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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Watcher of the skies

From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
Date: 2008-03-08

tronbros@aol.com wrote:
> And I hate schizophrenic prog that leaps from different styles and
> time signatures without ever developing an idea to some sort of
> fruition.

Oh don't start me on time signatures. There are CLEARLY instances where
bands have written something in 4 or 3 and then quite deliberately
transmogrified it into 7 or 9 just to 'prog it up'. It's musical tokenism.

Mike