Gentle Giant vs King Crimson vs Yes

Terrapin Station wrote: Yes is my #4 artist.  That hasn't changed for decades, and I doubt it would ever change.  Crimson is top 10ish, for me--#7 or 8 usually.  (Only my top six have had their positions cemented for decades.)  Gentle Giant might be in my top 100, although I'm not sure exactly where they'd end up.  If not in my top 100, they should at least be in my top 200.  I love a ton of music that's not prog, so a lot of other artists get in the way.  However, there are also a lot of other prog and prog-related artists that I'd rank above Gentle Giant. Keep in mind that I'd say I have a "top 2000" at least, so anyone in my top 100-200 is someone I really love.

How can there be 100 bands from the 70s better than GG? There's definitely no better post 70s bands

Saperlipopette! wrote: KC GG Yes

same here

Gentle Giant is one of those bands I never understood from the old days at college ....many of us bought them but few of us played them on any regular basis. Very good musicians but song structures that were a bit too unusual at times to be fully enjoyed.

dr prog wrote: Terrapin Station wrote: Yes is my #4 artist.  That hasn't changed for decades, and I doubt it would ever change.  Crimson is top 10ish, for me--#7 or 8 usually.  (Only my top six have had their positions cemented for decades.)  Gentle Giant might be in my top 100, although I'm not sure exactly where they'd end up.  If not in my top 100, they should at least be in my top 200.  I love a ton of music that's not prog, so a lot of other artists get in the way.  However, there are also a lot of other prog and prog-related artists that I'd rank above Gentle Giant. Keep in mind that I'd say I have a "top 2000" at least, so anyone in my top 100-200 is someone I really love. How can there be 100 bands from the 70s better than GG? There's definitely no better post 70s bands

Most of the artists I'd put in front of them are 70s or earlier, but here are some post-70s (well, and started-in-the-late-70s) artists I'd rank higher than Gentle Giant: (hed) pe, A Camp, Adrian Belew, Beastie Boys, kd lang, King's X, Michael Brecker, The Police, Prince, Soundgarden--obviously that's not just prog, but again, I like a huge variety of music.  I'm not just a prog fan.

Prefer the highs of Yes over the other two bands, but prefer KC for the integrity of their music and for their overall career. GG were a little too uncompromising for my tastes after their first album and then a little too compromising in their latter works.

Dellinger wrote: Yes, but at this moment, I would be more excited if I were to see King Crimson live than Yes live... unless Anderson and Wakeman came back to Yes for a tour, then I wouldn't know which one I would be more excited to see.

Yeah, for me, it's basically a matter of who'd be touring.  Yes has a challenge, because Yes without Chris Squire strikes me as more or less King Crimson without Robert Fripp.

With Yes, though, I'd most want to see Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford and Billy Sherwood.  Patrick Moraz would be cool to see with the band again, too.  Of course, I like Tony Kaye and Alan White, but I wouldn't be near as geared up to see Yes with them again as with Wakeman and/or Moraz and Bruford.

With King Crimson, I'd most want to see some combo of the 80s line-up--Fripp, Bruford, Adrian Belew and Tony Levin, and/or John Wetton, David Cross, Jamie Muir and Mel Collins.

Terrapin Station wrote: Dellinger wrote: Yes, but at this moment, I would be more excited if I were to see King Crimson live than Yes live... unless Anderson and Wakeman came back to Yes for a tour, then I wouldn't know which one I would be more excited to see. Yeah, for me, it's basically a matter of who'd be touring.  Yes has a challenge, because Yes without Chris Squire strikes me as more or less King Crimson without Robert Fripp. With Yes, though, I'd most want to see Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford and Billy Sherwood.  Patrick Moraz would be cool to see with the band again, too.  Of course, I like Tony Kaye and Alan White, but I wouldn't be near as geared up to see Yes with them again as with Wakeman and/or Moraz and Bruford. With King Crimson, I'd most want to see some combo of the 80s line-up--Fripp, Bruford, Adrian Belew and Tony Levin, and/or John Wetton, David Cross, Jamie Muir and Mel Collins.

I guess there's a small chance for Yes to do something with Anderson and Wakeman again... specially now that the Hall of Fame may bring them together... but Bruford, just take that one out of your mind, it won't happen. As for King Crimson, they will keep on touring with the band Fripp assembled for the last few years, and I think that one is great (as long as they don't sing "Epitaph", which the new singer just can't nail... as much as I would actually love to hear that song live).

Dellinger wrote: I envy you... I discovered Yes just while they were touring with Anderson and Wakeman for the last time, so I wasn't on time to see them (I saw them with Benoit David and Jon Davidson, but they just couldn't do complete justice to Anderson's singing). King Crimson I found a bit later and haven't toured until now, but I think I find the new touring line-up more interesting than the one that was out in '03.

Yes!