There's no such thing as prog
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Topic: There's no such thing as prog
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Subject: There's no such thing as prog
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 17:55
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< ="utf-8"> Yes was my "gateway drug".
At the time, I knew of the existence of a few other prog bands. Most notable in my collection were three bands called Rush, Supertramp and Pink Floyd. In my head, these four bands were all "Classic Rock", a genre I was very much into, and although I knew that they were labelled as Progressive Rock as well, that categorisation was the only thing that gave me a clue that they were related. Then came Yes' Fragile, the album that finally changed me from someone who was aware of prog and who liked some of it, to someone who actively sought it out. Although it wasn't prog, specifically, I was looking for. It was more Yes, although at this point I didn't have a credit card and make purchases through Amazon yet, so I was forced to shop at the local stores. They never had Yes in stock that I hadn't heard, so I would browse through their catalogue, stopping on bands like Genesis, Rush, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, Uriah Heep, etc...bands that I had heard might be vaguely related to this monster known as Yes through their affiliation with the genre "prog". And my interest in it grew. My collection grew, eventually I got a credit card and began shopping for the bands that you can't find in stores here a lot of the time - Gabriel era Genesis, Camel, Caravan, VDGG, etc. I loved most of it, except for Frank Zappa's Hot Rats, which had been so different from everything else I heard that I didn't know what to make of it, and switched between loving and hating based on my mood. (Still do, actually) For a few months, I was a "prog snob", where somehow I had replaced the phrase "good music" with "prog music" in my brain. Frank Zappa remained the only anomaly. Strangely, it was Marillion's Misplaced Childhood that snapped me out of it. When I heard that album, close to a year after I first heard Fragile, I couldn't understand it. It didn't have what fit in with my perception of prog. Even bands that hadn't sounded too much like Yes - bands like Jethro Tull, or Pink Floyd, still sort of made sense to me, although the connection was tenuous. But Misplaced Childhood just didn't fit. The music sounded simple. The songs were short. The music was dominated by vocals. I grew to love it, but not before being very confused. I realised that there was no such thing as progressive music, and a switch was flipped in my brain. The phrase "prog music" was once again switched back to "good music". And although, since that point in time, I have listened to mostly prog, and still don't like a lot of the stuff I liked before the revelation that was Fragile as much as I did before, I no longer seek out music simply because it is prog. And although I have journeyed deeper into the genre, bands like Magma, Miriodor, Mew, Pendragon, and more have only reinforced what I already knew. Because I realised that there was no such thing as prog. There's just a bunch of music that is labelled as prog. How did this happen? Because you can listen to a band like Yes, and take something different out of it - but knowing that Yes is labelled as prog, assume that music that has that something is prog. You could view Yes as a band that is famous for it's crazy skilled playing, and musicians with strong technical ability, and consider any music that is technically difficult prog. Suddenly, Dream Theater is prog. You could view Yes as a band that used keyboards to add more to their music, and consider any music with keyboards prog. Suddenly, Marillion is prog. You could view Yes as a band that wrote long "journeys" of songs, or epic length tracks. Suddenly, Jethro Tull is prog. You could view Yes as a band that wrote music with long instrumental breaks. Suddenly, Pink Floyd is prog. You could view Yes as a band that wrote ethereal music. Suddenly, Gong is prog. You could see Yes as a band that innovated and did something new with rock music. Suddenly, Henry Cow is prog. You could see Yes as classically influenced. Suddenly, Trans-Siberian Orchestra is prog. You could see some Yes as having jazzy influences. Suddenly, Mahavishnu Orchestra is prog. And through each of these bands, that has some tenuous connection to the music of Yes, a connection can be drawn from one of their attributes to other bands. And slowly, this word "prog" comes to mean a lot of different things, but never all at the same time. (Obviously, I'm not calling Yes the starting point of all prog music - although they were mine) In the end, I learned something valuable, and that is that the progginess of music is relative and pointless. All that matters is, does the music sounds good? Does it elicit an emotional reaction? PS. I love prog - most of the music I have heard that is labelled under the prog umbrella and it's various sub-genres, I have quite enjoyed. |
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 18:27
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indeed, though I would say the term 'Prog' is also not to be feared or resented, it's mostly a way for fans and music journalism to identify a family of like-minded artists in the way 'Bop' is used to distinguish a style of jazz, or 'Bluegrass' a style of country music-- i.e. I'm not a fan of country but quite enjoy some good Bluegrass, and would attend a Bluegrass festival before a Country music one even though they're related and have many of the same fans |
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 20:22
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I discovered Rush's Farewell to Kings and 2112 and especially dug their songs in the 7/8 time signature.
Next it was Yes' with their busy bass lines, majestic harmonies, interesting counterpoint and ambitious compositions. Close to the Edge still inspires me even to this day.
The day a friend played Gentle Giant's "On Reflection" for me, it was a life changing musical experience!
But I actually attribute my introduction to progressive rock way back to the age of 8, when I picked up an old album on discount by a very popular band and listened to it hundreds of times. It was ambitious! It told wondrous stories of kites and diamonds. It was *orchestral* in the way it turned my ears on. It employed middle eastern instrumentation within and without. It had a loosly unifying theme that was stated at the beginning of the record and then reprised at the end.
It was - of course - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
I had never heard the word "prog" - but I had the seeds of an idea planted in me from that early age. The concept that popular music could be *ART*. I didn't believe in 2 separate worlds of music - classical as "good" and popular as "sub-par". I believed that popular music could say something in such a way as to inspire and endure.
As hard as it is for us to envision today, back in their hey-day, bands like Camel and ELP were called Art Rock, Classical Rock, Ambitious Rock, Symphonic Rock just as much as they were called Progressive Rock. And it took much less to earn the distinction of Progressive Rock as well.
Things are so different now. As diverse and nebulous as the definition is, to the Prog fan, "progginess" has become a more clearly defined niche.
