Keyboardz
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> Imagine what synth-triggering guitars using today's technology could
> sound like on a new Prog recording.
That depends on whether the music is any good.
> There's still a lot of us Proggers hoping for one more musical
> renaissance.
Apparently you're unaware of the musical riches bestowed on this little
community over the past dozen years (or longer). I don't suppose we'll
see you at the Rites of Spring Festival or NEARfest? Are you familiar
with those? Do you know the bands that by now are a new set of "usual
suspects" for us: echolyn (and related), the Flower Kings, Spock's
Beard, Porcupine Tree, Anekdoten? Lots of others besides those, many
worth checking out.
If you're talking about mainstream commercial success, I'd say the
success of The Mars Volta (and to a lesser extent Radiohead) is the
closest you'll find today. And, of course, there's the continuing
success of Dream Theater.
> Maybe a new kind of music in the spirit of
> Progressive Rock could come about...
A lot of us like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum around here. Or you could
try "math-rock". Of course, that depends on what you mean by "spirit".
Some music might say the same things as classic prog, but in a new way.
Some music might use classic prog's musical language to say new things.
SGM says something entirely different, but in a "musically difficult"
way that yet has little to do directly with classic prog.
> Maybe there's less serious musicians than there used to be?
Probably; they've all drunk the post-punk Kool-Aid.
*Guitar Hero*, of all things, seems to be doing some re-educating,
though I have to agree with Nuno Bettencourt when he pointed out on
Blabbermouth that things are pretty dire when rock music has to depend
on a VIDEO GAME to save it.
> ...what I've heard on Pop radio lacks the creative-genius we saw
> in bands like Symphonic Slam, Max Webster, Rush, Triumph, Saga et al...
All good bands, but "creative genius"? (Besides Rush, the most original
of the bunch from what I can tell.) But pop generally isn't the place
for "creative genius", anyway. The real challenge is in getting people
to look outside pop.
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"There is no excellent beauty which hath not some
strangeness in the proportion." --Francis Bacon
