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    Posted: May 09 2013 at 20:52
^The first two Judas Priest records were released on Gull.
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Originally posted by Dean

Motown also distributed Gull Records, so add Kraan, Isotope, If, Seventh Wave and Arthur Brown to the list.

You're right, I have the second Isotope (Illusion) on Gull/Motown. But as far as I know, the only Kraans that got a US release were Andy Nogger and Let It Out, and they were on Passport. And both Seventh Wave albums were on Janus.
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Originally posted by dr wu23

It's prolly been mentioned here, but  Pick Withers who played for 'Spring' ended up in Dire Straits  years later.
 
I've always had a soft spot for this lp..........
 

Nice album, tons of mellotron, and I love the song, "Golden Fleece".
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Originally posted by AreYouHuman

One doesn't usually associate Motown with prog; however...

ELP's label Manticore had American distribution through Atlantic at first, and then switched to Motown, oddly, around 1975. I have at least two albums from that period, PFM's "Cook" and Keith Christmas's "Brighter Day."

The Italian prog act Libra had one album, "Winter's Day Nightmare" on Motown proper.

Funny you mention it but in the late 70's, PFM's "Cook" was available as a super-cheap cut-out LP at department stores or any big chain that had a record section like Sears, Montgomery Wards, White Front, etc...  

For those who never saw a "cut-out" back in the vinyl days, many albums had a slot actually cut out from the upper left or right corner of the album.  These albums were maybe 30% to 40% cheaper than regular non-cut-out albums...why?  I don't know.
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Originally posted by dr wu23

It's prolly been mentioned here,
No, but it's mentioned in the biography on the band's page, even if we do manage to misspell his name (which is pretty spectacular) and fail to mention he was also with Magna Carta (surely Magna Carta trumps Dire Straughts any day of the week) - but as they were only the 510th band to be added to the PA, that's excusable
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Originally posted by presdoug

Originally posted by AreYouHuman

One doesn't usually associate Motown with prog; however...

ELP's label Manticore had American distribution through Atlantic at first, and then switched to Motown, oddly, around 1975. I have at least two albums from that period, PFM's "Cook" and Keith Christmas's "Brighter Day."

The Italian prog act Libra had one album, "Winter's Day Nightmare" on Motown proper.
Libra's first US release, an English sung version of the first album, was also on Motown.
Motown also distributed Gull Records, so add Kraan, Isotope, If, Seventh Wave and Arthur Brown to the list.


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It's prolly been mentioned here, but  Pick Withers who played for 'Spring' ended up in Dire Straits  years later.
 
I've always had a soft spot for this lp..........
 
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Originally posted by AreYouHuman

One doesn't usually associate Motown with prog; however...

ELP's label Manticore had American distribution through Atlantic at first, and then switched to Motown, oddly, around 1975. I have at least two albums from that period, PFM's "Cook" and Keith Christmas's "Brighter Day."

The Italian prog act Libra had one album, "Winter's Day Nightmare" on Motown proper.
Libra's first US release, an English sung version of the first album, was also on Motown.
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One doesn't usually associate Motown with prog; however...

ELP's label Manticore had American distribution through Atlantic at first, and then switched to Motown, oddly, around 1975. I have at least two albums from that period, PFM's "Cook" and Keith Christmas's "Brighter Day."

The Italian prog act Libra had one album, "Winter's Day Nightmare" on Motown proper.

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Originally posted by Dean

Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli worked with Camel for the pop-videos for the Presure Points live album.
 
 

 
 

That is  certainly obscure. 8!
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Originally posted by Gerinski

Transatlantic's debut album is called SMPTe.
The meaning intention of SMPT is quite clear Stolt / Morse / Portnoy / Trewavas but what about the 'e'?
SMPTE is a standard for synchronizing timing in audio and video sequencers and devices, related to MIDI.

I didn't know that was obscure. Cool
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Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli worked with Camel for the pop-videos for the Presure Points live album.
 
 
 
 


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Originally posted by twseel

This is Sylvia Houtzager, what they were just talking about. 'The PA artist that appeared in Playboy'
I wouldn't mind being in that contrabass case Wink

For those of you non-dutch speakers I'l translate the quote:

"Normally it's already daylight when I awake. Today it's completely dark. When I stretch, my hands touch a ceiling. It gives away. Suddenly I'm bathed in light. Am I dreaming? or did I sleep in our contrabass case? And where are my clothes? Suddenly I remember that I had an appointment, today is the day I was going to show myself naked."
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Dave Brock was ill and missed Stacia's debut with Hawkwind.
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This is Sylvia Houtzager, what they were just talking about. 'The PA artist that appeared in Playboy'
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^ I don't get it ... what obscure prog fact is there?
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And here it is.
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Walt Whitman was gay.

Oops, ... Wrong thread.
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Originally posted by Tubes

Obscure fact: Jethro Tull's Warchild is not as bad as most people make it out to be. 

Indeed...it has 2 of my fave Tull songs, Back Door Angels and Two Fingers...

As Ian sang,  "And as you join the good ship earth and you mingle with the dust, You'd better leave your underpants with someone you can trust!" 

Words to live by Wink
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Originally posted by timothy leary

Sylvia Houtzager from Flairck
http://www.flairck.com/past.php?id=3281


That's a relief (I thought you were going to point us in the direction of the Reader's Wives sectionConfused)
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