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The Show That Never Ends

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by David Weigel


  10Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 23.

  11Tim Morse, Yesstories: Yes in Their Own Words (St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 77.

  12Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 41.

  13Tony Banks et al., Genesis: Chapter & Verse (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007), 259.

  14Ibid.

  15Mike Rutherford, The Living Years: The First Genesis Memoir (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2015), 239.

  16Banks et al., Genesis: Chapter & Verse, 276.

  17Ibid., 263.

  18Ibid., 286.

  19Ibid.

  20Nick DeRiso, “John Wetton of Asia, King Crimson and the UK: Something Else! Interview,” Something Else!, April 18, 2012, http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012/04/18/something-else-interview-john-wetton-of-asia-king-crimson-and-uk/#sthash.SGpaxUSI.dpuf.

  21Dancha, My Own Time, 93, 95.

  22Ibid., 94.

  23Ibid., 97.

  24Ibid., 99.

  25Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum, I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution (Dutton, 2011), 101.

  26Anil Prasad, “Greg Lake: New Perspectives,” Innerviews, 2011, http://www.innerviews.org/inner/lake.html.

  27Kim Dancha, My Own Time: The Authorized Biography of John Wetton (Northern Line, 1997), 102.

  28Jeff Giles, “30 Years Ago: Asia Go through Changes to Make ‘Astra,’ ” Ultimate Classic Rock, November 30, 2015, http://ultimateclassicrock.com/asia-astra.

  29Prasad, “Greg Lake: New Perspectives.”

  30Morse, Yesstories, 75.

  31Ibid.

  32Chris Welch, Close to the Edge: The Story of Yes (Omnibus, 1999), 76.

  33Welch, Close to the Edge, 204.

  34Ibid., 208.

  35Morse, Yesstories, 71.

  36Ibid., 72.

  37“Emerson, Lake and Palmer,” Ladies of the Lake, http://ladiesofthelake.com/cabinet/Goldmine.html, accessed November 28, 2016.

  38Edward Macan, Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer (Open Court, 2006), 486.

  39Ibid., 491.

  40Jim Farber, “Emerson, Lake, and Powell,” Rolling Stone, June 28, 1986.

  41Macan, Endless Enigma, 501.

  42Shawn Perry, “The Keith Emerson Interview,” Vintage Rock, http://vintagerock.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49, accessed September 2014.

  43Macan, Endless Enigma, 506.

  44Simon Reynolds, “Songs for Insane Times: An Anthology 1969–1980 (Harvest/EMI),” Observer Music Monthly, August 10, 2008.

  45Anil Prasad, “Mike Oldfield: The Messenger,” Innerviews, 2013, http://www.innerviews.org/inner/oldfield.html.

  46Daevid Allen, interview by the author, November 2013.

  47Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 19.

  48Ibid., 39.

  49“Pink Floyd & the Story of Prog Rock,” Mojo Classic, Collectors Edition, July 2005.

  50Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 36.

  51Ibid., 54.

  52Morley, “Marillion.”

  53Bell, “Marillion.”

  54Phil Bell, “Sob Standard: Marillion: Script for Jester’s Tear (EMI),” Sounds, March 12, 1983, Rock’s Backpages, http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/sob-standard-marillion-iscript-for-a-jesters-teari-emi-.

  55Lucy O’Brien, “Marillion: Bournemouth Winter Gardens,” New Musical Express, April 9, 1983, Rock’s Backpages, http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/marillion-bournemouth-winter-gardens.

  56Bill Holdship, ”Marillion Conquer America,” Creem, July 1986.

  57Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 44.

  58Pete Pardo, “Arena’s Mick Pointer in the Spotlight!” Sea of Tranquility, May 21, 2005, http://www.seaoftranquility.org/article.php?sid=395.

  59Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 47.

  60Ibid., 49.

  61Paul Stump, The Music’s All That Matters: A History of Progressive Rock (Quartet Books, 1997), 260–61.

  62Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 59.

  63Ibid., 62.

  64Ibid., 67.

  65Ibid., 72.

  66Ibid., 84.

  67Ibid., 112, 116.

  68Robert Fripp, “The Diary of the Return of King Crimson,” Musician, November 1981.

  69David Fricke, “Old Cult Groups Never Die (They Just Become More Popular), March 1982, ETWiki, http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_King_Crimson_in_Trouser_Press.

  70Adrian Belew, interview by the author, September 2015.

