I saw Yes at the start of their career and even bought the Yes Album and played it for about 3 months solid until I realised what unutterably pretentious drivel they were peddling….and continued, along with the boorish Wakeman, to peddle. Please, younger STW members, realise how desperate was the need for punk by 1976!
cinnamon girl – I’m sorry to so utterly disagree with you. I’ve always admired your posts and your attitude, not to mention the shimmering Neil Young and Crazy Horse song from which you take your name.
But a Prog Rock revival on STW or anywhere else really is a step too far!
Ooo, get you! 🙄
Up yourself, much?
Punk was a very short-lived phenomena, and yes, it certainly helped clear some stuff out, but never forget that the biggest selling album during the height of punk was Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.
Some prog certainly got over ambitious, but so what? To so comprehensively deride so much music just because it’s played by first-rate, clever musicians who are doing their damnedest to stretch the limits of what is possible just shows you to be narrow-minded and ignorant.
FWIW, the first three Yes albums are their best, after Relayer and TFTO they sort of ran out of ideas, but I never get tired of listening to those first three. King Crimson, Gentle Giant, PFM, Greenslade are all bands who produce outstanding music, played by musicians who cared about their craft, and played to the very best of their ability, Gentle Giant, in particular were superb, very jazz-influenced, formed from Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, based around the three Shulman brothers, all were multi-instrumentalists except the drummer.
I saw Yes on the Close to the Edge, Tales From Topographic Oceans and Relayer tours, and at Reading, around the same time I saw Pink Floyd on the Wish You Were Here winter tour, in ’74, along with PFM, Greenslade and Gentle Giant.
And I also saw The Clash, The Jam, Girlschool, The Stranglers, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, and a whole bunch of other punk/new wave bands as well as folk and rock, because I just like music, simple as that.
There are certainly bands I don’t like much, and there’s an awful lot of truly boring production-line stuff on pop radio that shows a remarkable lack of creativity that the world would be better off without, but to put down c_g because she likes prog shows a remarkable lack of tolerance.
Anyway, it’s late, which possibly isn’t doing anything to stop me being Mr Tetchy, so that’s my ass out of here.
Later, music lovers. 8)