Dream Prog Super Group

 

I think what he meant is that Ravi Shankar is not progressive enough to be involved with "prog".

 

Sad, too, because it was Ravi that went on tour with Yehudi Menuhin doing an East meets West series and they were both magnificent and even improvised several times in concert. Menuhin learned to do ragas with him, and did it well. It was never recorded as music per se, but they used to do it in concert.

 

A lot of progressive music is just called that because they did not follow the conventional trax of the musical business. Sadly, in some cases, there are way too many people trying to find a way to peg it down as a part of the music business concept. Anything to help sales I suppose.

 

The majority of "prog" (I'll say again) was a reaction to popular music not being intelligent and just repeating jingles over and over again with a different person! And folks like The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks and many others helped break the mold even further. Progressive came out of that,. sadly even folks here are afraid to consider The White Album"  a progressive album ... which it is as is "Abbey Road". Specially for the time that they came out. So far out and away from pop music as to be totally off the wall! And making classical music sound repetitive and boring ... here was a new idiom and it was being used to expand it all. Classical music, has been regressing for 65 years now!

 

Sometimes, some things are so progressive that they are weightless and no one even knows how to measure them! This board is no exception!