Losing interest in prog

I guess a lot of prog fans are more fans of progressivity, i.e. not of prog as a music style, if we mean with prog all rock-related music that goes beyond the most common features of rock/pop music. That progressivity was more often found in the old prog rock of the late 60's / early to mid 70's, when artistic thinking in rock was not ridiculed by the music press, than nowadays when 9/10 bands sound unimaginative. Nowadays I think there are even more prog bands than there used to be 40 years ago, but very few of them are progressive in their thinking - and I think that is the thing that makes you lose your interest.

I agree with you that there's so much more to find in jazz and classical music. For example the new generation of Nordic jazz musicians (esp. Norway, Sweden and Finland) are nigh on revolutionizing the genre. And contemporary art music has stylistic and musical richness that pop/rock music can only dream of, but very few know any of these works because art music has become too marginal phenomenon; that music is seldom performed live and there are even fewer recordings. Of course there is still a lot to find in old classical music (and I believe the early 20th century music will speak to many prog fans) and I urge everyone who doesn't puke at hearing for example RIO/avant-prog to start listening to the art music of the last century.

Grendel IS a recycling of Supper's ready from a band that was still setting up its sound. Grendel was released as a promo and didn't appear on any official album until B'sides Themselves. This doesn't mean that Marillion are a clone. They took inspiration from Genesis then developed their own style. Grendel is very distant from Misplaced Childhood isn't it? There should be a reason why I've been a fan of Marillion and I've never been a fan of Genesis.

Apart of this comment, prog is so various that I can loose interest in a part of it (currently I don't listen to much neo-prog), but my interest into other subgenres is increasing. 

Sometimes I think the process of this musician who can't bare to NOT play like Tony Banks is pathetic. All musicians need to do is experiment more. If you want to invent a more interesting innovative prog style of composition you have to play Classical music and Jazz daily as a practice and then you might come up with an idea which differs from the typical prog music formulas which are constantly used. Gentle Giant based on counterpoint, Yes, Genesis, and ELP based around Classical music and so musicians tend to keep their spirit alive by concentrating more on what these bands created from Classical and not what they..themselves could create from the style. Prog needs Jazz and Classical on the menu so you should create the music yourself by investigating those styles first and listening to your innovators second.

How do you think Fripp or Banks came up with these unique ideas? It's a stupied concept because musicians today emulate the sound of these characters instead of locating the original influence which was period music or Avant Jazz. This is what has killed prog for me. You can even cop a line from Penderecki's sacred choral works, reverse it, change it's structure around and it becomes a beautiful complex signature line for a prog piece...but no, musicians would rather run to the recordings of Fripp and steal his ideas...and trying different reverse procedures of those ideas ...which it all starts to sound the same.  To be influenced by a Classical composer does not mean that your end result will sound like "A Passion Play" or "Selling England By the Pound". Or to say that the essence of the Classical music combined with a prog rock mentality will always sound like the music of the prog innovators is incorrect depending on how creative you are. A structure of notes written by yourself can differ from what people in the past have written. Some ideas for prog songs are un-explainable... however when musicians write the idea they also must come up with a structure of their own for the piece to sound original. If they can't create that on their own..it's because they need to go back and study more and stop the nonsense of playing along with "Fracture" 3 times a day. That will destroy your creative mind and you will find yourself writing things that sound like Fracture most of the time. Do you see how ridiculous this is?