The departure that turned out to be a real boost!

Congratulations with your Dutch 'inburgering' Emdiar ! And I enjoyed the deluge of neo-prog too, wonderful days, for example Marillion of Pinkpop 1984 (Fugazi tour) and Pallas 1986 in Paradiso, the keyboardplayer was surrounded by vintage keyboards (including the Mellotron M400) like Rick Wakeman and how bombastic Pallas sounded in those days

I have owned that Dave Greenslade album, it contains a huge booklet with pictures from the same artist as on Pallas their album The Sentinel, was it Patrick Woodroffe or something like that?

voted for Hackett leaving Genesis... for two reasons..

freed up Hackett to explore his creative side and put out some great solo albums..

freed up Genesis to explore where their true talents where... pop music. 

I remember that wearing special t-shirts in the 'neo-prog deluge days' was hot, a kind of cult-following behaviour: if you were a Dutch Marillion fan (a Freak) and you were wearing a t-shirt you could buy only in the UK than you had gained respect and every foreign Marillion concert you had attended also counted very much. Soon you were allowed on a higher level of a group of experienced and highly dedicated Freaks. And they acted very noisy and were often yelling "hello Fish, do you remember me from yesterday" or something like that, quite arrogant and childish  Gradually this behaviour of the Freaks turned out to be a human variation of the baboon hill and the top of the baboon hill was the front row or in front of Fish, there you could find the 'personal friends of Fish', the upper class in the world of the Freaks 

Edited by erik neuteboom - July 08 2007 at 11:21

E-Dub wrote: A friend and I were emailing back and forth last week and he experienced the same sort of snobbery here in the States as he attended NEARFest some years ago. I preface this by saying that this friend of mine likes all types of music and has an open mind when it comes to progressive music; however, on this day he chose to wear his Marillion Brave t-shirt, to which he was faced with elitists laughing and snickering like a group of school girls. It actually made me a little ill, to be honest. E

schizoid_man77 wrote: Brave is great, but I dont know of ANY other of my fellow americans who have ever heard of marillion

I never did either until a few short years ago. Now, it's the best disc I own.

Simply because your little circle of friends have never heard of them doesn't discredit their place in music. They haven't had the impact that Yes or King Crimson have made, but they're still putting out quality music and have a wildly devoted following. Maybe you need to enlighten them a bit, eh?

E

Edited by E-Dub - July 09 2007 at 21:16