Tom Ozric wrote:

Thankfully, Frankie went to Hollywood, and not NYC

Now Frankie's lead singer has HIV (seriously). Learned that on one of those "whatever happened to" shows.

"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno

Love, love, LOVE Carnival In Babylon. I would pay good money to hear the 27 minute Hawknose Harlequin. It seems too short at 9 mins whatever.

Dave Pegg loved cashews.

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy

Kit Watkins advertised his first solo album “Labyrinth” in Rolling Stone. I believe that’s where it first came to my attention.

Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.

Silly human race! Yes is for everybody!

The instrumental middle section of Can You Understand by Renaissance was taken from an original piece by Maurice Jarre written for the score of “Doctor Zhivago.” This is where the band got it from, but the tricky thing is, they assumed at the time that it was based on a Russian folk tune which was in the public domain. Any hassles over copyright infringement were quickly settled, and on some more recent releases, like the King Biscuit CD, Jarre is credited for that section.

I was unaware of all this the first time I saw “Dr. Zhivago” in the early 80s, though I recognized that piece right away.

Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously.

Silly human race! Yes is for everybody!

Tom Ozric wrote:

I'm currently sprucing up my sister's old vinyl collection - not so obscure, but fact.....ha ha.....
I was cleaning up her Frankie Goes To Hollywood (man, those guys scare me.....) Pleasuredome album and noticed Steve Howe guested on a track !! I guess, it was produced by Trevor Horn.

Yeah I have that album and CD----Steve comes on briefly and does some great playing---totally recognizable as Howe guitar----and yes Horn called in his friends.

When progressive rock band Quatermass played live, and they did their upcoming (but not yet recorded) single "One Blind Mice" in concert, John Gustafson would sing the opening lines of the Deep Purple song "Bloodsucker" (off of their album "In Rock"), incorporating them into the Quatermass number.

"Got Black Breast Chinese eyes, got an English brain that's gonna make me wise".

The recorded "One Blind Mice" song does not have that lyric in it.

How do you get 3-4 prog rock Saga's?

Rick Wakeman's dad, Cyril Wakeman, was a director of Nicholls & Clarke in the East End of London, "an empire of ironmongery and sanitaryware that contained a hidden warren of semi-criminal subcultures":

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/02/13/lush-life-in-norton-folgate/

Originally posted by Professor Richard Hobbs

Professor Richard Hobbs wrote:

After I left school, I worked as an office boy in Great Eastern St. That was awful, I couldn’t stand office work, so I worked as a dustman and street sweeper. I did all sorts of things, but whenever I needed work I could always ask my father to call up one of the Directors at Nicholls & Clarke, Cyril Wakeman – father of Rick Wakeman – and get me work at twenty pounds a week, cash in hand, to pick up toilets. Cyril liked to talk about Rick’s success, his latest hit and how much the latest tour in America made and which page three girl he was dating. And at the end, he’d always ask how I was doing but I wasn’t dating page three girls, I was lifting toilets.

Very interesting article, though of tangential relevant to prog!

BTW there is no suggestion that Cyril Wakeman was involved in any of the criminal activities that went on Nicholls & Clarke's basement.

Edited by Mascodagama - February 13 2015 at 04:37

^Penis rock and the top is a vagina spewing out liquid?

http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/

wtf

Obscure Prog Facts

Kit Watkins advertised his first solo album “Labyrinth” in Rolling Stone. I believe that’s where it first came to my attention.

I was unaware of all this the first time I saw “Dr. Zhivago” in the early 80s, though I recognized that piece right away.