Had there been no Pink Floyd in the 70's, and Pink Floyd suddenly emerged in the year 2010, I'm not convinced they would be considered all that Proggie. But in the 70's, their songs were longer, their music more ambitious, and their production more crisp and inspiring than many of their contemporaries.
And even while conceding that Prog is a relative term like "tall" or "heavy", I submit that the concepts of "height" and "weight" exist regardless of which language is spoken or whether there is even a word to describe them.
You see, I had caught the vision of "Prog" before I even knew the term existed.
And, looking back, in many respects it was a naive notion. What did I know at the age of 8 really? Even so, it is not an idea without merit altogether. All these years and albums later, I still believe that some of the 22n'd Century's "Classical" music will be Highbrow Rock Music of the 60's and 70's.
In my vision of the future...
Frank Zappa will be mentioned in music appreciation textbooks. College kids will giggle at his juvenile and droll sense of humor even while they are ironically dazzled by his prolific and sharp musical wit.
Gentle Giant may get a mention for their counterpoint and cogent exposition of musical themes.
Yes will be mentioned for the majestic wonder of "Awaken" "And You and I" or "Close to the Edge".
Yes, Western Classical music explored tonality and harmony richly. But shifting time signatures, counter rhythms and polyrhythms were not as convincingly explored by the Classical community as they have been by the Proggers. Fast forward to the modern era and the "classical" community hasn't quite known what to do with electronics. Classical academics were utterly confounded and downright sterile in their attempts to write music for the synthesizer! But artists like Vangelis, Synergy and Tangerine Dream brought these instruments to life!
And here is where you and I may agree. Some people say that these artists are not "prog". Well that is all going to come down to discussion of definitions of the term prog. Good luck with that!
But when they first came out, those guys were right next to GG and Yes in the record bins. They both were striving in the same direction. Popular music as legitimate ART!
I define prog-rock as rock music that seeks to attain ART status. And by that definition, my assertion is that even before the term "Prog" existed, "Prog existed".
------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 21:00
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This is the view of someone looking back through time and drawing conclusions that are not valid in the true chronology. Nothing can change that, even in the minds of people who witnessed the transformation of rock music into Prog in real time as it developed. Our view of any passed event is altered by later events, we can never look at Wind And Wuthering in the same light as we did when it was first released in light of Genesis's later releases and, perhaps even, the whole Neo Prog subgenre. And so it is with Fragile - our view and perception of that album is modified by what they would do on later albums, it is even changed by the live versions on Yessongs where Rick Wakeman stamps more of his signature on those songs and by the developing imagery of Roger Dean's artwork. The stature and value of any album gains in relationship to what has come after, but not against what came before, even if we hear them in the "wrong order" - in that case all that changes is our perception or opinion in correcting a misconception.
I have heard many people spout truths about Prog that leave me mystified as to what it is they are hearing, or trying to say. Prog was real at the time, what gets called Prog or not now, long after the event, is somewhat irrelevant since if it had not occurred on the scale and breadth that it did in the ten years between 1968 and 1978 we wouldn't be talking about it now. We would be talking about Classic Rock or Good Music. We wouldn't be trying to analyse and pigeon-hole bands into narrow subgenres in the hope of them fitting to an preconceived notion of what those subgenres mean or referencing them back to a select few bands who "made it big" back in the 1970s.
Every band that releases an album changes our perceptions of what Prog is and in doing so opens the door a little wider. None of us can possibly hear every album listed here, so our idea of what Prog is is classified and defined by those albums we have heard, and as you imply, by the order in which we hear them- this is why two people can and will never agree on "what is Prog" because none of us have heard the same albums in the same order, or analysed them to the same depth, or with the same musical knowledge, or life experience, or social and/or geographical background, or in the same time frame. Everything changes everything. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 02 2010 at 21:10
Someone's had a little too much to think.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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TheGazzardian wrote:Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: April 04 2010 at 02:48
Yes is NOT prog. King Crimson is Prog.  ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 09 2010 at 14:43
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I suspect that you may have been a bit perplexed by feeling a need for all prog to be "good" - or for all prog music to be music that you can enjoy or appreciate on a personal level. That does not need not be the case, however. Some prog can be poorly executed. And some prog can actually attain excellence in certain ways while still leaving you cold and un-moved. (There is an unstated corallary that may have also contributed to your cognative dissonance. It states that "Non-prog music is inferior music".) If our definition of prog requires all prog to be "good" and "all non-prog" to be inferior, then I would agree that there would be no such thing as "prog". No objective combination of musical elements can define prog in such a manner as to attain the status of "good" to you. In that context, there truly is only music that you like/appreciate and music that you don't like/don't appreciate. Viewing Yes as the center of the Prog Solar System, with Yes as the sun and all other "prog" bands revolving around them is interesting. It is historically inaccurate, but still kind of fun because I love Yes! No doubt that is the chronology in which you experienced Prog - and in that respect - these observations are very valid.
Yes, however, were in fact influenced by many of the same environmental variables as bands as varied as The Who, Vanilla Fudge, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, The Nice/ELP, Genesis, The Moody Blues, King Crimson and many others. It can be fun to go back and listen to these bands with someone who explains the context in which these artists were writing and performing their music. In the past, I've enjoyed listening to music while in a chat-room, hearing individuals who are a little older than myself talking about what was going on in their musical perception when the songs were first "released".
It is true that Yes shares at least some characteristic with most Prog bands. That is one reason why they are such an illustrious prog band. I would consider these commonalities as evidence that there indeed *are* musical elements that enable us construct a semi-functional general concept of "prog" music.
And, as difficult as it may be to define "prog", I suggest that it is far more difficult to define "good". Unless of course, we are saying that "good" simply means whatever elements of music I most highly value and appreciate at this point in my life. Would the song "Happy Birthday to You" really be *better* if it was fugal, , requiring 4 uniquely interwoven harmony vocal parts? Not if the goal is to have a fun song everyone can sing to someone on their birthday, that's for sure!!!
