As I have mentioned sometime in the past, I have not been so fond of progressive Rock, nevertheless there are so many bands that have kept my attention in a way that I have been hearing them for a long while now.
The progressive Rock, shortened to Prog Rock is a sub-genre of RNR, is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility."
The term "art rock" is often used interchangeably with "progressive rock", but while there are crossovers between the two genres, they are not identical.
Progressive Rock is a form of Rock music with an artistic intention that is both composed and improvised, takes its influences from a wide variety of sources, and fuses these approaches together to create music that is distinctly unlike anything that has proceeded it.
I did write about Asia once, one of the progressive bands I like most, although the list of my preferred bands is not that long I can mention among them, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Yes, Rush, Genesis, Kansas, Marillion, Dream Theater, Alan parsons Project, Styx, Supertramp, Deep Purple, Queen (we can discuss), Queensryche, The Who, Vangelis, Led Zeppelin, Saga, Boston and Journey.
I will write in future articles about these bands, at this moment there is a question I would like to ask, what makes progressive rock special, and why many people likes this sub-genre within Rock music.
What made the people hear these long songs?, most likely the songs fit one side of the vinyl record. I recall hearing an album back in the late 70’s, it was a band formed by Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer (Emerson, lake & Palmer), the album was Brain Salad Surgery (1973), the song was Karm Evil 9, this son was so long that last 30 minutes, had three parts, this composition started in one side of the record and ended on the other side.
I would say, even though it would be quite hard to confirm 100% that progressive rock came along late 60’s early 70’s. It was a tough time for Rock music, there was a demand of something new. In the late 60’s Pink Floyd (started as Acid Rock), Yes and Genesis were around but not as solid prog, Some of the pages I have researched, Blogs I have read, Magazine I have consulted and books I have used, agree that prog rock started with the Album In The Court of The Crimson King. A fun fact, when this album was being recorded, the band had no formal name, it was just Greg Lake, Robert Fripp, Ian MacDonald and Peter Giles. Once the recoding was done the band decided to be called King Crimson after the song, work that took by surprise the market.
Once identified the origin, it was starting the 70’s that Pink Floyd decided to move from acid rock to Progressive rock thank to David Gilmore. Yes, included in their line up the guitarist Steve Howe and the Keyboardist Rick Wakeman, with this lineup the Albums Yes and Fragile were created, both in 1971. Genesis on the other hand had the album Trespass, good album but needed to refine their style, so they replace Anthony Phillips hiring Steve Hackett and decided to hire a fourth drummer,. Sir. Phil Collins, with this new line up the album Nursery Crime came along also in 1971.
Till my next written Riff
The progressive Rock, shortened to Prog Rock is a sub-genre of RNR, is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility."
The term "art rock" is often used interchangeably with "progressive rock", but while there are crossovers between the two genres, they are not identical.
Progressive Rock is a form of Rock music with an artistic intention that is both composed and improvised, takes its influences from a wide variety of sources, and fuses these approaches together to create music that is distinctly unlike anything that has proceeded it.
I did write about Asia once, one of the progressive bands I like most, although the list of my preferred bands is not that long I can mention among them, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Yes, Rush, Genesis, Kansas, Marillion, Dream Theater, Alan parsons Project, Styx, Supertramp, Deep Purple, Queen (we can discuss), Queensryche, The Who, Vangelis, Led Zeppelin, Saga, Boston and Journey.
I will write in future articles about these bands, at this moment there is a question I would like to ask, what makes progressive rock special, and why many people likes this sub-genre within Rock music.
What made the people hear these long songs?, most likely the songs fit one side of the vinyl record. I recall hearing an album back in the late 70’s, it was a band formed by Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer (Emerson, lake & Palmer), the album was Brain Salad Surgery (1973), the song was Karm Evil 9, this son was so long that last 30 minutes, had three parts, this composition started in one side of the record and ended on the other side.
I would say, even though it would be quite hard to confirm 100% that progressive rock came along late 60’s early 70’s. It was a tough time for Rock music, there was a demand of something new. In the late 60’s Pink Floyd (started as Acid Rock), Yes and Genesis were around but not as solid prog, Some of the pages I have researched, Blogs I have read, Magazine I have consulted and books I have used, agree that prog rock started with the Album In The Court of The Crimson King. A fun fact, when this album was being recorded, the band had no formal name, it was just Greg Lake, Robert Fripp, Ian MacDonald and Peter Giles. Once the recoding was done the band decided to be called King Crimson after the song, work that took by surprise the market.
Once identified the origin, it was starting the 70’s that Pink Floyd decided to move from acid rock to Progressive rock thank to David Gilmore. Yes, included in their line up the guitarist Steve Howe and the Keyboardist Rick Wakeman, with this lineup the Albums Yes and Fragile were created, both in 1971. Genesis on the other hand had the album Trespass, good album but needed to refine their style, so they replace Anthony Phillips hiring Steve Hackett and decided to hire a fourth drummer,. Sir. Phil Collins, with this new line up the album Nursery Crime came along also in 1971.
Till my next written Riff