I'm sorry GOO did you miss the violins from all those wonderful japanese prog bands and what about UK?
and no one could love Chicago more then me (well maybe a few) but alas i unable to give my vote for inclusion on the moon....
loved, loved, loved the Rickter Scale show where he played it...as was present and accounted for in Chicago when they came on the scene...and thou they were a part of a resurgence of the "frackin big band---gotta brass section" (EWF, Average White and many R&B groups)
gr8sho92, you slay me with your "Not so fast kimosabe."
and ditto the Italian prog
:insert heavy sigh: bobby, bobby, bobby
thats my $.02