Mark Stephens ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: April 09 2010 at 16:29
| Well stated and supported arguments, my good fellow. I have always contended that, where Jethro Tull is concerned, only Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play are prog. The rest of their work...not so much. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 09 2010 at 20:46
 I agree with Dean, above, and also with the thread title, in the sense that "prog" as used here is not a genre -- it's much too diverse. (Warning -- I've said all of this before here, many times.)
These days, "prog" is mostly a highly subjective value judgement. The "progressive" label is also a bit unfortunate, and often misleading -- it implies "advancing" or "improving" rock, when it's often just making it more complicated, inaccessible, retro, or just plain weird.
I've long believed the term has largely outlived its usefulness as a meaningful way to categorize music. It's just too darned far-ranging in the styles it supposedly encompasses.
We bestow it like an honorific here -- we supposedly find "worthy" progressive rock, prog jazz, prog folk, etc, but no prog country, no prog reggae, prog rap, prog pop, etc. We bend and revise music labels to make them "fit" here.
Treating a thing so subjective and fluid as art like something which can be exactingly labelled and categorized for all (as in science) is very problematic. Basically, there are as many definitions of "prog" here as there are forum members. In the end, it's just all MUSIC -- that is the only certain, solid link (some will even question that assumption).
Does that bother me? No -- even if lots of music which I find to be above average or more "adventurous" for its type is not deemed to belong here, still lots of other music I like (plus lots I don't) is here.
Plus, there are many nice, fun, clever folks!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: April 10 2010 at 07:48
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I think the biggest point to make is that our perceptions and enjoyment of music, regardless of complexity, song length, musicians abilities, etc., is what is important. We all hear music differently, so we each have our own standard for what is "good" and what we want to and enjoy listen too. "Prog" is simply a label or tag, as several have noted all ready, to attempt to pigeon-hole and/or categorize what is beyond categorizing. Just look at the vast diversity of bands and music on this site and you can understand the point. We tend to focus too much on giving things names and defining things. Music is a very personal choice and each of us has our own definition of what we find good and enjoyable. That's what is important, not what that music is labeled as. |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 04:54
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Well I 'm going to be doing a prog rock radio show (local uni station.) Therefore I need a definition for the music. It is Art Rock, artisitcally progressed rock music that combines other styles and types of music (not the other way round - it IS rock, it used / fused anything else available to advance it's cause; thus it's progressive rock music. There, now it is defined I can think about how people who have never heard the likes of Unvers Zero are going to feel when I launch Heresie at them. Any suggestions for more of the darkest and most frightening music gratefully accepted. Cheers me up no end. P.S. A metal show follows / will follow me. This could be fun.... |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 08:07
The "Critique Oblique" segment of A Passion Play is dark, frightening, progressive AND it has breaks for cuing a beginning and ending (hard to find them on that album). Tear 'em up, tiger!
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 11 2010 at 10:46
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oh really...that's news to me at least no one is loony enough to say there is no such thing as METAL!!!!!  hahha
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: April 12 2010 at 12:20
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The basis of Dean's post is that music is ART for the ears. Once we use the word "art" we then open up the proverbial can of worms, they spew out from every angle, and we start coming up with different words and explanations for what we think is art. Plain and simple its what you like, so hence we will always add our own explanation.
Does it matter when the art was released? Only to the critics during discussion sessions, if it came out in 1972 it had a meaning in 1972......In 2002 it has a completely different meaning to the "new" listener who wants to discuss what HE thought it meant in 1972......That's where two people will never agree on the topic. Does it matter? Probably not...should people care? I don't think so......but it is what it is. My opinion is just as important as yours!!
 Hence "Discussion Forums" will live forever.So in my humble opinion.....I disagree with the thread title.....
BTW.....the Mona Lisa is a dude in drag.......just sayin' -------------   
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Posted By: avant_garbage
Date Posted: April 18 2010 at 23:11
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"progressive" is -as all of the rest of the words in any language is- an empty concept or idea. This empty concept is then filled with meaning, which comes from a mix of personal experience (inner) and cultural consensus (outer) we must infer then, that "prog" is a subjective term and unless all human beings objectively agree on what it stands for, "prog" will always remain a term of personal interpretation. There are many people who find joy in intellectual debate -or discussion- hence they can spend hours and hours arguing on what the term "prog" stands for, with a greater or weaker sense of objectivity. To me, this can be nothing but an entertaining waste of time... My point is, I agree with you that the LABEL "prog" isn´t synoninm for "good quality", but the TERM "prog" itself doesn´t actually mean anything per se. It´s only a matter a subjectivity.... good luck to all ------------- music is nothing but what we listen, when we listen |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 01:04
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The label prog is rock music elevated (composed, recorded performed) beyond a roots level. This way you can have a obviously highly talented indiviual such as Neil Young play direct music. Nio way is this artist a prog rock artist - he's just as good a non prog as prog artist say, Robert Fripp. So to me prog is rock with all other musical possibilities (not all, nor perhaps more than one perhaps) but it is rock one step removed and rock (generally) has a high art form. Much as symphonic rock came from psychedelia, new wave from punk, Hip hop from disco (I'm joking here!), As forms of jazz developed from each other and the vlues (which while somewaht varied is still a roots music) then prog rock is what happens when rock gets development ambitions. How else can one explain the whole punk thing anyway? Some people wanted basic direct rock and prog rock wasn't giving them what they want - nor could it really. If a prog rock group has ambitions and fails to fulfill those ambitions (or are not virtuoso enough) then they really will be hung and drawn. Just trying to keep the subjectivity out as much as I can. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 01:06
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It is what it is
if it is not prog then what the heck is it?
Not classic rock because you cannot pigeon hole all prog into that genre as it is not rock such as Miles Davis work.
The umbrella term prog works because it embodies what we have come to love and loathe about the genre. It encompases Jazz, Metal, Folk, Italian and German music, Classical music, heavy rock, Canterbury, electronica, 60s psychedelia and even this weird Zeuhl stuff, name another music genre that can achieve that.
