Prog & Alternative Rock don`t mix

Alternative rock is a term used to describe the music of american rock bands, who for whatever reason think they are better than the mtv top 10 list. They do not have the instrumental, nor compositional skills to make anything worthwhile, yet they are too cool to go money machine straight away.

When they do go money machine, they can still acclaim alternativeness, due to the drummer being bald, and the final track on their newest album featuring 4 notes from a violin.

Alternative rock is a term used to describe the music
of american rock bands, who for whatever reason think they are better
than the mtv top 10 list. They do not have the instrumental, nor
compositional skills to make anything worthwhile, yet they are too cool
to go money machine straight away.

When they do go money machine, they can still acclaim
alternativeness, due to the drummer being bald, and the final track on
their newest album featuring 4 notes from a violin.

In My Opinion Prog & Alternative Rock don`t mix  and heres why ....

Alternative Rock is born out of whatever intelligence can be found in Punk Rock , Punk being the genre that tried to KILL prog in the 70`s (but failed) rubbish. Punk was a reaction against acts like the Stones, Who, Rod Stewart etc becoming distant from their roots and playing overpriced stadium gigs. Punks were either indifferent to prog (the big symphonic acts) or actually liked some of it - Johnny Rotten was a fan of VDGG/Hammill and Krautrock, the Damned were Soft Machine fans and were produced by Nick Mason and so on is a good reason why Prog and Alternative rock should never be mentioned in the same sentence , as a mark of respect to our elite form of art (Prog) and those Progressive Titans who got screwed by commerce around that time  ELP, Yes, Genesis, Tull and Pink Floyd all enjoyed some of their biggest chart successes in 1977-78. I'm sure they felt extremely exploited!  ( I have been trying to get you guys to see the light on this subject for awhile now, I hope this topic makes you think about it or perhaps give some interesting thought and ideas to perhaps Enlighten me.  

OK - in 1976 Johnny Rotten played a selection of his favourite music on Capital Radio. The playlist included tracks from Peter Hammill's Nadir's Big Chance, Captain Beefheart and Tago Mago by Can - all highly rated in the archive. In his autobiography there is a photo of him with shoulder length hair in what he calls 'my Hawkwind phase'.

In the Q/Mojo progressive rock special Captain Sensible (formerly of The Damned) writes about his near obsession with Soft Machine. Nick Mason of Pink Floyd produced the Damned's second album. On the release of Machine Gun Ettiquette, Robert Fripp described Captain Sensible as 'the most exciting young guitarist in Britain'.

On their final UK tour Henry Cow went for a few drinks with future members of The Buzzcocks and The Fall in Manchester. Mark E Smith later stated his admiration for Henry Cow in a Melody Maker interview, and Georgie Born played on one of the Buzzcock's later singles.

Steve Hillage formed an unlikely but genuine friendship with Sham 69's Jimmy Pursey, and played with Sham 69 at the Reading Festival.

Daevid Allen teamed up with Here and Now to play a series of free concerts at mostly punk/new wave venues in 1977, captured on Live Floating Anarchy. He then went to New York where he teamed up with Bill Laswell and other young players on the 'No Wave' scene.

Nik Turner of Hawkwind formed the punky Inner City Unit, and the Hawklords tour featured support from punk poet/songwriter Patrick Fitzgerald. 

Brian Eno was the producer of the New York No Wave sampler featuring a selection of New York underground punk bands.

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