So Steely Dan are prog rock now?
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 28 August 2015 11:42 (eight years ago) link
Looks like LJ has some competition..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 28 August 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
i saw happy the man when i was in college. they ruled.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 28 August 2015 12:19 (eight years ago) link
the MARS VOLTA isn't bad, either, or BATTLES, TORTOISE, GASTR DEL SOL, TOOL, STEELY DAN, THINKING PLAGUE, ECHOLYN, STARCASTLE, DON CABALLERO, PHISH, SPOCK'S BEARD, ASTRA, BIRDS & BUILDINGS, and TRANS AM
Most of these bands are very, very bad.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 28 August 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link
free your mind
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
My brother is a 7/18-time prog O.G. and he would say that Frank Zappa is quintessential American prog.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 28 August 2015 13:16 (eight years ago) link
I would say that and almost did earlier. And Todd/Utopia too.
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 28 August 2015 13:21 (eight years ago) link
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART is prog too and so are the DECEMBERISTS. there's a lot of good american prog out there despite uptight rock critic dogma
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:01 (eight years ago) link
I guess Zappa, Dylan (at least lyrically) and Vanilla Fudge had some of the greatest influence on the development of the genre. Alongside some of the electric jazz of the late 60s and various bits of Avant Garde?modern classical stuff from the States. With Beefheart, Todd and a number of hippy era things coming a little behind that possibly.
― Stevolende, Friday, 28 August 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
Jim was CIA, as were all the other Laurel Canyon children of military-industrial complex, everyone knows this by now! ;)
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 28 August 2015 14:17 (eight years ago) link
#STRANGEDAYSMONO#JIM#DOORSRULE
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
also as far as the doors not being influential to prog - who was doing heavy classical music organ workouts a la the long version of "light my fire"? you think rick wakeman didn't pay attn to that?
Johnny Ramone said in a late interview the only good American band of the 60s was the DoorsIggy Pop was huge doors fan.
The two men most responsible for American punk love the Doors.
i.e. as I said up thread the Doors are punk and prog.
Jim is all
ride the snake
you're all.....................SLAVES
*ghost dance*
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
#JimInSchenectady
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o68a87bOr2A
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
I feel like I'm in a timewarp and back in the ILM of 10 years ago when EVERYTHING was being described as prog.
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
sonic boom exhumed jimbo not all that long ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0r0kVY8wN4
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
Pretty sure the doors are British iirc
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
only if ian astbury counts
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
he does
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 August 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
still trying to figure out why people think it's impressive to make a point of disliking prog. keith levene was steve howe's roadie
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
The Doors are punk becuz they covered X before it was cool
The Doors are prog becuz they covered Soft Parade before it was cool
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 28 August 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
the doors are balearic because of "touch me" babe. HELIUM is good american prog, like the JICKS, SUFJAN STEVENS, MARNIE STERN, HIS NAME IS ALIVE, TELEVISION, and EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
When can Americans admit that we prog?
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 28 August 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xillqqt0Y0
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 28 August 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
into this world we're thrown
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
RIP odesses
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 August 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
I'm with Andy Partridge on this one, The Doors were no fun.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 28 August 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOiACbZIhec
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
(xp) Hold on there, aren't you a Stranglers fan?
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 28 August 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
the Stranglers are hilarious
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 August 2015 17:47 (eight years ago) link
So are the Doors!
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 28 August 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
i forgot, i guess jim's voice can really turn people off. that's legit.
― brimstead, Friday, 28 August 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, August 28, 2015 12:36 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Andy Patridge is definitely a world-class expert on being no fun
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 August 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
not intentionally (at least not that I can tell - Jim's stage banter could be amusing)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 August 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
the doors are ridulous and ridiculously awesome it doesn't matter what they meant
lots of ppl in this thread aren't very good at being fans of rock music step your game up
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 August 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Guy who wrote "Dear God" accuses leather trouser'd beer swigging ham of not being fun
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 28 August 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig-ZoUQKst4
― rushomancy, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:19 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEk2zJ3jpuM
― rushomancy, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
If we need more Doors fans, Julian Cope said they were his favourite band and Michael Gira likes em too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
Guy who wrote "Dear God"
Most important member of The Doorks.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 28 August 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
"Fairy Killer" is tremendous in my opinion.
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 28 August 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
I guess Mahavishnu Orchestra, Battles, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Zappa, and Cairo are my favourites American ones so far. Throw in some metal like Cynic and Death.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 28 August 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
The Mahavishnu Orchestra were only 40% American.
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 28 August 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
Never thought of it before, but prog-ish bands helped keep classic-rock radio a lasting thing: Rush, Moody Blues, maybe Doors, breaking up the major keys and bar blues.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 28 August 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
BOSTON, CHICAGO, KANSAS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCACYgvMgHQ&list=PLoRNXsrOuZ-VVB4IGR2RxJi33O1U3Mgwu
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
RIP odesses― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 August 2015 17:21 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 August 2015 17:21 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ah, I see!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Friday, 28 August 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
haha did not mean to imply that oddesses was a sock of mine (although I can see how our names might lend that impression), just that he appears to have left and not come back
― Οὖτις, Friday, 28 August 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
the answer you seek lies in the admin log
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 28 August 2015 21:03 (eight years ago) link
If the Doors were a band today they'd be called DOOOOOOOORS and their logo would be a pizza. Prog.
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 28 August 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link