Hot Prog Bassists

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   HI,

Perfect example .... about JPJ ... "not prog though ... "

At the time Led Zeppelin was out, this was prog and then some, just like The Who, and a few others ... and it is actually BEFORE prog per se, since we're talking 1970 and 1971 ... when bands like Led Zepellin wanted to break free of radio and other constraints ... and they DID successfully.

If the band did not have anything that was better and more developed and progressive than the same pop song garbage and radio stuff ... do you really think that Led Zeppelin would have existed?

Both JPJ and John Entwistle were excellent bass players and all around musicians ... and John Entwistle had it hardest and loved telling Keith off ... because Keith would not give him a chance for a solo ... (keith only solo'd all day long you know!) .... and John had to punch up the conk'r and add his own touches to be noticed and he did so beautifully and eventually developed one of the most wonderful drum/bass combination ever in music ... and don't talk to me about a metronome drummer boy!

Both of these deserve some credit in helping develop the genre that eventually broke free with Yes and Genesis a few years later ... and eventually became considered "prog" ... even though at the time, that term did not exist and was never used ... the only term people had for that type of music was  .... "long cuts" ...

So if you want to "brand" the music ... at least have the courtesy to give credit where credit is due ... and perhaps one should go back to the bootleg days ... and you can hear real "jams" that made prog in the end ... instead of the pre-fab stuff you get today that is not even original compared to what was coming out then, which was totally off the wall and no one had ever heard anything like it.

So all you wonderful Salieri's ... maybe one day you will love the music itself ... you will make good professors though you will always hate me!