  71Robert Fripp, “The Diary of the Return of King Crimson,” Musician, November 1981.

  72Sid Smith, In the Court of King Crimson (Helter Skelter, 2001), 217.

  73Lynden Barber, “King Crimson: Discipline,” Melody Maker, September 1981.

  74Smith, In the Court, 243.

  75Steven Rosen, “Adrian Belew: ‘I Fit a Dissonant Note in There Every Now and Then Just to Wake People Up,’ ” Ultimate-Guitar.com, September 22, 2014, https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/adrian_belew_i_fit_a_dissonant_note_in_there_every_now_and_then_just_to_wake_people_up.html.

  76Belew, interview, September 2015.

  77Ibid.

  78Bill Bruford, When in Doubt, Roll! (Foruli Classics, 1998), 125.

  79Ibid.

  80Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 91.

  81Dave Ling, “Marillion: An Interview with Steve Hogarth,” previously published in Classic Rock magazine, Dave Ling Online, May 2001, http://www.daveling.co.uk/doc-marillion.htm.

  82Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 119.

  83Ibid., 91.

  84Ibid., 92.

  85Ibid., 96.

  86Ibid., 342.

  87Ibid., 239.

  88“Interview with Steve Hogarth—Marillion (Rock Steady 1990),” YouTube, January 21, 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viRKMe0R6ag.

  89Ibid.

  90Collins, Marillion/Separated Out, 103.

  91Ibid., 97.

  92Ling, “Marillion.”

  CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE NOSTALGIA FACTORY

  1Steven Wilson, interview by the author, September 2013.

  2Jon Collins, Marillion/Separated Out: The Complete History of the Band and Its Fans, 1979–2002 (Helter Skelter, 2003), 13–14.

  3Wilson, interview, September 2013.

  4Ibid.

  5Richard Allen, “Porcupine Tree—Strange but True,” Terrascope, http://www.terrascope.co.uk/MyBackPages/Porcupine_Tree.htm, accessed November 30, 2016.

  6Ed Sander, “Porcupine Tree: Stupid Dream,” Dutch Progressive Rock Page, http://www.dprp.net/proghistory/index.php?i=1999_01, accessed June 2015.

  7Kevin Rathert, “Richard Allen Interview (The Freak Emporium, Delerium Records),” Psychedelic Baby (blog), October 10, 2012, http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2012/10/richard-allen-interview-freak-emporium.html.

  8Steven Rosen, “Steven Wilson: ‘Porcupine Tree Was Gonna Be a One-Off Thing,’ ” Ultimate-Guitar.com, December 14, 2011, http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/steven_wilson_porcupine_tree_was_gonna_be_a_one-off_thing.html?no_takeover.

  9Yiannis to Ozric Tentacles: Ozric Message Board, “Richard Allen Tribute,” January 11, 2014, http://ozrics.proboards.com/thread/1978/richard-allen-tribute.

  10Wilson, interview, September 2013.

  11“Porcupine Tree—Up the Downstair,” Delerium Records, 2000, http://web.archive.org/web/20070826202210/http://www.delerium.co.uk/delerium/releases/delec020.html.

  12Anil Prasad, “Porcupine Tree: Dream Logic,” Innerviews, 2010, http://www.innerviews.org/inner/ptree3.html.

  13“Dream Theater—The Score So Far (Documentary): Part 1,” YouTube, April 14, 2011, https://youtu.be/nnyy0Dxmn5M.

  14Ibid.

  15“Dream Theater—The Score So Far.”

  16Rich Wilson, Lifting Shadows: The Authorized Biography of Dream Theater (Rocket 88, 2013), 49.

  17Ibid., 55.

  18Derek Oliver, “Where Seventeen Universes Intersect: Dream Theater ‘When Dream and Day Unite,’ ”
Kerrang!, March 11, 1989, reprinted without permission by Graham Boyle on YTSEJAM Digest 3062, October 3, 1997, http://www.interzone.com/Music/Ytsejam/1997/Oct/0012.html.

  19“Awesome Metallica Rips Jethro Tull Wins Best Metal Performance 1992 Grammys,” YouTube, March 28, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5fTtd_hdok.

  20Chris Welch, Close to the Edge: The Story of Yes (Omnibus, 1999), 227.

  21Tim Morse, Yesstories: Yes in Their Own Words (St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 90.

  22Ibid., 235.

