Prog Friendly Cities?

Hi,

The thing that makes these things "progressive" is how they all came up at the time as the film and theater and the other arts, and were using experiments, and improvisation as one of its main forces of design and emphasis. I don't exactly enjoy considering Neu, Harmonia, Kraftwerk and many of those early bands as "progressive" per se, since they were trying to learn anything that was already being done within the context of classical music and within the studies about many other cultures of which the International Show in the Olympics (72) was an incredible showcase that probably gave folks like TD, KS and many others a good idea what could be done with the electronics. But the other set of musicians, were more into the sounds that could be made and added to a beat to create a nice rock sound. 

I don't assume anything. But seeing us "Yanks" (to use your expression) and not knowing any of those names is a different story. I don't think they know "enough" in order to be able to say a whole lot, although I imagine that folks in NY get a lot more arts and get to see and read a lot more than the rest of the country. 

NY is probably the hottest center of experimental and progressive music in the world ... with one problem ... FINDING IT! And no one, even the "we Yanks" telling us something about it, is not visible, and it's really hard to believe that people are so thin and uneducated when it comes to film, theater and music, and only know the top ten of everything. 

NY will, likely, know a Klee ... but in Nashville, or Portland (OR), or even Seattle? Who's that?

The educational level and differences are a huge issue ... NY is full of the arts of all kinds. In Seattle the word arts means the same crap that is seen in the arts and crafts show every year ... the same ribbon winning folks ... and they think their art is what the arts are all about.

If people knew these things better, and discussed it some, it would be another story. It's like reading any discussion on David Bowie and not a single person can see the connections to some other form of theater, for example. It's sad, and it discredits the real source of it all ...