California band Strawberry Alarm Clock

I've only discovered them and their two amazing albums in the past five years but I put them fully in the forefront of those bands/musicians exploring album-oriented music in the 60s and Incense and Peppermints (which I think gets maligned and glossed over due to the monster popularity of their #1 international pop hit of the same name) has become one of my ten favorite albums of the 1960s.

Listening to this interview with percussionist and vocalist Randy Seol, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjgPXFBlA2U&ab_channel=siamesecatdad) I think one gets the feeling that they were not only winging it, but also very talented, creative, and independent thinking musicians. They make me think of early Yes, Genesis, The Family, and The Doors (from whom they may have lifted some riffs and ideas).

Anyway, I think they are very deserving of being included here in the PA database. 

 

A very nice band with nice material, is often over looked and not taken seriously, which would be a problem when it came to PA and its rules and genres.

I think it should be listed here, but I would rather have a special area for these "psychedelic era" bands that were influential on the music scene, but are never really given the credit for it.

I don't know if it is a pre-cursor to progressive, or anything, but that's like saying Caravan's first album is not almost the same stuff, or even PF with Syd ... these, all were important in the realm of taking music to a different level, which EVENTUALLY helped define "Progressive Music" ... but the saddest of things, here on PA, is that without the help of a handful of folks, almost no one here gives a darn about the history, and in some cases even thinks it is total crap. Even the Beatles are not respected for having blow open a lot of what was played in the regular radio, specially in America, when in the late 60's FM radio came alive and blew out the pop radio machine ... and brought along a lot of new material and music ... you were NEVER EVER FOREVER going to hear KC on the AM radio! Well they did get Oh Lucky Man in a smaller version than the LP ... but that did not exactly tell you what the album was like! Heck, wanna try Light My Fire as a single? What a disgrace!

This makes it difficult to properly list and associate a lot of folks with the proper crowd they should be listed, not that they won't change later, most do, but at least their early work ends up being defined in such a way as we know (better?) what they are about.

To me, the development of "progressive music" started way back in the 50's and when you see some of the specials on the subject, from Tom Dowd to George Martin, and others, you gain an appreciation that is very different ... more often than not it wasn't really the "hit" that made the man that helped bring the music to your ears ... it was a touch, that helped define music that does not belong within a "commercial" area, which so many of the current additions to the PA are these days!

I would think there are a couple more bands around ... that deserve credit ... for example, look at the listing of material Tommy Boyce and Bobbi Hart put together and it is rather impressive as well. But there are some other fine bands ... I have to like "Ides of March", but the progressive folks here on PA hate horns, regardless of how they are used! Even Alquin is not appreciated or Lighthouse or Sons of Champlin.

 

Hi,

I'm not sure the reason, but MUSIC IS MUSIC and the instruments should not matter, thus, for me, people that go for various this and that, are folks that can not enjoy music. Heck, I suppose they will pee in their pants if Mozart's Violin concertos show up, or hear RW say that Vivaldi was almost the first rock'n'roller (it's on the special on Vivaldi narrated and hosted by RW). 

This is by far, and even further, the main reason why Guy Guden's Space Pirate  Radio is so special a show ... because all of a sudden "progressive" is NOT just a sound ... and he can easily show it with over 75 years of music of all kinds ... and this is my biggest concern about almost all of the "progressive" music shows on the Internet ... it's just commercial crap! I have not been able to listen to one of those shows after 20 minutes, specially when it becomes just a well known song or hit followed by more of the same (MOSS) and what is really known as MOR in the history of radio!

That should help explain why I had over 320 hours of SPR shows going back to 1974 recorded (lost over 150 hours on bad tapes!), and finally MP3'd them and gave Guy a complete copy ... some of his tapes were not in good shape I thought. And in the past 3 years with the Twitch thing, I have gotten another 200 hours already ... it's just far out and so different. Something that only a handful of folks here have experienced, and appreciated, but when you see folks on the chat over there and some of them have known the show for 45/46/47 years, you know that something is valuable to a lot of folks, and they are all over the world now. The thought of it is just ... a trip ... a very far out trip!

I seriously doubt that many of the "progressive" listeners are TRIPPERS! And can I put a period behind that? I think I want some LSD 25 on my deathbed!