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Sasquamo 
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 Posted: October 03 2006 at 16:39 |
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Personally i think rock progressed as far as rock can go in the 70s. there will always be bands that continue to make music that sounds like the great prog acts of the 70s, however i dont think there is any room for any actual 'progression' in the rock genre any more. that doesnt mean we can't experiment though. |
Are you kidding me? I think that all genres of music can go farther, no matter how far they've already progressed. Rock definitely has plenty of room to progress. Whether advantage will be taken of that artistic room soon or at all is a different story...
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 03 2006 at 16:55 |
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Yes, yes, and progressive rock has so much more room and opportunities than, say, Blues or pop.
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Froth
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Posted: October 03 2006 at 18:23 |
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Im sure you can experiment with rock still, but i dont think theres anywhere left to progress. any innovations in rock music will merely be making wierd combinations of things that have been done in the past. Personally i'm very dissillusioned with the whole genre of rock at the moment. too many people wanting 'Rock'n'Roll!'.
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 03 2006 at 18:30 |
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Well, it depends on the people and how they get what they want. If by "wanting rock n' roll" you mean you hear alot of Grunge, pop and hard rock on FM radio, then yes, straight rock is almost as popular now as ever. But the whole challenge of prog was to show what was possible within a *rock format* (drums, bass, guitar, keys with an edge from blues) and still make amazing music, and that idea is still viable.
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#1floydfan
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Posted: October 03 2006 at 20:02 |
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well since the worlds music is fading into rap i would think that it would eventualy... must i say it fade away
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Posted: October 03 2006 at 20:54 |
Atavachron wrote:
Yes, yes, and progressive rock has so much more room and opportunities than, say, Blues or pop. |
I disagree. You ever heard Jandek? Only place I can classify him is in Blues... and he deserves a genre of Progressive Blues just by himself. 
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The Wizard
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Posted: October 03 2006 at 20:57 |
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Prog is the future of music. We are entering a prog revolution. Mainstream bands are taking a seriously progressive approach to music and introducing kids to the classics. I'm seeing it first hand as a high school student.
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 03 2006 at 22:13 |
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Duck: No, never heard Jandek but I take your word for it and am sure there are a few evolutionary blues cats. Good to hear it.
Wizard: Also good to hear (and you'd know, being in your teens). I hope you're right and I look forward to the second (third?) coming of prog!
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Posted: October 04 2006 at 02:56 |
PROG IZ DA PHUTURE OF MUSICK!!!!!
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 04 2006 at 03:03 |
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...the past and present, too.
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jplanet
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Posted: October 05 2006 at 18:30 |
Well, I hear there's this band Shadow Circus that may be doing some prog in the future....  (puts hands in pockets, whistling...)
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 07 2006 at 00:20 |
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Kidding aside, describe their music, I couldn't find them in archives.
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moodyxadi
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Posted: October 07 2006 at 14:08 |
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Progression or development of music genres will always xist - for better or worst. Prog rock as a genre is dead, and I can't see any sign of reali life in rock'n'roll as well (rock'n'roll music). Heavy metal is the only rock subgenre where I can see any kind of ral mutation ... ut for worst. The energy that always was a characteristic of this gnre ws lost, and the great number of power metal/porg metal acts just show this fact to me. They're neither prog nor metal. That's the reason why I'm looking more and more for the roots of modern western music. As a listerner, I feel more pleasure looking back than to our days. Hope I'm wrong, but the points of the youngsters in this forum of how great this or that band is just make me sad.
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Bach, Ma, Bros, Déia, Dante.
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Atavachron
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Posted: October 10 2006 at 18:21 |
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I wanted to revisit this thread once more before it dies completely-- so tell me, where *do* you see prog going over the next ten years or so? Styles, technology, trends, innovations, rehashings...remember, a new generation of young musicians who were enamored by prog rock (the old and new) will be coming on, what will they bring to the music?
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Posted: October 10 2006 at 19:39 |
I think that in the future prog will be the next mainstrem....
Somehow that sounds like it won't happen in the history of man...
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Selkie
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Posted: October 10 2006 at 20:06 |
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The energy that always was a characteristic of this gnre ws lost, and the great number of power metal/porg metal acts just show this fact to me. They're neither prog nor metal. |
Yeah, a lot of prog-metal bands seem to play distorted riffs for the sake of being heavy, and forget the point of being metal. The heavier end of prog metal is generally more experimental, imo.
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Posted: October 10 2006 at 21:07 |
Zepology101 wrote:
I think that in the future prog will be the next mainstrem....
Somehow that sounds like it won't happen in the history of man... |
Well, it could be said that in the *past* prog was mainstream. Take a look at the music charts for the early/mid 70s; prog was everywhere doing quite good business: Yes, Mahavishnu, King Crimson, ELP, Tull, the list goes on and on...what a magnificent time! 
Edited by Atavachron - October 10 2006 at 21:08
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MadcapLaughs84
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Posted: October 11 2006 at 12:18 |
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It's hard to know, sometimes the only thing you have to do is wait. But I think Prog Metal is reigning not only in prog but also is filling the Metalheads that look fo something different.
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honganji
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Posted: October 11 2006 at 13:44 |
This is a monologue written in Japanese by more than 30 years progressive rock fan. This is my deep grief.
日本語で書いた、年寄りの独り言と思ってくだされ  型を追ってばかりでは、将来は暗いのぉ。将来の主流が云々言うでなく、それこそ、何でもありの自由な発想がプログレッシヴ･ロックの原点だったのに、いつしか先人の作ったスタイルを追うことで満足するようになっていやせぬか？
はぁぁ...
行き詰まりを感じる今日この頃。
演奏水準は確かに高い。楽曲もそれ自体はよく作られている。しかし、押しなべて、色気がない。いや、表現に難しいのだけど場の雰囲気を一変させるほどの、何がしかのカリスマ性に乏しいと言うべきか。そういうのが、本当に多く感じられる。
もっとも、一流というのが少ないのは、今も昔も同じなんだろうけどね。 
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Posted: October 11 2006 at 21:04 |
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Bassists are deadly
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