Only now I am made aware of a review that appeared online
December 17, 2018. Since the albums mentioned involve me, I am obliged to
provide a few comments.
We do not know if the self-styled Mike Ainscoe, with his
online space "Louder Than War", is really British but, in view of the
Brexit, it seems that the review model of the albums of the historic Prog, in
this case "The Manticore Tapes" by PFM, is the one of the Soviet
Russia.
In fact, what can we say about the Historical Revisionism
that gave birth in 1970 to PFM, a name that will appear only later? How not to
shudder at the failure leaving out all the historical authors such as Franco
Mussida, Flavio Premoli, Mauro Pagani as well as ignoring the poet Pete
Sinfield author of the lyrics of "Photos of Ghosts" and the bassist
of that album Giorgio Piazza. Not even the substitute bassist Patrick Djivas is
mentioned as well as the lead singer and author Bernardo Lanzetti, the
songwriter Marva Jan Marrow and the violinist Greg Bloch, while the reader gets
suspended in a round of words that imply the drummer Di Cioccio as sole founder
of the band and lead singer from the very start! Exhilarating and grotesque is,
in fact, to give him credit of the vocal parts on the album "Jet
Lag", in detail.
Maybe Mike is a great listener and a genius of writing
but certainly not a careful reader of album credits.
However, if some Prog lovers want to have a laugh they can
check out the following link:
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