Canterbury UK 70s Prog Rock Progressive Rock by David Robin Part 2

[SongSwan]

The key to making "progressive" work is to make the music acessable unleass you just want to hear alot of notes for the sake of hearing alot of notes,many so called progressive bands just didn't know how to make their music listener friendly....progressive can mean things other than exotic scales,constantly shifting and changing keys,rythms and tempos...progressive can alaso be an attitude about music,song subject matter ect ect.

[Dannymusic1999]

I look at Pink Floyd in progressive rock terms as ... say the Beatles of Prog.

[nubient]

Hugh Hopper RIP

[geffel]

Genesis - the band that lived it's career backwards. You're s'posed to start off playing poppy crap to get known and then start playing the really good stuff once you've got a following. Genesis did the exact opposite.

[ZombieToaster]

@geffel Sadly, plenty prog bands did it that way. Altho most returned to prog eventually.

[geffel]

@ZombieToaster True - Kansas springs to mind. They made some awesome prog and the nwent poppy in the late seventies, early eighties. I guess it's a response to losing sales and the recod company demanding the y shift more product or bugger off.

Genesis din't have a downturn in sales as far as I can recall, but they still caved into trends rather than sticking at prog. I was with them right up until Duke, which I loved, but after that there were just one or two tracks I liked here and there.