Sootickle
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Re: nasty prog
May 09, 2005, 18:44
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You lot do realise that we could have this discussion about any genre of music. I'm unsure as to why prog rock, with more than it's fair share on pompous twaddle, gets singled out
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keith a
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Re: Roger Dean, ABWH, suckathon 89
May 09, 2005, 18:47
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I honestly think Design is one of the most mental pieces of music I've ever heard!
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Jim Tones
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Derek Shulman interview from 1991
May 09, 2005, 18:48
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http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/interviews/derek-rubin.html
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keith a
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Re: Derek Shulman interview from 1991
May 09, 2005, 19:02
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Nice one. Interesting that the interviewer was a Brian Wilson fan who didn't like prog but liked GG! That's me!!
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Jim Tones
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Re: Derek Shulman interview from 1991
May 09, 2005, 19:11
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Also, interesting that Ray Shulman is now a successful record producer (Sugarcubes, McCulloch etc.)
Check out the Shulman brothers on this site about 1960s 'beat combo'- Simon Dupree & The Big Sound.....
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~peterkin/
I loved their single "Kites" when I was a kid.
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Dog 3000
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Re: nasty prog
May 09, 2005, 19:49
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Cuz prog is "officially uncool", that's why . . . .
While we're on the topic, what's the general opinion on WISHBONE ASH?
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Jim Tones
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wishbone ash
May 09, 2005, 20:27
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I don't go for that sort of thing.
They were really quite popular amongst classmates in high school and I think it was 'Argus' that was the favourite.
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Dog 3000
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Re: wishbone ash
May 09, 2005, 20:47
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I bought Argus for $1 a couple months back, it's the only one I've heard . . . recently reading a bit about them found out that 1) they were very popular in the UK c. 1970-73, 2) "Argus" was their big hit LP.
My take is -- some decent guitar playing, but not much in the tune department . . . not sure if this is considered a "good" album of theirs (often a band's best seller isn't their best record.)
But I like it better than any Genesis album I've heard . . .
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Jim Tones
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Re: nasty prog
May 09, 2005, 21:02
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I've mentioned this before (lots of times!), but it always intrigues me that in recent years, so many of the people involved in 'the punk years' (players as well as journalists), have suddenly 'come out' as being prog fans in the years before 1976, yet they wouldn't have dared mentioned it in interviews or articles etc. when the 'new wave' was coming up.
To me, it was such a relief when everything changed in the mid-seventies, as things were getting overblown.
But to hide what you used to listen seemed ridiculous.
John Lydon and Mark Perry couldn't give damn about 'hipness' though....then and now!
Apart from VDGG and early King Crimson, I find I listen to an early Yes/ELP album now and then (not too much!), as a strange sort of nostalgia thing to remind me of friends / times from years ago etc.
I remember when Magazine released their debut album in 1978, whispers of 'progressive punk rock' were uttered in the music press.
Yet why did Howard Devoto not mention listening to Yes in his earlier years in interviews of the time ?....and wait until 2002 for his 'confession'!
Oh the demands of 'Hipness' are so very strange!
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Billy Milk
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Re: pavlov's dog
May 09, 2005, 21:22
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well, if it's looking for a new home i'll worm it and take it walks... cheers
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