OFF: The Who are CANADIAN?!?! Eh?

[Craig Shipley]

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From:   Carl Norum[SMTP:carl at NORUMREZ.USASK.CA]
Sent:   Tuesday, September 02, 1997 8:03 PM
To:     Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
Subject:        Re: OFF: Concept Album-o-rama

You wrote:
> greetings yet again
> After having spent the summer seeing Procol Harum play one of the first
> rock suites, the Who perorming Quadrophenia and listening to a lot of
> british rock in general, why is it so few American bands in the rock
> genre can put out a real classsic concept album (excepting _Imaginos_ of
> course)? is it a reflection of the music industry on our side of the
> Atlantic or am i imagining things?
> If you can think of a good concept LP by an American band from the
> appropriet 70s era, let me know or  let the list know for that.
>
> Going for his second BA,
> Jason Scruton

Well, the Who aren't British...  but they _are_ Canadian, and another
Canadian group, namely Rush, have a load of good concept albums.  But
you're right... I can't really think of any American concept albums off
the top of my head, (from the 70's) but I can think of a lot of new ones.
(And most of them are GOOD, too.)

Hello, hello, The Who are MOST DEFINITLY from the UK. Now the Guess Who
are from the Great White North (y'know the band that gave us "American Woman" and Burton Cummings and BTO). But, Pete Townshends' group was
originally outta Liverpool (help me out here, someone!)

Craig Shipley
craigs at pyramid.com

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