The fathers of Prog Metal

Svetonio wrote: dr wu23 wrote: ....I never thought of The Who as 'prog metal'......always thought of them as 'power pop/classic rock'. I thought of The Who as Rock.  Entwistle was invented that "metal" bass sound, that's all.

deafmoon wrote: My vote was Other as I feel pretty strongly that Deep Purple fits the bill of Prog-Metal. Sabbath were never Prog, not even when keys entered into the picture on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

Yeah Deep Purple can be an honorable mention here. I mean, I look at guitarist Richie Blackmore and what he was doing with deep purple and then he took that edge sound with his guitar and blew the bloody doors off when he flipped over to start up Rainbow. Rainbow has some 'Prog metal' material, especially with 1975's Stargazer but I would never list deep purple or Rainbow as a papa to Prog metal. Just my opinion though ;)

My vote was Other as I feel pretty strongly that Deep Purple fits the bill of Prog-Metal. Sabbath were never Prog, not even when keys entered into the picture on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

dr wu23 wrote: I wonder if Townshend knows he was one of the fathers of prog metal....?   ;)

The Who because of great John Entwistle's "metal" bass and because of their 1969 / 1970 shows.

Edited by Svetonio - September 04 2013 at 00:19

So, still missing the point then.

^ ummm? Think I like this idea of forefathers and grandfathers. Ok I'll play.

If I had a prog metal family tree I would hope it would look like this.

Grandmother--Queensrÿche ( queen is female lol)
Grandfather--Fates Warning
Parents-- Mom--Iron Maiden of course (bit of a bitch though lol)
               Dad--Dream Theater (great dad lol)
Siblings--Symphony X, Angra and Savatage

Cousins---Psychotic Waltz, Haken and Royal Hunt

And of course their is always the weird, dirty little red-headed step child that nobody wants to play with cause they are a little out there.
They would be...
Cynic, Tool, Animals as leaders and Devin Townsend

And that ladies and gents would be my family or birth rite for prog metal. It's a nice family. I swear.

VOTOMS wrote: Iced Earth is much more progressive than Iron Maiden and they  aren't here.

Well, there's a late-comer who's completely missed the point.

verslibre wrote: Awesome, nonetheless. Was Jeff still playing with Bogert/Appice, or Middleton/Chen/Bailey?

Beck was with the original Rough and Ready band ...Tench, Middleton, Powell, .... it must have been around 72 or 73 when I saw them. I distinctly recall Tench on vocals...can't recall who was on bass, drums and keys. 

Edited by dr wu23 - September 03 2013 at 09:41

octopus-4 wrote: What about Blue Oyster Cult? I think them and Uriah Heep are the precursor of prog-metal, but it can be my ignorance of the genre.

Blue Oyster Cult are typically known as 'classic Rock.'
Don't fear the Reaper is a good example of this. ;)

Uriah Heep I don't know much about, but I think they are kind of like early Rainbow, so they could have sparked the birth of 'Hard Rock' as Rainbow did. I'll have to look into that more deeply cause Uriah Heep have been around a very long time. ;)