David Gilmour hates prog : -)

HAHAHA...........I have ALWAYS questioned whether Pink Floyd were truly progressive....and those comments by David Gilmore are proof that once again I am right.............haha...nah I'm just joking......I mean that section of the interview was taken at random.....we have no idea what preceded or followed those remarks.....You can basically assume anything from those statements.

.........Maybe he was joking, who knows.....in order for me to comment on that section of the interview I would have to read the whole thing and establish what context was being proposed....It's sort of watching a news cast or a film, and there is editing done to make you see the point of view of the creator.

If David Gilmour is serious and not joking around, I wouldnt be surpirsed....after all, Robert Fripp has said many times that he HATES the term PROGRESSIVE to describe his music.....and there is certainly no debating the context of his remarks....Fripp is damn serious.

Also I would like to comment on the dangers of trying to over label and categorize, putting bands into boxes in the process....this is why I refuse to acknowledge progressive BANDS, but I will acknowledge only progressive MUSIC....I seriously doubt that any member of Pink Floyd thinks of themselves as being progressive....but yet we veto their imput and label them as progressive anyway. For example...John Lennon SWEARS up and down that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is NOT about LSD....but some of us will forever see it as a song about LSD, because the listener has taken over the aim and content of the artist's work...this happens of course, it is a natural process. A piece of music is the property of the artist, but once that music leaves the hand of the artist, in a way it is no longer his....so therefore we could basically say that Pink Floyd is prog because that is what some people feel....regardless of what the HELL the band members say.  

We have TOLD these bands, commanded upon them....THAT THEY ARE A CERTAIN TYPE OF MUSIC AND THEY CAN BE NOTHING ELSE.....and that is WRONG.....Phil Collins once remarked.."prog music was something Genesis DID, but that's not all Genesis IS"......

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Yea.... Its a good topic

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Gentle Ronnie wrote: oliverstoned wrote: -Nursery crime -Selling england -Foxtrot Best three, but not the only good ones. For me, Lamb, Trespass and the first two Collins albums are masterpieces as well.

Totally agree. And Genesis Live and Seconds Out. Everything else is pretty poor.

David Gilmour is just too full of himself. He's not that great on the guitar. I personally prefer Syd Barrett. Roger Waters may be too arrogant as well but Pink Floyd actually needs his creative genius. Division Bell and A Momentary Lapse of Reason, the two Waters wasn't there for, were the two worst Pink Floyd albums in my opinion.

ya because Rick Wright is such an a**hole as everyone says,

by the way I'm being sarcastic