Page #: 1123/3841 |
@targetf | 28 December 06 | |
..which featured virtuoso Minimoog solos by Mann. The group was regarded as a first- rate prog rock act, considering Manfred Mann's more well- known 1960's pop heritage .
|
||
@targetf | 28 December 06 | |
Progressive rock's popularity peaked in the mid-1970s , when prog artists regularly topped readers' votes in mainstream popular music magazines in England and America. By this time, several New World progressive rock bands had been formed. Kansas , which had actually existed in one form or another since 1971 , became one of the most commercially successful of all progressive rock bands.
|
||
@targetf | 28 December 06 | |
Toronto 's Rush were equally successful, with a string of hit albums extending from the mid-1970s to the present. Less commercially successful, but at least as influential as either band, were the Dixie Dregs , from Georgia (arguably more of a fusion band).
|
||
@targetf | 29 December 06 | |
With the advent of punk rock in the late 1970s , critical opinion in England moved toward a simpler and more aggressive style of rock, with progressive bands increasingly dismissed as pretentious and overblown, ending progressive rock's reign as one of the leading styles in rock.This development is often seen as part of wider commercial turn in popular music in second half of the 1970s,
|
||
@targetf | 29 December 06 | |
during which many funk or soul bands switched to disco and smooth jazz gained popularity over jazz fusion . However, established progressive bands still had a large following, with Rush, Genesis, Yes and Pink Floyd all regularly scoring Top Ten albums with massive accompanying tours, for some of these bands, their largest yet.
|
||
@targetf | 29 December 06 | |
By 1979, by which time it is generally agreed that punk had mutated into New Wave, Pink Floyd released The Wall, one of the best selling albums in history. Many bands which emerged in the aftermath of punk, such as Siouxsie and The Banshees , Cabaret Voltaire , Ultravox , Simple Minds and Wire all displayed prog, as well as their more usually recognised punk, influences.
|
||
@targetf | 29 December 06 | |
|
||
@gabriel9 | 29 December 06 | |
Hey, excellent info, i hadnt read that part before you posted it shel, thanks for takin time to do that. Enjoy seeing the story being put properly into context with these chapters.
|
||
@st.anger | 29 December 06 | |
I wish pink floyd would still be around with the line up from the dark side of the moon album.although not possible now wouldn't that be something to see live a truly great influential band
|
||
@lestate | 29 December 06 | |
*
Anyone remembers PFs song called Bike? What a cute lil song, dont u think? :-)
|
||