Under Appreciated Prog Keyboardists

jcleary wrote: JeanFrame wrote: And for Heaven's sake! Billy Ritchie, the first Lead keyboard player of them all! Without whom etc etc..... What's your connection to Clouds? Obviously a family member or friend. Well Clouds have no one to blame for their lack of success except themselves. They had every opportunity to create two great cutting edge progressive rock albums, but instead they made two VERY MEDIOCRE albums. Both you and Alex, the guy that does their Website, have claimed that the albums were ahead of their time. Well i was there and bought Scrapbook when it came out and i can tell you that it was WAY BEHIND all of the great albums that were coming out of the UK before and at the same time. Just to refresh your memory check out all of these albums that came out that were alot better than Scrapbook and WaterColour Days.

Your list is bonkers, your rationale rabid. Are you going to say that I’m also related to Radiohead, Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, King Crimson etc because of my positive comments about them too? And are our own senior members who gave good reviews to the band also relatives? Do you view this as a world conspiracy? I have never met any of Clouds personally, though I saw both 1-2-3 and Clouds in the late 60s. In fact, I heard nothing more of them till the 1996 CD and then Prog Archives. In my opinion,  1-2-3 was more important than Clouds, and I stated on record that I didn’t think the band had done enough to make it all the way. I suggest you read some of the more measured comments by members more tolerant than yourself. It’s fine not to like something, we are all entitled to personal taste, but to cast stones based on pure irrational hatred is almost a crime and should certainly be banished from this site with its finer aspirations to truth, something you seem to know little about.