Re: Welcome To Mark "Buttercup" Brownall's Crappy Neighbourhood.

On Jun 24, 10:49 pm, Head Librarian <kmtan...@cyberspace.org> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 5:09 am, Tony Elka <shadowl...@mac.om> wrote:
>
> > In article <1182733467.709656.256...@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
> >  HeadLibrarian<kmtan...@cyberspace.org> wrote:

[...] <snicker>

> > > You hate Rush...that's ok...but saying they were never part of the
> > > prog rock revolution is utter shite. It's actually difficult to find a
> > > hard rock bassist or drummer who doesn't rank Lee or Peart as their
> > > biggest influences.

LOL. Krusty's way of telling everyone how much he actually LUVs us
Canadians.

We appreciate the sentiment Krusty, but in TO we don't rave about Rush
like a teenage girl from the '80s pissing her undies over Neil Peart
because he can play <WOW> the drums. Big deal. Drummers have been
replaced by machines anyway, the guy is a fossil. Outdated and
obsolete. It's time to move on.

> > I don't hate Rush.  Nor do I think they qualify as prog.  And there
> > never was a prog rock revolution, just a bunch of albums released and
> > concerts performed.
>
> Well what qualifies "as prog"? The endless and boring
> debate...Hemispheres, 2112, Permanent Waves and Signals are definitely
> "prog" in the traditional sense...whereas new Genesis, modern Rush and
> pop-era Camel definitely aren't.

<shudder>

> There definitely was a "prog-rock revolution"...if there was a
"dance
> music revolution"...or "synth pop" revolution. And many old prog
bands
> today are the biggest concert draws out there...after 30-40 years
> since they were formed. If these bands never did anything
> revolutionary, why do you think they're still filling those arenas?
> The audience isn't just 30-and 40-somethings


>...there are lots of kids there...

...wearing Mickey Mouse ears and shaking their rattles.

> ...who want to hear the OLD SONGS.

My Gawd. What torture.

>
> > It was mostly ignored by the mainstream pop and dance music fans at the time.

At least someone had the sense.

> What this has to do with anything? I'm sure the 5-Cent and Britney
> fans don't even know who Frank Zappa was... does it make him
> insignificant.. or less "revolutionary"?

I'll tell you what he is: someone who died of brain cancer after
spending a lifetime on LSD.

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