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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 10:25

Two virtuosos. Both composers. McLaughlin is the better virtuoso, Fripp the better composer. I value composition above anything else in music, so.... Fripp.

In fact, I can't think of a more skilled guitarist than John McLaughlin, and Fripp's writing is not only unique, but some of the best works to come out of the 20th century, in my opinion. I'm looking at the 'Larks' era........ changing the form of what we call 'rock' music, rather than adding Mellotrons to pop songs and calling that progressive (ahem.... Genesis.....).



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 10:39
Originally posted by ninestonesclose ninestonesclose wrote:

You can't compare these two like for like... sorry.... both equally brilliant and totally different. Love them both.

Agreed. They're both amazingly good, and quite different in style, technique, ability, etc. I can't choose on this one.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 11:25
I do enjoy MO and KC but 
neither of these would make my top 10 guitarists

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 12:18
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 12:55
Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

... rather than adding Mellotrons to pop songs and calling that progressive (ahem.... Genesis.....).

Some examples to illustrate your words would be great.Geek
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 13:12
Originally posted by progprogprog progprogprog wrote:

Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

... rather than adding Mellotrons to pop songs and calling that progressive (ahem.... Genesis.....).

Some examples to illustrate your words would be great.Geek

Side 1 of Foxtrot.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 13:19
Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

Originally posted by progprogprog progprogprog wrote:

Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

... rather than adding Mellotrons to pop songs and calling that progressive (ahem.... Genesis.....).

Some examples to illustrate your words would be great.Geek

Side 1 of Foxtrot.


If Get Em' Out By Friday is pop, geez, PA "got it bad, got it bad" quoting Van Halen. Tongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 13:23

It's chords with vocals..... and neither the chords nor the vocals are innovative (in fact, the lyrics far too embarrassingly bad to be called pop music). Doing it for 8 minutes doesn't make it progressive...... or good.

So, yeah, not pop exactly....... but about as interesting as some pop.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 13:24
Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

It's chords with vocals..... and neither the chords nor the vocals are innovative (in fact, the lyrics far too embarrassingly bad to be called pop music). Doing it for 8 minutes doesn't make it progressive...... or good.

So, yeah, not pop exactly....... but about as interesting as some pop.


Chords with vocals? Ha, you're funny, I like you. Hug
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 13:25
Originally posted by The Quiet One The Quiet One wrote:

Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

It's chords with vocals..... and neither the chords nor the vocals are innovative (in fact, the lyrics far too embarrassingly bad to be called pop music). Doing it for 8 minutes doesn't make it progressive...... or good.

So, yeah, not pop exactly....... but about as interesting as some pop.


Chords with vocals? Ha, you're funny, I like you. Hug

err... thanks.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 19:30
McLaughlin is a better player, but Fripp is more original (not that McLaughlin isn't).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 19:47
Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

Originally posted by progprogprog progprogprog wrote:

Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

... rather than adding Mellotrons to pop songs and calling that progressive (ahem.... Genesis.....).

Some examples to illustrate your words would be great.Geek

Side 1 of Foxtrot.

It will make Apollo so angry man, just saying.





p.s Apollo: The god of music, healing, plague, prophecies, poetry, and archery; associated with light, truth and the sun Smile


Edited by progprogprog - January 27 2012 at 04:54
Always thinking in extremes.That's my way to beat boredom.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 19:56
Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

It's chords with vocals..... and neither the chords nor the vocals are innovative  ...


That's just absurd.It weren't innovative if they mimicked previous bands which isn't true.
Maybe you should define this two words:
1.pop
2.innovation 

However you're somehow right about the lyric. 


p.s As you're in PA for a long time, you've certainly said that before so it may be repetitive for you, why don't you just tell the gist of your thoughts to explain how do you really see prog and what do you expect from a prog song?Wacko
 


Edited by progprogprog - January 27 2012 at 05:02
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2012 at 19:58
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2012 at 01:07
Side 1 of Foxtrot is by and large pop, in terms of structure.   Which is fine if you pretend Supper's Ready doesn't exist.  But Dancing with the moonlit knight is not pop by any stretch of imagination nor are Musical Box or Fountain of Salmacis.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2012 at 01:18
Damn.

I think Fripp takes it. Barely.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2012 at 07:46
Two great guitarists who come to music from different directions while probably having a similiar goal.  KC were jazz-influenced rock musicians who played music heavily influenced by 20th century classical composers and who were heavy on group improvisation.  MO were rock-influenced jazz musicians who played music heavily influenced by 20th century classical composers and who were heavy on individual improvisation.
 
And how can anyone say Johnny Mac isn't as a good composer as Fripp after hearing Birds of Fire or Apocalypse?
 
Both men broke down musicial barriers and changed our perceptions of what a guitar player should sound like.
http://martinwebb.bandcamp.com

The notes are just an interesting way to get from one silence to the next - Mick Gooderick
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2012 at 08:01
Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Side 1 of Foxtrot is by and large pop, in terms of structure.   Which is fine if you pretend Supper's Ready doesn't exist.  But Dancing with the moonlit knight is not pop by any stretch of imagination nor are Musical Box or Fountain of Salmacis.  

Pop in terms of stucture? What tosh. Why is it not rock in terms of structure? This  whole argument is frustrating.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2012 at 08:03
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Side 1 of Foxtrot is by and large pop, in terms of structure.   Which is fine if you pretend Supper's Ready doesn't exist.  But Dancing with the moonlit knight is not pop by any stretch of imagination nor are Musical Box or Fountain of Salmacis.  

Pop in terms of stucture? What tosh. Why is it not rock in terms of structure? This  whole argument is frustrating.


Hardly any difference in terms of structure between pop and rock (i.e. not prog) anyway.  But in either case, not progressive in terms of structure, if I might put it that way instead. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2012 at 08:06
Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Side 1 of Foxtrot is by and large pop, in terms of structure.   Which is fine if you pretend Supper's Ready doesn't exist.  But Dancing with the moonlit knight is not pop by any stretch of imagination nor are Musical Box or Fountain of Salmacis.  

Pop in terms of stucture? What tosh. Why is it not rock in terms of structure? This  whole argument is frustrating.


Hardly any difference in terms of structure between pop and rock (i.e. not prog) anyway.  But in either case, not progressive in terms of structure, if I might put it that way instead. 

I'd rather you did...or say "simple song structure"

But I disagree either way.LOL
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