IF... record released

NO,

thank you

I agree.. she has a great voice. It's maintream.. not prog enough. I don't mind to have that album.  :)

The thrid band to have the name IF (just like Oasis and Steps) - bombard them and point out the plaguarism. Dick Morrisey and Co. were the govnors.

What If?

soundfactor wrote: What IF sounds good, but I fear there must be other bands with that name, anyway what do you all think about our music. should we leave the Prog world  (at least with this record ) ? Well I think we have some Prog atmosphere, we don't have long instrumental passages, but our show is a bit different. Somewhere I saw IT BITES as Prog band, so that probably drove me to that classification....

Do a web search, e.g. check out All Music and Gibraltar Prog Encyclopaedia.

However, I think of several bands with the same names : Skid Row - the early 70's  Gary Moore version still remains the superior and original.

Leader of Saturnalia, Rod Roach (as school friend of long ago), formed the original Horse when an A&R man at London's RCA studios.

The SF-based Merge, expanded their name to Nima & Merge, because of two other bands were already known as Merge.

Because Mark Gleed could not afford to protect the copyright of the name Soma,( the neglected and limited edition prog rock band/album that featured lots of lovely Allan Holdworth); two German bands subsequently called themselves this.

Steps was originally a North Carolina-based band, who successfully stopped  Michael Brecker & Co calling themselves that through American courts, and so the jazz group became Steps Ahead, but then didn't have enough clout to stop the manufactured Irish boy/girl band calling themselves that 15 years later.

The American Drifters forced Cliff Richard's backing band the Drifters to become the Shadows.

And the English Nirvana did win a London court case forcing Kurt Cobain and Co to call themselves The American Nirvana  - although when was the last time you saw that name on  CDs etc.?

Oasis - Peter Skellon and Mary Hopkins predated the Beatle-influenced Mancunians.

And I know that Gary Husband had a bit of soul searching before he called his superstar group Force Majeure - fellow English drummer Simon Phillips, had released a couple of albums with that
 same name.

There have been two Touchs, several Gipsys or Gypsys. Two Fleetwood Macs toured the USA at the same time, in the early 70's after Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer crashed out.  And so on.

II was luck enough to see them live twice while I wasliving in London, they were very good expecially "the guitar hero" very clean....The keyboards player maybe a little "poser", you know he had loads of teen fans...probably we are closer to them rather than other progressive acts, which remains our inspiration.

See you all Carlo _ IF....