"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
"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
It does if what is being presented is Progressive Rock (the genre) rather than progressive rock (the political statement of purpose). Porcupine Tree is reflective of a genre which you may or may not consider ossified. However, it is no more ossified than new Jazz artists of the era sounding as if they were perpetually churning out a Post Bop pastiche.
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a) Can you first explain how Porcupine Tree's Stupid Dream (1999) is reflective of the musical (and thus pop-cultural) virtues that came to define progressive rock 30 years earlier?
b) Please mention some of those "new Jazz artists of the era" (1999), because I'm not sure I know any.
"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
"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
a) Porcupine Tree's starting off point was Pink Floyd. This is what I hear when I listen to their early work. Their middle period leaned a bit more in the direction of 80s Neo-Prog. After that there were lots of power chords and I stopped listening.
b) The Young Lions (who I first saw at Newport performing together). Every one of them sounded like it was perpetually 1965.
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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
^ This is a discussion forum. Opinions are posed, questioned and challenged here. And then we may exchange insights, information and sentiments as to that discussion. For instance about what constitutes Scandinavian versus Nordic languages, like you did on first joining. Sometimes we are presented with rhetorical dilemmas which lead to temporary, lasting, mild or severe trauma when we somehow aren't able to oblige by producing or providing a reply which sufficiently serves our self-image. So we abstain and proclaim how we're not actually interested in discussion after all, how this or that participant is "bad" and how a comment was condescending and offending because that's how we felt it to be.
There is intimate life, even on the internet.
"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
^ I now see how I misunderstood you entirely and thus also why you're pleased. References to Irish phrases always do the trick.
Except that bit about Stupid Dream as standard of measure as to what may denote "progressive rock" as of '99. Perhaps.
"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
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