Prog Died in 1979?????

I think I can make an accurate prediction about WHEN Progs will die though... 2040.  Our Huge CD collections will be in thrift stores next to the whipped Cream LPs. So will our 'Larks Tongue' T-shirts. Cuz most of us won't be here.  Some poor kid will be digging through the 1.99 CDs and think to himself... Who the F@ck is Samla mammas Mama?

Hi,

In general, almost none of the new bands around 1979 and AFTER, were not, and mostly are not considered "progressive" and most of them fit in various definitions related to "progressive".

Progressive, NEVER DIED ... and you might consider that the arts, around the world NEVER DIE, and they continue on ... regardless of what specifically they are. Film didn't die in 1979. Literature didn't die in 1979. And music, certainly, did not die in 1979 ... although how they are defined these days, would not be anywhere near the original "progressive.

What died, specially in America, was that the FM radio stations had just about all of them been bought out by the Corporate Raiders ... for a grand rape that took away all the independent and the many bands that came up in the 10/12 years BEFORE 1979. 

As you can see, by the many articles and discussions, many of these bands are getting more affection and comments than they ever did, and the chances are that they are even selling more than before, since now, it is easier to get the stuff ... all through the 70's, we had to drive to LA to get "IMPORTS" for a lot of music and I will venture to state that we helped keep all that music alive ... and the sad thing, is that the real issue is that folks lost the place that they were hearing all the new things, that got replaced by "classic rock" ... that we refuse to take down and hurt the stations that are controlled by the richest companies around in the USA ... and they are ... let's say ... sacred cows ... no one is gonna do anything about it!

It bothers me someone shouting around that it died ... what dies was a lot of our ears, that gave up a lot of music, except the top 5 or 10 that managed to get really well known ... thus making it harder for the "new bands" to make a new road ... I can only hope that you wake up to the story of the arts ... since the 60's ... and how the media spent to much time trying to kill it (in America specially) ... but they failed ... the bands might not be famous now, but they are recognized in just about all the progressive music sites. 

Where have you been? Ears shut down, perhaps?

 Talk Talk was a post punk/new wave alternative band. the same as Radiohead, is from todays standards! 

I know and I am fan of Thinking Plague. Fantastic band! I mentioned in a comment ealier as mentioned the drummer whom partipated in severals RIO bands.

The rest I have to check them out. 

I am listening watching in YouTube now a band called PRESENT! a live performance in 2015. FANTASTIC!!.

Rock In Opposition festival in France.

you must be joking!!!! is that is the case why do you like prog? instead of post punk and alternative rock? the 80's was everything against the 70's!! except the Metal's scene that did quoted prog bands as influences. 

What I mean by dead!!! is that prog rock genre not a music movement as it was late 60's until 1979. 

 Many musicians are embracing the music created but that is about it!!!

that is simply because musicians are more concerned about what will make them money and fill seats at shows rather than creating interesting music, because the average listener doesn't care about music like they did in the 60's and 70's. Radio is dead. Music stores are dead. Sam Ash just closed its doors, Guitar Center is next. People used to do side by side tests on stereos in audio stores for hours before making a decision when the general public cared about music. Stereo systems and speakers were incredibly powerful. Today the average person is more interested in spending $1000 on a bigger screen to watch TikTok. 

 well, vinyl is doing a huge come back!!! but I know exactly what you are talking about! 

With all due respect, in my opinion it is precisely the technical progression that destroyed prog music and music in general. Limitation breeds creativity and there was creativity in spades amongst early prog, it's what separated itself from the ultra popular (and imo extremely good) pop rock of the time. Doing more with less, becoming masters of the limited machines available and getting everything possible out of it. Of course things had to progress eventually and change but it doesn't mean it has been 'for the better'. 

Ok. I am the one that started this controversial topic!!! in another post. 

It is very hard to actually to distinguish or notice a band after 1979 that is actually original. like I said also! the only bands that I might consider original and not even 100% are prog Metal bands like:

Meshuggah ( these guys are pretty original) .

Dream Theater is a band that are great musician mixing prog, fusion jazz and Thrash Metal, great sound they created, but what originality there are in  their songs? 

Porcupine Tree is a band that mixed in the early days a bit of krautrock (Tangerine Dream) Rush, Pink Floyd and King Crimson. Love the band what originality?

Riverside? Opeth?

Opeth mixed  Death Metal with jazz fusion, folk with prog very successfully and made great albums. is that been original? perhaps!!!

I can perhaps continue mentioning more bands but it will not anywhere?

The question is what band is actually creating a new brand (type) of prog? 

It is very hard when we had bands like: Yes, King Crimson, Gong, Magma, Frank Zappa, henry Cow, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Jethro Tull, ELP, Univers Zero, Gentle Giant and Rush. These bands don't sound like each other!