Much ado about nothing.
I didn't get through everything that Bruno posted, but I think Derek Shulman had the best take on it.
The quotes Bruno posted were interesting. Most of the artists involved saw it the same way I experienced it in the 70s. Rock music combined with Classical and Jazz and the fact that artists known then for making progressive music using Rock rhythms varied greatly in sound from one another. It's why my friends back then saw the Afro Prog artists like Mandrill and Osibisa as just part of the greater progressive scene that emerged from the late 60s
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
they pretty much confirm what I've always said about the term "prog" and the idea that progressive Rock music was always multi-cultural and multi-national; never centered around British artists (as the Symph Weenie revisionists make it out to be)
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Btw, I agree with whoever said that what these guys think is pretty irrelevant. They didn't invent or choose the term, and if left up to them, no genres would exist, because, you know, each band is so unique that they can't possibly be put into the same category as another band.
Does the keyboard player wearing a cape classify a band as Progressive Rock?
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
ok, I'll quote them
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
There are only two kinds of music in the world: What I like and what I don't like. Period. End of paragraph. Everything else is outside my own head and therefore not my problem. There's plenty of music, even new music, for me to enjoy. That's all that matters to me.
Mongrel dog soils actor's feet
Definitions from now on are slim but absolutely definitive and unchangeable through perpetuity.
Purely musical or strictly cultural assets and/or virtues aren't the main thing at all. You simply have to have played one of these:
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"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Soundcloud page: Richard Hermans, musical meanderings https://soundcloud.com/precipice YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/@richardhermans4457
And I really like the PROG magazine cover with that Focus quote ...
...and then Neal Morse right underneath. Coincidence or is their anti-Morse bias showing?
Either way it's pretty funny.
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