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@ TheJargonKing: You are great, since you love Prog and have a picture of Frank Zappa on your profile! :-)
PROG NEVER DIES!!! As Jimmy Spitalieri, the singer of Metamorfosi, says!

Congratulations! This review should be published in some newspaper; everyone needs to read it, even if most people won't understand it! Metallus, I don't know you, but I admire you so much for this review! I studied guitar for 3 years; music is my greatest passion. I would love to form a Progressive Rock band because I adore the 70s Prog; I consider it the most expressive and varied form of Rock! I am one of those who still sees music as an art form, the greatest of the arts because, unlike the others, music enters the ears first, then from the brain to the heart. If everyone listened to music with their heart, and not with their brain (since most young people today don't have one), we wouldn't have these puppets like paper! I wonder when people will get tired of always riding the same merry-go-round? It's not even the record labels' fault; they are just doing their job: giving people what they want to listen to. It's the people who don't understand a damn thing! I continue to dream of my music, that one day, like in the 60s and 70s, it will return to reign and be art! Congratulations again on the review; for me, it's a perfect score, so take the 5 as a 100 with honors! Great!

The first self-titled one is fabulous! I listened to "Plasair D'amour" from this second album 2 or 3 years ago, I will fill in the gap! :-)

I'll keep OleEinar in mind and will listen to them soon! Thanks for the tip! :-)

supersoul: Let me correct you; this album has nothing to do with the Prog scene! Check out the albums "Red Queen To The Gryphon Three," "Raindance," and "Treason," and then we can talk about it again.

OleEinar: I don't know the Dando Shaft! What period are they from?

Thank you guys! Any criticism is welcome, next time I'll try to proofread the review.

Wait! I had already written the review on the Gryphon a while ago! I dug it up and then copied and pasted it onto Deb.

You're right, Bartleboom, but I don't always have time to proofread; I have other things to do as well! :-)

@xyz: The story that John Lennon was killed by Mark C. is just a tired tale of the fan who, despite loving his idol, reaches the point of killing him. The truth is that John Lennon in his artistic life was not just "that idiot from those 4 Beatles" as most people here think, but he was also a political activist in America during the early 70s. John Lennon was one of the first celebrities who, being famous, gave the whole world the chance to see and understand that being famous doesn't necessarily mean doing drugs, having orgies with 5 women, and allowing oneself everything just because one is loaded with money, but that being famous also means having the power to change small but important and uncomfortable issues in society. John Lennon held a concert in 1973 to free Sinclair, a radical left activist who was arrested under the pretext of a joint but was actually inconvenient for Nixon. And when Nixon realized that Lennon didn't kiss his ass like Elvis Presley did (there's a very famous photo that proves it), he began to make his stay in New York impossible for him, first putting the FBI on his tail and then not renewing his visa. So, it wasn’t a crazed superfan who killed John Lennon, but the American intelligence services. Read the recently declassified FBI reports and see what they wanted to do to eliminate the nuisance that Lennon posed. As for George Harrison, he was less rebellious but no less significant! He and Ravi Shankar (the godfather of World Music, and Harrison started playing the sitar after hearing him!) organized a benefit concert to help Bangladesh, documented on video (which can also be found on DVD), featuring Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Badfinger, Bob Dylan, and many others. Harrison, like Lennon, provides another demonstration that celebrity, by giving greater visibility to an individual, can help to improve the problems of any society, if not solve them. Later we will see that types like Bono and Madonna will exploit this for simple conditioned goodwill, while in their private lives they behave quite differently. The Beatles, for the showbiz, were a pop group that made money hand over fist, but behind this false notion hid great people and good musicians (it is said that during one of their early tours, the Beatles were caught in the dressing room playing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and excuse me if that’s not much for a pop group!)