Wow, thanks for the information!  I wasn't sure what the musical scene in Sud America was like!  

Funny....in Chicago, when the weather is warm, we have street musicians who play pan pipes, guitar & flute, playing the native music you mentioned!  Many times, they are really outstanding, I'm very fond of that music and even play a bit myself on guitar!  

Glad you are in the family, this is a very diverse and interesting bunch on here!  Cheers and adios, Chuck p.s. this is one of the groups I saw playing on Michigan Avenue, I bought one of their CDs and I love it!   In many ways, this approaches prog rock!

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Man, I canīt think of a better description of the situation of this genre in my country (Colombia). Here al Progarchives.com I believe thereīs me and other Colombian...As my neighbor from Venezuela says, the prog scene in this part of the world (except for Brasil, Argentina and probably Chile) is practically inexistent, no bands come (or came in earlier years...), people know something of Pink Floyd or Genesis but thatīs it, the radio stations are filled with native rhytms, etc...i guess you get the idea. Our only source of knowledge is the web and great websites like this, so my congratulations to all the members of this family called Progarchives.com.

Just a anecdote for you to know: David Gilmour once came to do a concert in my hometown (Cali, Colombia)...you know what happened? People started booing and throwing bottles and things at him...so he ran...

Saludos desde Colombia. Keep Progging!!!

 

 

i've met some Venezuelans in the USA who like Dream Theater and some other prog related bands--some of them were musicians so that could explain it--

Yeah this is so disapointing.....

(I live in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Nice to meet you

Sounds like a tribute band of the highest order!

That sounds awesome.  Trading prog albums with people is one of the best ways I can think of to spend a Saturday. 

 

* evil laugh *

 

 

Well at least you've got Neal Morse don't you? 

DT comes here regularly. Mono is coming quite soon. Metallica and some German power bands are pretty big here. 

In record stores, you can get some big classics like Beatles, Queens, the Who, DT, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Muse, some Pink Floyd stuff, guitar heroes like Vai, Satch, etc. If you look hard enough you'll find latest Sigur Ros, Kate Bush, Decemberists, Alan Parsons, Yes (best of albums), Kansas (Best of), Eric Johnson (not prog but i like him). I could go on, but the importantly you need to look 'hard enough'.

 

I think it is quite backwards for people in general to react that way. With all the garbage released today and these people are making negative comments about underground prog music from the 70's? These types are too stupied and ignorant to simply accept prog as a style of music that has a cult following and a history of interest from those in the world that personally like it. Some of these types are so ignorant that they can't understand or conceive facts. Instead they persist on a mission to single out anyone that finds the music interesting and further making shrude and insulting but annoying (sometimes funny), remarks that are judgements. They apply the same old methods of making a person feel less about themselves with insults ...and from various viewpoints of the music. The cheesy synth, Dracula's mellotron, the drummer plays too fast and can't play a normal beat, Take in to account that they are stating that he can't and not won't. If they were to meet Dave Stewart ..thay would insult him and he would just find it laughable. Prog or rock journalists are annoying and sometimes insulting enough , but crap like this you just have to let it roll off your shoulders. It's bad enough that Ian Anderson has to hear about Aqualung when he is interviewed or tours and although a nice collection of songs it might be, he probably grew tired of journalists who failed to inquire about some his more epic works of melodic complexity.

 

 These people you are making reference to should travel in a time machine back to the 70's and observe theatres and clubs packed with hundreds and thousands of kids who just spent 75 percent of their paycheck to see prog. Their version of normal music is based on a specific concept of songwriting. You have to have a hook, a progression that follows the hook in a clever but catchy way, if the subject matter in the lyrical content is appealing to folks than there must be a line of the lyric that will stick in people's minds. "I Want to Hold Your Hand", "Stone In Love" or "God Save the Queen". Underground prog of the 70's was part stylistically based on how a writer proceeds to compose a musical. Zappa's 200 Motels was a progressive rock musical. "Contrasong" by Egg sounds like it belongs in a musical. Obviously you must  have the talent and ability along with some contrived ideas such as selecting the specific melody line and lyric for your audience to relate with in a pop song, but your ideology about music is deeper and more complex as you would think they might use a percentage of their brain and go the distance. Elvis has just left the building.  

If  THEY only knew !  

It's a shame that Focus is not known at all amongst most of the youth here. But most people above 40 know them, or at least Jan Akkerman.

I'd strongly dispute the notion that they do in fact forget their favourite songs from few years ago.  If anything, they associate it with nostalgic memories just like any other music listener.   It is more profitable for the industry to promote new singles so they don't try too hard to revive the works of old artists.   Even so, several pop artists from the 60s, 70s and 80s are well remembered to this day, just not all of them. 

I saw them live many years ago, late 80's or early 90's, great concert!