How would you improve prog?

Drop the song length down to 2:30 and make it danceable. Some good looking singers and musicians might help as well.

Would love to know why I can make several posts and then suddenly I'm asked to click to prove I'm a person, and then it still doesn't let me post. Then I repeat the whole process exactly the same way and WOW! It posted. This site does that to me, usually when it's a long post. I've learned to copy my longer posts so when the site makes them vanish I don't have to try to rewrite the whole thing.

less w**king

I'm one of those guys who strongly advocates for improved and better audio quality for which the newer that I end up hearing here in the 21st century.
I think Prog is in great shape on a creative level, but unfortunately a lot of newer Prog is weakly recorded (audio engineering wise) and it drives me nuts.
So that is where improvements must be made to enjoy the music...for me.
This is just my opinion.

Frenetic Zetetic wrote: BrufordFreak wrote: I wish modern bands would get rid of the gated drums effect and get rid of all early generation cheap keyboards from the late 1980s and 1990s (their poorly imitative sounds drive me crazy!) I'm all for incorporation of old ideas and old sounds but I'd like to see less emulation, replication, and imitation.  This is actually articulated very well, and something I think about a lot. The top-tier bands had "the sound", because that's all that technology allowed at the time. It's funny to think bands take gear that's 3-4x as expensive, then try to make it emulate older stuff .

Well, classic prog bands used a lot of Hammond organs, which were made to emulate church organs, Mellotrons, which were made to emulate orchestral instruments, electric pianos, which were made to emulate acoustic pianos, etc...

Then again, they barely sounded anything like they were supposed to, so we got a whole new sound rather than something that's obviously supposed to be something else, but isn't quite there.

Bring back the "progressive spirit" of classical prog within a modern sound. I am writing songs about the transition towards a more sustainable social reality for my band.


Edited by WeepingElf - January 12 2018 at 13:11

ForestFriend wrote: Frenetic Zetetic wrote: BrufordFreak wrote: I wish modern bands would get rid of the gated drums effect and get rid of all early generation cheap keyboards from the late 1980s and 1990s (their poorly imitative sounds drive me crazy!) I'm all for incorporation of old ideas and old sounds but I'd like to see less emulation, replication, and imitation.  This is actually articulated very well, and something I think about a lot. The top-tier bands had "the sound", because that's all that technology allowed at the time. It's funny to think bands take gear that's 3-4x as expensive, then try to make it emulate older stuff . Well, classic prog bands used a lot of Hammond organs, which were made to emulate church organs, Mellotrons, which were made to emulate orchestral instruments, electric pianos, which were made to emulate acoustic pianos, etc... Then again, they barely sounded anything like they were supposed to, so we got a whole new sound rather than something that's obviously supposed to be something else, but isn't quite there.

I've wanted to get a band going with a second bass player (including myself).

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