Can't Have Prog Without Keyboards: A Discussion (lyrics, bass, members)

sleepy jack · 10-07-2007, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

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.

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

boo boo · 10-07-2007, 11:53 PM

Yeah that is true, KC for example.

ProggyMan · 10-08-2007, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

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

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

boo boo · 10-08-2007, 12:28 AM

So. Why did this warrant its own thread again?

sleepy jack · 10-08-2007, 12:29 AM

To avoid spamming someones song.

ProggyMan · 10-08-2007, 12:30 AM

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

sleepy jack · 10-08-2007, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by ProggyMan

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

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.

sleepy jack · 10-08-2007, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ProggyMan

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

I see this as a valuable discussion and didn't want to keep derailing the new guys thread.

ProggyMan · 10-08-2007, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

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.

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.

sleepy jack · 10-08-2007, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by ProggyMan

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.

Then why did you tell him you couldn't have prog without keyboards and therefore his song idea was 'bad'?

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