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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2015 at 11:18
Guns don't kill musicians, DAWs kill musicians.LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2015 at 13:17
Age plays a factor too. Albums you discover and love when you are a child or a teen get forever imprinted in your brain, when you are young you can absorb music so much easily, your brain is relatively empty and impressible and malleable. After a few dedicated listens you can sing the album by heart and you are eager to learn the lyrics and every corner of the artwork and credits.
Now that I'm close to 50 I find it much more difficult for an album to really sink in, I may appreciate its high quality and I may enjoy listening to it but the experience is much more rational, less spontaneous. But this happens the same with new modern albums or with old albums I just discover now.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2015 at 20:17
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Sticking to old prog is a cop out. there us plenty of good stuff out there that isn't appreciated, and you are depriving yourself of all the great stuff that came after.  There is so much.  You will never appreciate it because you have chosen not to check it out,,,,


Would love to hear these new bands that are as creative, innovative and and interesting as YES, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Tull, Floyd, Crimson, Van De Graf, Gong, etc.  I would be happy also if there were rock bands and good as Led Zeppelin, Sabbath, Deep Purple or UFO.

Not trying to be sarcastic.. please, post some link or things to check out.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2015 at 20:53
^ I'll try and throw some good modern non-prog rock your way. Band and the album of theirs you should try. If these don't work for you - which I fear, purely out of a place of you just seeming to be particularly set in tastes for '70's music - nothing else outside prog will work.

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica and We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
The Horrors - Skying
Duster - Stratosphere
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Tame Impala - Lonerism


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 03:45
Originally posted by Davesax1965 Davesax1965 wrote:

What I am saying is that a lot of old prog rock (I'll say this yet again) has associative memories for me which new prog rock doesn't have. 

Music is not just about notes, melody, ability.... newness or oldness... it is also about evocative memory. 

so nostalgia is more important than the actual music? That doesn't make sense.What about the qualities of the music that made you like it in the first place?

I do, however, understand what you're saying. I used to listen to crappy music and it does NOT give me good memories. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 06:37
Lord above, where on Earth did I say that ????

Or are you reading something into the post which wasn't there ? If so, join the club. We're already at the stage where it seems that the modern day equivalent of a tape recorder is believed to kill musical creativity. In the same way, no doubt, that talking pictures make actors less talented. 

As for minds becoming less malleable with age, bullshine, bwana. It depends on which mind you're talking about in the first place. 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 06:40
I got into prog when punk had supposedly killed it.  When the older acts were giving into commerialitis, there was still a lot of good stuff going on out there if you had bothered to look.  There is still a lot of good stuff being made out there, but you need to bother to check it out.   We have streaming out there for crying out loud.  You have no excuse for at least not trying out the new stuff only than your own personal lazyness....

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 06:42
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Guns don't kill musicians, DAWs kill musicians.LOL

Yes, so, let's see. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. 
Someone doesn't know what a DAW is, I take it ? ClapClapClap

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 06:43
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I got into prog when punk had supposedly killed it.  When the older acts were giving into commerialitis, there was still a lot of good stuff going on out there if you had bothered to look.  There is still a lot of good stuff being made out there, but you need to bother to check it out.   We have streaming out there for crying out loud.  You have no excuse for at least not trying out the new stuff only than your own personal lazyness....


Slarti, I'm actually, hello... ? WRITING NEW STUFF.

You appear to be too personally lazy to check who I actually am. And you've misread the post. Join the queue. ;-) Let's all go around in little tangents, eh ? 

I enjoy a lot of old prog better than new prog. I write new prog. My new prog has some new influences but references old prog. I use a DAW, which is like a big tape recorder because there is no real other way of doing it. A DAW or tape recorder is somehow seen as being inferior to actually playing live, as it somehow sucks creativity out of modern musicians (process to be doubtless revealed)(by people who have no idea what they're on about) - as a modern musician, I obviously have never heard any modern prog and must be too lazy to listen to it. Instead, I sit around all day just being nostalgic for the days when musicians released really well played and recorded albums, which were mainly slapped together and sound rotten, but that's somehow better than properly engineered ones. Not that anyone who isn't actually a sound engineer can spot it, but that's not important as that wouldn't make them "audiophiles". In the interim, Band A is better than Band B but not as good as Band C, etc etc etc etc ad nauseum.

