[atlantaprog] Re: Eyedrum announcements via this list...

>> OK OK so I embellished my high school experience a bit there. But I and a
>> friend did burn a KISS shirt and paraded down the hall with the somewhat
>> intact rag on a pole in eighth grade. The only music goon squad I heard of
>> was encountered by my friend in the restroom, who demanded to know why he
>> hated KISS so much. That he got all the attention then probably reflects the
>> fact that he was much more comfortable being in your face subversive than I
>> was in those days.
>> 
>> I do remember I used to get very offended when Creem magazine would trash my
>> favorite bands for being pretentious. Fact was they were...and could back it
>> up, that¹s why we loved them so much. But I do now regard KISS as performance
>> artists somewhat kin to those I have love today. Really, I think Laurie
>> Anderson has more in common with KISS than Yes.....in headspace if not in
>> musical tastes. Admittedly KISS is decidedly more mainstream, and subversive
>> more like Elvis than Laurie.
>> 
>> Thus last year, when two of my first graders at school gathered in Mama¹s SUV
>> after school to listen to KISS, I felt a warm inexplicable sense of
>> nostalgia....rather than a burning desire to shove a Yes or Genesis album in
>> their face. Absolutely unthinkable to the 8th grader who traded his ZZ Top
>> Tres Hombres album for Genesis Trespass...who brought Return To Forever Where
>> Have I Known You Before and Mahavishnu¹s Birds of Fire to ³dance
>> day²....still can¹t believe the girls said they couldn¹t dance to that...I
>> can dance to that and wish I had known that before I approached forty...just
>> gotta have a little rhythm in your soul to do it....OK advanced rhythm.
>> 
>> Interestingly and hilariously Phil Collins would autograph that record in
>> 1980 at Southlake Mall. Not to be outdone by that jewel, Tony Banks signed my
>> Brand X album, the one Phil was laughing about, regarding the joint in the
>> group picture. Was being subversive just different back then?
>> 
>> And I was a little pissed at Gentle Giant¹s omission of so many loved
>> instruments back then. Fortunately they proved that music is music and they
>> were no less musical in limiting their instrumental palette on the ?80 tour.
>> Sure I missed a heyday performance but at least I was old enough then not to
>> wonder if I would get in that night at the Agora. Getting in before I turned
>> eighteen had always been a crapshoot. Fortunately not an issue seeing Yes¹
>> three headed monster tour for Relayer. Now don¹t we all miss the Omni as a
>> great music venue...OK I miss the under ten dollar tickets.......
>> 
>> 
>> Lizardo
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>> Just how many shows have Jon Anderson, Robert Fripp or any other important
>> prog rockers done at Eyedrum?! Seems like we need to send a few prog rock
>> goons to lean on Robert and the guys down there. I mean the least they could
>> do is book Ian Anderson or persuade Derek Schulman to come down from his
>> record executive high horse to bring back Gentle Giant-with all the
>> instruments of course, not that crazy 1980 facsimile I saw at the Agora.
>> Hell, I was too young to know I shoulda been pissed but not so regarding the
>> evil KISS. We used to have such a goon squad in high school and we sure made
>> the KISS NATION squirm! I¹ve been outta touch with that old goon squad
>> lately. Should I look them up??!!
>> 
>> Lizardo
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>> 1 vote in favor here
>> 
>> Allen Welty-Green <agmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I've actually been thinking about that. How many of ya'll would like to
>>> get together sometime soon?
>>> 
>>> On Jan 23, 2006, at 11:22 PM, Simon Jester wrote:
>>> 
>>>> > Are we going to have another ARIA meeting any time soon?
>>>> > Hal
>>>> >
>>>> > On 1/23/06, Allen Welty-Green
>>>> > wrote:atlantaprog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx to this listserv. What that
>>>>> >> means is that once a week you'll receive the Eyedrum weekly event
>>>>> >> annoucement email - most of which won't be prog, but much is which is
>>>>> >> nevertheless good stuff. It also means that the keeper of the ED
>>>>> >> annoucment list, Scott Burland, pharmacist and experimental musician
>>>>> >> (he WAILS on Theremin! Really!) will now be a member, whatev  er  that
>>>>> >> means!
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> So I don't want to hear any griping when the Eyedrum list comes out
>>>>> >> and
>>>>> >> includes a bunch of stuff you're not into!
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
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>> Hoo Hoooo  Hoo Hoooooo
>> 
>> Phil
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