The question I have is which genres do not belong to prog as an umbrella term? i would say Country (thankfully) and perhaps Western... though a lot of people will term these together as Country AND Western I prefer Western over Country as it is a better style of music. Then again Country does have some good music such as Clint Black and Johnny Cash, whereas Western is really designed for the more discerning well trained ear.....
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Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 03:33
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Country, western, reggae, blues, metal etc, are all roots forms that evolve (except for country - the more reactionary the music (country) the less evolved it becomes. Metal evolves but it is still metal whether Sabbbath, Priest or Tool. It reflects it's audience. Prog rock on the other hand reflects musical influence and demands of an audience. That's why it encompasses such a variety of styles and genres; assimilate them and develop new(er-ish) music. Incidentally because the music (prog) makes demands of an audience there are audiences who do not want their music to be too demanding (hence the greater or lesser reactionary audience / music paradigm.) Change is unsettling and most people do not want change. Progression implies change, even states it. Prog rock still has that reactionary characteristic as well. Plenty of prog heads prefer e.g. Yes to re-do CTTE etc and reject the Rabin era. Just an example. That is fine but still this music (personified by the RIO / Avant and Zeuhl styles.) This progressive music is demanding and will be that way forever. Yes, I know RIO isn't a style but for want of a better pigeon hole term to place the marvellous Univers Zero it will have to do.  |
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 17:26
I don't quite understand that statement. Could you please elaborate? Do not most genres have reactionary (back to basics) individuals as well as revolutionary (let's stretch the borders) individuals?
Country actually has 2 hurdles to surpass in order to qualify as "prog". Not only must a country artist seek to expand their borders or to implement extended virtuosic stretches of instrumentation, they also must *rock* it all up a bit. If they remain too rooted solely in organic folk elements, they morph into virtuosic bluegrass... (For let us not forget that to a country listener, bluegrass is considered a sub-genre of country music every bit as much as (fill in your favorite prog sub-genre name here) is a sub-genre of Prog.
But certainly it can be and is done. Check out "Galactic Cowboys Orchestra" for one example! ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: April 19 2010 at 19:42
I don't quite understand that statement. Could you please elaborate? Do not most genres have reactionary (back to basics) individuals as well as revolutionary (let's stretch the borders) individuals?
AFAIK the most prog related country music would be the Grateful Dead. But roots music whether it be blues or country or whatever remains that way. If blues is mixed with another form e.g soul it can become a "higher" art form e.g. jazz dependng on the level of intent and result (Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington) or remain as, say R and B soul. Both perfectly fine musics but one is more feet on the ground the other going in a direction that challenges the roots fan audience while the former most likely will not. Of course once something's been around a while such as swing jazz it becomes or at least is viewed as reactionary by an (any) audience. Probably this means where a music has been develpoed is as far as it's going until it is taken in another direction. e,g, swing to bebop. As for reactionary country.(tautology?).. I'm thinking of Bob's Country Bunker (yee hah) in the Blues Brothers at the moment. But then there are those awful (oops IMHO I mean) MOR c and w ballads. Another characteristic difference between "people's roots music" and progressive music is emotional views. More difficult to define but the more sentimental (intent of music) the less intellectual as well. Country music I find appealing is that guitar work of Chet Atkins. But there is not a lot of vocal but guitar virtuosity so therein lies that appeal to me at least. Progressive means fusing and developing music. Say metal. e.g. Therion moved from black and death metal to symphonic and operatic develpoments. Very progressive and very challenging for head banging and mosh pit fans. Led Zeppelin used to ask of it's audience to enjoy blues, jazz classical piano, acoustic, eastern music, space rock (page's guiatr improv) and the odd heavy rock tune all prolonging the moment they could hear Stairway. Noticeably after their demise the 80s metal bands hardly made too much of a demand on an audience that was more of a market than musical appreciators. Not that the industry let people in on that idea. Being told you are a cash cow is not flattering. You know what you're getting with an Iron Maiden album but not so certain with Rush.Commercialism, lack of demanding challenge, in fact easy listening (familiar sounds) equals non progressive and reactionary. e.g. Asia and 90125 Yes vs Tales Yes (or the Art Bears!) Deceased UK DJ Tommy Vance once assured the audience of a Top 10 UK metal bands that Def Leppard will NEVER change. Very reassuring.   But in the world of challenging progressive music such a thing is a gravestone. Having heard a recent Leppard tune a five minute car trip seemed to last an hour. |
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: April 20 2010 at 19:01
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http://www.galacticcowboyorchestra.com/media.html -
I really enjoyed some of the fusiony instrumentals Chet Atkins did toward the end of his life. They were mellow, even perhaps 'middle of the road' stylistically, but they were impeccably performed with a nice sensibility about them.
Have you heard the Galactic Cowboy Orchestra?
http://www.galacticcowboyorchestra.com/media.html ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: The Gent
Date Posted: May 04 2010 at 21:51
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"It's the next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways It's still rock and roll to me Everybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound Funny, but it's still rock and roll to me" Billy Joel said it best.  Or, to quote sportscaster Bob Costas: "Look, its a wacky business. Who cares?' ------------- May God Bless you in all that you do. |
Posted By: (De)progressive
Date Posted: May 21 2010 at 09:47
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My thought is that there is nothing such as prog or prog rock, but there is progressive music.
Being progressive is not equal to being progressive sometimes, when you think with the genres. Because there are some bands that makes progressive music not in all but some albums even if they are so famous so known as prog rock or progressive rock. Such as Yes, King Crimson, Rush, Genesis, Marillion, etc. Can you tell the differences between 1970's King Crimson and 2000's King Crimson? yeah I can, there are really some differences both in the name of being progressive and in general idea of making music.