If you're as confused as I am by the above, join the club. Or you may go back to the OP and read it exactly how I wrote it, without reading anything else into it or going off on a vaguely self-interesting tangent. 

But the internet would be a lot less fun. :-)

Yours confusedly



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 06:55
PS For those bereft of a sense of humour, the previous post uses a literary device known as SARCASM. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 07:19
About 60-70% of old(er) people stagnate in their taste. Music and otherwise. 
  
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 07:58
Originally posted by Davesax1965 Davesax1965 wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:


Guns don't kill musicians, DAWs kill musicians.LOL


Yes, so, let's see. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. 
Someone doesn't know what a DAW is, I take it ? ClapClapClap


Dave, it was a joke. I even added a damn emoticon for effect.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 08:07

Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

... Now that I'm close to 50 I find it much more difficult for an album to really sink in, I may appreciate its high quality and I may enjoy listening to it but the experience is much more rational, less spontaneous. But this happens the same with new modern albums or with old albums I just discover now.

This has never been an issue for me, because I do not listen to "progressive", or some other bull-merd'y description of music. I listen to what comes and how it comes, and that is the beauty that attracts you to it ... not the fact that it is "dark", "prog" or "stupid", or "topten" .... and therein lies the issue in my estimation.

It will be harder to "find" because you are expecting some things that you are not finding.

Music, and any art, is like a new day ... you see the sun, and if you get bored ... give it up! Go do something else because music ain't for you!

See, see, see the sun ... over there ... it will do you good!

I know I harp on this a bit too much, but it's the only truth I can tell you about over and over again! And you don't need a CD, or a DVD for it, either!



Edited by moshkito - January 19 2015 at 08:08
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 09:32
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by Davesax1965 Davesax1965 wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:


Guns don't kill musicians, DAWs kill musicians.LOL


Yes, so, let's see. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. 
Someone doesn't know what a DAW is, I take it ? ClapClapClap


Dave, it was a joke. I even added a damn emoticon for effect.

(Facepalm) Now Mosh has arrived (/facepalm)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 09:39
Originally posted by tamijo tamijo wrote:

About 60-70% of old(er) people stagnate in their taste. Music and otherwise. 
  

Yeah yeah yeah. :-)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 12:02
Originally posted by Davesax1965 Davesax1965 wrote:

 I use a DAW, which is like a big tape recorder because there is no real other way of doing it. 
There was a time when the great composers did it all in their heads and writing the music in scores with an ink writing feather, for dozens of instruments. Now I guess that that takes some merit, talent and skill which many modern musicians would be totally unable to achieve. That's an extreme of course, between that and the current technology there have been all the intermediate points, when musicians had only limited help by some tape recorder etc. Modern technology does not imply a lower level of talent and skill, but it does enable people with lower talent and skill to create and release music, and it bypasses a lot of the training which was once required to achieve the level of "great musician", which can be a dangerous thing.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 12:14
I grow up in the 90s listening to post-punk and early prog. Nowadays, I know much more about prog than most of my friends from the 70s. I think the prog elders should try more new bands, and prog newbies more old bands. And both open their minds for avant-garde and other music genres, from jazz & classical to death metal and hip hop. 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 21:41
I was going to point out how nostalgia is no basis at all with which to judge music, but it appears everyone beat me to it.

I think I'm going to like it here.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 22:30
Modern technology does not imply a lower level of talent and skill, but it does enable people with lower talent and skill to create and release music, and it bypasses a lot of the training which was once required to achieve the level of "great musician", which can be a dangerous thing.

I'm not sure it's dangerous, but it's dumbed people down right across the boards, not just in music but many other walks of life.

My impression is that people are a lot less interesting than they used to be.
 It should be the opposite.  Maybe it's just my impression, but I don't think so.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2015 at 23:27
Most recent bands unlike some common belief, do not use electronica to manipulate or alter their music. There are so many great recent bands, amazing incredible moozik being released, a lot more choices too.
Timing is very important in the final mixing. What tends to ruin for me is the fixation for loudness that "some" bands want to achieve thus upon mastering the album they end up with so much compression, this kills me especially when the drums kick in, the sound level seems to drop and this is insane why one would think this is ok? But this is just my opinion.   Big smile hugs Hug
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