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but why did no one reply to me??? :(

But when are we going to talk about music??? :).. well, anyway, this proposal has really intrigued me.. and then another thing..: you Enry or Psyco or whoever passes by, have you happened to hear that "grayfolded," the remix of tons of live versions of Dark Star that I can't find anywhere...??

jennifer looks like syd barrett in dusseldorf....what times, what colossal albums...

but enry eat you, sleep??

insipid... by their standards, that is...

the proposal is (personally) even more interesting than usual...

very interesting...

So let’s say we all know what the term prog refers to, which has fairly definable boundaries when viewed in its more "particular" sense (maybe not in words...;)). To give another last example, I would say it's like two bands that, as their "object," tackle the same thing, but I call one prog and the other not: I’m talking about Pentangle and Amazing Blondel. The latter, at least in the Lindum fantasy, is not prog at all... but aside from this poor and (mis)fitting example, I still believe that your calling Fahey progressive is quite misleading because, using your "broad" conception of the term (which means that maybe Sister Ray will be prog too...), for the average visitors of prog music sites, it suggests something entirely different. I’m done, I swear, with my etymological rant... what remains is the excellent review (almost better than that of the Magnetic Fields...) and the banal yet sacred conclusion that immense masterpieces, all the true ones (no more than a maximum of 40 in my opinion), transcend genres and sub-genres and also escape our attempts to express them in words... saludos.

But Fahey's music is referred to as "American primitive guitar"!!! Do you think it has anything to do with the progressive search for novelty? It’s the absolute will to seek, to rediscover the roots, the core, the “metaphysical” essence of music... well, if you find someone who prefers Steve Vai to Fripp... :) those virtuosos like Vai, Satriani and co. represent, for me, the absolute absence of any musical emotion, the end of music... (just to exaggerate a bit... ;) @davejon: yes, of course I have a bit of prejudice, but I’ll tell you that Flying Teapot is one of my favorite albums, like everything that has directly or indirectly come from the germs of the Soft Machine, which I consider in that case as sublime prog and absolutely innovative... however, to give an emblematic example, listening to Third, I find no comparison between Moon in June and the others, which I can't even remember, precisely because Wyatt goes straight to the "feeling."

..and then to be honest, come on.. we all know that prog = dizzying scales at two hundred miles an hour where the faster you are, the cooler you are.....now I'm going to get insulted... :D