OFF: Concept Album-o-rama

[Crawford Smith]

On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Bolts of Ungodly vision 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
>

Not quite '70's era' - check out "Operation Mindcrime"by Queensryche
released shortly before they decided to start lifting bits from Pink Floyd
et al in order to "go mainstream."

YFNR

Crawford


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