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moshkito
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I don't think, for one second, that the USA did not have anything at all ... there was a heck of a lot ... People's Fair ... near Stevens Point /// June 26/27 and 28 in 1968. (I think it was '68) Buddy Rich, Taj Mahal, Ravi Shankar, Buffy St. Marie, Paul Butterfield, Terry Reid, Steve Miller, Amboy Dukes, Chuck Berry, Seigel-Schwal Band, SRC, Crow, Mason Profit (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), Morgan, Bloosmbury People, Tayles, Soup, Browsuilk Station, Sugar Loaf, Tongue, Bowery Boys and many more it says ... I only remember half of these! The real issue is that London, specially, had a press to discuss these things, and the USA did not. There was no periodical in Madison that alerted this to us, and I stole one of the posters so I would not miss it and not get there, or buy a ticket. All in all, I knew quite a few of these, even though they got no air play at all ... but Madison, was much hipper than Chicago in those days, and at least guns were not used on a certain group of people and on the crowds on the street for a concert! Which, no doubt would take your attention away from music anyway ... except for me the unforgivable ... Sly and the Family Stone did not show up on this crowd and it almost turned into a riot when the police showed up armed to the teeth and the balls. Your romantic and political notions take a huge hit ... and London, while not the nicest place of all, at the very least, had some decency and respect for some of the arts, rock music included, something that America's media made a serious point of trashing because they all looked dirty and ugly! The spirit of the music, is magnificent and valuable ... and to me, things like Chicago 1 and Chicago 2 are the perfect example of the time and place and lots of psychedelics were not necessary ... while in London the highest fashion and richest folks were flaunting their ability to get stoned and not give a sh*t about anything. I'm sorry ... I find the comment scary and perhaps lacking clarity. Sons of Champlin were not exactly street kids doing Motown, either! And black players always had a home in Madison's clubs. A very progressive and far out place at the time, until the Kent State shootings when the ROTC and the National Guard, encircled the campus and frisked everyone, to make sure that the breasts were real under the clothing. That's progressive for you! I'm sure London had it much easier than the really bad stuff that some cops did (IRA not included) in a couple of American cities took the liberty to destroy a scene and the music. It pretty much only continued in a couple of places (East and West) and the middle of the country? Forgot it every happened! And they still talk like it didn't, including the VietNam War. Sorry ... soapbox fell apart, finally!
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Excellent answer from the far side of the pond, thanks! I grew up in a solidly middle-class American neighborhood, and many of my chums had fairly nice guitars (Gibson SG mostly) and decent amps. However, really talented players were few and far between, and even though I had minimal classical training, I evolved to be one of the better players. When lightning strikes....something happened in the UK that didn't in the US, and I'm still not sure of what it was. We certainly did lead the world in rhythm & blues/Motown for sure, another one of my favorite musical idioms! Cheers, mate! |
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I think it still comes down to whether you had private or state education; I was at a state (comprehensive) school in the mid 70's and we had no 'formal' music education at all although there was a down-trodden and well meaning music teacher.. but the lessons were chaos and we learned nothing. There was a small music room with a few battered instruments and this was where I first got my hands on a bass. But your parents had to pay if you wanted any kind of formal music tutoring and it was usually tailored towards the local town brass band. The kids I knew who were into interesting music and could actually play all went to the Grammar school or private school.. in fact nearly all the bands I got involved with were made up of kids who went to private schools with the odd scummy comprehensive kid for cred.. Both my kids (now grown up) were very musical and the local state school teachers did all they could to encourage and enable them to progress within whatever style they preferred with the limited funding that they had which was a hell of a lot more than I got when I was at school!
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Could be. I've found that most people of that age group were into the melodic hard rock like Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin. You know. All the classics. Most Americans don't even know what prog is from that era i'd bet.
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Indeed. Is Deanlessness a word? I’m pretty sure it is. |
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The Brits seemed to have had more formal musical education in their schools than we Yanks did. At least, that seems to me to be how musicians such as Peter Gabriel and others were raised, learning keyboards, woodwinds, percussion etc.
American teachers really didn't give a damn. I was in our school band about age 10 to 12, playing trumpet, and we mostly played martial marching music and rubbish like that. The only classical music education I received was in school choir, which was a blessing in that I met other young people who ultimately were into prog and rock. One of my chums introduced me to King Crimson when I was about 13 (1969). Not sure if the Brits have the same old traditions in their schooling, what with budget cuts etc., I bet they don't have the quality of schooling that they used to have. Perhaps Steve could chime in from Lazland? Cheers!
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Edited by SteveG - June 05 2018 at 07:52 |
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I'm not even sure about that: at their beginning, Pink Floyd was as avant-gardist as Zappa and the MOI (at least, on stage!), and I'm not sure that some American psychedelic bands such as Love wouldn't have developped in a style close to the sympho stuff. That said, as it has already written higher in this thread, I guess that the English bands develop their own genre from their musical roots, such as the Spanish and the Italians did... Now, I wonder what the hell happened in Germany and France!
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@silLLy puPPy: I think that there's also a fundamental difference as to what each group felt as to what constituted progressive rock at that time. The US was more into avant-garde i.e. Zappa/Beefheart et al, while the British were heavily into orchestral/symphonic forms. The common factor seemed that both had elements of psych rock.
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I thought you were implying that there are Brits that boldly claim they are inventors of blues and jazz. Glad you made everything clear. :)
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I didn't read every post on here so this may have been brought up but i think the reason is that the US has never been as hip as Europeans. The masses are not as sophisticated in the high arts and thus the complexities of fusing disparate genres of music hadn't caught on. The few bands that did make a mark often were imitating the greats of mostly England. There are the notable exceptions of course but while the UK may have been ground zero for prog, metal and countless other genres, the US was the cradle of jazz, R&B, ragtime and was where prog and metal found a happy life together, so in effect the US is a much younger nation and before the days of the internet, much of what was happening in Europe only trickled into the most dedicated seekers of extreme music. Nowadays, the floodgates are wide open.
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^ Absolutely! If ever there was a question with dean's name written on it, this it!
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Steve G: Blues and R&B may have African origins but they are considered American musical forms.
That's the general take on it......but regarding prog, where's Dean when you need a nice long erudite post on why prog is an English and European thing..? ;)
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so who was the Brit or European musician who said he'd invented jazz or blues? :)
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who laid claim? I'm curious :))))
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I know I'm looking for trouble with this post, but does the term "yanks" include the black bluesmen that invented the genres mentioned above? At least the Brits worshiped the blues, they never meant no disrespect. Do you know the case of Sister Rosetta Tharpe who barely got any work as a musician once Elvis and other r'n'r artist became big? It was a British jazz musician that saved her career asking her to come play & sing in the UK and Europe.
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Something that's never said is that the Brits recycle music such as blues and R&R while the Yanks invented it. The same could be true of prog if you look at early British prog as recycling classical music and it's themes. Not a popular opinion, I'm sure, but there it is.
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