read their biography page on here and to put it bluntly its rather terrible. I tried to find a button to edit it or something, in the same way you can album information but I couldn't find a button. Is it possible for me to improve the biography? If so I'd be up to the task.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2008 at 20:23
Originally posted by TheRocinanteKid TheRocinanteKid wrote:

Hi I'm not hugely into the band RPWL but I just read their biography page on here and to put it bluntly its rather terrible. I tried to find a button to edit it or something, in the same way you can album information but I couldn't find a button. Is it possible for me to improve the biography? If so I'd be up to the task.
 
I suggest you propose your updated bio by creating a new thread in the Errors & Ommision arena ( http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=60 ) and the E&O team can liase with the specialist team to get approval for any changes.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2008 at 20:34
Well this is for the Jazz Rock team:

Alejandro Herrera plays the electric bass since he was 12 years old.
From 1986 he has been leading his own groups where he develops his career as a composer and arranger (he has 3 CDs) and his present group is one of the most outstanding ones of jazz scene in Buenos Aires - Argentina.
On the other hand due to his versatility with the instrument, he is required by musicians of different styles to do recordings, and is also called to play with foreign musicians that tour around South America. Lately he has been part of several local groups like: "Ricardo Nole Trio", "Clase Unica" trio, Gustavo Bergalli quintet, "Robert Petinatto & Now", Alejandro Santos group, among others.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2008 at 06:43
Originally posted by T.Rox T.Rox wrote:

Originally posted by TheRocinanteKid TheRocinanteKid wrote:

Hi I'm not hugely into the band RPWL but I just read their biography page on here and to put it bluntly its rather terrible. I tried to find a button to edit it or something, in the same way you can album information but I couldn't find a button. Is it possible for me to improve the biography? If so I'd be up to the task.
 
I suggest you propose your updated bio by creating a new thread in the Errors & Ommision arena ( http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=60 ) and the E&O team can liase with the specialist team to get approval for any changes.
 
Cheers,
 
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Thanks will get to work on this soon. Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 02 2009 at 18:04
Catharsis done, as quoted from Malesch records site (citation provided) - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2626.
No pics found though. And no credit taken . too humble to claim work involved in copy & paste Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 02 2009 at 18:56
I have recently added Svanfridur's bio, and now there is only one missing bio in Heavy Prog - Valinor's Tree, which will be taken care of by Jared.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 02 2009 at 20:33
Agamemnon - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2410

 ( as quoted from http://www.cdandlp.com/item/2/0-1112-0-1-0/113762207/agamemnon-part-i-ii.html)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2009 at 10:32
I found some informations about the French R.I.O. band Virgule IV, but I don't know how to add these informations to their pages.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2009 at 10:35
Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

I found some informations about the French R.I.O. band Virgule IV, but I don't know how to add these informations to their pages.


I can add the information and credit you with the additional information.  Send me a PM with the info.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2009 at 10:37
Also, we need a biography of the zeuhl group Pseu, if anyone's interested.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2009 at 11:03
Forgive me because I know it is here somewhere, but after almost five years on this forum I still find the ' Search' function on this site very non ' user friendly'. Maybe it will take me another five years to figure outConfused
 
That aside, is there an updated list of band's requiring bio's, and what would be even better.....split by genre?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2009 at 11:33
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:

Also, we need a biography of the zeuhl group Pseu, if anyone's interested.


I can take it. I also started to write the bio for Virgule IV.
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