Harry Hood wrote: cstack3 wrote:   Prog was also most popular in the 1970's, when marijuana was widely available & commonly used!  Even the musicians used it (many of them anyway) from what I've read.....TFTO was supposedly conceived during a trans-Atlantic flight, when the band Yes were stoned on hash brownies!!  Concerts in the 1970's were so thick with pot smoke that you could barely see the stage.  These days, concerts are so antiseptic that they are not nearly the "event' that they used to be.   If anything marijuana is more widely used and available now than it ever was back then. In the 70's pot was much more demonized and something of a niche, but these days it's become a major part of popular culture (despite it's illegality), and you can even get a prescription to use it legally in some parts of the world. You can't smoke in venues anymore but that's simply because you can't smoke in venues anymore. But the correlation between decreased marijuana use and decreased prog popularity is just silly.

This is one reason why...lol

The reason people hate prog is because its too confined in its own specificities. You have to be familiar and like the whole rock thing to like it. Prog is very deliberate. Someone mentioned about rap and the simple following of the rhythm at the end of each line.... That's a construct prog fans aren't so comfortable with, and likewise for rap fans vis a vis prog.

Pop really borrows from everything, its goal is to follow the trends and meet the expectations of the music business. I don't feel its an independent genre. Rap also borrows from pop, but its got some clear identifiers. 4/4 time is used by everybody, and some historical pop is very good, in fact at one time Rock was the pop of the era (1960s).  

Prog_Traveller wrote: Because they are morons? ;) I just got back from Rosfest and there were maybe 600 people there. 600 people out of six billion(actually well over 6 billion). How many prog albums sell over 6,000 copies these days? Not many.

Slaughternalia wrote: Alitare wrote: Prog_Traveller wrote: Because they are morons? ;) I just got back from Rosfest and there were maybe 600 people there. 600 people out of six billion(actually well over 6 billion). How many prog albums sell over 6,000 copies these days? Not many. Maybe if they weren't so stuck up on being unmemorable, melodically uninventive, needlessly complicated, and rehashed, maybe they'd sell better. ;) That must be the problem. I mean the charts these days are overflowing with innovation!

i would even put the f**king Beatles above this rot.

Do I look lke a goof ?  Well maybe sometimes. A lot of people say, they let this guy near an aeroplane? Actually one of my navs felt very safe with me.  If you want a hero photo I'll try and get one. How do you like the Rick Wakeman Chair?.




Edited by Vibrationbaby - May 26 2011 at 10:53

i f**king hate prog. I am a sucker for punishment. A sado- masochist. The worst progrock band has to be Gentle Giant. Octopus has to be worse than Céline's  At least Derek did the right thing and discovered Jon Bon Jovi. I hate prog that's why I listen to the goddamnn crap every day.

I just figured out why we hate our music. It's because we are not people. 

I think there are many reasons, and it's different for everyone.  Some people would probably love prog if they were exposed to it, some people may have heard it and just need to hear it a little bit more, some people are closed-minded, and in some rare cases, some may even be physically allergic to it.