Second Tier early 70s UK Progressive Rock Bands

Hi,

And I think it was a DG/Chris Spedding duet in Roy Harper's "Playing the Game Pts 1-5" ... that one was massive and far out!

I know, and you mention not all are uk, so just cleared the country for this group.

Excellent music by the way.

Meant to get it a few years back but it got lost on the list of things to buy.

Hi,

I kinda thought that the EBB fit all those terms except "symphonic" since we only use that term when KEYBOARDS are used, and the EBB did not use them a lot earlier on. They didn't need to, since the lyrics drove the band and the ideas at the time. For all intents and purposes, Edgar is STILL a very adventurous and politically concerned person, and it was part of the band. 

Pete Brown & Piblokto ... is more of a nice thing to have to get an idea, but the sad thing about all of Pete Brown's stuff with anyone else but Cream, did not quite make it, and often sounded rather sad. It was as if the folks did not understand the lyrics, and could not interpret it musically without a format already used ... as his words appear to be fine in many of the efforts. Just slightly misused.

Reminds me of Syd Barrett's solo albums, and how folks interpreted the stuff, and end up making a not so great mess of the whole thing, and Robert Wyatt describes it better, on a song that they are trying to nail down, and the lead guitarist asks him what chord is Syd on? And Robert's reply, is the scariest thing for all musicians in this board! "He doesn't know the chords! He just plays!" ... meaning you have to listen and stick with what he is doing, and most musicians can not do that without "knowing" what key things are in!

I kinda thought the same thing about Pete Sinfield, when people tried to make "songs" of his words, and it didn't quite work well. The lyrics required a certain freedom of music that simply was not there, and those folks were trying to put conventional structures to his words, and the combination was not very good, when compared to how his words were used in other places, and specially used by Greg Lake, who probably knew that those words were not exactly to be "sung" as much as acted out first.

(Kinda makes a distinction between musicians and artists?)

Not least when it's very obviously that the opener is much engaged in the topic.

Please don't take it personally. It was an opinion, not a criticism.

It's all subjective remember.