It was quite interesting with the flipside thing too - the Rick Wakeman's and Tony Bankesesess of the scene wanting to play something more immediate and, for want of a better word, rocking, than the classical orthodoxy they'd been tutored in. In a way, you could argue that prog was liberating for some musicians from the extreme ends of the rock n roll - classical spectrum. The rockers wanted something more and the classicists wanted something less!
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