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In his early material you can plainly hear the influence of Syd Barrett. He falls into the old and unique proggy singer songwriter a few years after Syd became a hermit or during that time. Space Oddity has that oddball English prog style which derived from that era. During the Berlin period when he worked with Fripp and Eno the music was perhaps more intense. The mystery for me is the un-released Glastonbury Fayre performance where he showed to the stage with an acoustic guitar. Supposedly he performed early versions of bizzare songs that later became classics but, more in a folk style.

not prog (although the lyrics would be perfect for a prog song

).... but for some reason I find this extremely amusing

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ProgressiveAttic wrote:

not prog (although the lyrics would be perfect for a prog song

).... but for some reason I find this extremely amusing

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I was trying to find the real video to post. never found it so didn't bother.

chopper wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

ProgressiveAttic wrote:

not prog (although the lyrics would be perfect for a prog song

).... but for some reason I find this extremely amusing

:

I was trying to find the real video to post. never found it so didn't bother.

I don't understand - why did he put him on a train to Eastbourne?

To paraphrase Eddie Izzard¹, because that's where people go to die, and then they move to Bexhill

¹ paraphrased because I'm too lazy to look up the exact quote.

Edited by Dean - December 30 2010 at 11:14

What?

Most of his Berlin-period work was prog if not all of it.

The_Jester wrote:

I'm certain that David Bowie isn't here for nothing but I never heard something from him that was close to prog. If you can show me it'll be appreciated.

I'd have to gree that it's not really obvious why the glam icon Bowie sits in prog-related at all when looking at its 7's material (except for maybe Space Oddity - the song)...... One of the main arguments was that Bowie's more progressive stuff was in his late 80's and early 90's albums (of which, outside a song here and there, I don't know much, I must admit) that were indeed a tad more experimental than his glam days.... and I believe that's the argument that clinched it for his inclusion.... but I never cared to find out about those albums.

Actually Bowie was quite a tough sell to many of us (yours truly included) and it took many months (probably over a year) to get him included by those who lobbied it.

Bowie's inclusion later altered the general outlook of prog-related and opened the door (dare I say floodgates) for many other ever-so-slightly-prog artistes to be included

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

I think his 1977 album Low had some subtle influence to Pink Floyd's Animals. The ambient/Krautrock-esque proto-industrial soundscape can be experienced in both.

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