[Rick and Roll]

I am not ashamed to admit that I like music considered top-40. I grew up on Yes, Tull, Giant, Crimson, etc. But I still like Styx, Supertramp, Kiss, etc. And, I still love "metal" (Maiden, Sabbath, Priest, and the like).

The reason I get on this soapbox is that there seems to be a want to call the great hard rock of the 70's prog. Queen, Kansas, Tull, Rush, The Who, Zep, ELP - my favorite bands-

NOT PROG!!!!

Not even the 80's stuff - King's X, Queensryche - NOT PROG!

If you only gave me 100 CD's to listen to, probably a good number would be comprised of the above. Or, it would be a good portion of the underrepresented genre, Fusion. But for crying out loud, stop calling 70's rock prog!

I mean even Ambrosia gets played on this station. I really like their first two or three releases, but it's not prog.

Reserve the term PROG for the bands like Flower Kings, Anekdoten, too numerous to mention!

As the great Ian Gillian said, NO NO NO.

How's that for ridin' the fence?