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1994 Fools: Looking for excellent, obscure prog
From: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive Subject: Looking for excellent, obscure prog Date: 1 Apr 1994 14:19:18 GMT Does anybody have any information about the following prog bands? I've heard their tapes, which are pretty damn amazing, but don't know anything about the bands themselves. If anybody has any information, how about posting it? Thanks. ARTIST ALBUM ==================================================== Child of Vishnu Cantata of Life Meo Peo Halflife Paaraan Haakkaabaar V. S. Tudor Tension Killing Me Gently Yad Slirp Aloof BTW, I will pay $100 (US) for each of these albums -- original vinyl only -- if anybody can locate copies. Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett -- Dept of Computer Science, Lederle Graduate Research Center | | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 -- barrett@cs.umass.edu | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////// From: smythe@math.uh.edu (Willy Smythe) Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive Subject: Re: Looking for excellent, obscure prog Date: 1 Apr 1994 17:09:44 GMT In article <2nhah6$lha@opine.cs.umass.edu> barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes: >Child of Vishnu Cantata of Life >Meo Peo Halflife >Paaraan Haakkaabaar V. S. >Tudor Tension Killing Me Gently >Yad Slirp Aloof Wow, never knew anybody else was into Vishnu, totally excellent. I also have the Paaraan. What a weird group. Not sure I'd call it prog, but its sure non-standard. The album cover looks like a big butt cheek. > BTW, I will pay $100 (US) for each of these albums -- original vinyl >only -- if anybody can locate copies. I'm not so crazy about the Paaraan, but a collector tells me that its worth at least $150. Make me an offer. Willy From: barrett@cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive Subject: Re: Looking for excellent, obscure prog Date: 1 Apr 1994 17:46:49 GMT In article <2nhkgo$pge@masala.cc.uh.edu> smythe@math.uh.edu (Willy Smythe) writes: >Wow, never knew anybody else was into Vishnu, totally excellent. I also >have the Paaraan. What a weird group. Not sure I'd call it prog, but >its sure non-standard. The album cover looks like a big butt cheek. !!! Somehow, I'm not too surprised, with song names like "Bummedelica", "Cheeky Devil", and "Per Un Asshole". >I'm not so crazy about the Paaraan, but a collector tells me that its worth >at least $150. Make me an offer. Oh, right. Your "collector" buddy is full of crap. What do you think I am, STUPID or something? You can insert your Paaraan album up your you-know-what. Anybody else out there have any of these albums??? Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett -- Dept of Computer Science, Lederle Graduate Research Center | | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 -- barrett@cs.umass.edu | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////// From: smythe@math.uh.edu (Willy Smythe) Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive Subject: Re: Looking for excellent, obscure prog Date: 1 Apr 1994 22:26:34 GMT In article <2nhmm9$nip@opine.cs.umass.edu> barrett@cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes: >In article <2nhkgo$pge@masala.cc.uh.edu> smythe@math.uh.edu (Willy Smythe) writes: >>I'm not so crazy about the Paaraan, but a collector tells me that its worth >>at least $150. Make me an offer. > Oh, right. Your "collector" buddy is full of crap. What do you >think I am, STUPID or something? You can insert your Paaraan album up your >you-know-what. Get stuffed you elitist pretencious pig! For your information I just sold the Paaraan album to Peter Thelen for $200. And Mike Borella offered $175! So up yours! Willy From: obw@ux2.hrz.uni-dortmund.de (Oliver B. Warzecha) Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive Subject: Re: Looking for excellent, obscure prog Date: 2 Apr 1994 00:38:37 GMT Daniel Barrett (barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu) wrote: : Does anybody have any information about the following prog bands? : I've heard their tapes, which are pretty damn amazing, but don't know : anything about the bands themselves. If anybody has any information, how : about posting it? Thanks. : ARTIST ALBUM : ==================================================== : Child of Vishnu Cantata of Life : Meo Peo Halflife : Paaraan Haakkaabaar V. S. : Tudor Tension Killing Me Gently : Yad Slirp Aloof : BTW, I will pay $100 (US) for each of these albums -- original vinyl : only -- if anybody can locate copies. Sorry, just bought the CD release from TT`s KMG yesterday. It was in the cutout bin for 4,10 DM. They had lots of them, anyway. Catalog number is CDJEERP003 from Boxing Mushroom Records - Excellent quality btw, yet it is in