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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Prog Top 15 |
| Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 01:47:58 -0500 |
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At 11:17 PM 11/25/2003 -0800, ronald and karen sanchez wrote:
>Stewart-
>
>Did you work in a record store in 1973/4 ? I have all those Virgin releases
>too. Plus loads of posters and such.
In a way, yes (I spent most of my childhood in the record department of my
dad's store), but since 1973 was the year I turned four, I was a lousy shop
assistant. I got into the twins-era Virgin output in the mid-'90s, when I
started finding many of them in the dollar bins at my neighborhood record
store. Prior to that, I had the typical punk-kid distrust of prog, but
around the start of my Stereolab obsession, my friend Marty Crandall
helpfully pointed out that I really needed to check out this old krautrock
band called Neu!, since Stereolab basically stole their entire early sound
from them. From there, I got into kraut in general, and it's only a
lateral move from Kraftwerk to Hawkwind.
Forgot to include the first Neu! album on that list, actually. And if
Stackridge counts as a prog band, I vote for PINAFORE DAYS/MAN IN THE
BOWLER HAT.
S
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