Most Uncool Band

I have to agree with the hype Green Day is getting a lot of praise for essentially making the same album as the previous ones they were condemned for.

Do you think they would be getting similar praise by the press if their cd was "American Genius", instead of American Idiot?

As the late Bill Graham stated, quote, unquote "a lot of these bands were willing the condemn the Vietnam War, but none were willing to go against their peer group and condemn the taking of acid which created just as many casualities". - Syd Barrett was not the only one

Let's see bands like Green Day be willing to go against their peer group and start condeming e.g. Meth, "ice", political correctness etc. It won't make them any better, but at least they will get honest praise from the press

P.S. On Bruce Springsteen's acoustic tour he insisted everyone be seated at 7:30, yet many times showed up a half hour late. The working stiff would usually get fired for showing up that many times late.

How is he representing the working person he claims to represent, when most working people can't afford his concert tickets in the $200 range?

Actually all the groups on the list have some cool merits - with the exception of "Starship" .

Starship were uncool when they came into being and imo will always be one of the most uncool groups ever. Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship on the other hand are VERY cool.

Norbert wrote: Dream Theater satanist?! Human stupidity has really no boundaries! Falling Into Stupidity...

There's no limit for human stupidity and for fundamentalism, I just was telling what a member told me in his PM answering to one of my posts (Again I don't give names, because if he sent a private message, he must have his reasons, and PM's must remain private).

About a year ago we were talking in Prog Archives about an a$$hole who wrote saying Prog was satanic on his web page and also said:

• All Progheads are pot smokers and smell like pot becaus4e yjey smoke it all day.
• All Progheads are dirty pigs who use old jeans and never wash them
• Progressive rock is satanic, and used King Crimson as an example.
• All Progheads have long hair and dirty beards.

Plus some more stupid things, he received so many messages from members of PA, that he had to close his web site.

Iván

ivan_2068 wrote: [quote}Not sure about that. There is an interesting discussion in another thread about how Gong, Tangerine Dream etc. were maybe forerunners of todays trance-ambient music which is super cool at the clubs and raves. If trance is an offshoot of prog then prog is pretty cool.

I don't agree, people in trance-ambient parties, discos or raves don't give a damn who is playing, which band is which band, even  ELP knowing that, released re-works (A trance-rave mix) to gain new audience, but it was crap even for raves.

People at those parties just follow the beat and the work done by the Dj's adding sounds and synthetized rhythms, this doesn't mean Gong or Tangerine Dream are cool bands, ask any of the guys there who are Gong or Tangerine Dream and 99'9% won't have a fu**ing idea.

I stand in my point, since I'm 13 (1977) and a Proghead, our beloved music hasn't been remotely cool, they called us nerds, trekkies-Sci Fi nuts, Mythological idiots, insane, potsmokers, pompous bast*rds, snobs, etc.

I thought since Dream Theater, Prog Metal was considered cool, but last weel a member of PA told me that they were seen as satanist and addicts (a common stereotype) receiving a lot of pressure not even from Rap or Hip Hop fans (Which are the most today), but also from religious groups, so I believe things are still the same. 

A cool band has the support of the radios, DJ's and musical industry, Prog as a genre never had it (except for a couple of bands).

So I insist Prog isn't cool, never was and most surely never will.

Iván

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Dream Theater satanist?!

Human stupidity has really no boundaries! Falling Into Stupidity...

John Gargo wrote: Out of those listed, I picked U2.  I would rather be sodomized with a rusty steel pole than be subjected to a full album of their material.

Took the words right out of my mouth.