How Do We Bring in The Next Generation of Prog

What are you even asking?
You should try reading back over what you just said, because it doesn't have a whole lot of meaning and doesn't make a lot of sense.

The next generation of artists, beyond what we have left nowadays - Transatlantic, Spock's Beard, etc.

squirting wrote: I plan to start a band with progressive tendencies one day. Is this good enough?

It is 

I think the topics question is very logical, but's it's very hard to answer. Just one band change the complete musical direction, just as Pink Floyd did. With such a happening a lot of people get involved in the genre and we have ourselves a new generation of progressive rock.

The future of music is however pretty dark. With the technology growing more and more amateurs will be able to make music and release it on the internet. Soon it will be very hard to hear the difference between a professional recording and a symphony of midi-sounds.

Prog supposedly died in the '70's, yet on this site I see there is a new generation of fans and prog musicians.  I have complete confidence that prog will carry on for more generations.  It's good stuff after all.  It won't be exactly like '70's prog, but I don't care.  I grew up with '70's prog, stuck with it in the '80's, 90's, 00's.  If I had children, I might just have made prog fans out of them.  I have encountered more than a few persons in the forums that had a parent or two that liked prog and they discovered it from their parent's music collection.  Just consider the persistence of classical music...

Edited by Slartibartfast - June 30 2010 at 08:54

The future of prog is free jazz and avant-garde

Ironically, the path to prog for the new generation appears to be punk and metal....Band like Muse and Coheed and Cambria started with a largely punk-leaning audience (and were able to score major label record and touring deals this way), before they went more prog...Dream Theater, Opeth and Porcupine Tree can credit their commercial success to their appeal to metal audiences...Then a lot of these younger fans seek out the older influences and find out about more obsucre prog bands...Much like how rap artists drew attention to Parliament/Funkadelic back in the early 90's...

A Person wrote: Captain Clutch wrote: The future of prog is free jazz and avant-garde Somehow I highly doubt that.

No, really, look at the wealth of avant bands coming out lately!  we'll never run out!

That, and extreme metal

Prog was a one-generational affair. Its boomer music. Some late boomer waves adopted epigonic versions of it , for instance Marillion, IQ and Pallas. At this point the genre was already done growing as such. By the period of Generation X prog began its decline. New bands that were influenced by Prog were smothered in Heavy Metal and Alternative. Whatever prog sensibilities they had were just as epigonic or more so than the neo-prog wave, but on the whole they abandoned the most important aspects of prog. The only enjoyable modern prog act I've heard is Phideaux, but he is a very minor and insignificant figure. Not even the nuprog bands, taken at face value, are anywhere near as significant as the prog bands of the 1970s.

In another generation Prog will further deteriorate as against modern pop and alternative. If this doesn't happen, it will be because all three will be replaced by a completely new, prog like type of music. This however, will not happen unless there is a cultural revolution like in the 60s which created prog. This is unlikely, as culture today is growing more reactionary.


Edited by RoyFairbank - June 30 2010 at 16:05

This is a silly thread.