Prog from your city

 

Over here in Portland, Oregon, the tendency is to kill music ... there are no sound/music agencies that can do concerts here that know how to do anything else other than drums, lead guitar and bass ... which of course lends itself perfectly to only one type of music and some of it is considered jazz ... but if you ever want to hear a keyboard, please go to NY and SF where the audiences are more critical and demand more for the buck ... here it's a disater and an insult to the artistry itself.

 

The only band I have seen here, that had good keyboard sounds was 20 years ago, Tangerine Dream ... and they are not stupid enough to trust anyone else to touch their sound system and isntruments ... and of course, that's the same reason we will never seen them again here ... or over most of America for that matter!

 

Even Roger Waters a few years ago at the Rose Garden, did not sound very good at all ... and he has some phenomenal keyboard work in his albums.

 

There is one something or other orchestra that goes around with a couple of Theramins and making it sound like they have compsed some sort of avant-garde music ... it's actually quite dissonant and reminds me of the days of some of the really early folks like Stockhausen and Heinemann ... whose musical talent was dutyfully forgotten in favor of much better musicians ... sometimes I think that if they had added sound effects to things it might be more exciting ... but somehow someone playing some musical scales upside down seems to be "musical" ... although to my ear it is rather boring.