Also not only rock or metal music but also other music genres can be progressive, even hip-hop(although it seems kinda funny to me) for example saying prog pop, prog folk or prog electronic music is senseless. Prog is a term that is specialised for progressive rock bands if you look at it's origin. (these are my opinions even if they may seem absurd for someone) ------------- ''Hope is the first step on the road to dissapointment.'' (Friedrich Nietzsche) 
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Posted By: Rottenhat
Date Posted: May 21 2010 at 16:35
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Funny thing this. I have an old friend (from Finland), that is old enought to have bought Cream and Hendrix albums when they was first was released.
Still, he was a teenager in the 60's and 70's, and he was involved in the leftist movement, listening to avant-garde and free jazz and psychedelic rock, but didn't have a clue about what "progressive rock" was.
Of course he knew psychedelic rock, but he couldn't quite grasp prog. He listened to ELP and Mahavishnu Orchestra, but labeled those band as psychedelic and Jazz Fusion. He had a concept of prog, but that was from the music from Sweden called "progg" with two G's. That style was more a kind of leftist protest music, more in the vein of the US folk movement of the 60's, and maybe lyrically a precursor to punk, with biting lyrics of social criticism, but hardly viritous playing and complex arrangements that I mean by prog.
He has been on concert with the finnish bands Wigwam and Tasavallan Presidentti in the 70's, but still did not connect those bands with "prog".
So to the OP, I have some understading of your dilemma :)
------------- Language is a virus from outer space. -William S. Burroughs |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 11:10
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it exists - i am listening to it now -------------
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Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: May 29 2010 at 11:50
I just keep thinking bout "Robbery, Assault, and Battery'' at about the two-minute mark where they just splice up the meter like 5 times, I'll never understand. But that's prog and I like it. ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 05:16
The best suggestion you'll ever get: http://www.progarchives.com/mp3.asp?id=3421 - Docteur Faust (try the streams for Hathor and Logos too). Check out Egisto Macchi too http://www.youtube.com/watch#%21v=Bi1mhVWJPAk&feature=related - Bioritmi http://www.youtube.com/user/krauseful#p/u/73/AhxSK3CsRqY - Futurissimo , Voix ...) ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 05:46
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I actually don't care at all what exactly prog is. some bands which I consider to be prog (the Deep Freeze Mice, for example) will be scoffed at by others at best. in our record collection we don't distinguish between musical styles at all; it is all sorted by artist names (in case of classical composers not the artist playing the composition but the composer). -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: May 30 2010 at 07:09
Will do. Thanks very much! |
Posted By: GY!BE
Date Posted: August 19 2010 at 20:26
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I like to see prog more like a way of thinking than musical criterions.
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: March 07 2013 at 21:29
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I love music. Music that challenges the mind, music that challenges the heart, music that challenges the soul. Piazzolla, Brel, Vaughn Williams, Ekome, gamelan, Chopin, Bruford, CeeLo Green, Stevie Wonder, Eno, Coltrane, Steve Reich, Palestrina, Bacharach, The Beatles, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Anthony Phillips. They have all moved me, amazed me, and challenged me; they are all progressive to me. (Forget the rock. Let it be music.) ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 25 2013 at 15:29
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Hi, Love Dean's words on this! Hi, This is a view, again just as Dean states, that is very different from most. Mine has a very academic background, and a very intense music appreciation course, that stats with music 1,000 years ago, all the way to the most modern of folks -- something that I continued after those composers -- from the way I look at it. For example, my dad's collection ended in electronics by Stockhausen and Heinemann ... and I immediately blew him apart with Beaver and Krause, Terry Riley, Walter Carlos, Tomita and others ... and then one day, the great one saw a Kubrick film, and all of a sudden ... that's cool ... that's good ... and everyone went out and bought it, and all of a sudden electronic music of any kind is ok with everyone ... and rock music did not waste any time ... it was already doing it anyway! Rock music, for me, was an extension of that story ... and the progression of that music ... if it weren't for the electricity, it probably would never have been heard, understood, or appreciated ... as it became! I really believe that electricity is the single biggest change in the history of music -- in the 20th century ... because it took away what was once not possible ... !!! Like Dean states, everyone's view is different and changes through time ... and I have to agree whole heartedly and with passion, because that is true. However, I do not discuss, or review, any work, by its history ... as my only point of reference is my reaction to that moment, and I (obviously) could not react to that moment that takes place today, and not yesterday ... even with all the psychic abilities in place to help! My reaction was ... THEN ... not now, and this I have learned with my film reviews over 25 years and 500 of them! Along with a few errors now and then, of course! But, I have done a couple of things that helped me define what I do ... I went back and watched a couple of films and re-read my reviews ... and you know what? ... I still feel the same now about what I said then, even if I use a few different words ... and now, you have an issue ... how do you define things? I can't. Is it progressive? For me, my experience with film "might" be progressive, but only as an element that I had no choice but use subtitles on foreign films in America, in order to learn English, because there was no grammar in this country in school to help me learn the language and spelling and pronounciation is different in at least 5 different parts of the US of A. The music itself, was more my own expression and feelings at the time. I still relate to "Close to the Edge" and "Tales" from an internal/spiritual point of view ... both of these works are not "empty" and neither are they vapid and ignorant ... they are very honest attempts to say something and tell you something, some of which many of us might not like from a spirit realm area ... because some of us would rather read another book! ... but is that reason to fault Jon Anderson and say he's screwed up? ... NO! There is one film ... that is EXACTLY ... what you, I, all of us, here on this board ... are about ... plain and simple ... no ifs and butts about it. That film was special for me then, because I saw many of those folks, and I also fought and stood up for the many things they stood up for ... some of which were buried -- in time -- by drugs, sex, and rock'n'roll that became less and less important and vapid ... the meaning kinda lost its balance. I always appreciated the ferocity, the strength, the excitement, and the DESIRE, above all, of Alvin Lee's "Going Home", in that film ... but it made a lot of the music in the rest of the film less important, but he was right ... at the end of the day, yeah, I would wanna go home and spend the rest of the time celebrating it in bed with my loved one ... I was not the only one to dream