Any Progressive Rock fans
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elemental
Wherever you go, there you are.
I've never really paid attention to the labels applied to music. I listen and see if I like it, and listen to more if I do. Since most of my listening was done through radio stations, I was probably a "victim" of the recording companies marketing more than anything else. Even so, my set of things that I listen to is fairly far ranging, at least within the era when I was more or less actively following music. Lots of bands were doing what the above definition calls "progressive rock", weren't they? Because that was what got them on the radio, or it is because it is what they wanted to do as artists, or whatever. But ultimately there must be some kind of feedback loop. An artist who does what they want and people don't like doesn't get a lot of airplay.
07AKDSPRINTER
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Then there is Mike Oldfield.........
ECU
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I worked as a DJ at a "Beautiful Music" station.
The station was AM low power at night. The Station manager and Program manager were a bit laid back.
My job interview was in the control room. The record was playing and the two had a baseball game. One would hit a wad of paper with the back of a note pad. Aim was at the tone arm of the record. The PM would then use an empty coffee cup to catch or block the wad from hitting the tone arm.
Mostly, the music was 1001 Strings type stuff. One day I played everything at 45 rpm and nobody noticed. Another time I dug through the albums and found all the different Theme From MASH versions and played Suicide is Painless for over an hour.
The station was sold and the last sign off, the SM played Jimi Hendrix's National Anthem.
I put it in my resume as an Album Oriented station.
Yea, a wonderful Resume. A radio station that was no longer on the air and a University that changed it's name after I graduated.
The station was AM low power at night. The Station manager and Program manager were a bit laid back.
My job interview was in the control room. The record was playing and the two had a baseball game. One would hit a wad of paper with the back of a note pad. Aim was at the tone arm of the record. The PM would then use an empty coffee cup to catch or block the wad from hitting the tone arm.
Mostly, the music was 1001 Strings type stuff. One day I played everything at 45 rpm and nobody noticed. Another time I dug through the albums and found all the different Theme From MASH versions and played Suicide is Painless for over an hour.
The station was sold and the last sign off, the SM played Jimi Hendrix's National Anthem.
I put it in my resume as an Album Oriented station.
Yea, a wonderful Resume. A radio station that was no longer on the air and a University that changed it's name after I graduated.
dharmasprint
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Ever heard of payola? It wasn't quite as overt as in 50s but in the mid 70s onward with the music formats and jocks no longer allowed to choose what to play, in order to get a song or artist onto the radio, the inducements by music reps were, concert tickets, cocaine and hookers. This was all paid for out of the musician's royalties under the guise of "marketing expenses".
3Play
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Bora Bora:
"I really don't think there is a definition and everyone uses their own. Personally, if it wants to be prog rock it would have to have a lot of synthesizer, a Hammond organ and Leslie speakers for good measure. But then "Dark Side of the Moon" should qualify but I would not call it prog rock even though I agree that it is one of the best albums of all time. The album is way to popular to be PR
"
"For what it's worth:
The Tubes -- too glam to be PR"
I think some was prog, some was new wave, which in itself "could" be prog...
"Focus -- yes, the fact that only 8 people alive have ever heard of Focus makes it a very good candidate"
LMAO!!! Who??????
"Talking Heads -- too punk to be PR"
Same opinion as Tubes, some of it is Prog.....
"Cream -- too bluesy to be PR"
Agreed, although some of it may be prog. I consider cream to be "Honky Tonk Rock, which I stay away from, but Blind Faith, ahhhh they are another story!!!!!
"Jethro Tull -- too monotonous to be PR. I own 3 Jethro Tull CDs and wonder why. They are completely interchangeable."
ROTFLMAO !!! Agreed.... Sort of like the Grateful Dead, but with a lot more class!
"Rush -- to Canadian to be PR
Holy $#!T !!! OMG!! That's hysterical!!! (But some was prog...) I liked the instrumentals, but had a hard time swallowing the screechy vocals...
