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To be objective, and taking everything on "good faith" ,
by what dimensions is "Prog rock" "pretentious" ??

I will posit the following :

1. The "concept album"
2. Length of tracks
3. Production/performance costs
4, The audience/listener base who gravitate to it


On #1, if musicians are inspired/focused by some
concept/theme, and a set of tracks arise therein,
what of it ??

On '2, a cliche of Prog is that the tracks go on forever.
Is the complaint that too large a proportion are so,
or that any are so (the "three minute" song etc) ??

On #3, was there anger/that the production/instrument
costs were beyond all but a few, and that several of
the many would liked to have had a "level playing field" ??

On #4, are bands generally responsible for PIPEs etc
loving their music ??

 

JP was one of the first and loudest voices praising Yes. And that was up to and including Close to the Edge. He was also a big fan of King Crimson
I agreed with some of his later criticism of the excesses of the mid-70's, but he then saw a chance to use that stance to remain relevant as a DJ with the emergence of Punk and New Wave.

 

It’s ingrained in me that any song with more than three chords and lasting longer than two minutes is, as a general rule, just a waste of time

 

Philistine!

 

So a member / "Red guard" of the cult of Punk.
Ironically it which had a "year zero" which
overlapped the lifetime of the Khmer rouge
(and we all remember their "year zero" fondly) .

 

Well known that Jonny Rotten and Joe Strummer were prog fans

 

As @Left on the Shelf said, I’m just a Philistine

 

But more importantly Joey was a big fan of glam rock

 

RIP Tina Turner!

A real pop icon, regardless of your musical tastes. Unbelievably 83 years old!

 

65 today Happy Birthday Paul Weller

 

Eton Rifles has much resonance right now
Happy Birthday Paul
If only a band like The Jam could be the biggest band around and have a new entry at no 1 in the charts these days

 

RIP Tina Turner

 

And happy birthday Paul

I assume he won't be retiring at 65!

 

I went to see the stage show of this about 4 years ago and the kids were brilliant, so much energy and enjoyment , well worth a visit if it is still going