Obscure Prog Facts

The.Crimson.King wrote: darksinger wrote: Dave Brock and HP Lovecraft share a birthday. What a pair!

Holy Cyclopian Monoliths!

I dunno if any of this is repeating by now, with 37 pages, but...

Edited by Dhorr - May 30 2013 at 17:57

The.Crimson.King wrote: Dhorr wrote: Greg Lake wrote Lucky Man when he was 12, the other band members didn't like it originally. Also, Keith Emerson's Moog solo was a 1st take and he was just screwing around.  He hated the solo and thought it was embarrassing, but Lake was adamant that it was perfect so they went with it.  Many years later they brought the song back to the live stage and Keith called up Keyboard magazine to get their transcription of the solo because he couldn't remember how he played it

Probably been mentioned before here but I read that both Bryan Ferry and Elton John auditioned for the lead vocal spot in Crimson.

Here's another - Barry Palmer's voice sounds like Peter Cetera's (to me anyway).

Dhorr wrote: I dunno if any of this is repeating by now, with 37 pages, but... Greg Lake wrote Lucky Man when he was 12, the other band members didn't like it originally. There was a short-lived project between Jimmy Page, Chris Squire and Alan White, that was originally even going to have Robert Plant on vocals. XYZ, eX-Zeppelin-and-Yes, they were called.

I believe the song "Mind Drive" was written using ideas from that project.

This may be better described as coincidental but here goes:

There are two different live albums in which, when a song is being introduced, someone in the audience hollers "Go get 'em, Stephen!" I first noticed it on "Yessongs," just before Heart of the Sunrise. Years later I finally got the older album "4 Way Street" by CSNY, and just after Neil Young introduces Stephen Stills and before 49 Bye-Byes/America's Children, same holler, probably different person.

One has to wonder if the Yes fan was inspired by the Stills fan or if it was just coincidence.

In 1987, at a Kansas concert, I carried on the "tradition," hollering the same thing to Steve Morse.

This is a bit off topic, as it isn't prog, but i am reminded of my Dad's story when he was young, and he and his friend were at a Coleman Hawkins concert (an older jazz player) and my Dad's friend yelled out something a bit more derogatory- "Go home and die, Hawk!"

Edited by presdoug - June 05 2013 at 20:36

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I knew I had seen that guy somewhere before I haven't listened to Circus Maximus for ages.

In the 60s Caterina Caselli and Giorgio Gaber were presenting a show for the Italian TV. They were used to introduce a a new artist each everytime. One day Caterina Caselli invited Francesco Guccini, later to become famous as single songwriter. Unfortunately also the guest invited by Gaber was a "Francesco" so they decided to ask him to change his name.