Progressive rock as a cultural phenomenon

[podakayne]

it's a thinking mind's music if you were to ask me. very difficult indeed to discern why it's rhythms invite some, repell others or worst yet have no effect at all on the larger masses. do i care it's viewed as elitest... hardly! it's an acquired taste most definately.

has it been influential socially, undeniably yes. whether you hear it watered down in mainstream music, or behind a movie or television soundtrak..it's there. it's been UNderrated IMO...and to have skipped over the progressive movement in that lecture Woj, shows ignorance of the subject matter. Did they focus on all music jazz, rock, classic, folk...there were prog offshoots of each. it at least deserved a footnote.

growing up a psuedo-hippie in berkeley it was reflected...yes there was the big "rock" explosion, and within the trippy, more psychodelic, more experimental music was the very beginning of progressive music...music & lyrics that told a story...i dont get how they could have missed that?

i have musical taste that stand apart from the masses, i listen proudly. i may dip my toe in the mass from time to time, but for my personal edification & satistfaction only progressive(and a few other genre) will suffice...it's the nature of my being....and then there's rogors explaination

genesis said it best still "i know what i like, and i like what i know"

my 2cents
poda