Prog Reincarnated

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I read a lot of posts on this forum and what disturbes me is how negative many people here and on other forums think about prog's reputation today. Offcourse the world is infected by Idols and glamour but I think there is also a little spark witch could mean the reincarnation of prog. 
I'll give a few excemples;
You see bands like porcupine tree, dream theater and the mars volta gainig more and more fans from mainstream rock and alternitive rock listeners. I attended a pt concert in Amsterdam last year and I was suprised by the veriaty off people who came to the show. I saw some metal-heads, but also older people with pink floyd T-shirts on. I even saw a few hiphoppers and teenagers who were looking like they only listened to shakira or **** like this. So this makes me wonder is prog really dead? (offcourse you can always say yeah but pt is not real prog but I don't want to get mixed in that needless never ending discussion about what is prog)

On the other hand I see mainstream bands heading a tiny little bit to a more progressive aproach. For excemple Korn recorded a few songs from their last album with nobody alse than Terry Bozzio. Linkin Park listened to a lot of King Crimson, Pink Floyd and ELP before recording their last album. Not that this album is anywhere near prog but it gives you a good idea of how some mainstream artists s trying to incorporate prog into their music. 

Also in Holland you have a very big House/Techno scene and theire are a lot of DJ''s experimenting with odd time signatures and very much different tempi. Offcourse this is not prog like Genesis etc. but it's certainly progressive and the funny thing is also they're gaining a lot of fans 

For me these are signs of a growing interest in a more intense/experimental aproach to music rathar than the four chourd based **** we see on mtv. It will never be like the 70's classic prog again because that was a genre that was very much related to time it was coming from, but I think it's legacy will always inspire generations of musicians and fans like we saw with the 80's rebirth of prog and the birth of prog metal. Now we have trip hop, breakbeat, post rock and maybe we'll see some progressive hiphop in the future. 
And thanks to the net al those influences will cycle around the world always for ever and will reach many more people than ever before and I think this is what keeps the legacy of the giants of the 70's alive

Share me your thoughts about this pleace 

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