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Topic: Mad River for Proto-Prog (U.S. Acid/Psych)
Posted: February 12 2013 at 13:07

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_River_%28band%29
http://www.harbydarmusic.com/mad-river/ band biography
http://www.discogs.com/Mad-River-Two-Classic-Albums-From-Mad-River/release/1721895

Edited by Pastor Rex Cat - February 12 2013 at 13:22

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Posted: February 12 2013 at 16:46

San Francisco Sound

Quicksilver Messenger Service, Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, It's A Beautiful Day, Santana, Country Joe and the Fish... some of these are on PA while others aren't but they are all surely better known than Mad River. Mad River are described as a little-documented cult band: ''By the spring of 1969 bookings were harder to find than ever and the band was reduced to playing High School dances much of the time.''

According to the PA guidelines for Proto-Prog submissions:

''... the category is primarily intended for those artists who were pivotal in the formation of the Progressive Rock subgenre... if an artist is obscure and unknown it is unlikely that they are relevant to the formation of Progressive Rock.''

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=73146&PID=3942762#3942762

By all accounts this band was more innovative than many of its peers but was simply too little-known. Interesting suggestion but I can't see this getting approved.

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Posted: February 13 2013 at 03:20

The debut is a bit of a forgotten classic psych-rock album, not too far away from QMS's early sound...

A bit of a stretch for PA (unless QMS would be in >> and there are some good arguments for it), IMHO

the second is more of an insipid country rock thing, best forgotten...

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

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Pastor Rex Cat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 28 2010 Location: Western Canada Status: Offline Points: 2205	Topic: Mad River for Proto-Prog (U.S. Acid/Psych) Posted: February 12 2013 at 13:07
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_River_%28band%29 http://www.harbydarmusic.com/mad-river/ band biography http://www.discogs.com/Mad-River-Two-Classic-Albums-From-Mad-River/release/1721895 Edited by Pastor Rex Cat - February 12 2013 at 13:22
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seventhsojourn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 11 2009 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 4006	Posted: February 12 2013 at 16:46
	San Francisco Sound Quicksilver Messenger Service, Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, It's A Beautiful Day, Santana, Country Joe and the Fish... some of these are on PA while others aren't but they are all surely better known than Mad River. Mad River are described as a little-documented cult band: ''By the spring of 1969 bookings were harder to find than ever and the band was reduced to playing High School dances much of the time.'' According to the PA guidelines for Proto-Prog submissions: ''... the category is primarily intended for those artists who were pivotal in the formation of the Progressive Rock subgenre... if an artist is obscure and unknown it is unlikely that they are relevant to the formation of Progressive Rock.'' http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=73146&PID=3942762#3942762 By all accounts this band was more innovative than many of its peers but was simply too little-known. Interesting suggestion but I can't see this getting approved.

Sean Trane Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19626	Posted: February 13 2013 at 03:20
	The debut is a bit of a forgotten classic psych-rock album, not too far away from QMS's early sound... A bit of a stretch for PA (unless QMS would be in >> and there are some good arguments for it), IMHO the second is more of an insipid country rock thing, best forgotten...
	let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword