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thellama73 ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Eclectic Prog Team Joined: May 29 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8368 |
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Ah, that is a good point. They are pretty great. |
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moshkito ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 7429 |
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Shhhhhhhh!!!!!
![]() We can not name half known and unknown American bands no one has ever heard ... specially if they came out of the Fillmore and Monterey days ...
![]() Of course, you're right ... but then ... even mentioning Al Kooper or Paul Butterfield, Sugar Loaf, Ides of March, (heaven forbid!) Mason Profit ... and many others, around here, sends shivers up the progressive spine! And I haven't started on the SF scene, which was bigger than the midwest scene ... but I could add Sons of Champlin!
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... none of the hits, none of the time ... now you know what the inner art is all about!
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progbethyname ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 30 2012 Location: DAC LAND Status: Offline Points: 6140 |
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Oh Dire Straights is great. Love the album BROTHERS IN ARMS. Mark Knopler is an incredible guitarist and a very accomplished one at that. :) |
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Raving and drooling I leaned on his neck with a screeeeeeeamm! ;)
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progbethyname ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 30 2012 Location: DAC LAND Status: Offline Points: 6140 |
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Fine, but do any of those bands come close to the sheer skill and musicianship of Dream Theater?? No freakin' way. Boston is pretty awesome, but not Dream Theater awesome. ![]() |
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Raving and drooling I leaned on his neck with a screeeeeeeamm! ;)
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37331 |
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![]() How do you measure skill and musicianship and is that really an indication of "the greatest band in America"?
I would imagine popularity and influence are far more important.
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"You know what uranium is, right?
It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things. But nobody talks about that." |
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Sumdeus ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 23 2012 Location: SF Bay Area Status: Offline Points: 828 |
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I don't really care about how technically proficient musicians are at playing their instruments if I find their music completely boring. To me bands like The Doors were just as proficient in the context of their time and were much more inventive and revolutionary with their music.
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Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys
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Ivan_Melgar_M ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Symphonic Prog Specialist Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19373 |
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Let me see:
Iván PD: Just in case I have heard at least one album of each and every band listed in Symphonic Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - January 11 2013 at 12:51 |
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Tapfret ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Eclectic Prog Team Joined: August 12 2007 Location: Arlington, Wash Status: Offline Points: 4450 |
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Huger? That better not be a jab at our weight. Don't make us try to get up off this couch! Edited by Tapfret - January 11 2013 at 13:15 |
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There is no act more pretentious and self-indulgent than labeling another's art as pretentious and self-indulgent.
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Ivan_Melgar_M ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Symphonic Prog Specialist Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19373 |
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One more thing
Check how many bands claim to be influenced by Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull or ELP. I calculate around 90%, if not more. Now tell me, ¿How many bands claim to have been influenced by bands from other nations? The percentage will be incredibly smaller |
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Stool Man ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 30 2007 Location: Anti-Cool (anag Status: Offline Points: 2588 |
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Imaginary scenario:
How progressive rock might have developed without including the UK's bands (let's say, for example, that all the UK's psychedelic bands moved on to country rock by 1969, just like the US ones did) 1960s: Miles Davis, Frank Zappa & Brian Wilson inspire a generation of US prog bands. Daevid Allen, Konny Plank, & Christian Vander inspire a generation of European bands 1970s: Jazz/Fusion rules in the US Everyone else flies away to Planet Gong. Which is pretty much what happened anyway! ![]() |
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Growing up in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area in the early 70s, Bloodrock was a huge local favorite. Always nice to see hometown boys make good. ![]() |
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