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lemonade kid
Old Love
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 Posted - 25/05/2010 : 19:33:05
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I love music . I hate LABELS!
Seems like every time I go to read about a favorite band lately,
they are "progressive". Come on!
Strawbs, Caravan, Jethro Tull, Floyd...the list goes on. It seems that any band
that was unfortunate to have been popular during the 70's, has a style that
consists of more than one influence, such as jazz/rock, classical/rock,
folk/jazz/rock, blues/rock/jazz, or (as Arthur liked to say) "whatever"...
is PROG!!!
The Strawbs are a unique blend of traditional folk and rock with a
sound of their own.
Tull has a great blues background with a traditional folk bent mixed
with a rock/jazz/classical feel.
For me a band is best categorized by...they have a Strawbs sound, or
Tull sounds like Tull. and so on. Many are so turned off by PROG,
because it was killed by some pop radio kings like Genesis, so much
that many bands don't have a chance.
Anyone else feel as strongly as I do about this. All I want to hear
from a friend is "I like it"...I trust their taste so I go for it.
Sometimes I like it, sometimes not so much, but I don't want a label
to influence my listening experience. Do you?
So... I have some great Caravan sounding music on now....
"In The Land Of Grey & Pink"
 MUSIC rules!
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 25/05/2010 19:43:26 |
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boombox
Old Love
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Posted - 28/05/2010 : 16:23:20
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The Strawbs and Tull are pretty unique in their sound, I agree - can't think of anyone else who sounds like either of them. Good shout on Caravan, too. The whole 'Canterbury' thing got wrongly labelled with prog (not that there was anything wrong with it, and yes, I admit, I am a huge fan of 70s ELP, Yes and PG-era Genesis!). If Caravan, Camel, Hatfield etc were anything, it was nearer jazz fusion and folk combined, with bits of rock, psychedelia, country and every other genre thrown in for good measure. I have also seen the Arthur Brown and the Moodies labelled as prog, as well as, bizarrely, Uriah Heep, who to me have always been just a great heavy rock band. The prog label was just a convenient thing for music journalists, who couldn't cope with rock bands using traditionally classical instruments and more symphonic arrangements - they had to call it something.
And yay to personal recommendations - always worth more than any music critic's ramblings. Last Sunday, I had a most enjoyable night seeing John Mayer for the first time. If I cared about all the gossip in the press about him and worried about his winning 'best pop vocal' grammies, I wouldn't ever have started listening to his music (I mean 'POP' music, for goodness sake??!). As it was, someone recommended I listen to him years ago and I've been lucky enough now to finally witness the man's talent first hand. My general dislike of punk is known here, but the musicianship of the Damned was/is so superior to other 'punk' bands like the Sex Pistols, it was a travesty to lump them into the same genre as the press did. Fortunately, I had friends who told me that there was, in fact, some good stuff and turned me on to the Damned - ironically, 'Curtain Call' with its Scheherezade violin break, might be labelled 'prog punk'!
Oh yes, and my first exposure to Love was 'Da Capo' - taped by a friend's brother to fill up the other side of the cassette when he taped me the Doors' 'Alive, She Cried'. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 28/05/2010 : 18:36:17
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Originally posted by boombox
Oh yes, and my first exposure to Love was 'Da Capo' - taped by a friend's brother to fill up the other side of the cassette when he taped me the Doors' 'Alive, She Cried'.
Nice filler, boomer! And then the DOORS' "Alive..."
became filler....!
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Don't "prog" on my parade!!
