Gary Numan at Progressive Ears

He used to be a human, but now he's Gary Newman. 

debrewguy wrote: didn't Gary have a hit about cars ... Little Chevy Coupe , or Honda Honda, or She loves my Automobile ? wait, that last one was ZZ Top . Or am I thionking about Krautwerk and the Highway Song ...

Gary had Cars. Look it up on youtube :-)

I actually listened to I, Assassin a little today and was thinking, "this is a tad on the proggy side."

The bass playing (Pino Palladino) on that album is awesome.

Windhawk wrote: Hmmm - I saw Ultravox rejection mentioned in that other thread. Wonder if anyone in here are familiar with a side project of Midge Ure - a one off early project called "The Bloodied Sword"? Would have been interesting to se how that one would have fared on an eval somewhere. That is, if samples can be found - to my knowledge that one has yet to see a CD release...

I noticed as much, though I haven't clicked on the thread yet... I can only imagine some of the reactions from the grumpier members!

interesting and a bold move, though ProgEars has always had a much bigger tent and seems to be moving toward a focus on popular innovation in rock rather than musical progression; I can see Numan's influence here and there, even in prog, and I remember when The Pleasure Principle came out and it certainly was new - what would be defined just a year or so later as as "New Wave" - though it was clearly the antithesis of what every Prog and Art rocker had been doing to that point. Ironic, really, and the possibility that later Genesis or Rush may have been mildly impacted by his music does not neccessarily put him in the family of progressive artists.

Sorry, just getting a jump on the debate    





Edited by Atavachron - January 13 2010 at 17:06