Re: Beatles and Prog. Rock
 
> VK> > MH>The Beatles basically invented ProgRock...no matter how you look 
at 
> VK> > No, I can't concur there, although I LOVE the Beatles, but Prog-rock 
is
> VK> > just a few steps further than where the Beatles went, IMHO.  They
> VK> > started to make the turn, but then they backed up, and reverted.  
hey
> VK> > were great though, whatever they did, and I concur, they 
rule".
> VK> Exactly where in there recording carrer did they make that turn?!  
Withou
> VK> them music would be nowhere today.  The Beatles never reverted 
progressiv
> VK> they just kept getting better.
> The Beatles began experimenting the type of music that has come to be
> described as Prog-Rock starting with "Revolver" and on through "Sgt.
> Pepper" up to some of the "white" album. But then they made a decision
> to return to more basic rock and roll for their final albums.
> I can't imagine how anyone could listen to "A Day in the Life" and deny
> that it fit the Prog-Rock genre. By the same token, I don't see how
> anyone could listen to "She's So Heavy" and claim that it WAS Prog-Rock.
True yet that is what made the Beatles so great their diversity of music. 
They did basically everything from the hard edged stuff like "Come Together"
and thd the beautiful stuff like "The Long and Winding Road".
Later,
Vik Kambli
"... where nothing is real and there's nothing to get hung about"
                              John Lennon 1966
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