  23“Exclusive Interview: Prog Rock Band Spock’s Beard,” StarTrek.com, October 27, 2015, http://www.startrek.com/article/exclusive-interview-prog-rock-band-spocks-beard.

  24Mattias Olsson, “Interviews,” Anglagard.net, September 2002, http://www.anglagard.net/interview01.htm.

  25Ibid.

  26Eric Tamm, Robert Fripp: From Crimson King to Crafty Master (1990), Scribd e-book, https://www.scribd.com/doc/19690511/Robert-Fripp-From-Crimson-King-to-Crafty-Master-E-book.

  27Ted Drozdowski, “Robert Fripp: A Plectral Purist Answers the Dumb Questions,” Musician, February 1989.

  28Trey Gunn, interview by the author, November 2015.

  29Ibid.

  30“David Sylvian & Robert Fripp—Redemption TV Special,” YouTube, March 10, 2010, https://youtu.be/3yjJtysafXA.

  31Sid Smith, In the Court of King Crimson (Helter Skelter, 2001), 205.

  32Gunn, interview, November 2015.

  33Adrian Belew, interview by the author, September 2015.

  34Smith, In the Court, 209.

  35Ibid., 256, 283.

  36“Tool—Danny Carey Talks about King Crimson,” YouTube, October 16, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knJPCffGyE4.

  37Gunn, interview, November 2015.

  38Wilson, Lifting Shadows, 108.

  39Kory Grow, “Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess Remembers Keith Emerson: ‘He Was My Idol,’ ” Rolling Stone, March 11, 2016, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dream-theaters-jordan-rudess-remembers-keith-emerson-he-was-my-idol-20160311.

  40Jerry van Kooten and Hans van der Meer, “A Certain Limitlessness: An Interview with Mike Portnoy,” Dutch Progressive Rock Page, April 8, 2000, http://www.dprp.net/specials/mp20000408.html.

  41Wilson, Lifting Shadows, 114.

  42Ibid., 169.

  43Ibid., 96.

  44Allan Richter, “Music; A Long Island Sound by Way of Topographic Oceans,” New York Times, August 22, 2004.

  45Wilson, Lifting Shadows, 144.

  46Gary Graff, “Coheed and Cambria Announces ‘In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3’ Reissue: Exclusive,” Billboard, August 18, 2014, http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6221762/coheed-and-cambria-announces-in-keeping-secrets-of-silent-earth-3-reissue.

  47Moe Castro, “Interview with Coheed and Cambria,” Delusions of Adequacy, June 1, 2000, http://web.archive.org/web/20080202075046/http://www.adequacy.net/interview.php?InterviewID=56.

  48“Pink Floyd & the Story of Prog Rock,” Mojo Classic, Collectors Edition, July 2005.

  49Ibid.

  50Joakim Jahlmar, “An Interview with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree,” Dutch Progressive Rock Page, 2001, http://www.dprp.net/specials/porcupinetree.

  51“Opeth Mainman: ‘We Don’t Want to Be Different for the Sake of Being Different,’ ” BlabberMouth.net, October 27, 2006, http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/opeth-mainman-we-don-t-want-to-be-different-for-the-sake-of-being-different.

  52“Ian Anderson on Keith Emerson,” YouTube, June 13, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmpFbggjQI8.

  53Mark Kelly, online post to Marillion Freaks message board, January 27, 1997.

  54Jeff Pelletier, online post to Marillion Freaks message board.

  55Wilson, interview, September 2013.

  56Ibid.

  57Prasad, “Porcupine Tree.”

  EPILOGUE

  1North East Art Rock Festival, Zoellner Arts Center, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, June 22–24, 2012.

  2Gary Green, interview by the author, June 2012.

  3Big Train, series 2, episode 1 (BBC Two, January 7, 2002).

  4Keith Emerson, interview by the author, May 2012.

  5Jim Farber, “Kevin Ayers Is an English Eccentric,” New York Daily News, March 8, 2008, http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/kevin-ayers-english-eccentric-article-1.287569.

  6Daevid Allen, interview by the author, November 2013.

  7Ted Leo, interview by the author, August 2012.

  8Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “The Day the Music Died,” Financial Times, August 3, 2012, https://www.ft.com/content/f588e100-d7ee-11e1-9980-00144feabdc0#axzz25cH32luq.

  9C. G. Jung, The Spirit of Man, Art, and Literature (Princeton University Press, 1966), 82.

  10Peter Hammill, interview by the author, August 2013.

