1977 on Friday 4/22/05

[RGMike]

dude - it's prog rock again!!

dudette -- it's BAD prog rock. Twice in one set... THAT'S just wrong.

[Gazoo]

Oh, what the hell: BOS to "Laverne & Shirley" and the Cindy Grecco-sung theme.

[princessofcairo]

gaz better run and hide from the grated papaya (dog)!

It's crate of papaya, not grated papaya.  --the Mondegreen Police

woowooowooo - run from the sirens! i know that, MP. ooh, MP - that's scary.

i was merely revisiting a thread of yesteryear.

"gramma thinks i've come to take you home!"

[mshray]

dude - it's prog rock again!!

I have a crystal clear memory of the first time I encountered Rush.  I was 14, & babysitting for some people who were due home very late, so I was watching Don Kirschner & he introduced this band from Canada to play this song.  I even remember what the bells looked like on stage.

Bought the album the next day.

[princessofcairo]

dudette -- it's BAD prog rock. Twice in one set... THAT'S just wrong.

it's just different prog rock...it's ok. i know you're afraid of change. like the hardcores criyng when they heard bitches brew.

[mshray]

dude - it's prog rock again!!

dudette -- it's BAD prog rock. Twice in one set... THAT'S just wrong.

admittedly that was a pretty cringe-worthy effort from Yes, but "Closer To The Heart" is not.

[RGMike]

dudette -- it's BAD prog rock. Twice in one set... THAT'S just wrong.

it's just different prog rock...it's ok. i know you're afraid of change. like the hardcores criyng when they heard bitches brew.

in the case of Yes and Rush circa '77, it was actually the prog dinosuars who refused to change in the face of punk (which this set sorely needs).

Gaz, yer missing JT's "Handy Man". Ah, that late-'70s subgenre, the Mellow Remake.

[princessofcairo]

this song (jt) always makes me think of the black sheep line:

You claim to be the man. you want me for a lover
So you can do my girlfriends and my sister and my mother'
I said, 'You're very blunt, with quickness to the cue
So whassup with your mother does she look as good as you?

[RGMike]

I do believe Linda R is singing backup for JT. Or maybe Jennifer Warnes.

[ggould]

How come no one uses big old church organs anymore?

because they're terribly hard to find. and few people know how to repair them. it's like building restoration in the u.s. if it's old, tear it down!

[RGMike]

How come no one uses big old church organs anymore?

because they're terribly hard to find. and few people know how to repair them. it's like building restoration in the u.s. if it's old, tear it down!

I just tried to come up with a"gay organ repair" joke and My head's about to explode...

[mshray]

How come no one uses big old church organs anymore?

because they're terribly hard to find. and few people know how to repair them. it's like building restoration in the u.s. if it's old, tear it down!

The organ repairist who fixed the one in my dad's church & who later hired me on as his assistant to fix another organ in a nearby church was gay too.  I wouldn't have figured that to be a 'gay' profession.

[Gazoo]

How come no one uses big old church organs anymore?

because they're terribly hard to find. and few people know how to repair them. it's like building restoration in the u.s. if it's old, tear it down!

The organ repairist who fixed the one in my dad's church & who later hired me on as his assistant to fix another organ in a nearby church was gay too.  I wouldn't have figured that to be a 'gay' profession.

I once went out on a date with the guy who repaired the organ at the Old West Church.  It actually is a very gay profession -- one of the premier schools for learning the art is Oberlin, which is about as gay as a college can be; further, there's that whole tragic dynamic of people entering religious vocations as either avoidance of or penance for their orientations ...

[RGMike]

How come no one uses big old church organs anymore?

because they're terribly hard to find. and few people know how to repair them. it's like building restoration in the u.s. if it's old, tear it down!

The organ repairist who fixed the one in my dad's church & who later hired me on as his assistant to fix another organ in a nearby church was gay too.  I wouldn't have figured that to be a 'gay' profession.

Gay church types who are non-clergy tend to gravitate to music, whether choir or playing the organ. Guess it's a small leap from playing to fixing. Can all the anti-gay preachers (especially in black churches) be that clueless about the members of their choirs? An especially sad situation.

[Gazoo]

How come no one uses big old church organs anymore?

because they're terribly hard to find. and few people know how to repair them. it's like building restoration in the u.s. if it's old, tear it down!

The organ repairist who fixed the one in my dad's church & who later hired me on as his assistant to fix another organ in a nearby church was gay too.  I wouldn't have figured that to be a 'gay' profession.

Gay church types who are non-clergy tend to gravitate to music, whether choir or playing the organ. Guess it's a small leap from playing to fixing. Can all the anti-gay preachers (especially in black churches) be that clueless about the members of their choirs? An especially sad situation.

They're not clueless; they're "loving the sinner but hating the sin," and the gay churchgoers, being in many cases consumed with self-hatred and/or self-doubt, accept this as fitting judgment or fitting compromise.