[atlantaprog] Re: This list has become tiresome - touch my monkey, love him.

Billy Joel is the Antichrist.

Ambrosia is hardly ambrosia.

Paul

>From: "Tegethoff, Andrew T." <Andrew.Tegethoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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>Subject: [atlantaprog] Re: This list has become tiresome - touch my monkey, love him.

>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:53:38 -0400

>Jeff Blanks spaketh:

> >I remember seeing, years afterward, an ad for *Duke* in a copy of

> >*Music Week*... It looked like the album cover, with the same

>child-like >handwriting/typeface. At the bottom of the page, in fine

>print, appeared >the words:

> >

> >"Expect some surprises"

>Now that is an understatement.

>Billy Joel and Chicago are both prog. As is Ambrosia. You heard it

>right here.

>Trevor Rabin is much better suited for writing soundtracks for

>Dreamworks animated features. Curiously enough, though, Phil Collins is

>apparently much better suited for writing soundtracks to Disney animated

>features.

>So now, we can fully comprehend the ultimate destiny of prog music:

>Sinbad cartoons.

>Guitar is a dish that is best served cold. In guitar, no one can hear

>you scream. You'll believe a guitar can fly.

>Admittedly, some more flexible instrumental approaches might be valid in

>prog keyboards.

>But the only option other than the "organs, moogs, and trons, oh my"

>path seems to be the "ugly DX7 tinkle and throb" path. Which is almost

>(but not quite) infinitely less desirable.

>I've worked with a grand total of 3 people who could write down their

>ideas, and about 2 more who had some grasp of chords. It hasn't really

>ever been a huge issue. Can't forget the "rock" in prog rock -- feel is

>equally important as think.

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