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Points: 514 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2010 at 10:19
I'd say symphonic rock became progressive at the same time that progressive rock became symphonic.
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Points: 13481 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2010 at 14:27
Originally posted by fuxi fuxi wrote:

Perhaps I should add that, back in the 1970s, we did not actually speak of "progressive rock" but rather of "progressive music" in general.

I guess the idea was that any far-out experimental music (Stockhausen, John Cage etc.) could be included. The underlying idea was, of course, that such music was much better for humanity than the "commercial" music produced by dance acts or teen idols.

Whenever you hear someone say on Progarchives that the music of Yes, Genesis etc. was never meant to be commercial - well, I suppose that's a remnant (naive or not) of this sort of belief!

This is my recollection too. In El Salvador (and Central America in general), we used the term "Comercial" when we refereed to the pop/radio/dance music of the times. The music from bands like yes, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Genesis, etc, was known and refered to as "No Comercial" for lack of a better term, and later, I believe it was towards the end of the 70s, was clasified as "Música Progresiva". This music was quite exclusive and hard to find, so not very many people knew about it, and it made you feel like you belonged to an elite group of music lovers.
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