Laughing MAO at this, thanks!!!
"I really don't think there is a definition and everyone uses their own. Personally, if it wants to be prog rock it would have to have a lot of synthesizer, a Hammond organ and Leslie speakers for good measure. But then "Dark Side of the Moon" should qualify but I would not call it prog rock even though I agree that it is one of the best albums of all time. The album is way to popular to be PR
""For what it's worth:
The Tubes -- too glam to be PR"
I think some was prog, some was new wave, which in itself "could" be prog...
"Focus -- yes, the fact that only 8 people alive have ever heard of Focus makes it a very good candidate"
LMAO!!! Who??????
"Talking Heads -- too punk to be PR"
Same opinion as Tubes, some of it is Prog.....
"Cream -- too bluesy to be PR"
Agreed, although some of it may be prog. I consider cream to be "Honky Tonk Rock, which I stay away from, but Blind Faith, ahhhh they are another story!!!!!
"Jethro Tull -- too monotonous to be PR. I own 3 Jethro Tull CDs and wonder why. They are completely interchangeable."
ROTFLMAO !!! Agreed.... Sort of like the Grateful Dead, but with a lot more class!
"Rush -- to Canadian to be PR
Holy $#!T !!! OMG!! That's hysterical!!! (But some was prog...) I liked the instrumentals, but had a hard time swallowing the screechy vocals...
Laughing MAO at this, thanks!!!
3Play
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Ok, Pat Travers....
Canadian rocker, but he had a hit in 1980 that was IMO Prog.
I remember being impressed with a cut time triplet feel on the high hat and the sort of odd cut time rock beat that it was floating over.
And the serious Hammond/Leslie, but with pitch bending...
When I revisited this song I realized the organ parts were outstanding and I was thinking this was some bad ass jazz organist who got a synthesizer with pitch bend and knew how to use it!!! The bass player was no slouch either!
I was shocked to discover it was Pat Travers (Guitarist) who played the organ part!!!
Holy Crap!, The song, although a hit, was probably over the heads of the top 40 crowd, the record label cancelled him, he sued and won, then went back to the standard rock format.....
Great tune, but on later tours, he left out the organ and it's not the same.....
Canadian rocker, but he had a hit in 1980 that was IMO Prog.
I remember being impressed with a cut time triplet feel on the high hat and the sort of odd cut time rock beat that it was floating over.
And the serious Hammond/Leslie, but with pitch bending...
When I revisited this song I realized the organ parts were outstanding and I was thinking this was some bad ass jazz organist who got a synthesizer with pitch bend and knew how to use it!!! The bass player was no slouch either!
I was shocked to discover it was Pat Travers (Guitarist) who played the organ part!!!
Holy Crap!, The song, although a hit, was probably over the heads of the top 40 crowd, the record label cancelled him, he sued and won, then went back to the standard rock format.....
Great tune, but on later tours, he left out the organ and it's not the same.....
78YZ
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Classic! That's some early prog. 😁
I still remember the posts all over town when they played at my local High School in 1974. Focus Hocus Pocus. I didn't see the show. I was about 14 at the time.
dharmasprint
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An album by Quiet Sun, Phil Manzenara's pre Roxy music band is being released next week.
woodjoints
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WhenI was in middle school I remember liking Emerson Lake and Palmer. In retrospect I think I just liked the guy's drum set. Now days I don't see the appeal of it, much prefer blues and country based rock. For some reason at this point in my life I REALLY like the country flavored Eagles tunes (ie Tequila Sunrise) and the cos play country Rolling Stones (Dead Flowers etc). Probably for the same reason I like camping.
My daughter who is in her early 20's likes "Math Rock." I think if you like progressive rock from the 70's you might like this contemporary version.
My daughter who is in her early 20's likes "Math Rock." I think if you like progressive rock from the 70's you might like this contemporary version.
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