is youth losing its roots?

I disagree. I think people who SHOULD know about prog will know in due time.  There is no hurry. Though, I hate when people are using prog definitions to describe their music, when actually they know next to nothing about the genre itself, but using its name because of its coolness. If you thought 'Prog' is not cool, then think again. I've got a friend who plays in a band and is the main composer (main and only, actually), he is influenced by Dream Theater and Marillion and Symphony X (well.. I gotta admit, SymX was my doing.. :) ) . Anyways, so he's composing songs with 5 'variations' or something like that and tells everyone its a prog song and that currently he plays progressive, which is driving me crazy. So you see, I can barely define prog myself, as I'm quite amateur (1 year) and he knows next to nothing about musical properties of the genre, yet he seems himself as a Progressive composer. He is quite obssed, because composing something complex is cool. So you can also see the danger of prog becoming mainstream..

 

 

 

ranger wrote:  to paulieg          ; ;              Do you know that the U.S. has over 20 million Iraqis here.      maybe one of them will take your job  or better yet, murder someone in your family; lets se   how you feel about forieghs then.   By the way  im an italian american also...

so, you are a foreigner too

I'm born in 1989 and I got three people into prog by playing Gentle Giant. Guess there are enough people in my age out there who would like prog if they knew it but they have never heard about such a kind of music. So it is not surprising that most of the people in my age listen to such non-essential stuff like Green Day, The Offspring or Blink182 .

But to the people in my age: We can change that. Just give some friends of yours prog-cd's and for sure some of them will like it.


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Lindsay Lohan wrote: There is surely a difference between making mainstream music and being popular...the mars volta makes music as complex as vdgg and gg...they just make the music better...and therebofore they are more popular

Not really... mainstream is just anything that isn't underground. I'm pretty sure you can get TMV CDs in normal high street shops (not just CD shops). As soon as a band becomes popular, it's mainstream, whether or not if it's trying to. If it's trying to, I guess it's pop, or something like that.