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    Posted: August 16 2014 at 08:12
i like to start a new topic (if there wasn't one like this already) on discussions of what happened on this day in prog like the title says. so ill go ahead and start with an "important" moment:

it was on this day in 1975 that Peter Gabriel announced he was leaving Genesis after the conclusion of the tour supporting The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The band would eventually take the drummer Phil Collins as the lead singer after over 400 auditions (so to speak) to find a new vocalist for the next 18 months.
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Points: 18372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2014 at 13:35
It was on this day (Friday Aug. 16/74, at the tender age of 16) that I was sitting by the pool in my folks backyard, watching the fluffy clouds slowly float by while I listened to my new Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans album, that I announced to my friends that I had scored a wee bag of trendy chemical amusement aid. We would all eventually get baked in the sun and spend the day listening to our favourite prog artists.At least I sort of remember it that way, it was a long time ago and things are still a little fuzzy from back then.

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Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2014 at 17:55
^ it was on this day, 2014, I saw those hideous balaclavas again
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Points: 18372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2014 at 18:05
Hey, I had to look at those two hideous balaclavas staring at me through my kitchen window for two years, so quit yur bitchin' !  You have no idea how scarred I am now.   LOL
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Points: 334 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2014 at 18:22
Originally posted by Michael678 Michael678 wrote:

i like to start a new topic (if there wasn't one like this already) on discussions of what happened on this day in prog like the title says. so ill go ahead and start with an "important" moment:

it was on this day in 1975 that Peter Gabriel announced he was leaving Genesis after the conclusion of the tour supporting The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The band would eventually take the drummer Phil Collins as the lead singer after over 400 auditions (so to speak) to find a new vocalist for the next 18 months.


Funny you should mention that. As I posted recently:

I first heard this album on late night FM radio around Christmas 1974. This was my first exposure to Genesis as they were mostly unknown in the Dallas area. Their US fan base seemed to be exclusively in the Northeast then. While parts of it sounded kind of strange, overall I was impressed. Fast forward several months and I hear on the same FM radio station that Peter Gabriel had left Genesis. I remember well the DJ's comment at the end of the press announcement: "Well, that looks like the end of Genesis."  Thankfully, it did not turn out that way. But that's another story.      Wink
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Originally posted by sturoc sturoc wrote:

Woodstock 1969

...And a legendary day it was! Clap
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Points: 2466 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2014 at 08:14
Originally posted by PrognosticMind PrognosticMind wrote:

Originally posted by sturoc sturoc wrote:

Woodstock 1969

...And a legendary day it was! Clap

indeed it was, even if it went into the next one. Approve
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|Probably didn't start until the next one! 
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It was the friday............. 
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Points: 2466 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 14:53
ahhhh, no one posted here in awhile, so i guess ill continue. it was on this day in 1980 that the Drama lineup of Yes played the first of 3 sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden.
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Points: 1195 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 15:07
Originally posted by Michael678 Michael678 wrote:

ahhhh, no one posted here in awhile, so i guess ill continue. it was on this day in 1980 that the Drama lineup of Yes played the first of 3 sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden.

Excellent! Tongue
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Points: 2466 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 17:52
Originally posted by PrognosticMind PrognosticMind wrote:

Originally posted by Michael678 Michael678 wrote:

ahhhh, no one posted here in awhile, so i guess ill continue. it was on this day in 1980 that the Drama lineup of Yes played the first of 3 sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden.

Excellent! Tongue

indeed, it is!!
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Points: 6753 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2014 at 23:15

     On September 2, 1977, I saw Yes in concert with Donovan opening, "Going For The One" tour, at the late/great Chicago Amphitheater.
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