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Chris S
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Topic: Top two personalities in prog Posted: July 08 2014 at 03:30 |
My question is this simple....which two characters have affected you most in prog? It would be a good question to ask from music in general but being a prog site let's keep it to just progressive band members/progressive solo artists.
So My two would be Phil Collins and Roger Waters Collins for his incredible drumming and vocals. His contribution to the Genesis sound for me is pure wonder. I often play Second's Out and just marvel at his talent. Roger Waters - well his cynical view and wizardry for writing, lyrics and pushing boundaries carried on well after Final Cut and his ATD album IMO was totally epic. His personality over the years had become more and more humbling and no long disaffected and well just magic to see him play and even listen to his wise view on life through interviews. Would be interested to see which two other people choose and why..
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Svetonio
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Posted: July 08 2014 at 04:13 |
Frank Zappa and Robert Fripp.
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Watcher of the Sky
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Posted: July 08 2014 at 04:35 |
From the "classic" prog: Robert Fripp
From the "new " prog: Steven Wilson
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Barbu
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Posted: July 08 2014 at 05:03 |
Younger me : Ian Anderson & Peter Hammill
Older me : Tony Levin & Steve Hogarth...and Peter Hammill |
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Tom Ozric
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916 |
Posted: July 08 2014 at 05:46 |
Rick Wakeman
Steve Hogarth |
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: July 08 2014 at 06:13 |
1. Christian Vander makes Magma so much more than just another great band. Its a complete concept, a whole universe, a language, a cult and an everlasting story. A charismatic leader/genius and visionary.
2. Robert Wyatt / Peter Hammill. Can't pick one. Both genuine artists that I've developed a very personal relationship to. Beyond good or bad music. Naive politics, cringeworthy lyrics, cliched love songs, awful production or (more often) deeply moving works of art... If its made by them I'll always pay attention and welcome whatever they have to offer.
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Gerinski
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Posted: July 08 2014 at 07:30 |
It's of course tinted by each person's personal history with Prog, in my case they have to be Keith Emerson and Peter Gabriel.
Tarkus was the first full-blown Prog album which I remember playing constantly at home when I was very young, it was the first Prog album which really blew my child mind off, with Keith's Hammond and Moog antics being like nothing I had heard before (mostly The Beatles, Stones, early The Who etc) leaving a long-lasting impression in me. A bit later came Genesis from which Foxtrot was another of the top players at home, especially Supper's Ready which would play as if the "repeat" button of modern audio players already existed back then. All the music was astounding but for some reason it was Gabriel's singing which I found so special. We would all shout out loud to "A Flower?" in the transition between How Do I Dare Be So Beautiful and Willow Farm, it was so comical and we all laughed when shouting it, and Gabriel's theatrical way of singing all over the suite was also like nothing I had heard before (even if I barely knew two words in English at the time). |
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richardh
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Posted: July 08 2014 at 15:08 |
Keith Emerson for his personality and making the organ 'mobile' when it was meant to be fixed to the floor. (oh and for his talent as well)
Carl Palmer has to be the other. Its terribly dull I know to pick two guys from the same band but I fantasised about playing that wonderful steel drum set with those massive gongs and all at an insane speed. Carl was also pretty ripped and very cool as long as he didn't speak Edited by richardh - July 08 2014 at 15:10 |
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addictedtoprog
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Posted: July 23 2014 at 23:38 |
Robert Fripp
Steven Wilson |
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 01:23 |
There is no one, let alone two personalities that made a profound influence on me ... not just as a listener, but also a writer. Two isn't gonna cut it because that leaves out the rest of them, and that isn't fair. Robert Fripp, Florian Fricke, Peter Hammill, ... you don't get two. Sorry.
Robert Fripp - got me interested in eclectic rock, jazz rock, and dissonance. Florian Fricke - convinced me that ethnic acoustic / Neoclassical / New Age elements may add ample amounts to the substance of any song that begins life as something conventional. Peter Hammill - the album Over is enough to convince me that he was capable of writing musically stable yet still somewhat extraordinary songs, as well as masterfully working out some blunt lyrics. I learned from him some things. And he had the balls to put some wild sonic experiments on VdGG albums. Ian Anderson - an archetypal inspiration. Taught me how to write a song. ... and many others, prog and not.
Edited by Dayvenkirq - July 28 2014 at 17:39 |
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Moogtron III
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 02:37 |
Jon Anderson - so visionary, through many years, in building up the Yes band, though he couldn't have done it without Chris Squire
Bill Bruford is sort of an opposite person, with a jazz mentality: you have a blueprint for a band, you stick together for a couple of albums, then you break up and do something different; as long as it remains fresh
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BarryGlibb
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 04:33 |
Easy:
Fripp and Anderson....of the "Ian" kind
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dr wu23
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 09:02 |
That;s a tough question....just off the cuff I'd say Peter Gabriel (Genesis years..) and Robert Fripp.
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someone_else
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 14:35 |
I fully agree with the comments of Chris S on Roger Waters.
To me, prog is about music and not about personalities. Yet, if I have to choose two, I still go for Jon Anderson and Peter Gabriel, giving Rog a #3 ranking, still above Peter Hammill and Robert Fripp. Jon Anderson is one of the archetypical voices of prog and was a source of inspiration for his bandmates. Most of his lyrical output may be placed in the triangle of which bullsh*t, crap and poppycock are the three corners, but that does hardly diminish his status as a prog personality: prog is in the first place about music and Jon has been the frontman of one of the most illustrious prog bands in its heyday. Peter Gabriel may have been operating on the outer edges of the prog realm since he left Genesis almost 40 years ago, still he is, even more than Jon Anderson, an archetypical voice in the prog world and a source of inspiration for many vocalists. He has been the frontman of one of the most illustrious prog bands in its heyday.
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Billy Pilgrim
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 17:37 |
Maynard James Keenan for introducing me to the genre itself, Tool was my obsession through my teenage years. Maynard was the voice of the band, and although sometimes coming off as a bit of a jerk, he always had something insightful to say.
And probably Peter Hammill. What a writer.
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dwill123
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 19:51 |
Seconded!!!
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verslibre
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 20:41 |
Zappa for his notoriety. Wakeman for his wit.
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Prog_Traveller
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 21:19 |
Jon Anderson
Robert Fripp Honorable mentions Rick Wakeman Mike Portnoy (anybody here remember him? ;) ) Fish Peter Gabriel Phil Collins Mike Oldfield |
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Dellinger
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Posted: July 24 2014 at 22:00 |
I guess Rick Wakeman and David Gilmour.
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Metalmarsh89
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Posted: July 25 2014 at 13:27 |
Frank Zappa and Ian Anderson.
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