sbrock1san.rr.com Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 I was suprised to find in this months Guitar Player rag-azine, the following: interview with John Pettrucci of Dream Theatre review of Steve Hackett-"Tokyo Tapes" DVD. I've mentioned this one before because I feel it has the best rock drumming ever. It's a great video if you like Steve Hackett/John Wetton. Even though it's been out for a few years on VHS, I have to give Guitar Player props for the outstanding, yet belated review. reviews of Trevor Rabin "Cant Look Away", Steve Morse "The Introduction", and the "Yes" album. I know progressive rock is pretty much dead these days, but I'm glad Guitar Player is at least making an effort to give it the respect it deserves (shut up Lee ) Now if they would just do a small interview of Steve Rothery I could die a happy man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboDog Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 Somewhere I have Steve Hackett's Blues CD. I'm gonna have dig it up. It's been a while since I heard it. I hate to see crappy players on the covers of guitar mags, but it sells to the younger crowd. I haven't read a guitar mag in many months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bear Jew Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 Hey fellers... Prog rock isn't dead -- it just smells funny. Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week. But seriously folks, prog is very much alive. It's not popular anymore, but it's out there. The bands and artists get press in more genre-specific types of mags and websites these days. Check out: www.progrock.net or http://ghostland.com/home.asp and you'll find plenty of stuff. Prog's just gone underground for now. Music is cyclical -- in a few years it'll be back. Then it'll be out, etc. \m/ Erik "To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." --Sun Tzu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip McDonald Posted March 15, 2002 Share Posted March 15, 2002 "dead" or "alive" as a popular concept is a misnomer. It's like saying Styx is "dead": I don't like them particularly, but most of the people that filled arenas to see them the first time around aren't dead - so likewise theoretically their audience is still there. The whole concept is screwed up; just because it's not on MTV doesn't mean it's not happening. There's probably more people listening to prog now than there were people buying Buddy Holly records in the 50's, it's all relative - just dispersed and fractionated so it's not obvious. The Internet is changing that. Dream Theatre has the Net to thank for their popularity; the thinly stretched fans of prog dispersed throughout the planet can group together online and it's a LARGE number of people. That's a concept that (again) the major labels have failed to grasp. IN FACT, it makes a lot more sense for them to try to promote selling music to audiences that are fairly stable in their tastes and predilections that is a known quantity, than shooting their foot off chasing whatever flavor or breasts of the month that their own media expenditures has created. But I'm just a peon, a guitar teacher from Augusta Georgia. Guitar Lessons in Augusta Georgia: www.chipmcdonald.com Eccentric blog: https://chipmcdonaldblog.blogspot.com/ / "big ass windbag" - Bruce Swedien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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