Eurovision winners cite Gentle Giant as influence

Hi,

This is pretty much what I mean ... as an example, from literature and film, I am pretty much a member of the stream of consciousness club, but it isn't like Elliot, Kerouac or Burroughs. Mine is more Living Theater/Jodorowski in the sense that it is theater/film based on extended improvisations ... not necessarily on any ideas or thoughts, or past memories.

In improvisation in these areas, is something that most musicians are not capable of doing ... after an hour you don't do "chops" anymore or the same thing, and things change. After the 2nd hour, they change even more, and by the 3rd hour even more, and no relation whatsoever to the start or beginning.

My biggest take for a lot of the "progressive" or "prog" groups these days, is that their work is not "developed" as much as it could, where the "influences" would end up hidden, or just about non-existent, or as is my case, most comments would be off since my "stream of consciousness" is my own, and not influenced by anyone else.

The hard part, is the same reason why "symphonic" is such an incredibly silly description for a "progressive" band, specially when it is all just a bunch of songs, and has no connection as such to the definition of the term, meaning that it was not defined by people that knew music or its history! This was an issue with my take on DD's Magma comments ... that this part could have been a hint of a future part which would match some of the criteria for "symphonic" works, but his work is mostly about "rock songs", not exactly music, specially when he is classically learned and trained. He tries to elevate rock music, and I'm OK with that, but doing so by showing that the musicians know more chords and notes than we do, or so it appears. This, of course, is NOT AN INFLUENCE at all ... since all the notes and scales are available and listed everywhere! 

And, of course, the worst part is it being listed as "symphonic" simply because it has keyboards ... there aren't many bands that don't use them, and almost every band that DOESN'T is not even considered progressive ... they are usually considered weird! And off its rocker! Just because it has a Hammond does not mean it "sounds like" someone else, which means we are not listening to the music ... we are associating the sounds!