I'm sorry. I always thought of Rush, along with King Crimson and Yes as quintessential Prog-rock.
If Rush is out, maybe I am a Prog fan after all. Lol
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Do Only Prog-Fans Like Chris Squire?
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If Rush is out, maybe I am a Prog fan after all. Lol
In 1969 onwards, my little old band attended several gigs by such bands. Yes was one such band that I recall seeing several times.
Also - someone mentioned King Crimson. We went to that band's debut at the Marquee club in London. Also saw Genesis twice a decade apart
followed Peter Bardens' Camel for several gigs. We were a clubbing all-sorts band so we encountered a number of other bands of various genres.
Chris Squire still has his Rickenbacker and I have mine but I designed and built my stereo bass rig 40 years ago which can deal with many sounds.
Chris Squire had that twangy piano bass strings sound - that was 1969.
Also - someone mentioned King Crimson. We went to that band's debut at the Marquee club in London. Also saw Genesis twice a decade apart
followed Peter Bardens' Camel for several gigs. We were a clubbing all-sorts band so we encountered a number of other bands of various genres.
Chris Squire still has his Rickenbacker and I have mine but I designed and built my stereo bass rig 40 years ago which can deal with many sounds.
Chris Squire had that twangy piano bass strings sound - that was 1969.
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You have to remember that a lot of the Yes Progressive music was written by Chris. So pretty much any band he would be in would have some of that style in it.
I just love his bass playing ... especially the early yes stuff ... Fragile is brilliant.
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Just putting keys in a band does not make them "Progressive"
Basically Prog Rock "progressed" from simple 3 minute 3 chord 1-4-5 songs into more complex pieces of music incorporating elements of jazz, classical orchresta, complex time signatures, and thematic lyrical content. The keyboards helped with more classical sounds.
A longer definition here >>>>>>>>>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock
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I'm a prog fan, I don't really love Chris. I acknowledge he's really good. But he's not like my favorite or anything.
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I wouldn't call myself a "fan" of prog. I think some of it is ok. However, Chris Squire is a monster, and I love to listen to his lines.
Listen again. Then listen remembering what else was going on in 1969.
I've always liked Chris's playing,and his sound from the very beginning of his career, right up to the present, and try to emulate some of that in the decidedly nonprog bands i play in,wanting the bass to be an upfront part of the bands instrumental sound. I do like unconventional music,whether it is "prog" or whatever. Yes's latest album has some very conventional sounding pop songs,that still have pretty cool basslines underpinning them.
Listen again. Then listen remembering what else was going on in 1969.
Yeah that was my thought too,the arrangements on the debut album were pretty unusual for a rock band of that time,and really made that album stand out. And the 2nd album,Time and a word,had some absolutely killer unconventional music happening on it,with just about everything on it being over the top. (In a fantastically good way).
There's more variety of styles/genres on most Yes albums than some bands will dabble with in their entire careers. Squire is no one trick pony.
The other thing that I think is lost is that just because other people took what Yes did and pushed it even farther doesn't mean that Yes is no longer prog rock. I think that a lot of times young people take things out of context. You have to judge things in light of the time they happened. Having said that, I think that even today much of early Yes would be considered prog rock.
I'm the hugest Rush fan in the world, but I don't consider them Prog, and they don't consider themselves Prog either. They had Prog influences, surely, but they are essentially a hard rock power trio, and a very creative one.
Certain Rush songs fall readily into the Prog category, "the camera eye" for one,2112,and pretty much all of Hemispheres. But yeah overall,i always thought they were a very inventive hard rock band.
I don't know if they "like" him, but plenty of non proggers know about him, lesser known than geddy for sure but american idol known compared to ray shulman.