and ENJOY that dream, btw ... however, it made me think one thing ... so nothing else mattered? I went home, had sex and forgot about it? ... and all I could tell myself was ... nope ... I won't ... it means too much to me ... and I had my head bashed in ... and I was frisked and frisked for a whole week ... and insulted by the ROTC folks doing it ... during Kent State ... and just recently seeing that film with Neil Young helped validate a lot of my feelings ... I was NOT the only one! To me, the music is not "progressive" since all music is a form of propression or another from the previous generation ... there are a thousand ways that jazz is a progression of a lot of classical music ... none of which folks are willing to put yap about. Likewise there is just as much great music, that is done electrically that can easily be considered "classical" ... as I state, by folks my age, that took their music to be more important and serious, than a simple hit song on the radio or the internet! ... Lastly ... please be mindful to one set of words that Dean had here ... there was something happening in that music that made it important ... it had a 3rd dimention that most music did not have, and does not have, and this is the factor that creates "art scenes" in history of ANY of the arts ... and you can go read Robert Jensen's History of Art, or an equivalent book on Music and Literature ... with one problem ... most folks here do not have the appreciation for it all at all ... and can only discuss and ask questions that pertain to the hit, or the song's trivialities that will disappear faster than anything else. As such, having an importance that supersedes many individuals, it deserves a "title" or"name" and I accept the "progressive" term, although as I mentioned before, almost all the arts have always been a progression of what was there before, but it makes it visible, within 10 wonderful years ... what most cultures never did in their lifetimes and I find it a treat to be a part of the folks that talk about it, and are not afraid to discuss it, and take it to the next level. It will get there, anyway, because you can't stop time, and its strength and beauty ... and none of us will ever get tired of Jimi, Janis, Jim, for example, who, for me, were the parents that helped define and bring about a lot of this music and work. One major note here ... both film, literature and the visual arts were far ahead of music in this "progressive" stage, and a lot of that might have to do with the commercialization of popular music ... and the ability to pull all of these forces together is probably the most difficult thing to understand, even though there might be a lot of common themes, like the VietNam war and such. But it was not the only thing. Probably even bigger and more important is that this also coincides with the age that Television went into every room and people were seeing things, that were unbelievable ... and incredible ... and to me ... this is when "Guernica" hit home ... and I really believe that a lot of those arts, music included, became the symbol for that new way, the new world, the new life, the new everything ... with all the good, the bad and the ugly ... and you know you saw that in film! Many of us also saw that in music. Many other of us saw that in art. It's a part of our lives, and we can tell you, not just Dean, that it was more important to many of us, then, as it is now, that we discuss it. So, in the end, are we progressive? ... yeah ... a lot more than most ever were! And we have the history and the insight to show for it! And yes ... a major thanks to Dean for helping put words on so much of it ... so progressive, it's not funny! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Larree
Date Posted: March 25 2013 at 15:39
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If it is not 1-4-5, vi-ii-V-I, swing, boogie, country, hip hop, or a straight waltz... it could be prog!
Perhaps hip hop could become prog. I would listen to some hardcore freestlye in 7/8. ------------- http://larree.ws" rel="nofollow - The Larree (dot) Website |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: March 25 2013 at 18:05
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There's no such thing as prog, it is only a dream, and it's the imagination of itself. Here's Tom with the weather. -------------  
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Posted By: The Mystical
Date Posted: March 26 2013 at 03:21
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There is no such this as prog. ------------- I am currently digging: Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz! Please drop me a message with album suggestions. |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: April 12 2013 at 00:18
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There's no such thing as lamea** prog . With all its weird a** costumes and weird a** music. It's all about Pop and Taylor Swift ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: June 02 2013 at 13:17
Nahhh ... as AD2 would say ... Mona Lisa got a bird brain .... just sayin'
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: June 04 2013 at 11:22
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This reminds me of a discussion in which somebody quoted a prominent jazz musician saying "I don't know what jazz is" to argue that anything goes in jazz. To which I said, so...how about I call Slayer jazz henceforth. Music categorisation is not a value judgment, but too many listeners seem to take it as such, not realising that they are really attached to an artist's work rather than the genre. |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: July 13 2013 at 10:01
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Ok...so prog is infact a figment of our imagination?
Anyway, I say Prog is a definative genre. I say that as I was brought up with all forms of Classic Rock.
See in my house I knew there were differences...
'Cheesy but nice enough' meant A.O.R.
'The one's that your father refers to as 'sickening' so I never get to play them' meant Glam Metal.
'The one's your mother tells me to turn down when I'm drunk, unless she's drunk and wants a dance' meant Heavy Metal.
'The one's I hear everyday at least once, no wait... twice, no wait...' meant as an exceptional case, Led Zeppelin, who were in fact quickly becoming a seperate genre all by themselves.
'The weird one's your mother likes...except Rush, Rush is fine...' meant Prog.
'The one's you like, that's bloody good, what is it they're called again?' meant Grunge.
'The rest' meant Hard Rock.
And finally, 'that one up there, the dusty one, what the hell is that anyway?', was infact the Vangelis Greatest Hits vinyl which I eventually discovered at the age of 14.
So, yes, there is a difference.  ------------- "Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself" - Sartre |
Posted By: Rando
Date Posted: July 30 2013 at 21:34
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-Smells Like Teen Prog-it- ------------- - Music is Life, that's why our hearts have beats - |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 22 2015 at 20:01
This week I read through an old discussion thread on ProgArchives that was started by "TheGazzardian" back on April 2, 2010 that was entitled, " http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=66287&FID=58" rel="nofollow - There is no such thing as prog ." I was also researching multiple posts and discussions about the 'official' and personal definitions of "prog" or "progressive rock." Also, I'd been thinking about my own recent post on http://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/2013/03/controversy-what-rock-elements-should.html" rel="nofollow - what elements of rock 'n'roll should or are required/expected within the prog rock world. This got me started trying to actually make the Venn diagram of prog that I'd been talking about for a while.
