I only just read this and you did a very good job, I enjoyed reading it even though I knew most of it I wouldn't be able to put it into words. I'm a big fan of Krautrock in particular.

Prog rock is simply crazy

A lot of times yes, but a lot of it is very disiplined in it's approach.... Frank Zappa for example refused to let any of his musicians use drugs, and of course, his musicians were always top of the line in terms of pure ability... Freak Out is one of the most important influences on the genre along with Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and Days Of Future Past, in fact, many would argue that it is the "first" prog album.... Sure it dosent sound very prog, but it introduced many of the elements that defined progressive rock.... Frank Zappa in many ways created the blueprint for prog, bands like King Crimson simply took Zappa's philosophy and developed it much further, abandoning Zappa's more "rock" oriented tendencies for something that was closer to free form jazz, folk and classical than blues, r&b and gospel like most rock music was at the time, eventually leading to prog as we know it today.

ya great post.............:beer:

I don't see how anyone could listen to A Night At The Opera and deny that Queen were a prog band. Or at least, ventured into prog domain on more than one occasion.

That's true, though they are obviously more well known for their pop songs, they did their share of prog with their early work, and Night At The Opera has Bohemian Rhapsody and The Prophets Song of course.

I have a weird relationship with Queen. I can go from liking them to loathing them in the space of one album.

bump

My favourite sub genre of prog is symphonic prog... My fave band.. Wakeman era Yes.

ive got lots of bands though :) and i jsut got TFTO by YES, and im getting some solo wakeman and jon anderson ( sunhillow)

Sunhillow is difinetely the best Anderson album to start with.

I was never a big Vangelis fan, but he and Anderson have good chemistry.

Indeed, this is very much where it's at. Camel and Gentle Giant (who i believe were a Pompey band) et al.

my ears are bleeding