I WILL REVEAL THE SECRET OF PROG ROCK ON THIS THREAD

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All you have to do is wear a cape, and it all makes perfect sense.

― gage o (gage o), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

bouffancy is also a factor

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

And horses. On ice. Wearing gowns.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

All prog wants to do is have some fun.

Or at least have as little fun as possible but pretend to think it's fun.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

... and being a complete ARSE helps too

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Men with voice-ranges lower than tenor = NOT PROG.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

may i just say that this is the best prog album ever:
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/APP-ToMaI.jpg

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

So far:

1. Wear cape. While flitting about.
2. Have equestrian theme, preferably on frozen water.
3. Have said horses wear flowing robes.
4. Pretend to enjoy yourself, when in fact you are covertly concerned with the next 17 chord changes in the 15/8 time signature.
5. Singing in falsetto while acting like an asshole.
5. Reference opium-stupered horror writers.

This recipe can't go wrong, folks!

― gage o (gage o), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

true prog: "OMG IS THAT A *REAL* MELLOTRON? DUDE!"
VS
ex-prog posers who obviously are totally, like, popdork capitalists now: "Mellotrons sucked, the damned thing were impossible to keep in tune, couldn't play a note for more than 8 seconds. The sound was all wobbly! The finger-noise!"

Ooph.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

7. If this fails, attack the audience with your army of Aquatarkuses.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

note that the cd version of "tales and mystery of imagination" has orson welles narrating on part of it. more prog albums should have had that...

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

at least one lengthy (>5 min.) solo performed on large modular synthesizer

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Welles also narrated on a Manowar album.
And now Christopher Lee has joind Rhapsody.

Yay for the cheesemetal, I suppose.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Slightly offtopic:Vincent Price's Narration in "Thriller" C/D Michael Moorcock's Lyrics on mid-period Hawkwind tracks C/D

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i also think having "project" in your band name usually denotes that you are too-prog-for-school

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, lotsa jazz folks have "project" in their group's names.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

true, but they probably secretly wish they could play prog rock.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

But don't we all?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

indeed

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 2 October 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

*thinks again, "indeed," and smokes a pipe*

― Michael G, Thursday, 2 October 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

even after this discussion, this particular piece of cover art remains inexplicable:

http://www.dprp.vuurwerk.nl/news/2002/images/2002_08/wakeman2.jpg

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 2 October 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

To get back to the subject of prog fashion, 90125-era Yes started the trend for wearing white jumpsuits on stage that remains popular to this day, most often coupled with a tinted mullet. Capes and wizard hats were killed off by punk, I think that only Yes tribute bands dress like that these days.
Is Rick Wakeman's dog called Oscar then or have I missed the point?

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Did any progrock bands actually have the Wizards-crap in their lyrics?
People keep going on about how "ohahaha, your damn prog and all that ghosts and goblins lyric shit"

There's none of that! It's only totally serious and important stuff like WE ARE THE PIONEEERS OF C and "There I burn in my own lights fuelled with flags torn out of books, and histories of marching together"

OK OK OK, there's the seasoned witches, mountains that just stand there and rearranging of livers for solid mental grace to take into consideration; and this Gabriel fellow bumping around about butterflies, flutterbyes, gutterflies... but... wait... Er. I forgot my question.

The cymbal sometimes goes click.
But then you POUND it and it goes all RAPPATAPP-SPLASH!

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

By - Tor & The Snow Dog
Words and music by geddy lee, alex lifeson, and neil peart

I. at the tobes of hades
The tobes of hades
Lit by flickering torchlight
The netherworld is gathered in the glare
Prince by-tor takes the cavern
To the north light
The sign of eth is rising in the air
By-tor, knight of darkness,
Centurion of evil
Devil’s prince

II. across the styx
Across the river styx
Out of the lamplight
His nemesis is waiting at the gate
The snow dog, ermine glowing
In the damp night
Coal-black eyes shimmering with hate
By-tor and the snow dog
Square for battle
Let the fray begin

III. of the battle

Instrumental

IV. epilogue
The battle’s over
And the dust is clearing
Disciples of the snow dog sound the knell
Rejoicing echoes
As the dawn is nearing
By-tor in defeat
Retreats to hell
Snow dog is victorious
The land of the overworld
Is saved again

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Come on. It's Rush!
Don't make me do the big CSS-monstrosity thing on this page!

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes when Björk wears a white cape thing and white facepaint, she reminds me of 90125-era Jon Anderson.

― Damian (Damian), Friday, 3 October 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shit! Is that Rick Wakeman cover for real? That terrier is like Futurama's hypno-toad and Rick is his human slave.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 3 October 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

that cover is from one of the cds in a rick wakeman rarities box set apparently. i never realised terriers were so prog.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 3 October 2003 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

From rickwakeman.com

..on to Volume 2: The Oscar Concert It is there due to the fact, that only 86 people turned up at a show during the 2000 UK Solo-Tour, and a small dog, Oscar, stole the show. You can witness the moment when Rick spots the dog in the audience and starts to turn the whole show (including his famous inbetween songs stories) into the Concert for Oscar. This is as sentimental as funny, and the performances are excellent throughout. What'd you expect? Watch out for "Classical Doggy In The Window" Performance

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 3 October 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Capes and wizard hats were killed off by punk,
and thats a shame, because that was the only thing that punks shoulda taken from the prog crowd.
No, really. I could really imagine Pere Ubu dressed like the cast of Lord of the Rings.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 3 October 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Capes and wizard hats were killed off by punk

Not strictly true... capes didn't totally die w/ hobbit-rock. I seem to recall that Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators wore one on stage, though I guess that's cuz he was a wrestling fan rather than Gandalf's apprentice.

And you have clocked the cover of the new GBV ain'tcha?

http://www.gbv.com/gifs/ole-565_the_best_of_gbv_small.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 3 October 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do people barrack prog all the time? And always compare it to punk? Both are overblown pieces o'crap, with bullshit rhetoric.

Are Godspeed You Black Emperor the point where prog and punk fuck and stop taking the piss?

Where else?

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Friday, 3 October 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Prog Rock got me laid. End of story.

― kate (kate), Saturday, 4 October 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Prog Rock got me laid. End of story.

How? Was Wakeman there in person?

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Saturday, 4 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

his famous inbetween songs stories

I argue over the use of the adjective here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 October 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

terriers are totally prog!!

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 5 October 2003 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ALL HAIL THE HYPNO-DOG!

Yes are grebt! They're like Spinal Tap, only serious. I mean come on.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 5 October 2003 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thewho.net/fang/photogallery/photo19945/Lisztomania-CD-RUSS.jpg

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 5 October 2003 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

di, i kiss you!

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 October 2003 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Carl Palmer toured with TWO GONGS. I think they had different constellations on them.

http://www.carlpalmer.com/img0002.jpg

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Sunday, 5 October 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes when Björk wears a white cape thing and white facepaint, she reminds me of 90125-era Jon Anderson.

I think I preferred when Jon Anderson did it

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 5 October 2003 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.truthtree.com/images/green-toast.gif

― half jack, Sunday, 5 October 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rwcc.com/rwcc/graphics/disc/phanto.jpg

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 October 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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