DM>  GE> All I'm asking for a simple definition of prog-rock that is clear 
nd
DM>  GE> unambiguous. Is that such a hard thing to provide?
DM> "If it sounds like Prog Rock..." is as unambiguous as I'M going to get!
AARRGGG!!!! That's the definition I suggested some time back, and all
the "regulars" in here told me I was wrong!
DM>  GE> Of all the serious musicians I've known (or known of), very few take
DM>  GE> kindly to being pigeon-holed into a category, and most refuse to do 

DM>  GE> themselves.
DM> Very true indeed.  Were you a jock or a burnout in high school?
"Burnouts" didn't come along until after I got out of high school. In my
era there were the freaks and the cakes (short for "cake eaters", as in
Marie Antoinette's dietary advice). I did not eat cake.
I was part of the crowd that not only knew all the words to
"Ina-gadda-da-vida", we thought we actually understood what they REALLY
meant. I was also a bass player in a second-rate bar band that actually
played prog-rock. We were the only bar band I ever heard of that covered
Moody Blues songs.
I also was a panelist on a TV show on the local PBS station, and
interviewed lots of other second and third rate bar and garage bands. We
were real big on proper classification of music until I had the chance
to interview the New York Rock Ensemble. I started asking them about
ifferent rock genres, and what they thought of them, and which bands
belonged with which other bands, and where did they fit into the scheme
of things. Milt Kamen said, "Kid, you're full of shit. It's just music.
Only a shit-for-brains worries about that shit."
It taught me a valuable lesson about categorizing music. It also pissed
off the director because we had to stop tape, since you couldn't say
"shit" on TV back then, even on PBS.
DM> (Wow, that reads stranger than I intended.  No offense intended.)
None taken.
DM> ... Shave The Whales
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