https://youtube/watch?v=lRBXy_UzLss In 1970 Procol Harum released their fourth album entitled Home. Many fans of the band considered it to be their finest hour (myself included). Home featured Dead Mans Dream, Barnyard Story, and Whaling Stories. Did these three songs unwittingly kick start a genre that most band members - both past and present - would have no association with whatsoever, namely progressive rock? As I said in the biography PROCOL HARUM & GHOSTS OF A WHITER SHADE OF PALE some elements of Home appeared to unwittingly kickstart that particular genre. In the light of this assertion it is also odd to note how the concept of the term progressive rock began.The word progressive means to take things forward. As most other music genres were described by their purer, previously defined tags, namely, rhythm n blues, soul, country, jazz, blues, psychedelia; in the early 1970sprogressive rock was the only tag that seemed credible for defining progression in the world of contemporary rock music. The term only became outmoded, and tied in with the politics of self indulgence, when the new wave represented the modern day equivalent of the tag progressive through an actual period of renewed, innovative progression (1976 till 1982). Progressive Rock was suddenly abbreviated to PROG.The successful synthesiser bands with their pretentious and portentous concepts, coupled with their never ending jazzy instrumental noodling, which was wholly devoid of any melody and structure, hijacked the damned term PROG and bastardised it in perpetuity. The genre came to represent a type of music that neither I nor the entire staff at NME, Creem, Sounds, etcetera, ever cared for. Melody Maker, however, loved PROG. And now there is a magazine dedicated solely to it. What do they call it? Oh yes... PROG.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 00:35:32 +0000
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