They were only meant to blow the bloody Doors off.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 27 August 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
the Bloody Doors, weren't they British?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 August 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
marisa is it you?!
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Thursday, 27 August 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
xpost:
Yeah, they toured with The "Windows" 98
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 27 August 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
i think matt sorum drummed some for windows millenium edition
― balls, Thursday, 27 August 2015 23:33 (eight years ago) link
oddesssess i listened to l.a. woman on the way home thx to you, sounded GREAT
― balls, Thursday, 27 August 2015 23:34 (eight years ago) link
god doors haters are such FoS wastoids. it's either1) jim morrison is dumb (wow interesting)2) i hate weed and blacklight posters (lol high school)3) their music is fussy/corny/lightweight (they're not les rallizes.. do you like the monkeys?)
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 August 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
the doors may have been the first american prog band but they are not the best american prog band
USA IS A MONSTER forever
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
<3ed the doors in high school; still think they're great
― drash, Friday, 28 August 2015 06:24 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_g84ubkwUg
― drash, Friday, 28 August 2015 06:25 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZJBJ63uI4
― drash, Friday, 28 August 2015 06:26 (eight years ago) link
Velvet Underground as prog? Modern classical/avant garde influence put to play on basic r'n'b structure by way of jazz like improvisation?
Then you've got yer Vanilla Fudge innit? Seemed to be quite influential on protoprog at least. &got right up themselves with concept lps.
Young Rascals wound up quite proggy too.
&I heard the Seeds had a 200 year old piano teacher on keyboards.
― Stevolende, Friday, 28 August 2015 06:32 (eight years ago) link
Suggest bar The Doors.
― ... (Eazy)
I laughed
― hhoffman, Friday, 28 August 2015 10:07 (eight years ago) link
The best American prog band is Kansas.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 28 August 2015 10:27 (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
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 28 August 2015 11:35 (eight years ago) link
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
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