wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) (12/02/83)
As someone with a long-term claim to Progressive Rock as my favorite
form of music, I'll give the following complaits and criticisms:
GENESIS: My ex-fave. Every album, even the first two from back in
the sixties before they went Progrssive. However, have been on a
steep downhill slope ever since Gabriel left. The band should be
renamed Phil Collin's Genesis, he has dominated th group and they are
not playing Progressive but Commercial.
PETER GABRIEL: MY FAVORITE. NOTHING BETTER. He still has the spark
that most Progressives seem to lose after being in music for so long.
PINK FLOYD: Brillant Career, with the pinnacle being "Wishing You
Were Here". Ultimate music for those times when you crawl away and
contemplate, trying to remember why you drank so much beer and then
why did you do those other things. Other comments, "The Wall" is a
landmark and will be one of those albums that I play every couple of
weeks for a very long time.
DAVID BOWIE: Next to Peter Gabriel in my list. Another in the list
of a musician with a long tradition of Progressive music that still
plays such music.
MOODY BLUES: Yes, they were at one time a great Progrssive band,
especially in the area of orchestration. However, they should have
given up tghe ghost long ago. When will all these social-security
bands die???
YES: The Yes Album. Fragile. Yessongs. I think these words are
synonyms for awesome. However, I don't think they have put out any
good music since the Wondrous Stories album, it has gotten a little
too disharmonic for me. I think the new Yes is in the same boat,
although I will reserve my opinion for after I buy the album this
weekend.
And others, though for me, these are the major ones. The minor ones
would include for me Todd & Utopia, ELP, King Crimson, et al.
Two subjects that might be interesting:
- The influences of jazz (especially Jazz/Fusion) in Progrssive.
(for example Jean-Luc Ponty, Herbie Hancock, etc.)
- Did anyone ever happen to get to go to the reunion concert that
Genesis played last year in England. If I wan't a poor student at
that time, I know I would have traveled to England to see it. What
was the mood? How was the music? Were they playing their own
individual stuff in addition to the old classics? Any tensions
visible?
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Walt Pesch
Specialist in Removal of Oral Insertions of Feet
AT&T Western Electric
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