Can we put Rush in the super prog category?

Edited by Yukorin - September 14 2006 at 05:52

Sure....what the hell...why not?!  Somehow Queen wound up as a "prog" band so why not guitar-and-drums Rush?

 

I now make a motion for Judas Priest.

Edited by Yukorin - September 14 2006 at 05:52

ldlanberg wrote: Sure....what the hell...why not?!  Somehow Queen wound up as a "prog" band so why not guitar-and-drums Rush? I now make a motion for Judas Priest.

    
Priest are very worthy of prog-related consideration, IMHO - good call .


Note that Queen are actually in Prog-Related - ie, somehow not considered a Prog band.

However, in my opinion, that is wrong, and Queen should be categorised as pure Prog for at least 5 of their albums - which should be enough to qualify.

That's the thing with Prog Rock-it was something that existed from the turn of the 70s until around 1978 or so.It was an arty "fad" indulged in by certain bands for a relatively short period of time.Look at Genesis,Yes,PFM,Banco,ELP,Queen (for Cert's sake),Tull,Rush,Gentle Giant ETC they all turned away from Prog Rock before the 1980s.Look at how many,literaly dozens,of Italian Prog bands came and went in this time period producing classics of Prog Rock then disappearing when the mood had worn off them.Everyone knew who the Prog Rock bands were and that included Rush.
Rush are a Prog Rock band by virtue of the fact that between 1975 and 1979 they WERE considered to be a Prog Rock band by the Prog Rock "fraternity".
This may sound crazy to some (those who werent around in the 1970s for starters!) but there is a perfectly legitimate argument that says that no band that came into existence after 1978 can possibly be a Prog Rock band.You had to be there at the time.

    
    
    
    

Edited by Tony R - August 06 2006 at 17:02

Edited by Yukorin - September 14 2006 at 05:53

erik neuteboom wrote: This weekend I had a progrock party, also with Dirk, Antennas and Dutch Tony from PA, they all were pleasantly surprised that my joke with BaldFriede about the 1969 Rush Germany tour had worked out so well... RUSH .......!

I must say you have a strange notion about a joke "working out", Erik. I clearly stated that I did not believe it. Had I believed it, would your joke then have failed? No, you would have laughed at me. Then in what way has your joke "worked out"? On the contrary, I think I turned the tables on you with my reaction.

Yukorin wrote:     Erik,        Are ya knackered man ? No! I'm Jan Akkerman!                             Half Man Half Biscuit lyric back in the annals...)

I found that quite funny. I think you should "post bollocks" more often, if these are the kinds of bollocks you come up with.. :)

Tony R wrote: This may sound crazy to some (those who werent around in the 1970s for starters!) but there is a perfectly legitimate argument that says that no band that came into existence after 1978 can possibly be a Prog Rock band.You had to be there at the time.

Time to illegitimise that argument...
     

No Prog Rock after 1978, Tony R?

Just listen to what these bands (out of my head) created after 1978: Bacamarte/Ange/Twelfth Night/Ozric Tentacles/Edhels/Nemo ...

And some bands started as clones but managed to create an own sound like .. Rush, Anekdoten, Porcupine Tree... to name a few.

To me their music doesn't sound regressive, it's (very) distinctive progressive music, not mainly based upon the Seventies prog!

Edited by erik neuteboom - August 07 2006 at 05:22