Spudman
February 17th, 2008, 09:05 PM
Here is a brief primer into progressive music. It is not all inclusive.
The reason I am doing this primer is because people say that there seems to be a shortage today of good guitar music that is well crafted an produced. Not so. Progressive music fills that bill. Most progressive artists are not in it for the money. They simply love the music, love to create and to play so they do what they want to do and the result is music that is vast in emotional depth, structure and musicianship.
There are many sub genres of Progressive music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock): Prog metal, art rock, neo prog, prog rock etc. Mostly evolving from psychedelic rock prog rock incorporates a variety of time signatures and like classical music can contain several movements within one song. For example Yes - Close To The Edge is a 22 minute epic. Many other bands include epic songs on their albums that regularly go into the 10 minute plus range. These songs are not shoe gazer jams but songs that are variations on a theme.
Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock)can give you more in depth information than I can on the subject of prog.
Before you scoff at the idea of Prog remember that some of the best bands are prog bands. Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, ELO, The Who, King Crimson and even the Beatles and Stones all are considered progressive at points within their careers.
There are a couple of other sources for Prog information and listening that I use.
To listen to great Prog from your computer go to http://www.deliciousagony.com/
The audio fidelity is awesome.
For reviews and interviews http://www.progressiveworld.net/main.html
And my main source of info is http://www.dprp.net/index.php The Dutch Progressive Rock Pages
The reason I am doing this primer is because people say that there seems to be a shortage today of good guitar music that is well crafted an produced. Not so. Progressive music fills that bill. Most progressive artists are not in it for the money. They simply love the music, love to create and to play so they do what they want to do and the result is music that is vast in emotional depth, structure and musicianship.
There are many sub genres of Progressive music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock): Prog metal, art rock, neo prog, prog rock etc. Mostly evolving from psychedelic rock prog rock incorporates a variety of time signatures and like classical music can contain several movements within one song. For example Yes - Close To The Edge is a 22 minute epic. Many other bands include epic songs on their albums that regularly go into the 10 minute plus range. These songs are not shoe gazer jams but songs that are variations on a theme.
Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock)can give you more in depth information than I can on the subject of prog.
Before you scoff at the idea of Prog remember that some of the best bands are prog bands. Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, ELO, The Who, King Crimson and even the Beatles and Stones all are considered progressive at points within their careers.
There are a couple of other sources for Prog information and listening that I use.
To listen to great Prog from your computer go to http://www.deliciousagony.com/
The audio fidelity is awesome.
For reviews and interviews http://www.progressiveworld.net/main.html
And my main source of info is http://www.dprp.net/index.php The Dutch Progressive Rock Pages