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Deepinder Cheema
Deepinder Cheema
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Edited Jan 03, 2009, 01:23
Re: Prog Britannia
Jan 03, 2009, 00:04
Jane wrote:
zphage wrote:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2d7eeeba-d14f-11dd-8cc3-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

...the emergence of a bold new trend in music-making, which would, for a brief period, dominate the world’s album charts...Prog rock was a deadly serious affair. There was no room for irony...

Here were the essential tenets of prog rock: virtuoso musical skills, applied to any song with limitless indulgence; poetic flights of fancy that turned language into an enemy of meaning; brazen yet leaden showmanship (see Spinal Tap); and extremely long hair.


Gah! Honestly, what a pile of sheer COCK. There really is some prize wank wanked over by musos about 'prog' rock. What, pray, is the problem with being able to play your instrument? And what's wrong with making music that is varied, original, indulgent, has weird time signatures, long symphonic sections, instrumentals lasting 20 minutes or more of big, sweeping tunes and complex instrumentation? And what's FFS is wrong with long hair?

If you (the reviewer, not you zphage!) don't like it, then that's one thing, but it doesn't make it crap or meaningless, it just means it's not to your taste.

For the most part I love 'prog'. It's probably my favorite rock genre. I'm sure the programme tonight will mention ELP, Genesis, Tull, Yes, Camel, and so on but I bet it won't mention my own progtastic heroes: Focus.

So many bands owe so much to prog and it never went away. Not in my world anyway.



I mentioned Focus!

Jan for Jane : http://flickr.com/photos/24959568@N04/2404897286/in/set-72157604509209301/

I just seen it - all the usual prejudices - judicial editing for the trailer - amazing personal witness testimony regarding Schizoid man at Hyde Park - and *Mothers in Erdington, but a lot of the premise I don't subscribe to, oh and the biggest 'class' or music fraud Bob Harris, all that promise, yet he probably secretly grooves to 'The only way is up' by Yazz.

They could have mentioned Animals by Pink Floyd, but it may have not suited their Symphonic metaphor - as its nihilistic and 'progressive' at the same time - which journalist decided that Thick as a Brick grew in time to be a prog classic as the programme indicated? I don't.

* The Mothers Club Erdington High St opp St Barnabus Church closed in Jan 1970. If you peer up the side entrance the grafitti is still there: 'Out Demons Out'
http://flickr.com/photos/24959568@N04/2371449349/
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