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    Posted: September 25 2014 at 19:09
Who was the most "Prog" Beatle?

Edited by SteveG - September 25 2014 at 19:12
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2014 at 19:33
Yeah, George.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2014 at 19:34
^ Yep, Blue Jay Way, man
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2014 at 20:17
probably gonna go John on this one.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 25 2014 at 20:50
Paul, definitely.  He was the only guy in the group really into the idea of concepts and suites.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2014 at 03:58
George with John as second. George was the one who introduced some Indo-elements and Here Comes the Sun has some time signature changes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2014 at 09:16
Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

George with John as second. George was the one who introduced some Indo-elements and Here Comes the Sun has some time signature changes.

This. Don't know exactly why I voted George except for the Indo elements.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2014 at 09:19
lol Ringo and John are tied Wacko
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2014 at 09:21
LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2014 at 10:22
John's Tomorrow Never Knows pretty much put this thread into effect, din'nen' it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2014 at 13:22
George should be in proto-fusion-related.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2014 at 18:50
Probably equally Paul and George I'd say. John wasn't too bad in the Beatles, but his solo stuff does diddly-squat for me....
.......and Ringo, well, at least he hooked up with Barbara Bach.......
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 26 2014 at 23:39
Paul, for me! Also he came up with very silly song titles which I love
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2014 at 03:13
None of the above.

What?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2014 at 04:02
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

None of the above.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2014 at 04:41
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2014 at 05:08
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

None of the above.
 
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Often called the 5th Beatle we all know the influence George Martin had on the Beatles recordings but we tend to overlook that he was a composer and musician. That piece of electronic music, (later recorded by an orchestra and later still by a little known Prog band by the name of Van der Graaf Generator), contains everything he brought to that party to the extent that it actually sounds like a collage of dozens of Beatles records - there's bits of Revolver in there, bits of Sgt Pepper, bits of Magical Mystery Tour - the trumpet refrain, the sawing cellos, the organ crescendo, were all musical touches that Martin the musician introduced into those Beatles tunes that lifted them above the ordinary. To me, Martin with the Beatles was like Wakeman with Yes: Anderson, Squire & Howe had the tunes and the ideas, but it was Wakeman that brought those disparate ideas together with his musician's touch and expertise. John, Paul & George had the tunes and the ideas, but it was Martin that brought those ideas together because he was a musician as much as he was a producer - he made the Beatles sound "proggy" (for want of a better word).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2014 at 05:15
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

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Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

None of the above.</span><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><span style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">
 </span><br style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"><span style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">Party pooper </span><span style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;"> 
</span><div style="line-height: 14.3999996185303px;">Often called the 5th Beatle we all know the influence George Martin had on the Beatles recordings but we tend to overlook that he was a composer and musician. That piece of electronic music, (later recorded by an orchestra and later still by a little known Prog band by the name of Van der Graaf Generator), contains everything he brought to that party to the extent that it actually sounds like a collage of dozens of Beatles records - there's bits of Revolver in there, bits of Sgt Pepper, bits of Magical Mystery Tour - the trumpet refrain, the sawing cellos, the organ crescendo, were all musical touches that Martin the musician introduced into those Beatles tunes that lifted them above the ordinary. To me, Martin with the Beatles was like Wakeman with Yes: Anderson, Squire & Howe had the tunes and the ideas, but it was Wakeman that brought those disparate ideas together with his musician's touch and expertise. John, Paul & George had the tunes and the ideas, but it was Martin that brought those ideas together because he was a musician as much as he was a producer - he made the Beatles sound "proggy" (for want of a better word).



Martin was their last manager I think during Sargent Pepper etc. but even Paul McCartney himself has said, "If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was Brian." Brian Epstein.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2014 at 05:21
I have 4 choices and picked McCartney if I had to pick another I'd pick Eric Clapton because my guitar gently weeps is classic! :) xxx
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 27 2014 at 09:12
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

I have 4 choices and picked McCartney if I had to pick another I'd pick Eric Clapton because my guitar gently weeps is classic! :) xxx

Since Eric Clapton is now a Beatle and My Guitar Gently Weeps is prog, I'd propose to make this poll entirely freestyle Tongue

... let me try something  .. would you describe this1987 Astrud Gilberto + James Last album as: 

(1) Baiana-In-Exile prog
(2) Prog-related pop big band
(3) "Ai, ai, ai, que coisa louca" prog



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