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Xnah · Post by **Xnah** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:53 pm

Is Stairway to Heaven also 70's prog rock? (Sorry for the dumb questions, but I'd hate to come up with a great rock song that's not prog or 70's enough)...

Sepheritoh · Post by **Sepheritoh** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:06 pm

Yeah. Stairway!!!

Off course it is.

Jonny Quest · Post by **Jonny Quest** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:23 pm

Legion Hush wrote:Oh god this month sux! Prog rock is self indulgent crap!!

As opposed to the selfless, unbiased crap we know and love ?

I have never fully trusted wikipedia; as such Disco, and especially anything resembling the Village People will be considered progressive rock in my book

Peace,

Jonny

freeztar · Post by **freeztar** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:43 pm

Hmmmm...
So if I do a key change or tempo change every four measures or so I should be ok yeah?

freeztar · Post by **freeztar** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:44 pm

Hmmm.....
Now how do I squeeze Thick as a Brick into 2 minutes...

Laguna Rising · Post by **Laguna Rising** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:51 pm

There should be space for solos....

Yees !

kara · Post by **kara** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:54 pm

Solos.. hmm I'll try

Laguna Rising · Post by **Laguna Rising** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:06 pm

kara wrote:Solos.. hmm I'll try

Oh, yeah, you have the skills...

This is going to be a good month. Even if I have no chance to climb higher in the final results, we'll end up having great prog songs to listen. For me, it's better than a good classification

The other side of the coin is that many people here must bend their own "modern" style to a more dated genre

Cheers

Scoops · Post by **Scoops** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:07 pm

freeztar wrote:Hmmm.....
Now how do I squeeze Thick as a Brick into 2 minutes...

I saw the Thick as a Brick Tour back in 72 or so.
At the time, the tune took over half the concert.
Oh, the concert was over 3 hours long. It was like being in heaven.

Scoops

core · Post by **core** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:11 pm

kara wrote:
core wrote:Oh man, I suck at this!

I can only butcher the genre, right? I think it's pointless for me to enter this month heh.
TBH with the right (wrong) vocals on top of this, you would have a good Punk song

Now change the type of drum sound to full reverb rock drums and trow a bit strings on top of that and you can call it prog rock

Kara, it only sounds moderately good because the orignal is so good

(adn too bad punk isn't the theme, I should be able to manage that type of music as I started out in a punk band when I was 11, our first song was called "Born as a punk"

)

Hey scoops, can we people who play acoustic guitars and addictive drums demos resort to "personal interpreations" of prog rock?

napalmbob · Post by **napalmbob** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:23 pm

To Scoops,

is the theme "Prog Rock as it sounded in the 70s"

OR

"70's style Prog Rock as it sounds today" ?

(maybe I can do some Kraftwerk afterall

)

Marc JX8P · Post by **Marc JX8P** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:58 pm

Can't believe I'm the first one to submit this time!

Hope you all enjoy it, I was really inspired by the subject and it came out tonight in a few hours. Really enjoyable.

Xnah · Post by **Xnah** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:12 pm

Marc JX8P wrote:Can't believe I'm the first one to submit this time! Hope you all enjoy it, I was really inspired by the subject and it came out tonight in a few hours. Really enjoyable.

Great song, you're my #1 until now. But - all craziness on a stick

- it sounds good, and really 70's.

Scoops · Post by **Scoops** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:13 pm

napalmbob wrote:To Scoops,
is the theme "Prog Rock as it sounded in the 70s"
OR
"70's style Prog Rock as it sounds today" ?
(maybe I can do some Kraftwerk afterall )

I'd suggest going for the sound of the 70's rather than that of today.
Remember, the name of the theme this month is "Flashback - The 70's"

core wrote:Hey scoops, can we people who play acoustic guitars and addictive drums demos resort to "personal interpreations" of prog rock?

..."personal interpreations" of prog rock? As long as you make it sound like it came from the 70's

For what it's worth, I think this is going to be a great month. We have some very talented people here. I fully aknowledge this will be a difficult beast. But other options to the 70's were Disco, Funk, Billboard Top 100, and so on, well, it just didnt seem right for this group. On the other hand, Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, ELP, and so on, all came of age in this decade. It doesnt seem to be a stretch for the talent pool here to emulate this music

I'll also have to give Duncanparsons a +1 on his post earlier in the thread. I think it's a pretty good insight as to what Prog Rock is.

Good Luck!

Scoops

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:17 pm

Legion Hush wrote:
ouroboros wrote:is it 70's or prog rock? I want to enter in the spirit of the comp
The ohio players are 70's, but not prog.

perhaps some afternoon delight
*sigh*

Listed plain as day in the March Contest Submission thread wrote:The theme for this month will be Prog Rock of the 70's

sorry to trouble you, I guess I missed that one line underneath

Flashback - The 70's

Ah yes, The 70's I remember them fondly. Lots of great music came out of that era.

bad eyes.

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