Re: OT: The Police on Tour

["Tony K" <bigtonyk@gmail.com>]

My fabulous five were Rush, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, ELP, and Kansas.  I'd throw Yes in there too, but then it would be six. :)

A bunch of those 'dinosaur' bands are still touring.  In the last 5 years or so, I've seen Blue Oyster Cult, UFO, Michael Schenker, King Crimson, Kansas, Keith Emerson, Camel, Rush, Yes, Dixie Dregs (though they were never 'popular'.), Paul Rodgers (Bad Co), Molly Hatchett, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. 

Wishbone Ash just did a few shows, Steve Hackett tours, Deep Purple is still around.  

I find that the music that's on the radio is just ok (not the top 40, but what used to be considered AOR stations) but there is still a huge amount of great music being made.  it's just not in the mainstream.

Tony

On 2/21/07, Paul Richards <paulrichard10@adelphia.net> wrote:

I liked Flash, Badger, Wishbone Ash, Genesis (goes without saying), Yes, Focus (I'm still buying Thijs Van Leer stuff), Peter Banks and Quicksilver Messenger Service!

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Paul

---- Per Boysen < perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 feb 2007, at 11.37, Stefan Tiedje wrote:
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> > For me the five where King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, Greenslade, Kraan...
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> Nice to see Greenslade finally mentioned on this list ;-)  I too
> liked their music in the seventies. Another band I liked at that time
> was Camel, but for my tastes they soon became too slick. Generally it
> was not easy to know what was going on back in those days because the
> only way to find out about new music was to buy records and quite
> often that was too expensive. Let this stand for Scandinavia though,
> I know US had excellent radio stations early on that played
> progressive music of all genres.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
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