Article 43276 of alt.music.progressive: Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive Path: news.claremont.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!csulb.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!festival!edcogsci!usenet From: philkime@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Phil Kime) Subject: Re: Great prog-rock joke In-Reply-To: afcpeters@aol.com's message of 22 Nov 1994 01:35:04 -0500 Message-ID: X-Attribution: Phil X-Spook: Panama World Trade Center jihad cracking terrorist Sender: usenet@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) Nntp-Posting-Host: scott Reply-To: philkime@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Phil Kime) Fcc: /home/philkime/Mews/NEWSOUT Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science X-Comments: MIME Mail Welcome X-Newsreader: Emacs 19.27.2 (GNUS 4.1) References: <3arda0$qe3@golem.wcc.govt.nz> <3as3eo$fmt@newsbf01.news.aol.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 14:56:40 GMT Lines: 25 ****> "Pete" == AFC PeterS writes: Pete> In article <3arda0$qe3@golem.wcc.govt.nz>, hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Pete> writes: > This I got out of one of those tacky "History of Rock" books: > > "Progressive rock was what happened in the early 70's when > certain brilliant instrumentalists got fed up with playing > three-and-a-half minute long songs about teenage love. > Unfortunately, this led them to start playing ten-and-a-half > minute long songs about nothing in particular." > > Cool, the guy musta heard "Heart of the Sunrise!" :) Pete> LOL! Perfect! Phil, put this in the FAQ! :) Think I will actually ... it is perfect ... :-) p -- = Phil Kime (philkime@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) = = http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~philkime/home.html = = Centre for Cognitive Science/Dept of Philosophy = = Edinburgh University =