At Left: War was declared on Bad Progressive Rock music last year and it was this image- now iconic in the Bad Prog community- which heralded the "no prisoners" mentality of the ringleaders of the insurrection against shit Prog, Timothy Ready and Dr. Micah Moses. Truly one of the most memorable and defiant designs in the history of the struggle against Keith Emerson's rampant ego.
I would like to mention to readers of this blog that Radio Anthrocide was not the first shot across the bow of conformity and mediocrity with the express intent of crushing- with finality- the crippling effects of the Progressive Rock Industrial Complex (PRIC) and the subsumed and etiolated state their emasculating middle-mind conservatism has left Progressive Rock to wallow in and die. Since last year, myself and Dr. Micah Moses of Brooklyn, NYC have been waging war against Bad Prog at the Progressive Rock Hall of Infamy, lauded (correctly) as the first and only website devoted entirely to the study of Bad Progressive Rock. In that time, I have received accolades and death threats, nods of encouragement and the most infantile and vitriol-laden philippics ever conjured from the nest of basement-dwelling, Yoohoo-drinking psychopaths who make up the average Porcupine Tree fanclub. That battle being largely won- all the Yes fans have slinked off in ignominy having been duly routed by the torrent of caustic and withering verbiage thrown at them by your humble correspondent, of which no defense is possible since, in fact, it is a well-known fact that Yes FUCKING SUCKS- I have turned my attentions to managing my show and running this blog. Still, I'm very proud of the writing that I did pursuant to killing off Bad Prog, and also the collaboration of Dr. Moses- who himself is a critic and misanthrope of the very first rank, sort of an aloof Voltaire to my more garrulous and splenetic Schopenhauer, if you will. There is- literally- no website like it on the whole of the Internets; we invented Bad Prog, and as my Prog Empire grows...you can bet there will be a few victory laps taken at the expense of everybody who ever went to a Spock's Beard concert and came out saying "those guys are better than Crimson". The PRHOI is a reality check for all of those losers, and one that hits like a two-by-four at the base of the brain of the middle mind. It is worth noting all of this- my Empire- started there.
On another note...I would like to mention that one of the nicest things to ever happen in my life occurred just the other day. The good folks at Prog Not Frog- simply one of the two or three most important and best-run music blogs on the whole Internets- have declared RA a "Cool Place", and if you look at the list of links they have chosen to include in that realm of Progressive coolness...that's pretty select company, friends. I was both thrilled and honored, and hope that the tens of thousands of people who go to PNF every week stop by and download a show. Because RA aims to be the very best Progressive Rock radio show in the world, regardless of broadcasting format; and I truly believe we are on our way to being just that.
Check PNF out and make sure to join their forum; it's astonishing what people have to bring to the table knowledge-wise, and the vast Universe of amazing music you can find there. Cheers, and make sure to listen to this week's show dedicated to Swedish Progressive and Psychedelic Rock, as always on Radio23 at Cascade Community Radio, Saturday night at 8pm PST. - TKR
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