First, I put a big circle on a piece of paper with the word "progressive rock" inside. Then I put a circle next to that one in a way that about 30-40% overlapped (or intersected) with the "prog" sphere and labeled it "Rock'n'Roll." Next to this I drew another circle overlapping the same 30-40% with the "prog" circle, named it "Jazz" but realized that this one also needed to overlap with the "Rock'n'Roll" circle. Then I put another circle on the other side of the "Rock" circle, intersecting with both the "Prog" one and the "Rock'n'Roll" one, and labelled it "Classical." But then realized that it needed to also intersect with the "Jazz" circle. The same goes for the "Folk/Traditional" and "World" music circles that I proceeded to try to add: How was I to get them all to appropriately intersect with one another?
Then I realized something more crucial: The tiny little nucleus of the "Prog" circle that is alone, an entity unto itself, that is, supposedly, untouched by the influences of other musics, DOES NOT EXIST!! It finally dawned on me how right TheGazzardian was: Prog, as a singular, independent, isolated, self-creating, self-defining entity does not exist. There is no Prog without any or all of the other music genres!
World (green) Classical (pink)
Prog! (Prog can occur at the intersection of any two or more of the five musical genres cited.)
So, does this mean my blog is now obsolete? So long as music lovers are referring to a category of music that they call "prog" or "progressive rock" then I will continue writing. (And listening!) This does, however, further validate my argument against the "rock'n'roll" requirement(s) of prog. For example, should a song, album or artist create, record, and publish a folk song using classical instrumentation, I might hear it and consider it "progressive" even though it contains no Rock elements. Just as classical renderings of classic prog music have become popular (e.g., 1993's Symphonic Music of Yes, 1995's Us and Them: Symphonic Pink Floyd, a whole mess of KRONOS QUARTET and VITAMIN STRING QUARTET recordings and, most recently, THE MUSICAL BOX's keyboard player, David Myers covering Genesis music on acoustic piano on David Myers Plays Genesis), so original compositions that artists and critics might consider "classical" I might hear and call them "progressive" (e.g. STEVE REICH, PHILLIP GLASS, WIM WENDERS, CLINT MANSELL, HANS ZIMMER). Therefore, let go! Ye listeners with close-minded set definitions of "progressive" music! Or, better yet, let's call it something different. Get rid of the limiting word "rock." Progressive music. Cross-genre music! Multi-genre music! Boundary-less music! Eclectic composition! Mixxed music! Melting pot music! Melange music! Kitchen sink music! Gumbo! Compost! Vampire music! Assimilative music. Tertiary music. Adventurous music. Orphean music. Integrative music. Amalgamated music. Paradigm-shift music. Envelope pushing music. "Outside the box" music. Creative music integration/synthesis. Multi-chakra music. Mural music. Abstract music. Surreal music. Metamusic. Supra-music. Intellectual music. Mental music. Musical smörgåsborg. Musical buffet. Walkabout music. Starving artist music. Jungian music. Experimental music. Affective music. Afferent music. Ionic composition. Libertarian music. Democratic music. Socialized music. Technical music. Filibuster music. Ever-expanding Universe music. Nebulanic or supernova music. Titanic music. Designer music. Gourmet music. Hybridized music. Bio-engineered music. Anti-socialized music. Music of the Stubborn and Reverent. Genius music. Anarchistic music. Archistic music. Symbionic synthesis. Expansive music. Unglaciated music. Illustrious music. Visual music. Brackish music. Foreward music. Innovative music. Novel music. Airy music. Salubrious music. White collar music. Radical music. Rational music. Barometric music. Aquarian music. Expressionist music. Intellectual music. Pioneer music. Exploratory music. Quantum music. Organic music. Musique anthropologique. Esoteric music. Inspired music. Evolutionary music. Maximalism. Glorified instrument music. Musician's music. Instrumentalists' music. "If it ain't progressive then it cain't be prog!" -- Samuel Clemens
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Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: December 22 2015 at 21:01
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The rock moniker comes from the tradition of rock, not necessarily the sound. That said, "jazz rock" fusion comes from the jazz tradition and therefore cannot truly be called "rock." That could stand for other subgenres/bands. But overall, the term was largely meant to describe rock bands progressing from rock. A starting point rather than a sound. ------------- https://dreamwindow.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My Music 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 22 2015 at 21:04
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I think we did the whole diagram thing years ago, Dean might've come up with one. But yours works too. Let's get one thing straight: Prog is a byproduct of Psychedelic Rock. Period. It is not really an "amalgam" or "hybrid" of two or more musics. That's Fusion, or sometimes 'World music' ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: progpositivity
Date Posted: December 22 2015 at 22:01
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I'm 99.99999% in agreement with you. But I suppose the points of distinction are what fuel the conversation, right? So, rather than stating "Yes!" over and over to a lot of your statements, I'll just jump right into those points of distinction. :-) a) Something which relies upon the melding of different categories still "exists" in its own right IMO... For example, Asian fusion cuisine does "exist" as a style of food that is distinctly different from "Asian food". I would defend the usage of the term because if that term did not exist, I would be perhaps unpleasantly surprised to show up at an "Asian" restaurant only to discover a lot of different ethnic "twists and turns" with no "purist" options available. Not only do the foods taste different. There is a functional purpose for using different labels to describe them. It is true that had there been no "Asian" food in the first place, "Asian fusion" (as we know it) would not exist (unless someone invented it in which case we would have called it something totally different and would have contextualized its existence in totally different terms). But, my point is that there WAS indeed "Asian" food and there IS indeed now "Asian Fusion" food. So IMO it does "exist". Just not in a self-contained vacuum. OK - probably just semantics. Not too much to that point I guess... b) Hopefully this point will be more interesting.... Theoretically, progressive music *can* stretch the boundaries of music without intentionally drawing from any particular pre-defined genre or template. In practice, it most often integrates elements from other pre-established genres but not always. (Unless, of course you have a 'catch all' category for 'experimental' or 'new frontiers' which forces everything to fall into a category for tidiness sake...) c) Precious few artists and almost no music styles live 100% in self-contained vacuums. That's just not the way human beings work. We are constantly being influenced (to some degree often even unconsciously) by our experiences. Again, pragmatically speaking, PROG depends to a much