Originally Posted by boo boo (Post 404746)

Many prog bands use keyboards, but they don't all use keyboards in the same way. Its pretty dumb to call it a cliched genre because of heavy emphasis on a certain instrument. Thats like calling rock cliched for the heavy use of guitar, or folk because of the use of acoustics, or jazz for the use of brass instruments.

The reason prog bands commonly use keyboards is because prog bands like tone variety, and a good synthesizer and a good sampler offer a lot more tone variety than a guitar. Any techno fan will tell you that.

Originally Posted by Crowquill (Post 404800)

Having a keyboard isn't a requirement to being progressive though, which is what I was saying. Proggy was saying the opposite.

Originally Posted by ProggyMan (Post 404807)

I didn't mean that you flat-out can't have prog without keyboards, just that it's a hallmark of progressive rock.

Originally Posted by ProggyMan (Post 404818)

Because instead of just deleting the off-topic posts Crowquill moved them to a new thread.

Originally Posted by Crowquill (Post 404819)

Uh, thats not what you said when you said "Can't have prog without keyboards." I see nothing else there that even implies you thought otherwise and don't give me that joking crap because you tried to pass this off as criticism.

Originally Posted by ProggyMan (Post 404821)

I never said it was a joke. I'm saying that I think it's pretty obvious that I don't think that you have to have keyboards to be progressive.