Just read this month's Word and the overlong section on prog (a bit like a prog solo, really) but got very annoyed by the fact that you keep on lumping both Zappa and Beefheart in with the likes of Yes and Marillion. I don't believe most of the niminy-piminy whimsical prog-lovers would ever have listened to either of these two who really need two separate categories all of their own.

And while we're on the subject, I'm surprised you don't ever have any articles on either of them. I know Frank's dead (not usually a bar to people in the music press going on endlessly about somebody) and Don's watching whales and splashing paint around in northern California, but surely they deserve some attention? I've come across some really interesting interpretations of Zappa's music by "classical" musicians over the last few years which show how - if you got past the smutty humour - he was actually a really talented composer who could write some beautiful stuff. But maybe that's just me....