150 most important Prog albums

Honestly, there are many things that were worth seeing, a lot more than GENESIS, or any other big band out there.

For example ... before PF made it big, it has a reputation for the stoniest concert out there ... and it was a far out experience in quadraphonic sound, that started and ended with sound effects and songs in between ... the songs became part of a story so to speak ... that was fun to FEEL, since you could not SEE anything ... and it helped with the older idea of the drugs in the 60's to "expand" your mind ... and it still is a great idea, except that we don't listen anymore and we want songs, not ideas! And specially, the songs that we know and love! (Can you see DSOTM and TW coming? Yep!)

I saw BABE RUTH, and Janita Hahn made Iggy Pop look like an idiot that had to thrash himself on stage to get any attention to his band ... to see the worship at the Whiskey A Go Go of this show related to that band, was not only pathetic and sick, it was boring! But only half the audience saw BABE RUTH who put on a magnificent show.

I wanted to see SEVENTH WAVE ... why? 7 keyboard players together. Never have I seen or heard of a tape of those shows in Hollywood, but I can't imagine that they were crap ... they probably were so mind warping that everyone hated electronica from that day on ... the whole concept certainly disappeared and died for some reason!

LE ORME, had a residency in LA (Smogmagica time) and the weird side of it, was ... I don't remember a concert listed anywhere, and apparently they did do some shows here and there!

The LA scene, by the 70's had already started falling apart, after Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin fell out of it ... the energy that was centered on individuality and creativity seems to have died with them, and was replaced even further and stronger by the megahit ... and it was at this time that Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles and such begun to make their moves ... and honestly ... they were boring by comparison, even though people nowadays think the Eagles were great because of the folks in their line up ... in my case in Santa Barbara, and friends, Boz Scaggs would have been more interesting, as would have been HOT TUNA, which was a much better MUSIC show ... that was not about hits or songs ... it was about some rather nice trippy stuff!