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    Posted: September 27 2020 at 06:21
Progressive blues-rock is not hard to be detected among the songs that are from the late sixties. For instance, Family and Jethro Tull had some great ones. However, in the seventies, the bands were rather rarely recording blues-rock songs that could be considered as "progressive". Doesn't it seem that experimenting with the blues form was out of fashion in the seventies? Post your faves and discuss. I'd like to start the thread with these two songs by Smak.


Smak - "Plava pesma" (1977)





Smak - "Sumadijski blues" (from "Smak live in New York" tv documentary, 1976)








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Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" from 1974-1975. Three-chord blues structure in G-minor (mostly)...


A lot of musical analysis has been published dissecting this piece. Here's one...
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Up to today, Came's music has a lot of influence from the blues.
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I know this is probably more blues-oriented than it is progressive, but they are listed in the archives and it's actually quite refreshing to hear Blue Oyster Cult do flat out heavy, blues-rock.  From their album "Cultosaurus Erectus", it's "Divine Wind".

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Many great 70's prog blues rock bands....Steamhammer, Gravy Train, Groundhogs, Wishbone Ash, Ten Years After...

oh my '69....well...it is what it is...Wink




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Pink Floyd's Shine on You Crazy Diamond has already been mentioned as a progressive rock song with blues elements (and it is progressive rock, based on both time signature changes and compositional structure).

I would suggest this Led Zeppelin song is perhaps the most progressive blues song ever written, particularly if you compare it Memphis Minnie's original 1929 acoustic Delta blues version....



And let's not forget how Robin Trower showed that there is really no limits regarding the construction of a blues composition....



 




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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

And let's not forget how Robin Trower showed that there is really no limits regarding the construction of a blues composition....


 
Yeah... why isn't Robin Trower on this site, even if only under Prog Related?
 
 
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

And let's not forget how Robin Trower showed that there is really no limits regarding the construction of a blues composition....


 
Yeah... why isn't Robin Trower on this site, even if only under Prog Related?
 
 
What Robin Trower has to do with such prog giants as Talk Talk, Dr Spira and Nine Inch Nails?
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Originally posted by Boboulo Boboulo wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Yeah... why isn't Robin Trower on this site, even if only under Prog Related?
What Robin Trower has to do with such prog giants as Talk Talk, Dr Spira and Nine Inch Nails?
 
For one thing, he was guitarist and vocalist in Procol Harum, who are on this site.
 
 
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Originally posted by Manuel Manuel wrote:

Up to today, Came's music has a lot of influence from the blues.
Like for example this song from "Nude".

Camel - "Lies" (1981)
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I think Svetonio..er Booboulo was trying to be funny....of course the bands he mentioned have nothing to do with prog blues rock. And Trower of course does.
For that matter I don't see a great deal of quality in the 'prog blues rock' of Smak either.
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Originally posted by Boboulo Boboulo wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

And let's not forget how Robin Trower showed that there is really no limits regarding the construction of a blues composition....


 
Yeah... why isn't Robin Trower on this site, even if only under Prog Related?
 
 
What Robin Trower has to do with such prog giants as Talk Talk, Dr Spira and Nine Inch Nails?

So now your adding NIN to your prog giants list.....First it was DT is the biggest prog artist ever and now NIN is a giant.
I am soooo glad you are here cause you make me laugh very hard.........Thanks for that!
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Smak - "Blues u parku" (1975)
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by Boboulo Boboulo wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

And let's not forget how Robin Trower showed that there is really no limits regarding the construction of a blues composition....


 
Yeah... why isn't Robin Trower on this site, even if only under Prog Related?
 
 
What Robin Trower has to do with such prog giants as Talk Talk, Dr Spira and Nine Inch Nails?

So now your adding NIN to your prog giants list.....First it was DT is the biggest prog artist ever and now NIN is a giant.
I am soooo glad you are here cause you make me laugh very hard.........Thanks for that!
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Frank Zappa - "Road Ladies" (1970)





Frank Zappa - "The Illinois Enema Bandit" (1978)







Edited by Boboulo - September 27 2020 at 14:39
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aren't Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull both blues influenced prog?
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I'm shocked, shocked that Boboulo does not argue that progressive blues is actually psychedelic blues! Shocked!
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Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

I'm shocked, shocked that Boboulo does not argue that progressive blues is actually psychedelic blues! Shocked!
I bet he'll come along and say that blues isn't really a genre and a style of jazz, and prog blues is in fact early Zeuhl, or something equally ridiculous. 
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