I still think it's beautiful music played by ugly people with too much hair (and sometimes not where it's supposed to be).

Originally posted by rushfan4 Originally posted by dtguitarfan What if I ask in 7/4? ;-) Even if you come back on July 4th, it is not a good thing.  (That would be April 7th for those on the other side of the ocean who list their dates funny.)   Although I suppose us Americans may be the only ones who list July 4th as 7/4.

Astronomy Domine is in 12/8, a stellar date for Capt. Kirk.

Its all very easy really Prog is not rocket science:

Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - March 08 2012 at 03:55

Edited by Snow Dog - March 08 2012 at 04:37

Epic post Scott 

i didn't even know progrock existed before i happened across this site back in 2004. I had just bought my first computer and wanted to see if I could find anything about Hungarian nband Omegs.  I said to myself  " so that's what I've been listening to all these years " . 

]i didn't even know progrock existed before I happened across this site back in 2004. I had just bought my first computer and wanted to see if I could find anything about Hungarian nband Omegs.  I said to myself  " so that's what I've been listening to all these years " .  [/QUOTE] i still scratch my head over all these invented subgenres.


Edited by Vibrationbaby - March 08 2012 at 07:21

Ok, so this is cool because I've read the definition they have up on progarchives and the one from cracked that atmiccrimsonrush posted. When my buddies and I did our radio shows on NPR we tried to condense the definition for the sake of time. I think there are 4 qualifications that separate a progressive band or artist from the rest of their genre (so there can be progressive jazz, progressive folk, etc.). They are: 1) a composition style that flows more like a narrative than poetry (verse/chorus/verse/chorus) 2) Longer songs 3) Instrumental sections, sometimes very technical 4) The usage of uncommon time signatures (compound time)

I would say to be progressive, a band or artist doesn't have to display all 4 of these, but they have to at least have #1 or #4, or else people could qualify jam bands as Prog. Now I've heard some people use the definition that a progressive band is one that continually changes it's style from album to album, or progresses. I disagree because then a band that switched from jazz to polka to alt. rock would be progressive. I've also heard people say "(fill in the blank) band is not progressive because they sound like another band." I don't agree with that either because that would mean there are very few truly progressive artists and they all lived thousands of years ago. But I'm sure there are plenty of people who disagree with my definition of orog...so, whatever. ;-)

Everything stuck between Psychedelic folies and Post Punk fury.