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Canterbury is a pointless pigeon hole name..

Amazes me how people always see prog as the Giant Roger Dean Stage shows, Taking ten tons of Equipment around the world, Pompous stage acts, Concept albums a go go.. Dross & an embarrassment to Prog. I hate all that crap & one of the main reasons i dislike 1973. This Fretless is clearly what you have in your head as being just what prog was about.

Try very hared to Seperate that from Crossover Prog which was basically the crossing over from Psychedelic music into Progressive.

Fretless wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 12:21 pm Then someone will probably ask if the 'Canterbury Scene' was prog.

Thats probably because you have it in you head what your head what your what most every body assumes prog is all about & its not all about standing on one leg playing flutes while off with the fairies spinning around in the air on a grand piano.

Radiohead are the new kings of prog but better.

Karnevil9 wrote: ↑Mon May 07, 2018 8:03 pm off with the fairies spinning around in the air on a grand piano.

You must be thinking of this then ....

Rick Wakeman - Do You Believe In Fairies?

[BBvideo=560,315]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSm5IQFaTZA[/BBvideo]

Aye & if that is peoples definition of Prog your welcome to it.

Were the Sensational Alex Harvey Band considered to be a prog outfit?

Chunk McDaniel wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 2:01 am Were the Sensational Alex Harvey Band considered to be a prog outfit?

They did flit through a few sub-genres, blues-rock, classic rock, glam-rock, rock-and-roll, but probably not prog. That's just my opinion of course, and it depends on what your personal definition of "prog" was, or is

The wiki take on the question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_music

That's confusing the issue ( an attempt to define the use of progressive across genres). Wicki also have a page on prog rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_rock