Another Progressive Rock anthology with a TEB track included! Down with the "file under" tyranny...

The old commonplaces about the Third Ear Band music are hard to die! Here's another 3CDs anthology of the so-called Progressive Rock with a track of the band included (on side three,  "Cosmic Wheel", from "The Magus" album), this time made by Music Brokers (MBB7082) in Argentina in 2010. "Progressive Rock Trilogy" the greatly original title...

One should explain what Keith Emerson's or the Premiata Forneria Marconi's music have in common with the Third Ear Band's one... 
Hey you journalists/compilers/editors... don't you have still realised is not possible to force TEB's music in labels or categories...?

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"Born in Canterbury": a case of Italian crap journalism about the TEB.

Some Italian pseudo-music journalists have the sad habit to repeat the same old tragically fake infos about the Third Ear Band. One of the worst one is named Cesare Rizzi, an author involved with the important publisher Giunti on "guides to" some kind of music.

He wrote three books about the so-called Progressive scene (1999, 2003 and 2010) annoting coincise profiles about bands as King Crimson, Pink Floyd... and fatally (but I'm not agreed with this) the Third Ear Band.

On the volumes he states the band was born in Canterbury!, when even kids know Glen Sweeney's ensemble was born in London Ladbroke Grove.

But one of the thing that really upset me is when Rizzi tells about the last phase of the band story (the reunion and the records made in Italy): he alludes to a "bunch of Italian fans", not quoting me (a writer about music since 1985) and my friend Gigi Bresciani (one of the most important promoter in Italy)as the only responsible of the band reunion and the very first concerts played here; nor the only book existing on the band (with the very first edition of the "Abelard & Heloise" soundtrack) - "Necromancers of the Drifting West", published by Stampa Alternativa in Rome - written by me (where he could take some verified infos about the Thirds).

An hateful way to make journalism, superficial and amateurish; writing just in Italian they can omitting the truth, but the clever and really passionate fans around the world know where they can find the right stuff!

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The same old useless sampler on the so-called "Progressive Rock"...

 

The Market tries desperately to sell his by now Jurassic punched disks. The last attempt to save itself from the forthcoming crash is this useless 5-CDs E.M.I. box sampler about the so-called "Progressive Rock" titled "Prog Rocks!" (very pristine title!).

Published on last March, we have 5 CDs with tracks taken from glorious 70's English labels as Harvest, Liberty, Charisma, Virgin and from InsideOut.

The little surprise is that on volume 1 there's also a track played by our Third Ear Band, the omnipresent "Fleance".

But is it so essential to have "five discs celebrating five legendary progressive rock labels" as the title states?

I've got my answer. What about yours?

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