Your Favorite Prog Personality!
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Topic: Your Favorite Prog Personality!
Posted By: RoyFairbank
Subject: Your Favorite Prog Personality!
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 08:14
Who is your favorite personality in Prog and why? If its split, you can name a few people.  ============================ My favorite personality is actually in the proto-prog category; Pete Townshend (of the Who). I think, whatever the truth behind the controversy- the man is fascinating in his approach, ideas and behavior on the stage and off! His concepts are out of this world, almost at odds with it. He is deeply empathetic yet desperate and unstable in everything he does. He struggles and lays himself completely bare in song after song. He never settles for low-intensity- he puts everything into every song. His beautiful plaintive voice is one of the treasures of rock of roll and his guitar is consistently viscous. His lyrics are a cut above, much better and more serious than they had to be given the Who's genre but thank goodness! On stage the man is the focal point of the Who concert, not because he is the best musician but because he leaps and windmills and pours his heart out. He is vulnerable and eccentric and probably a raging (bi or homo)sexual (hopefully just that), but he always denies it. He got himself into a horrible mess in the 2000s that seemed prophesied by his 1993 album Psychoderelict. I wouldn't think Townshend was that disturbed to really do such things, but I don't know. I don't think Who fans will ever know what really happened. In a perverse way, this possible criminality makes Townshend even more interesting. What a great rock personality!. |
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Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 08:40
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Devin Townsend. 'Nuff said. -------------  
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Posted By: Shevrzl
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 09:26
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You read my mind! |
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 10:23
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Probably Syd Barrett, although it's sad to read about his mental downfall, the guy was so special and shouldn't have gone like that. ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 10:26
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Carl Palmer - Just seems like a nice man, one you could talk to and have a cup of tea with or (pint of ale for that matter). In interview he seems very calm, cool and possitive |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 11:12
| Peter Hammill. Other than being a musical genius, the man seems very intellectual and literate. |
Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 11:28
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 11:46
| Beefheart. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 12:18
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Jon Anderson - completely barking mad, yet lovely & endearing at the same time.
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 12:23
| Ian Anderson-though he was very difficult to deal with for a long time and a control freak in the studio, his writing and his concepts blow me away. The themes of the music, the fact that Tull produced blues, hard-rock, progressive rock, prog-folk, long songs, short songs and everything in between is amazing. Add to that his success away from music in the commercial salmon fishing industry and his return to the music world, basically on his own terms is pretty incredible. Would love to sit down and talk with the man. |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 13:00
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 13:16
| Peter Gabriel, Genesis era. Would have been so awesome to see live... |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: July 26 2010 at 14:04
| Frank Zappa. He was great musician,Animator,Philosopher,Composer,.... and specially he was BRAVE. He had unique character. I think he was a real Artist. He introduced many perfect musicians. He played guitar like god and I never heard Guitar playing like Zappa. His music had one special thing I cant explain. Zappa played most of genres and he did it perfect. Jazz rock/fusion, Blues, Hard Rock, Symphonic,.... but all of them had common point I call that " One special unexplainable thing". His voice was freaky and very impressive. He was genius. RIP |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 08:30
| Syd Barrett due to his contribution in lyrical style and invention of Space Rock. Considered to be insane by many of his peers, he was anti-establishment to the record company and the BBC. He went down in history as being one of the strangest characters in rock music. He never understood the hype and stated several time that Piper At the Gates of Dawn was just a collection of songs and nothing to make a fuss about. This poor geezer had to put up with punk rockers knocking on his door, years after his seclusion. If you think about his mind set decades later, it really puts things into perspective for ya. The guy would walk to the town square to do some shopping and creepy crawlers were video taping it. Now it appears on You Tube. The occasional door slam in the face would indicate that this guy had enough of the dirty music business. He left behind that one Pink Floyd album that influenced musicians to write differently. Think about it. Think really hard......he suffered for the rest of his life because of that. I respect him. |
Posted By: Weirdamigo
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 08:35
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Richard Wright - Usually the silent one or the George Harrison of Pink Floyd. His Blues and Jazz influenced really contributed to the musical experience that is Pink Floyd. Most fans always said that his lyrical and musical was inferior to that of David Gilmour and that of Roger Waters but what would "Dark Side of the Moon" be without "Us and them" and "Great gig in the sky"? He has worked on many other songs with Pink Floyd such as "Echoes", "See-saw", :Remember a day","Astronomy Domine" and "Wearing the inside out". He also made the fantastic solo album "Wet Dream" After his dispute with Roger waters ,which eventually got Rick Wright fired, his artistic side suffered to some degree. One could see that he returned to his former greatness when he worked on the PF album "The Division Bell" and on his second solo Album "Broken China". A fantastic artist and for some a virtuoso on the keyboards. Rest in peace Richard Wright
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