Who Was the Most Prog Beatle?
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Topic: Who Was the Most Prog Beatle?
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: Who Was the Most Prog Beatle?
Date Posted: September 25 2014 at 19:09
| Who was the most "Prog" Beatle? |
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: September 25 2014 at 19:33
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Yeah, George. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 25 2014 at 19:34
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^ Yep, Blue Jay Way, man
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: September 25 2014 at 20:17
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probably gonna go John on this one. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 25 2014 at 20:50
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Paul, definitely. He was the only guy in the group really into the idea of concepts and suites. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 03:58
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George with John as second. George was the one who introduced some Indo-elements and Here Comes the Sun has some time signature changes.
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Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 09:16
This. Don't know exactly why I voted George except for the Indo elements.
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someone_else wrote:Posted By: Friday13th
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 09:19
lol Ringo and John are tied 
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 09:21
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 10:22
| John's Tomorrow Never Knows pretty much put this thread into effect, din'nen' it. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 13:22
| George should be in proto-fusion-related. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 18:50
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Probably equally Paul and George I'd say. John wasn't too bad in the Beatles, but his solo stuff does diddly-squat for me....
.......and Ringo, well, at least he hooked up with Barbara Bach....... |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: September 26 2014 at 23:39
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Paul, for me! Also he came up with very silly song titles which I love
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 03:13
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None of the above. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 04:02
Party pooper 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 04:41
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Clarence ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 05:08
Often called the 5th Beatle we all know the influence George Martin had on the Beatles recordings but we tend to overlook that he was a composer and musician. That piece of electronic music, (later recorded by an orchestra and later still by a little known Prog band by the name of Van der Graaf Generator), contains everything he brought to that party to the extent that it actually sounds like a collage of dozens of Beatles records - there's bits of Revolver in there, bits of Sgt Pepper, bits of Magical Mystery Tour - the trumpet refrain, the sawing cellos, the organ crescendo, were all musical touches that Martin the musician introduced into those Beatles tunes that lifted them above the ordinary. To me, Martin with the Beatles was like Wakeman with Yes: Anderson, Squire & Howe had the tunes and the ideas, but it was Wakeman that brought those disparate ideas together with his musician's touch and expertise. John, Paul & George had the tunes and the ideas, but it was Martin that brought those ideas together because he was a musician as much as he was a producer - he made the Beatles sound "proggy" (for want of a better word).
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 05:15
Martin was their last manager I think during Sargent Pepper etc. but even Paul McCartney himself has said, "If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was Brian." Brian Epstein.  
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Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 05:21
| I have 4 choices and picked McCartney if I had to pick another I'd pick Eric Clapton because my guitar gently weeps is classic! :) xxx |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 09:12
Since Eric Clapton is now a Beatle and My Guitar Gently Weeps is prog, I'd propose to make this poll entirely freestyle  ... let me try something .. would you describe this1987 Astrud Gilberto + James Last album as: (1) Baiana-In-Exile prog (2) Prog-related pop big band (3) "Ai, ai, ai, que coisa louca" prog  |
Posted By: Kati
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 11:04
hoh wait Argonaught, you are pushing it a bit far there hahaha! No one here is discussion how prog the Beatles are on this forum topic even if they were at the forefront in my opinion to be honest and Clapton in this topic makes perfect sense, however your freestyle is a bit too advanced here 
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 12:32
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 13:01
 he wasn't a musician and was never called "the 5th Beatle" (or 18th or whatever).However, you're the exspurt, I concede the point.
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 15:07
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^Stu Sutcliffe, Brian Eptein and Billy Peston were also refered to as "The Fifth Beatle" at different times in the press. Time to add Geoff to the party.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 27 2014 at 20:05
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by the current reckoning that makes him the 39th Beatle. ------------- What? |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 28 2014 at 10:22
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 28 2014 at 13:41
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the 39th Beatle was a jest, following on from Mitch Benn's Fringe comedy routine...
The point of the skit is that several people have been called the 5th Beatle but there was no 5th Beatle, the phrase I used was "Often called the 5th Beatle". ------------- What? |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 06:34
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George. To release albums like "Wonderwall Music" and "Electronic Sound" with its moog synthesizers... That's pretty progressive.
"All things must pass" was a triple album, also a proggy move, even though the songs were no prog. But didn't Ringo compose something for ARP synthesizer? All 4 have some amount of prog in them, I suppose. But I vote for George. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 11:24
| Allthese "Who was the most...Beatle?" threads are useless and can pretty much answer themselves. I prefer the lads as just being who they were. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 11:43
^Have you noticed all of the different responses? 
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 17:52
| Oh boy! |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 18:34
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^I'll take that as a no.
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: October 09 2014 at 09:39
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Yoko! Her early solo or Plastic Ono records should be filed under "Krautrock". ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: October 09 2014 at 09:43
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Ringo was extremely prog. Though Yoko Ono definitely should be in PA and in all prog rock and art pantheons: ------------- 
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: October 09 2014 at 09:52
Yoko a Beatle? Talk about "Land of the Lost." |