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Upbeat Tango Monday
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Topic: Why isn't prog as successful as metal as an indus Posted: April 10 2015 at 13:31 |
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Trends come and go, as simple as that. The wonderful thing is prog bands won't die as long as there are people willing to buy their albums. Well....in the free world at least. In socialist Argentina the scene is absolutely dead, hell, even rock bands have a rough time and the only bands that are still going are the big ones willing to sell themselves to the govt in order to participate in public shows for stolen money (and I'm refering to taxes...we lose more than 60% of our salary in order to pay mandatory tribute to the mighty queen). We cannot buy foreign music...or foreign anything BTW. Customs blocks everything.
Anyway, prog caters to a niche audience, but it won't be dead as long as free market exist and people can produce and buy whatever they want. Just don't fall in the same hole we are in.
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: April 06 2015 at 06:15 | ||||
Yeah, that's the point I made several times. I know that metal didn't really take that approach to music to heart anywhere as much as the punk culture did, but then again it was the punks who invented it. I actually think the metal world is perhaps the clearest example of how new paradigm shifts in the popular music world "flows downstream" from the avantgarde/underground, as I mentioned in the thread I just started about the avantgarde's connection to popular music.
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rogerthat
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Posted: April 05 2015 at 11:00 | ||||
Metal came up with underground support, really. I think some people tend to confuse the glam/arena side of metal, which was very mainstream, with extreme metal. Glam metal actually went out of vogue a long time ago. 'Real' metal remains alive thanks to the strength of the underground network.
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Windhawk
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Posted: April 05 2015 at 07:29 | ||||
...and on the subject of metal: This has been one of my more enjoyable musical experiences so far in 2015.
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Windhawk
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Posted: April 05 2015 at 07:27 | ||||
The metal community were inclusive, and have birth to many fine labels that had fans supporting the labels just as well as the individual artists. The downside of such an environment, shared with many other scenes like rap, hip-hop etc. is that such a scene tends to support those that doesn't break boundaries and play it fairly safe. In the 80's, many metal albums came with stickers proudly stating that there were "no keyboards on this album" for instance, and the bands that pushed at the borders and were imaginative were more often than not the subject of some ridicule and snide remarks. At least that's what I recall from what took place a generation or so ago.
Metal has since grown, thankfully, when the scene expanded there was also room for bands more adventurous. But there's a reason for why there's something called "true metal"... |
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Kati
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Posted: April 05 2015 at 07:19 | ||||
You cute thing! Toaster Mantis, to be honest, I have no idea why, but what I seem to realize is that the prog community are not very supportive especially compared i.e. to the hip hop artists, they seem to be very united and unlike many I don't even like poetry, now this this added with a rap TUNE.
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: April 05 2015 at 07:11 | ||||
It's not as much that corporate suits turned to metal, as much as metal artists did more to start their own record labels, music magazines etcetera. Of course, part of that has been commodified and mass-marketized to some extent to the point that it's got its own "culture industry" that overlaps with that of the mainstream... but there are still plenty of underground metal record distributors and xerox-printed fanzines ran out of people's basements and garages.
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Kati
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Posted: April 05 2015 at 06:07 | ||||
I have no idea why the corporate suits turned (decided to invest instead in metal bands) to metal instead, it's not a preference music thing or choice I think, they only care about numbers. This is my hypothesis, believe what you will and whatever you believe this too will also be an assumption.
Also we should stop make it seem and romanticize that our fac 70's prog bands were appreciated as much as we believe they were. This is not true, even Robert Fripp said it's better now, they were misunderstood and targeted by none open-minded deaf (obviously) people inc. media. Classic Rock (idiots) was one of them to dismiss KC at the time.. arghhh!!!! they are a corporation, this is enough said! Bah! They care nothing about music, if you pay they will add you and those poor buggers who can't afford that risk to pay, have no chance no matter how good they are or sales they have achieved. Famous front covers with known artists yes this sells but there should be a balance and classic rock presents prog does not have that. We need more subscription magazines Really. Hugs xxxx
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Angelo
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Posted: April 04 2015 at 17:38 | ||||
True, on Moon Records. I should have added that later the band became associate directors on Anthem Records in North America. Not owners, but with the same goal in mind: keep things in their own hands.
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CPicard
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Posted: April 04 2015 at 17:07 | ||||
For Rush, that label didn't last later than the release of their first LP. Then, they got a contract with Mercury. In fact, it's like the story of Iron Maiden, Def Leppard or Pantera: first, some self-released records / independant releases; then, a contract with some big company. Fun fact: the punk rock band Buzzcocks did the same thing, by self-releasing a first EP, then signing a contract with A&M. So much about the "punk ethos" that some people think the '77 wave supposedly had... |
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Angelo
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Posted: April 04 2015 at 14:30 | ||||
More happened after that. The guys from Rush founded Moon Records already in 1973, Clive Nolan and Mick Pointer (Pendragon, Marillion, Arena) are the owners of Verglas records, and quite a few bands have gone independent...
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Angelo
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Posted: April 04 2015 at 14:25 | ||||
Hmmmm.... simple things sell, because the audience is broader? Just kidding, but I had to post this:
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CPicard
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Posted: April 04 2015 at 06:02 | ||||
^That's true, I forgot DGM (founded by Robert Fripp) or Seventh Records (Magma's own record label).
I guess I should try to find more examples. |
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Toaster Mantis
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Posted: April 04 2015 at 03:07 | ||||
Well that's obviously an exagerration since I'm sure that by now way more prog rock musicians than Keith Emerson and the Henry Cow people have founded their own labels. Still, I'm pretty sure metal embraced the DIY business ethic way more than prog did, if not quite as much as punk did. Maybe that is not as evident to someone who's not as familiar with the genre and its history as I am, though, and only knows the parts of the genre to have a great degree of mainstream crossover visibility?
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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CPicard
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Posted: April 03 2015 at 14:56 | ||||
^Sorry, but except ELP and Henry Cow, I don't remember a lot of progressive bands creating their own label!
Not only that, but I also think to remember that the most important NWBOHM bands first released self-produced records (Iron Maiden and Def Leppard, to name them). |
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Kati
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Posted: April 03 2015 at 07:10 | ||||
Back to the forum question, gain, I believe prog musicians were very clever and very demanding that the record label produced exactly what they wanted, many thereafter released their albums on their own record label. This was a threat to the record labels too plus the media didn't help by giving prog a bad name at the time. Metal bands usually have a lead vocalist and an ok or good solo lead break guitarist, as a whole not really a band more like a lead singer with backing band and a lead-break guitarist, most generic really thus easier to control.
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Kati
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Posted: April 03 2015 at 05:49 | ||||
Evolver, wow! Has been a while since I heard from you! Of course you would approve, your name relates to progress and even better, it's the first solution, also the pioneers No wonder you are not boxed in and you are most open-minded thus willing and curious to see where a conversation might lead or change, even if later might change to something very silly whereby the culprit could be me, sorry A massive hug to you, Evolver
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Evolver
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Posted: April 03 2015 at 05:28 | ||||
What an odd turn this thread has taken.
Evolver approves. |
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Kati
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Posted: April 03 2015 at 04:34 | ||||
Dean, to be honest I think he was a none believer of any religion, his top best commanders were Muslims, that he celebrated Easter this too is a fact, however although he was most curious about religion and studied the Al-Quran too no one is certain what his beliefs were, if any. His strategy was to let his people believe whatever they wanted, that freedom would avoid any revolution against him I think.
Edited by Kati - April 03 2015 at 04:36 |
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Kati
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Posted: April 03 2015 at 04:22 | ||||
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