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Old 04-26-2015, 06:13 PM   #70 (permalink)
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You're absolutely right, though I did say I think at the beginning that I would be taking my main list from the Big W. I did try some books but most are either arranged so haphazardly that there's no way to get a timeline from them or are concentrated on one era or some favourite bands. Why has nobody ever wrote the definitive history of prog rock??
Are you trying to say that most books on prog are unfocused and self-indulgent? Isn't that odd, though?
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