Prog Turns 42 :)

clarke2001 wrote: Yeah, a prog towel for hitchhikers, designed by Roger Dean. Floating mountains have an extra nutritional value.

i'd love a roger dean designed towel :)

dammit loz1 i wanted to be the first to make that reference! somebody give prog a towel!!!

Like rock'n'roll appeared in 1955 or 1956 or 1945.............

maani wrote: I am assuming the 1969 date was chosen because that was the year that In The Court came out.  But ITC did not come out in a vacuum. In that regard, I agree with the member who dated prog back to Sgt. Pepper (1967) - though one could argue (as someone did) that it began as early as 1965/66 - and vehemently disagree with the member who suggested that "Pink Floyd doesn't count because they are not active."  Who cares whether they are active NOW.  The point is that Piper was a seminal prog album, and we are talking about the BIRTH of prog, not its continuance.   In this regard, prog is more likely 45 years old (a nice "round" number) than 42.   Peace.

I am assuming the 1969 date was chosen because that was the year that In The Court came out.  But ITC did not come out in a vacuum.

In that regard, I agree with the member who dated prog back to Sgt. Pepper (1967) - though one could argue (as someone did) that it began as early as 1965/66 - and vehemently disagree with the member who suggested that "Pink Floyd doesn't count because they are not active."  Who cares whether they are active NOW.  The point is that Piper was a seminal prog album, and we are talking about the BIRTH of prog, not its continuance.

moshkito wrote: Xanatos wrote: In the hipothetic case that we all agree that prog itself became officially a genre since 1969 (or seemed to be so) , we can all agree then that our favorite musical genre has turn 42 by the end of the present year :)    I would prefer to think that it goes back a few more years ... and had started even before that ... since there was a lot of black jazz and blues around, some of which got recorded and some which didn't ... and for anyone of us to assume that music never existed simply because we never heard it, is kind of incredulous and insane.   My guess is that music has forever been progressive ... and is now older than all of us put together and then some ... after all Mozart is a massive progression on Bach, Beethoven is a massive progression on Mozart, and Stravinsky a massive progression on Beethoven, and Tales from Topographic Oceans an even more massive progression on all that!   I guess it depends on your perspective ... and your age or child. At any rate ... Happy Birthday!

Seems a reasonable post notwithstanding the confusion between Prog and progressive and Tales does not represent the progressive classical baton being passed to Yes. It's rawk music. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky are not rawk music.

Yes a lot hipothetic case

I personally think 'prog' started 1966/67 both in the UK and US.

I turned 46 last week. Can someone put back the prog starting date by five years to make me feel a little bit younger?