I'll kick it off with this epic prog tune by Sir Elton John:
I'll kick it off with this epic prog tune by Sir Elton John:
Led Zeppelin
Boston Long Time
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UFO featuring Micheal Schenker
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM7L...yer_detailpage
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Grateful Dead That's It For The One/New Potato Caboose/Born Cross Eyed, ie the first 18 minutes, 30 seconds on this video:
Grateful Dead Unbroken Chain
Grateful Dead Weather Report Suite
Klaatu
David Bowie
"Normal is just the average of extremes" - Gary Lessor
Grateful Dead Blues For Allah
Grateful Dead King Solomon's Marbles
Around the universe in 80 days, Hope, both by Klaatu (although I think Hope could be classified as Klaatu's progressive album).
Alice Cooper: Halo of Flies
Tommy James & the Shondells: Changes
Cast Your Spell Uranus and Lothlorien - Argent
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
McCartney - Band on the Run, Live and Let Die, Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Grand Funk - Closer to Home
Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Miami 2017
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Funny- I read the thread and before I scrolled down the first two I thought of were the same as here: Funeral for a friend and Achilles last stand
Judas Priest - ALL of Sad Wings Of Destiny (love it too).
Eric: "What the hell Hutch, it's all Rush, what if we wanted a little variety?"
Hutch: "Rush is variety, Bitch! Rule number one: in my van, its Rush! All Rush, all the time...no exceptions."
From "Fanboys" 2009.
Amazing songs. I think it shows how some of these artist had the talent and ability to write prog stuff, but just chose not to over indulge in that arena.... rather keep the focus on song craft and or writing great songs. I think a lot of prog bands failed miserably in that department... weird, trippy creative stuff, but no song anywhere to be seen. This still goes on today.
I think it is hard to draw the line as to whether or not a band is prog or not. Led Zeppelin is a perfect example of a band that wrote some of the best prog songs. Jones, maybe didn't have the chops of Rick Wakeman, but he understood composition, texture and how to support a song with keys in a way that many other better players didn't have.
In the Light, No Quarter, Rain Song, Song Remains the Same, Achilles, Stairway, Kashmir, Ten Years Gone...some of the best songs they did were certainly prog classics on their own.
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