Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Best Prog Rock?
- Thread starter Doctor Intrepid
- Start date
I like that the thread has become more of a what’s your favorite prog band over who’s the best prog band. Some new stuff for me to check out.
Oops, and thanks for those. Homework.
Not heretical to me! I agree SO versions of all or most of their songs are the better ones.
You mean, having my cake and eating it?
If I only could, and if audiences and venues would support it….
Ha! Oh I’m all for speedy trials and being indicted fairly.....
Now this, this is a perfect example of the old stuff I was talking about to revisit. I was introduced to Amon Duul (1?) in the 70s by Allison Steel The Nightbird on WNEW but never head them after that. Same for Can and other unfortunately-labeled Krautrock artists.
I appreciate these suggestions as starting points.
Speaking of Seconds Out, have any of you picked up the remix/remaster? It sounds amazing, unlike the somewhat poorly and hastily mixed original. Hackett has his rightful place in the mix, unlike the original. It's like hearing it for the first time.
First to hear of this, great news.
I always thought Hackett's being mixed (criminally) low was intentional, I took it that Banks didn't like to share the spotlight and didn't appreciate Steve. His leaving not solely about little of Steve's music getting onto Genesis albums.
There's a Banks meme about his never smiling.
I always thought Hackett's being mixed (criminally) low was intentional, I took it that Banks didn't like to share the spotlight and didn't appreciate Steve. His leaving not solely about little of Steve's music getting onto Genesis albums.
There's a Banks meme about his never smiling.
Last edited:
Amon Duul I never really did much. They were a hippy collective in Munich that started a no-experience-or-competence necessary music project, and the actual musicians among them revolted and split off as Amon Duul II. Start with Tanz der Lemminge (dance of the lemmings) and Wolf City, their 3rd and 5th albums. Very different, but they both have more and better ideas than the others, IMHO.
Gentle Giant with the amazing and seriously way to underated bassist, Raymond Shulman.
Normally I don't reply to these things things but there were so many things missing that are important. Some of these may have already been mentioned...
Van der graaf Generator
Gentle Giant
Univers Zero
Anekdoten
Jethro Tull...sometimes considered prog
Marillion
Nectar
The Tea Club
Wobble
Porcupine Tree
Henry Cow
Sleepytime gorilla museum
But my vote will be for King Crimson...imo, the original prog band
Van der graaf Generator
Gentle Giant
Univers Zero
Anekdoten
Jethro Tull...sometimes considered prog
Marillion
Nectar
The Tea Club
Wobble
Porcupine Tree
Henry Cow
Sleepytime gorilla museum
But my vote will be for King Crimson...imo, the original prog band
Umm, No. "Best" is always subjective and to state Rush is best is purely subjective.
Too many other Perfect Progressive/ Fusion established artists out there. Didn't
realize OP intended for this to be a Peart tribute. I grew up assuming Rush was
progressive rock as much as Kansas was. But not my idea of prog compared to
Allan Holdsworth Gong, RTF, Gentle Giant, ELP, Yes, Bruford, Genesis etc. But then again
I wasn't spoon- fed "Raised On Radio". Think out of the box. WAM is considered
progressive in intelligent circles. Depends on your paradigm.
Sorry- definitely, Fripp and Co.
I almost brought them up earlier in the thread - I discovered them only through a Tony Levin interview in which he raved about them - but they're so avant-garde that I think most hard-core prog fans would run away screaming. Here's one of their more accessible pieces....
No! Had not! I, too, am learning something from this thread, then! I used to live in Berkeley and knew the underground East Bay scene pretty well. SGM came out of that scene shortly after I moved to Europe, and I only discovered them years later, after they'd broken up. I'd heard of Idiot Flesh, but only as a name, and from the clubs they were playing, I had assumed they were a more straightforward punk act.
