Cheesy Prog is....??

Originally posted by cstack3 Originally posted by BassoonAng I've heard people call the melodramatic theatrics of Peter Gabriel Genesis and Ian Anderson JTull "cheesy" prog, but it's not cheesy in my opinion until someone really deviates from prog.  I'd tend to think that the Duke album is "cheesy" prog, but I'm not here to start a fire.  Gabriel and Anderson were both experts at taking the stage to excess & making it a brilliant artistic statement!   I'm sorry to have missed the "Passion Play" tour, some of that one ("The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles") seem to touch the cheddar, but overall, the quality of the musicianship more than makes up for any weak moments!   Anderson threw cheese into the audiences' faces on the "War Child" tour, with the rather amazing stage costumes!  Jeffery Hammond-Hammond's matching zebra suit and zebra-painted bass (and Japanese electric guitar) were just incredible!!  On any other performer, I think the cheese word might have been used.   Jeffery was one of the great, unsung bass heroes of prog, not mentioned very much on PA compared to Squire etc.  He was as good as any of the rest.  Onstage, the man never stopped moving.

Yeah, I didn't live the era, so there isn't a man I wouldn't kill for a ticket to a live Supper's Ready with the classic lineup.

Originally posted by cstack3 Originally posted by BassoonAng   Yeah, I didn't live the era, so there isn't a man I wouldn't kill for a ticket to a live Supper's Ready with the classic lineup. Get thee to a Musical Box gig!!  I saw them to "The Lamb," it was remarkable!  Here's a taste:

Ugh, I've been wanting to, but school's had me locked up last time it looked right.

Originally posted by tamijo There is a knive made for cutting Progressive Cheese : Ergo Progressive Cheese exist

Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Originally posted by smartpatrol Originally posted by Gallifrey It means it's hard to take seriously. Something like this.  Trite, an insufficiently simplistic or clique-ridden treatment of a serious topic, etc.  "Cheesy" music does exist, but it's my theory that the word "cheesy" is often used by people to describe something that is profound beyond their understanding, and thus considered by them to be unrealistic, overblown, pretentious, or simplistic.

Yep.

Originally posted by kingesis Supertramp maybe is cheesy prog, the band has a lot of cheesy songs especially in Breakfast in America

I've never thought so, but I can kind of see it...

Originally posted by pitfall I've always wondered what you would get if you put The Muppets, Slade, and Pink Floyd into a blender, and now, thanks to the Big Elf video posted earlier, I've found out. Thank You - er... or maybe that should be no thank you. I'd better check out some of their other stuff, as I havn't heard anything else from them (only written interviews), and this vid may not be completely typical (hopefully) of what they do.

  Big Elf sound a lot of fun, bit like Ozzy Sabbath.  They can't possibly be serious about it...just intentionally over the top Sabbath/70s rock worship.  Nothing particularly interesting in terms of originality...in fact, Mad Hatter blatantly borrows from Another Brick in the Wall Pt2.   But this is not my kind of cheese...I mean, not the kind that makes me cringe.  But maybe they do sound terrible live.

Edited by rogerthat - July 28 2012 at 00:45

Yeah, I guess I don't mind the loud part at all.  It's cheesy in an over the top heavy metal kind of way, which I like in small doses.  They also didn't sound prog to me from any point of view so I wasn't thinking about that.  It sounded like a hotchpotch of Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Queen.

I read some comments in those clips suggesting that they are not very good live and I can imagine cheese CAN give headaches if it is not pulled off well.  

^ "Indoor Games" or "Happy Family"?