Mellotronists

how about technical geniuses with great ideas? I'm not implying that prog is 
infallible...throughout the 90s I kept hearing new "neoprog" bands that sounded like old 
Genesis or Yes ad infinitum. If I want to hear old Genesis I'll put on FOXTROT thanks.
  Nick Magnus is doing some amazing things IMO....Iona...some bits by Flower 
Kings....Karnataka was pretty good before they split. There's still phenomenal prog out 
there. 



--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, tronbros@... wrote:
>
> I find blues and reggae tedious in any quantity.  Blues is locked into  the 
> pentatonic with nowhere to go and reggae has the eternal 3rd beat in the bar  
> running to destruction.  Both are severly handicapped by their  respective 
> formulas IMHO.  To balance this, I have spent time listening to  prog during this 
> last week via all the internet radio providers and I am  appalled at the 
> majority of what I hear.  This genre is currently guilty of  crimes against mankind 
> and may well have always been so.  Blues and  reggae may be musically 
> claustrophobic for my tastes but the drivel pouring  from these progstations is like 
> some hideous musical nightmare.  Give me a  stumbling player who means it 
> rather than some technical genius bereft of one  good musical idea.
>  
> There, I've said it.  Now go and listen to Chris Thile's 'Not All Who  Wander 
> Are Lost'.  Musical prowess and real music.  
>  
> Martin
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