Posted on 07/21/2011 5:35:30 PM PDT by MarkL
Last week, we asked our readers to vote for their favorite progressive rock bands. Looking over the results, it's a real pity that only two of the bands are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Here's hoping that the class of 2012 is entirely prog. (Just imagine the epic jam between Yes, King Crimson and Rush – the stage would buckle under the weight of the countless people that have played in the first two bands.) Anyway, until that magical day happens, click though to see the results of the poll.
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I think that’s Ringo
My first college roommate was from Baltimore, so he was a huge Crack the Sky fan.
I lived 60 mi from Pittsburgh, so they were local lads
I really am kicking myself for not seeing Gilmours On an Island Tour, especially since it would be the last time to see he and Richard Wright do Echoes in its entirety.
I saw Pink Floyd.
Good Point with out Allan Parsons there would be no Dark Side of the moon. So Yes instead of Rush we should move Floyd to 1 and add Alan Parsons into the 10. IMHO!
Not sure I would label them as “the best prog rock band”, but I can say WITHOUT HESITATION what the best prog rock album is.
Thick as a Brick.
I know this is a whole different thing, but I think it is way cool.
Redneck southun Allman Brothers playing homage to Pink Floyd
And without the late Eric Woolfson, there would have been no Alan Parsons Project. Ian Bairnson is probably the most underrated guitarist ever.
Just as long as you don't do like the Grammy's and call them the "best Heavy Metal rock band."
Well, their kind of stuff was known as "space rock" back then.
Lemmy Prog Rock? Who knew?
Does Hawkwind count as prog rock?
Only better
The Polish Singer, Czeslaw Niemen.
He was probably the greatest musician/singer nobody outside of Poland has ever heard of.
Bema Pamieci Zalobny Rapsod - A Mournful Rhapsody In Memory of Jozef Bem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAeOMVJ4ijc&feature=related
Then there is Janos Kobor of Omega, from Hungary
IT all seems a bit over the top now, but these guys were really pushing the limits in soviet territory at the time
EVERY TIME I listen to TAAB, I hear something new I never heard before.
Of course that’s true of Tull’s music in general, they were very complex song writers who modified and re-worked melodies over and over.
In that respect, it’s almost classical in flavor.
(And I say all this with Aqualung in the CD player... Wonderin Aloud!!)
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