Would Elvis Have Liked Modern Prog?

WhenI first saw ELP in concort, Keith Emerson did his patented stage antics which inclued Keith jamming  a knife between the keys of  his Hammond before going all Jerry Lee Lewis on us and tipping  the organ onto himself and paying the thing upside down and backwards. Jerry Lee  would certainly  have been pround .
                                                                                             
To me, this was the logical result of Rock 'n' Roll morphing into  Prog music, Technical nous mixed with the emtional gusto. But after the initial early rock 'n' blast blast in prog, the music became more serious, with one well know gutiarist refusing to perform unless
his was sitting down to play play on stage,Don't worry, hold outs like Frank Zappa still payed by to the tune of the a different drummer; but many Prog bands embrased a more formal persona and starting giving
concerts that were more akin to clsssical recitals that to a
rock concert. Would Elvis have understood  modern prog or would
he have rejected it's lack of passion and simply left the building?     
                                                                       
                          


                    
                  
              
            
          
       
      




Edited by SteveG - October 07 2014 at 15:15

Elvis killed punk music.

Chicago's current bassist/singer is Jason Scheff, and his father Jerry Scheff played bass and toured with Elvis...so possibly Elvis may have been keen on the jazzy rock of Chicago type bands.

I don't really understand the question, at least not in the way you've asked it. Elvis and his contemporaries were alive and active during the progressive rock heyday, so the question really isn't relevant. Regardless, I don't think the showmanship of Keith Emerson is suitable to form a basis for Elvis's possible feelings about prog rock.

I see very few artistic parallels between early rock music (Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, etc) and what eventually became prog rock. While our beloved prog musicians most likely enjoyed the aforementioned artists, there is little reason to believe the opposite would be true.

Lets cut ot the chase. Does the early wild abandon of Rock 'N' Rock still manifests itself in Prog Rock, or has the Prog music world became a distant unrecognible relative of it's manic ground breaking Devil may care forerunner?

Edited by SteveG - October 07 2014 at 15:59

^I guess you never witnessd Emerson stab his Hammond keyboard with a knife or never witnessed Jon Lord do a hand stand on his?

Does prog inevitably take the fun out of music because few, some but few, prog performers do that now. I guess anything that questions Prog's integrity to some people would be viewed as silly.

Edited by SteveG - October 07 2014 at 15:41

Elvis only likes Neo.

Catcher10 wrote: I really do not think Elvis had much idea about "prog or psychedelic rock" when he was living. Did he know who Pink Floyd, Genesis and Yes were, KC and maybe a few others...Probably. As much as people see him as the king of Rock n Roll, I think he had deep love and passion for country/western, blues, R&B and heavy into gospel music. I don't think he would have cared much about modern prog or thought that Jerry Lee Lewis type rockabilly morphed into prog rock, which I don't think it did. I suspect he would not cared at all for today's modern rock, pop and especially hip/hop. All IMHO

^^This.  You win.

How would Genghis Khan feel about golf?

Would Elvis' pelvis like prog?