DAA quality. But a "Infinitive Edition" rerelease will come out in 12 months what will be remastered from the original 7-track-tapes. But as said, no vinyl, sorry. I especially like the 3rd movement from "bringing up the last six days of mothers pretentious staircase" titled as "the immortal times of Yet Another Chainsaw". OBW Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive From: borella@chili.cs.ucdavis.edu (Mike Borella) Subject: Re: Looking for excellent, obscure prog Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 01:18:43 GMT In article <2ni72q$2ik@masala.cc.uh.edu> smythe@math.uh.edu (Willy Smythe) writes: >Get stuffed you elitist pretencious pig! For your information I just sold >the Paaraan album to Peter Thelen for $200. And Mike Borella offered $175! >So up yours! What are you trying to say? That Peter Thelen has more money than I do? That he has a better job? A nicer wife? More well-adjusted children? A more expensive car? A better looking mistress? A nymphomanic coke connection that owns a Ferrari dealership? Who's elistist now???? -Mike (who's fragile ego has been irreparably bruised) Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive From: jharkins@netcom.com (Jim Harkins) Subject: Re: Looking for excellent, obscure prog Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 04:29:55 GMT >>>The album cover looks like a big butt cheek. >Isn't it really a picture of a tattoo of a butt cheek? Wasn't that a picture of a tattoo of a butt cheek with a tattoo of a butt cheek? I'll bet 70% of the readers are now thinking "huh?", the rest are thinking 'heh heh heh'. jim -- "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers." Jim Harkins jharkins@netcom.com San Diego, CA. Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive From: borella@chili.cs.ucdavis.edu (Mike Borella) Subject: Re: Looking for excellent, obscure prog Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 06:15:28 GMT In article <jharkinsCnM75w.D3w@netcom.com> jharkins@netcom.com (Jim Harkins) writes: >>>>The album cover looks like a big butt cheek. >>Isn't it really a picture of a tattoo of a butt cheek? >Wasn't that a picture of a tattoo of a butt cheek with a tattoo of a butt >cheek? I'll bet 70% of the readers are now thinking "huh?", the rest >are thinking 'heh heh heh'. Or are we just talking about Guru Guru's Hinten? :-) -Mike From: feathers@fiu.edu (Michael Feathers) Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive Subject: Re: Looking for excellent, obscure prog Date: 2 Apr 1994 23:40:20 GMT : >cheek? I'll bet 70% of the readers are now thinking "huh?", the rest : >are thinking 'heh heh heh'. This thread looks to be the most elaborately staged and coordinated April Fool's Day exhibition ever. Either that, or you all are serious. I wouldn' even want to ponder that one. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- feathers@fiu.edu ========================================================================== 'King Kong died for your sins' -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: barrett@math.uh.edu (Daniel Barrett) Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive Subject: April Fools joke revealed (was Re: Looking for excellent, obscure prog) Date: 3 Apr 1994 17:41:13 GMT In article <2nkvp4$3cc@schema.fiu.edu> feathers@fiu.edu (Michael Feathers) writes: >This thread looks to be the most elaborately staged and coordinated >April Fool's Day exhibition ever. OK, April Fools Day is over, so I guess I can admit it. :-) "Willy Smythe (smythe@math.uh.edu)" is not a real person -- I was using my math.uh.edu account with a little News-posting trickery. If you take a close look at these fake progressive rock album names: ARTIST ALBUM ==================================================== Child of Vishnu Cantata of Life Meo Peo Halflife Paaraan Haakkaabaar V. S. Tudor Tension Killing Me Gently Yad Slirp Aloof you may notice that the last one is an anagram.... So no, I am not really offering $100 each for these albums. ;-) Thanks to Mike Borella and the rest of the folks who figured out that I was joking and joined in the fun! "Album cover shaped like a big butt cheek" indeed!! FYI, the post was inspired by Mike Borella's article last week containing the names of more than 100 obscure prog bands, NONE of which I had ever heard of. I started thinking, how hard would it be to invent prog band names and make people believe that they were real? >Either that, or you all are serious. I wouldn't even want to ponder that >one. I don't blame you. :-) Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett -- Dept of Computer Science, Lederle Graduate Research Center | | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 -- barrett@cs.umass.edu | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////
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