Edgar Lee
hadn't listened to Emerson, Lake and Palmer since 1977. Punk on the radio and TV altered what he was listening to and he merrily ventured on that journey from punk to post punk, to jazz punk, jazz and the avant garde and so on.
interesting ... i guess many people went on that same journey, although i started a little after you. after a pre-adolescence spent with glam and hard rock, i discovered punk. i've never been able to take elp, genesis, none of those. when i started getting into the ruins years later, and discovered their origins were in prog, i decided i should try again. i traded an allen ginsburg cd for a magma cd, and could barely stand it. now i'm in a band with a coupla proggers (one of whom lurks here ... hi), and end up here the real stuff, the good stuff, miriodor or whatever the hell they listen to. i just can't do it. i've often wondered if my punk teens were so about rejecting the status quo (i have the same problem with springsteen) that i still can't get over it. or maybe that shit just sucks. kg np: the residents - assorted secrets ... you shouldn't listen to this _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com