Ever feel sorry for those who don't "get" prog?

 this. I am technically living in the 21st century but not socially. I don't feel sorry for fans of rock music who absorbed fringe statements made by an older generation from the 80's. First of all most people are clueless about mainstream rock music anyway. When I was a kid, you wouldn't be caught dead carrying a Grand Funk Railroad album to school. It wasn't a very cool thing to do. Because all the hippies basically had no respect for bands of this nature. I am not saying that the hippies were right. Everyone has the freedom to do what they want. But the idea that has been brought forth today, that for example, Grand Funk Railroad is from Toddler's generation and based on that fact alone, they represent the music of my time. All Untrue. They were not an important band. They were laughed at by music freaks that took music seriously. So young people shouldn't listen to the 80's generation when they tend to give credit to an artist that simply is not due.

I've have known about a hundred people or more that grew up on 80's mainstream music and I don't feel sorry for them. Their taste in music ranged from 80'S Yes to Pat Benatar, The Pretenders, Duran, Duran etc. Most of these people had no clue about the real 60's underground movement or the 70's prog movement.  They would flaunt names like The Doors. Oh, Toddler grew up on the 60's and 70's rock. Hey Toddler you must like the Doors right?  Answer: Not really. These idiots think because a DJ has picked a fringe list of 60's material to play on the airwaves 24/7, that it's got to be real. What makes 80'S people think that a band like the Doors were the most worshipped icons of the 60's? Answer: DJ'S. In the mean time they haven't a clue who Mike Bllomfield is. I don't feel sorry for a person that doesn't realize that Mike Bloomfield hosted Monteray Pop Festival or not realizing that he was just as great or better of a guitar player than Eric Clapton during the 60's. I mean, everyone in the 60's knew how great he was but, for some stupied reason he was wiped out just like Canned Heat were. It's just Hendrix, Joplin, The Doors, etc. and that's complete non-intelligent diagnosis for 60's music. Many facts have been virtually surpressed like the Doors and the Allman Brothers opened for Canned Heat? Not the other way round?

So why would I feel sorry for a person that thinks the opposite of what the real truth is regarding mainstream rock? Let alone thinking they might have some clue as to what prog is and where it derives from? This is besides the point for they don't even have a clue about music in general. If they were to get an education in music and stop adapting the concept that a DJ'S word is gospel, then maybe I would feel compassion. But they are so ignorant and blind. Disco was something that we all made fun of. As kids we knew it was destroying rock. Kids would line up on one side of the street in front of the disco clubs and rockers were lined up in front of the rock clubs. They threw rocks at each other and fought over the difference between the two styles of music. It seems a bit foolish but I believe that the rock crowd at that time was concerned about everything turning into commercialism. Today many young people I meet and 80's rockers seem to have excepted disco as part of the norm. In my day it was a disgrace to people who took rock music seriously.

 

So I would never "feel sorry" for a person like that.... I actually think they are closer to liking prog than they realize !

 

 

However, I also know people who don't get into any kind of music at all. They might have a slight fondness for the decade of pop music that was playing on the radio during their high-school years.... but that is about it. They make no effort to dig up that music, or any new music.

 

I really don't understand how you cannot simply NEED music. My 1-year-old daughter just loves music... but no one "taught" her to like it... she just does. I imagine that even the freakin' cavemen tried to play SOME sort of music... LOL !

 

So. I feel sorry for people who don't have the drive to explore any music... because i think they are missing out on something that is a major part of life. And if that music is prog...  all the better !

I'll tell you what, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to put electronica dance beats into Jethro Tull's A Passion Play, Selling England By The Pound, Close To The Edge  and see how you like it? Think about it. Think real hard? It's the same concept really. But because electronic music has always been more underground then prog,(especially the early works), almost no one has a reason or cause for rebellious action against this type of activity.   Why don't they just sample Wendy Carlos Sonic Seasonings and get it over with?   Just continue to disgrace all the electronic innovators while your at it.  How is any of this activity good? This is worse than the analogy of Clapton being God(which is quite disgraceful within itself), Someone made a mistake and wrote God on that wall instead of good.  I don't feel sorry for people like this.