Ok, so May 16th 2010, Sunday afternoon : A cafe full(I mean FULL!) of people, a progrock-band playing unplugged for two hours, a pretty massive consumption of beer and lemonades, and an atmosphere you will not find anywhere else or on any other 'night' in The Organization. The audience were so quiet that you could frequently hear a pin drop. If there would have been falling pins... And on the other hand half the audience sang along to Genesis' Ripples(SAIL AWAY AWAYYYYYY!!!).
The gig started off with 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" including the piano intro et al. Not a bad start at all. *grin*
The band played songs from ELP's first album, songs by the great Harry Sacksioni(obviously a favourite of the guitarist!). Hell, they even played stuff from 'And Then There Were Three', one of the most underrated records Genesis ever recorded. And no; it wasn't 'Follow You Follow Me' they played, it was 'Burning Rope'.
"You climb upon a burning rope
to escape the mob below
But you had put the flaming out
so the others could not follow"
But ProgRock is dead of course. That is what I hear from many many ignorant peasants so it must be true.
4 comments:
Nobody ever said Prog was dead. It sucks, but it isn't dead. Sadly
Someone should have killed it though.
You can't say that! What about the JSF!
Such arrogance to think I was writing about you lot.
Typical.
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