Posted on 11/06/2017 3:59:29 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
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Maybe you should invent the new genre “Conservative Rock”
I’ve dabbled a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfco_qVwG58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJMBTMkHHuQ
A bit late to make the cut for inclusion in the Washington Post writer’s big book of prog rock...
http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/david-weigel-prog-rock-book.html
The Washington Post’s David Weigel Makes a Case for Prog As Rock’s Greatest Rebellion
By
David Marchese
May 25, 2017
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/18/534577902/can-t-prog-rock-get-any-respect-around-here
Can’t Prog Rock Get Any Respect Around Here?
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Heard on Morning Edition
“Here is musical sterility at its pinnacle. A band that has absolutely no soul, no feeling in the music,” critic Lester Bangs declared in 1975. The target of his derision? The British progressive-rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Bangs disdained the band’s objective, as he saw it, “to play pre-set solos as fast as you possibly can, [at] breakneck speed, and do it for about five hours.”
That critical contempt of prog rock as a bloated, pompous genre was one thing that prompted David Weigel to write his new book The Show That Never Ends: The Rise And Fall Of Prog Rock. By day, Weigel reports on politics for The Washington Post. But he used to write for Slate, which encouraged staffers once a year to write about something off their usual beat for a feature called “The Fresca.” That’s where Weigel pitched stories about prog rock — the complex, polyrhythmic province of bands like King Crimson, Yes, Asia and Genesis...
http://www.npr.org/2017/06/13/531929205/prog-rock-gets-some-respect-in-the-show-that-never-ends
Prog Rock Gets Some Respect In ‘The Show That Never Ends’
June 13, 20177:00 AM ET
JASON HELLER
The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
by David Weigel
Hardcover, 346 pages
David Weigel is known primarily as a political reporter for The Washington Post and a regular commentator on MSNBC. In 2012, though, he indulged in an entirely different passion for Slate: He wrote a five-part series of essays about progressive rock called Prog Spring, chronicling the rise and fall of prog in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Weigel focused on the genre’s major players — bands like Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer — while giving an engrossing account of why and how a generation of rock musicians decided to ditch primal simplicity in favor of ornate, brainy compositions that owed more to classical and jazz.
He’s since fleshed out Prog Spring into a book, The Show That Never Ends, and it comes at a curious time. Prog luminaries like Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fill stadiums year after year, but the music itself is still a cult concern, mostly irrelevant to popular music in 2017. That, however, is Weigel’s whole point: While prog experienced its heyday way back in the ‘70s, it embodies a push and pull between pop and innovation, between commerce and art, that persists today...
Actually, not bad.
Brings to mind Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, or even the Moody Blues.
That was actually quite good.
Envy is such a destructive emotion.
Thanks!
Wish I could have put in that dancer.
Thanks!
Seeing King Crimson myself in a couple of weeks....still able to shred minds at will.
Saw Crimson open for Yes many years agoooooo..great musicians
I saw Yes.
Does Edgar Winter Group qualify?
great Band, Edgar Winter frankenstein would fit, Rick derringer
this stuff is very eclctic, best on headphones, Zero Hour
https://www.soundclick.com/html5/v3/player.cfm?type=single&songid=83031&q=hi&newref=1
I got pulled over back in the early 80s the cop asked me why i was in such a hurry I told him Edgar Winter frankenstein was playing and I got a bit carried away he wrote me for 10 over the speed limit instead of 25 true story
Not possible to drive below 70 listening to Frankenstein. Same with opening bit of “Close to the Edge”.
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