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i am a fan of being clever, but i really wasn't trying with that comment.
I feel that prog is too stale for me. I'm not such an expert or admireist of most of the bands y'all have mentioned. I like Rush, KC, Yes & some Genesis. That was the music i cut my teeth on when i was a teenager, before the glory of hip hop & punk rock was discovered.
I appreciate the Dream Theatre & Opeth these days, but very very casually.
anyway, my point is:
I feel that the whole composition aspect, the quest for perfection, the quest for ultimate musicianship, the quest for the perfect balance of production & engineering that goes into Prog Rock is the construction of the big wall between artist & regular people. Most people who are into prog, or play prog have a sense of self-importance that i find disgusting.
Anti-Prog (in my little brain) is a loose term for improvisational music that arrives at a progressive-ish outcome. The unintenional accident of being prog is anti-prog. Yeah.
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