What would you like to have discussed about Prog?

Passport one of my all time favs although never saw them.Dont know if they played in my area back in the day

Edited by Jzrk - October 11 2014 at 22:15

I'm referring to the US stuff too, as well as a pre-rock'n'roll American music. (you know the stuff Tom Waits likes to pastiche, I remember him saying something about how he thinks the Beatles "killed rock music")

Concerning the lack of discussion about more modern bands, be it of age or in sound, I'm sort of curious if there's this kind of aesthetic generation gap thing some of the older posters here experience with newer music styles from beyond some cutoff point in the 1980s or 1990s? I'm from 1988 and there's very little music before the mid-1960s I listen to. Even then, a lot of stuff from the 1970s and even the 1980s I don't think really resonates with me the way it does with older audiences. I wonder if some people here are feeling a similar disconnect but from the other end of the line.

Guldbamsen wrote: Hah...I deleted my beard post. Now I wish I hadn't.

Awe why? You must of shaved or something.

It's ok. I can take the reigns of the beard movement.

Guldbamsen wrote: Michael678 wrote: Rick Robson wrote: When the mainstream prog bands (mainly from the seventies) will no longer be the most present in the PA Forum threads? I don't know if the same happens to the other prog rock forums. i don't know when that will be or even if that will happen at all. unless someone takes them all out of their site and let people only talk about more unknown bands and new and upcoming ones. that's what i think. That will never happen. When have you ever seen PA without a running Genesis poll? I've certainly never witnessed it...... for better or for worse: there are always going to  be new folks joining the site, and most often it'll be through the powers of Yes/Genesis/KC/Pink Floyd and perhaps to a lesser extent DT/Radiohead/Tool/PT. It's the fuel that runs this site - even if it got old for some of us. If people make a genuine effort to talk about new or obscure bands, the thread almost never reaches page 2. Why? maybe there is too much out there, or maybe people are contempt with talking about the same as they always do - or maybe tastes never shift that much (my own not included - they shift with the wind), tell you the truth, I don't know..........but one thing that'll never happen is the demise of say all things Genesis on PA. There will always be a crowd for that. Trust me on this

As I appreciate the 'BEARDS' discussion Dave mentioned ( I'd be all for it considering I'm a bearded freak myself) I would be in favour of a very long, scruffy and drawn out on the sub culture behind beards and its connection with the music they play. For example, and this is just my opinion, when Phil Collins had a nice full-beard while with genesis from 1976 to 1978 he was at his very very best vocally in my opinion as well as his song writing.
Genesis as a band really seemed to respond well to him as a front man. I think it's because of the command and respect from the BEARD. Lol.

One more example. Damian Wilson of Threshold who has always been a great singer, but now sporting a decent beard (slightly cropped) is really in full swing and I feel he sounds better than ever.

Ok. One more. Nick mason's crazy handle bar mustache in 1971 to 1973 gave him special powers. He was at his drumming best. Look at him on the DVD 'live in Pompei.' It's pure mustache possession.

;)

Stool Man wrote: Will the old bands continue as tribute bands after all the original members have passed?

Who is to replace the aging cadre of prog masters.

I also just linked to a new thread about one.

That's exactly my point. I would love to know more about the obscure projects, because not always it is possible to take time and browse through the myriads of independent band pages. Sometimes I take my time and browse randomly through bandcamp/reverbnation/whatever in search for music. Sometimes I find quite fascinating pieces. Small examples would be Sh.tg.N., RIshloo, The Berserk; FAS; Transport Aerian; Hibernal; The Walkabouts; Zero 7... There are more of course.