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   American midwesterner, 56 years old, which means I was there at the 

beginning of prog and fusion. In the '60s listened to Pink Floyd, Jethro 

Tull, Hendrix, Harvey Mandel, Santana, etc. Looking back, I consider Led 

Zeppelin a prog band. Heavily into fusion in the '70s, everything from 

Miles Davis to Weather Report to Mahavishnu to Bruford to Pat Metheny to 

Jan Garbarek to Eberhard Weber, etc. Ardently avoiding most popular 

music in the '80s, so I actually missed the emergence of metal and shred 

and industrial -- which are all prog offshoots IMO -- people who take 

music seriously, and take seriously the idea that music can be pushed in 

new directions and taken to new levels. Now I listen to just about 

anything that seems to have an "edge" to me. Still pull out things from 

every period -- with blues being a constant -- plus recent additions 

including Planet X, Bozzio/Levin/Stevens. contemporary King Crimson, 

Greg Howe, Trey Gunn, Tool ... And I wish most prog rock singers would 

just 

shut up. 

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Sir Realist Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: May 24 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 38	Posted: May 24 2005 at 17:54
	American midwesterner, 56 years old, which means I was there at the beginning of prog and fusion. In the '60s listened to Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Hendrix, Harvey Mandel, Santana, etc. Looking back, I consider Led Zeppelin a prog band. Heavily into fusion in the '70s, everything from Miles Davis to Weather Report to Mahavishnu to Bruford to Pat Metheny to Jan Garbarek to Eberhard Weber, etc. Ardently avoiding most popular music in the '80s, so I actually missed the emergence of metal and shred and industrial -- which are all prog offshoots IMO -- people who take music seriously, and take seriously the idea that music can be pushed in new directions and taken to new levels. Now I listen to just about anything that seems to have an "edge" to me. Still pull out things from every period -- with blues being a constant -- plus recent additions including Planet X, Bozzio/Levin/Stevens. contemporary King Crimson, Greg Howe, Trey Gunn, Tool ... And I wish most prog rock singers would just shut up. Edited by Sir Realist
	I can have double standards, and you can't