Too funny...

dB

Nice!

The section about album covers really has me rethinking my fandom of prog rock though. What's with all the butts???

perfect

Bravo. The funniest thing is most of that could be applied to other styles of music too.

That was very well done and very funny! Had me laughing out loud at a couple spots.

Mushroom Sword. Awesome!

Awesome!

That is great!!!


However, I'm putting you all on notice that my jamband, the one that will be performing 6 songs a nite, is heretofore to be known as TACO HAT.

Ouch.

JORDAN RAWKS, MAN!

6 songs performed in 4 one-hour sets, I presume?

Effin' brilliant!

Oh man, I really needed to laugh this hard today! Excellent stuff. Especially the Most Famous<->Least Famous/Butts<->Dongs continuum.

That sounds like/looks like the prog-rock that I have always known. Especially the half-@ssed philosophy and being better musicians than the rest of us! Yeah, and what is it with those bare-@ssed album covers?

dB

I'm too old to live in my mom's basement. Does that mean I can't play prog rock?

Ha ha!

Funny stuff.

Now can somebody, and maybe someone who plays the music, tell me what the term "progressive" rock means?

I know many of the bands that fall in the category, but how do you know when it goes from rock to progressive rock? Just curious

It's simple really:

Rock: All the guys in the band think they're superior because they get more chicks than you do.
Progressive Rock: All the guys in the band think they're superior because they can play more notes than you can.

I like it: "Symphony Of The Monolith"

Rock: The amplifiers have knobs that go up to "11"?

Prog. Rock: They play ALL the notes... And, space between notes doesn't exist?

Frankly, I've never understood what "Prog. Rock" referred to, either.

What means :

Beat
Bubble Gum
Rock
Blues Rock
Hard Rock
Classik Rock
Kraut Rock
Prog Rock
Grunge
Metal
Heavy Metal
Prog Metal
Nu Metal

BeBop
modern Jazz
electric Jazz
Fusion

Pop
Brit Pop
Disco
Dance
Break Dance
Techno
Trance
Ambient
Djungle
HipHop
TripHop
Tri Top :-)
Electronica
Avantgarde

???

ask Wiki, search the web or don´t care.

You´ll find successful acts in every category and over decades.
Just only brands, like it or not, play it or not, buy it or not.

If someone is/was in one of these "categorys" and it makes/made his live, he is or was in the right one,- biz wise.

Anyway, thx for the link Dave, that was so funny and made me laugh so much. Great site !

A.C.

Damn that was funny.....!

What means: Thrash Polka?

Polka music played at high speeds using lots of distortion?

dB

Sounds like fun.

Well, thanks for the instructional, but it was a friendly question for amusement. So my answer from your choices will have to be, um, I "don't care".

You're right that the words themselves mean nothing, but your list includes rock, jazz, bebop, etc. which are defined by well known idioms. Adding a word like progressive to something doesn't say anything.

To me, it's the same with the term "jam bands". When any band features a soloist, for that moment it becomes a jam band, or improvising, right? This is all OK - just an observation.

To me, a jam band is a band that plays mostly recognizeable "memory" versions of tunes that usually (but not always) feature (frequently extended) solos that are probably not present on the original version of the tune. A jam band would be comfortable trying to play a tune at a gig that they've never tried to play together before.

The term obviously also applies to bands that grab an instrumental groove and go/improvise, but the latter definition borders on/can frequently cross into jazz.

I tend to think of prog rock as pieces of (typically rock-based) music that contain (but are not limited to) something unusual...length, uncommon voicings/time signatures/instrumentation, etc., and/or have strong ties to classical music. FWIW, I actually kinda consider A Day In The Life to be one of the first pieces of prog rock.

dB

Yeah Dave, good descriptions. I was just playing around, getting all semantical here.