Best Prog album Producers and Engineers.

Hi,

I don't know ... I have some serious reservations about all this, and sometimes I look at these people as the "mom and pop" that helped clean up the ideas, so they were visible. However many clothes and jewelry mom and dad might have helped you and done laundry with, in the end, YOU had the ideas and this room, or place, or person, helped realize them.

I find this specially true in the German Cosmic/Kosmiche scene, when the idea was to create a feeling and explore it ... "get into the vibes of the music" ... and it succeeded, even if some folks do not seem to appreciate it, and consider it poor music, and what not. It wasn't about the notes! It was about the extension of the feeling, like you would not want to do that with your significant other.

It's a weird thing to say ... but the 20th century was about "individuality", and then we think that Miles Davis was not independent, and neither was Stravinsky, Picasso, Dali, Bartok ... and so forth ... and in this case YES, GENESIS, ELP, AMON DUUL 2, CAN and so many others, that I sincerely believe had a much more appreciation for their art, than just a song for the radio top ten! This was about them, not their producer, even though many of them tried to get into the act and make their name famous as well, since they were also getting their percentage, the same as the members of any band!

I think that the next "biggie" will not be about the producer .. it will be about the artist, and many record companies and people will immediately try to side with them to get a piece of the action! But it will be more likely, as has been the case in almost all of these folks listed, that they will bring something new with them ... and the producer will not exactly be a household name.