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unusual facts about prog rock



The Yellow Moon Band

The Yellow Moon Band have proved difficult to categorize, DJs and record stores having variously described them as psychedelic, prog rock, Balearic and folk and they have appeared on compilations as varied in genre as Fred Deakin: Nu Balearica and the Amorphous Androgynous' A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 1.


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Alma y Vida

But by then Gustavo Moretto gave the announcement he was stepping aside from Alma y Vida to pursue new musical horizons (he would form prog-rock act ALAS).

Downhearted

"Downhearted" was covered by Dutch prog rock band Solution and appeared on their 1982 album Runaway, while they added a 'bridge' to the song; Australian pop singer John Farnham sang it on his 2005 covers album I Remember When I Was Young.

Ed Bicknell

Moving to London, he worked as a drummer for Jess Conrad and then as a booker for John Sherry Artists, finding work for a number of prog-rock/college bands - including Wishbone Ash - and frequenting showcase venues such as the Speakeasy.

Electric Love Muffin

Electric Love Muffin was a Philadelphia-based hard rocking quartet of the late 1980s that spiked the melodic thrash-pop of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and other indie bands of the period with touches of country/western, classic rock and prog-rock.

Mike Slamer

Slamer started his career playing in the UK prog-rock band City Boy.

Paolo Baltaro

Paolo went back on stage with Arcansiel, jazz-prog-rock band as producer, singer and songwriter on the occasion of their fourth album Swimming in The Sand (Musea), that gathers their best songs (plus an unpublished work), all re-recorded in 2003.

Patrick Campbell-Lyons

He was the vocalist and a founder member of a locally-popular R&B band Second Thoughts whose lineups included future record producer Chris Thomas, Thunderclap Newman founder/drummer Speedy Keen and two future members of prog-rock band Jade Warrior (Jon Field and Tony Duhig).