Individual songs have subtitled 'movements' denoted by Roman numerals. 
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You know who Frank Frazetta is.
- Your music has been made into a comic book/graphic novel - or vice versa.
- You're playing bass, and pedals on most songs despite having a keyboard player (or two - which is a dead giveaway).
- Side three of your latest album is just one song, in a series of nine with the same name.
- You cover obscure Eno.
- You're playing bass, and pedals on most songs despite having a keyboard player (or two - which is a dead giveaway).
- Side three of your latest album is just one song, in a series of nine with the same name.
- You cover obscure Eno.
You were financially well off in 1975 and almost broke by 1981.
...if your music has unusual time signatures
...if you use a lot of counterpoint in your music
...if you are an extremely talented musician who can play multiple instruments well
...if you know more than 3-4 major chords including minors, 7ths, 9ths, etc.
...if you have a name like Yes, King Crimson, ELP, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, etc.
...if you use a lot of counterpoint in your music
...if you are an extremely talented musician who can play multiple instruments well
...if you know more than 3-4 major chords including minors, 7ths, 9ths, etc.
...if you have a name like Yes, King Crimson, ELP, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, etc.
You can handle 17/6 and every known sus4 chord along with every obscure but evocatively named scale with the best of them. But you are physically and mentally unable to play blues. Or any I-IV-V in 4/4 song for that matter.
You know zero cowboy chords. Truth is, you never even knew they existed.
Your fiver is set up for a high-C string set.
Your second bass is a piccolo.
There's always a Moog instrument kept in close proximity to your bass at every gig even though you'll seldom be seen playing it.
There's a beautiful 12-string Gibson acoustic on a stand - where it remains - at every one of your shows.
You know zero cowboy chords. Truth is, you never even knew they existed.
Your fiver is set up for a high-C string set.
Your second bass is a piccolo.
There's always a Moog instrument kept in close proximity to your bass at every gig even though you'll seldom be seen playing it.
There's a beautiful 12-string Gibson acoustic on a stand - where it remains - at every one of your shows.
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Wait, you need to say who you're talking about, Rush? Had a beef with who?
The best Frazetta paintings wound up as cover art on a Southern rock band's albums, though.
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What you say sounds important, but no one knows what you mean.
You go to the trouble of inventing your own language to sing your epics in.
You have a $12,000 Oriental rug onstage and a specially trained roadie to maintain it.
You hire a full orchestra, choir, ice skaters, a narrator and inflatable dinosaurs for a tour, and have to fire them three days later because you're losing money hand over fist.
You have a $12,000 Oriental rug onstage and a specially trained roadie to maintain it.
You hire a full orchestra, choir, ice skaters, a narrator and inflatable dinosaurs for a tour, and have to fire them three days later because you're losing money hand over fist.
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You have multiple Chapman Sticks - each in different tunings, fretted/fretless, and MIDI capable.
Yeah, but how does that work for Molly Hatchet and Dust?
...your lyrics make absolutely no sense whatsoever... even when you're reading them off the lyric sheet! Yes, Jon, I'm looking at you!
...your songs have more movements than the average symphony.
...the instrumental bridge really needs that extra hammered dulcimer, Arabic oud and Patagonian nose flute breaks.
...that little 30 second melody keeps coming back over and over again as the intro/outro of the next song.
...your stage show has more outlandish costume changes than the dressing up box at the local kindergarten.
...Roger Dean painted your album cover. (also works with Rodney Matthews or Chris Foss)
...your songs have more movements than the average symphony.
...the instrumental bridge really needs that extra hammered dulcimer, Arabic oud and Patagonian nose flute breaks.
...that little 30 second melody keeps coming back over and over again as the intro/outro of the next song.
...your stage show has more outlandish costume changes than the dressing up box at the local kindergarten.
...Roger Dean painted your album cover. (also works with Rodney Matthews or Chris Foss)
...yeah, nearly included him in my list too but that also works for Southern Boogie...
The bands that tend to do that are usually of the new wave variety.
You wear a kimono on stage, but you're not Japanese...
That also includes SRV and, once upon a time…
