Prog (Not Prog?) by Mark Paytress
Progressive rock signified, as its name implies, the potentially limitless forward march of rock music from the late '60s into the new decade and beyond. Yet, by 1976, the genre was strictly passe. Since then, the era of the grand, conceptually driven masterwork, driven by superfast virtuoso noodling and unveiled to the public as a huge theatrical extravaganza, has received a difficult press. Punk stuck the boot in, reserving its most bitter bile for 'old farts' such as Yes, Genesis and Jethro Tull. And the smell lingers on. Even Radiohead get twitchy when it is suggested, with some justification, that the progressive aesthetic informs their work.
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