  11Nick DeRiso, “Carl Palmer Says Failed 2010 Show Killed Chances for Larger ELP Reunion,” Ultimate Classic Rock, April 11, 2013, http://ultimateclassicrock.com/carl-palmer-2010-elp-reunion/?trackback=tsmclip.

  12Sid Smith, “Keith Emerson 1944–2016: The Endless Enigma,” Prog.

  13“Emerson Moog Modular Unveiling Part 3—Moogfest 2014—BBoyTechReport.com,” YouTube, April 28, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjvytlOd0PI.

  14“Emerson Moog Modular Unveiling Part 1—Moogfest 2014—BBoyTechReport.com,” YouTube, April 28, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KRxDs8hd4.

  15Martin Townsend, “Bandmate: I Feared for ELP Star Keith,” Express, March 13, 2016, https://www.express.co.uk/news/obituaries/652126/Emerson-Lake-Palmer-bandmate-feared-for-ELP-star-Keith-Emerson.

  16Caroline Graham, “ELP Star Keith Emerson ‘Shot Himself Because He Could No Longer Perform Perfectly for His Fans,’ ” Daily Mail, March 12, 2016, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3489624/ELP-star-Keith-Emerson-shot-no-longer-perform-perfectly-fans.html.

  17Mike Barnes, “All-Star Musicians Pay Respect to Keith Emerson at Tribute Concert in Los Angeles,” Billboard, May 29, 2016, http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7386085/keith-emerson-tribute-concert-los-angeles-el-rey-theatre.

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  INDEX

  Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.

  A (Jethro Tull), 201

  Abacab (Genesis), 216, 225

  Abrahams, Mick, 95, 96

  ABWH (Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe), 262–63

  “Acceptance (Brandenburger),” 37, 38, 66

  ACNE, 143

  Acqua Fragile, 154

  Advision Studios, 71, 75, 103

  Aerosmith, 269–70

  Aerosol Grey Machine, The (Van der Graaf Generator), 46–47

  Air on a G String (Johann Sebastian Bach), 21, 22

  AIR Studios, 232

  Åkerfeldt, Mikael, 273, 274, 277

  Akkerman, Jan, 152–53

  “Allegro Giojoso,” 186

  Allen, Ch
ristopher David “Daevid”

  after Gong, 223–24

  on Kevin Ayers, 240, 283

  departure from Gong, 178–79

  early life and career, 6–10

  in “14 Hour Technicolor Dream,” 25

  immigration problems of, 27

  and psychedelia, 19

  and rise of Gong, 155, 157

  in Wilde Flowers, 15–17

  Allen, Richard, 256–58

  “All I Need Is a Miracle,” 232

  Allman Brothers Band, 154

  “All the World’s a Stage” tour, 151

  All You Need Is Love (film), 145–46

  Amazing Transplant, The (film), 257

  “America,” 35, 36, 38, 86

  Amon Düül II, xvii

  A&M Records, 110, 209

  “Ancient, The (Giants under the Sun),” 114

  “Andante Molto Cantabile,” 186

  Andersen, Hans Christian, 1

  Anderson, Ian, xvi

  Phil Collins on, 177

  on decline of progressive rock, 201

  early life and influences, 13

  on Keith Emerson, 275

  on A Passion Play, 111–12

  and rise of Jethro Tull, 98–101

  on War Child, 140–41

  Anderson, Jon

  in Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, 262

  in Buggles-Yes hybrid, 204–8

  on Close to the Edge, 103–5

  Jon Davison as replacement for, xviii

  departure from Yes, 197, 202–3

  and formation of Yes, 30–32

  on Fragile, 95

  Robert Fripp on, 102

  Trevor Horn as replacement for, 204

  lyrics of, xiv

  on 90125 album, 237

  and post-Banks Yes, 69–72

  and post-Kaye Yes, 90–93

  and rise of Yes, 54–55

  and Tales from Topographic Oceans, 112, 113, 115

  Vangelis and, 222–23

  on Yes double album, 110

  Anderson, Robert, 97

  Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (ABWH), 262–63

  Andrews, Barry, 219

  . . . And Then There Were Three (Genesis), 199–200

  “And You And I,” 206

  Änglagård, 264–65

  Animal Farm (Orwell), 164

  Animals, The, 24

  Another Green World (Brian Eno), 170–71

  Anthony, John, 79

  “Aperçu,” 160

 

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