greater degree upon cross-pollination as an ingredient of its DNA. So I do know where you are coming from. As a side note, the blossoming of what I consider to be the PROG aesthetic over the last 20 years has in some ways caused the "prog rock" genre to more tightly focus itself as either more "ambitious" music structurally or a kind of "retro" classic prog format. In some ways, I feel like we've entered a post-prog environment. Artists and genres owe a lot to prog without being considered even "prog related" any longer. To them, deviating from the mainstream "rock" template comes naturally. With the barriers to recording and distribution both reduced, concept albums and unconventional arrangements abound. It is no longer very "proggie" to do some of these "artsy" things. It is a great time for music but ironically, a good portion of the music that had some "progginess" to my ears in the context of the time of its release (late 70's, 80's, early 90's) no longer is all that musically distinguishable from music that no longer is all that proggie. Great post. I need to come back and select my favorites from your wide selection of alternative terms for progressive music! ------------- Positively the best Prog and Fusion 24/7! http://www.progpositivity.com |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 26 2015 at 15:48
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Hi, From Prog to Revelations! Now I know why the Rock Hall of Shame will never list "progressive" or "prog" ... because it changes and that change can not longer be a valid description of the genre. We should have known that the word itself is what is hurting. Even "psychedelic" fits better, although we do not like the drug association, and that association is a bit off key anyway, because many of the folks that played it were not stoned or ripped! What a mess this world is! Where do we start cleaning it up? I always thought if any one singe place was good for this, the best would be here at ProgArchives, and that many of the people here could/should/might want to assume a bit of responsibility for it ... but instead, we allow Wikipaedia to be the one to make the terms and the history of it all. Maybe it's impossible to get all of us in one room and not enjoy a cup of tea or a beer. Nothing I would love more ... and meet everyone! The ultimate sense ... of "progressive".   ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 26 2015 at 16:36
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Hi, As I mentioned before, I cam to a lot of this stuff via a huge collection of classical music that was innovative enough to even have Stockhausen, Britten, Davies and eventually the likes of Carlos. Sadly, I think that the advent of rock and jazz music in those days, klilled classical music because the names disappeared over night. Not for me. I had little English at the time, and very bad communication skills what with being in high school, thrown in the 9th grade, only knowing "hello", and "how are you" ... and no one to communicate with that could help expand the language learning and experience, other than what one might consider force feeding. At the time, film was my baby ... and I loved Lean, Kubrick, Fellini and Bunuel, because I could catch them every Sunday night at the Rathskeller ... but in no time, music was becoming bigger and bigger, and i would say that "Hey Jude" was one of the first for me, although we had Beatles and Stones and Ray Charles in Brazil, since 1965. What was important for me, and some of this "new music" was that it gave me a chance to help identify what it was that they meant. It was harder to figure it out, when it was just a song with lyrics on top, and the same musical theme under it, which made it ... very difficult ... so the emotion is the same all the time? Where is the individuality that all the literature and music at our house was saying existed? Here, a lot of popular music failed ... it had nothing but short songs, that meant even less than their relative time span. And there were some albums, that I got personally attached to, even though I still did not know what the lyrics meant. Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed//Janis Joplin and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills//Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are you experienced?//Procol Harum - Wider Shade of Pale//Crosby Stills Nash and Young - First// Creedence Clearwater Revival - First//Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda Da Vida// and a couple of others. All of these, were a lot "less" on the song side of things, and a lot more on the "DEEP' and "intense" side of things. To me, this was excellent, and helped me learn a bit more about English, while at the same time, I learned that the variations in the music itself, was kind of on par with the incredible wide tastes and variances on the classical music that I enjoyed ... I loved the most melodic of them all (Puccini) and then the weirdes of them all (Stravinsky), and this was ... how do I reconcile the two extremes? You don't ... it's the same person ... ask Donald Duck or Bugs Bunny! In 1972, after having just moved from Madison, WI and experienced first hand a major school in America with its issues against the "establishment", including police attacking students in Madison, and the ROTC on campus turning against the students, and us getting frisked going in and out of the Rathskeller where I worked ... and hearing ... that a girl was shot in a school not too far from here, and being that we were seeing lots of guns on the hands of people whose morals and aesthetics were very screwed up! And they were just shooting, like we saw them do it in Chicago only a couple of hours south of us! Your life changes. You move to California. Now, you have a shock experience ... half of life is a fad, the music is only cool when it is on the top 10 and fashionable, and you have to do what everyone else does to be hip and cool ... and you knew right away, that this was messed up. Some of the music lost its strength for me, and while I like The Doors, almost all the other bands from California took a dive ... they lost it and lost it big ... they sold out! You could see it! It was so obvious ... show off your Cadillac, show off your jewells, show off .. anything you can ... and luckily, through a good friend and roomate, I ended up "back in Europe" listening to different things that showed that "meaning" was important, and not just another joint, or a beer! And this was the difference for me. "Progressive" became the more important and meaningful music for me ... the rest was lost and gone. And to me, that was the difference! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: December 26 2015 at 20:03
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 27 2015 at 02:34
Nothing Prog isn't fusion or world music either, by making David's comment into bullet-points you've kinda changed what he said. Un-bulletted he has said, and I paraphrase, '[Jazz-Rock] Fusion, and sometimes World Music is an amalgam or hybrid of two or more music styles'. Prog is not a Jazz-Rock fusion, it remains resolutely Rock even though it employs compositional techniques from Jazz, in the same way that it remains Rock even though it borrows stylistic motifs (and less commonly, employs compositional techniques) from Classical music. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: December 27 2015 at 02:38
| ^ A-ha. Makes sense now. Thanks. |