Prog Rock FAQ
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Prog Rock FAQ

All That's Left to Know About Rock's Most Progressive Music

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eBook - ePub

Prog Rock FAQ

All That's Left to Know About Rock's Most Progressive Music

About this book

Prog Rock FAQ traces the controversial, but much misunderstood musical genre through its five-decade history, highlighting the rise, eventual decline, and recent resurgence of one of the most inventive and storied popular musical forms of the latter half of the 20th Century. Prog Rock FAQ digs deep to deliver a view of progressive rock as you've never known it: Technical wizards, cosmic messengers, visionary producers, groundbreaking album-cover illustrators, and even innovative musical instrument vendors separate memory from myth, fact from fiction, to recount prog rock's most historically significant milestones and little-known tales. This interview-rich, unapologetic volume addresses topics taboo and burning alike, while welcoming the reader on an enthralling journey replete with rapturous visions, wondrous stories, and endless enigmas.

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Information

Publisher
Backbeat
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781617136214
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Signs of the Aprogalypse
  4. 1. Clockwork Soldiers: Are Proto-Prog Rockers Clouds the True Fathers of a Musical Movement?
  5. 2. Of Pawn Hearts and Horn Parts: A Q&A with Former Van der Graaf Generator Saxophonist David Jackson
  6. 3. The Mellotron: Raising the Mammoth
  7. 4. Mindcrimes and Misconceptions: Concept Albums (That Are and Aren’t)
  8. 5. Move On Alone: A Q&A with Mick Abrahams
  9. 6. The Gates of Delirium: Top 20 BIG Compositions
  10. 7. King Crimson’s Lizard: Beyond the Bizarre and Beautiful Album Cover Artwork
  11. 8. Escapist Artists: Designing and Creating Prog Rock’s Wondrous Visuals
  12. 9. The Cinema Show: Prog’s Celluloid Heroes
  13. 10. Italian Cult Bands: Inside the Making of Two Classic Records
  14. 11. Crafty Hands: Happy the Man
  15. 12. Blinded by the Lite? A Look Inside Prog’s Number-One Song
  16. 13. Prog Gets Punk’d: What Caused the Decline of the Genre?
  17. 14. Heavy Horsesh#$!: Examining Prog’s Criminal Record and Critiquing Critical Reaction
  18. 15. Yes, an Implosion? The Behind-the-Scenes Drama of a Rock Powerhouse
  19. 16. Wise After the Event: An Anthony Phillips Q&A
  20. 17. Shock to the System: Henry Cow and Rock in Opposition
  21. 18. Jack the Ripper and Other Musical Villains: Univers Zero’s Daniel Denis
  22. 19. The Defector’s Dream Team: Steve Hackett—His Exit from Genesis and His Musical Triumphs
  23. 20. Any Colour You Like: Tull, Eddie Jobson, and the Mysterious Pink Album
  24. 21. My Own Time: Highlights of John Wetton’s Journeyman Career
  25. 22. Asia “Minor”? John Payne Discusses His (Largely Underappreciated) Years with the Prog-Pop Band Asia
  26. 23. ELP’s Black Moon Rising: Romantic Warriors in Enemy Territory
  27. 24. ÄnglagĂ„rd: Riding the Third Wave
  28. 25. District 97 Q&A: Gender Politics and Prog
  29. 26. It’s Worth Repeating: Minimalism, Steve Reich, and Radiohead
  30. 27. Collins’ Cosmos: Who, or What, Is Dimensionaut?
  31. 28. Scale the Summit: Sense the Adventure Metal—A Q&A with Chris Letchford
  32. Notes
  33. Selected Bibliography