Thursday, September 02, 2004
The light show was expensive
Poster: Don
Thread: here
"Some of the Prince bootlegs did sound disco-proggy, but the proggy was a maze he tended to get lost in (at least, the tracks I'm thinking of would just stopped; he never finished them, at least not on those boots.Maybe prog fogged his mastermind, career never came out of the maze? Until now, of course.) Conspicuous consumption, both automatic and blissful (not to mention automatic bliss, technical ecstacy) something prog and disco (and metal and) had in common. If you got it flaunt it: skills, spotlight, money. The sound of money. Simon Frith reported that when Genesis finally played,late on the last night of a festival, the light show was "expensive" and this was a big part (maybe the crucial part, means[test]-wise) of its impact, and he really seemed to enjoy it. As well he might."
Thread: here
"Some of the Prince bootlegs did sound disco-proggy, but the proggy was a maze he tended to get lost in (at least, the tracks I'm thinking of would just stopped; he never finished them, at least not on those boots.Maybe prog fogged his mastermind, career never came out of the maze? Until now, of course.) Conspicuous consumption, both automatic and blissful (not to mention automatic bliss, technical ecstacy) something prog and disco (and metal and) had in common. If you got it flaunt it: skills, spotlight, money. The sound of money. Simon Frith reported that when Genesis finally played,late on the last night of a festival, the light show was "expensive" and this was a big part (maybe the crucial part, means[test]-wise) of its impact, and he really seemed to enjoy it. As well he might."
