In Progressive Rock groups everything was great (often grandiose, so we're going to cheat). If you managed to capture music to audiences, leading them to a world of unknown sounds, their shows should be equally mammoth. Using light show, dry ice, three-dimensional sets, revolving stages, costumes and overwhelming voltages to leave his audience with his mouth open. The phrase of the day is "do not go there's still more." Those were times of Peter Gabriel doing theater, costume and become a character in Lewis Carroll , a Keith Emerson torturing his hammond and piano playing a flying!, About Pink Floyd with hallucinogenic projections and Robert Fripp soloing carrying ecstasy or boredom. was a time of lavish record folders. Of artists who developed the image of the Rock and the concept of what was a cover of an album, the wonderful times and evocative covers of Roger Dean for Yes, the great Hipgnosis designs for the label Harvest of HR Giger illustrating a cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer . Those were times of direct double in any other decade appeared points, triple and even quadruple. Issues were times of twenty minutes of wildly imaginative self-taught musicians. Times of excess ... British groups were undoubtedly the most imaginative and pioneers of the genre, which contributed most fruitful ideas for the new style. Although born in the U.S. psychedelia, progressive rock as a concept and musical movement was born in England. The pioneers of the genre are British pop group whose approach to arrangements more sophisticated places like Arrowhead new germ, both groups who stepped forth to experiment, as is the case Cream, The Pretty Things or of Traffic Steve Winwood or groups that come with that concern and explore new avenues, such as The Nice , The Moody Blues and Procol Harum. The five key names, the great progressive rock groups, are English: Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer . But many more came in the shadow of those: Atomic Rooster, Renaissance, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, Caravan ... The list is endless, but they are the most prominent of a genre that represented their most shameful excesses the middle of the decade. I'm a big fan of Rick Wakeman, but I have to admit that his idea of \u200b\u200bmaking the Arthurian legend is an ice show too much even for minds as twisted as mine. U.S. contributed little to progressive rock as an exception can name any American group, as Vanilla Fudge and Spirit , or at great inspiration was Frank Zappa , without being an artist known progressive as one fuse these two worlds, rock and classical, in an unparalleled musical world. Without doubt, one of the most fertile imaginations and influential of the century, and the only American artist who was a notable reference to gender.
Zappa was a reference especially for musicians from other European countries began to develop their own vision of progressive rock music fused with its traditions and enriching the world to the absolute limits Progressive far talent and virtually no business sense. It may due to the European musical roots, the symphonic strongly rooted in many European countries, resulting in remarkable groups in countries like Italy ( Bank, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Le Orme ), France ( Ange, Lard Free, Magma ), Sweden ( Samla Mammas Manna), Netherlands ( Supersister, Focus ), Denmark ( Savage Rose ), Greece ( Aphrodite's Child ) ... but if there is a place that Progressive reached a status notable was in Germany, where he became a form of expression native with a peculiar name: Krautrock. This is her story ... For some strange reason several musicians from Germany, Austria and Switzerland came up with the great idea of \u200b\u200bgiving us history lessons, biology, astronomy, and even annoying do geology through progressive rock concept albums. The label that encompassed such a creative stream called Krautrock and if there is something to admire about these "geniuses" is the tenacity with which he sought to unite concepts as exciting as the instrumental virtuosity, outer space, electronic music and Wagner. In the late 60's, after two decades of American music had totally dominated the entertainment of millions of Germans because of the semi-colonization experienced by the country with the installation of North American military bases after World War II and in a period when everything was purely Germanic associated with Nazism, some groups began to provide its own personality, ie the German spirit, to rock'n'roll. Did so mainly through sound offered by the new keyboards and moog synthesizers. A solemn sound, baroque and bombastic perfectly suited to the musical tradition of this country. The first public indication that things were changing was the emergence in 1968 of two German groups in Tagen Song Festival Essen (traditionally dominated by American groups) were Tangerine Dream and Amon Düül . In the years following two stamps, Ohr and Brain, edit records of new groups as Ash Ra Temple, Embyo, Guru Guru, Neu Cluster or , and in 1972 had already published an incredible 500 discs German rock. Soon all the majors wanted to have in their ranks and a representative of Krautrock bands like Passport, Can Kraftwerk and took to the international level. The invasion had begun.
In Progressive Rock groups everything was great (often grandiose, so we're going to cheat). If you managed to capture music to audiences, leading them to a world of unknown sounds, their shows should be equally mammoth. Using light show, dry ice, three-dimensional sets, revolving stages, costumes and overwhelming voltages to leave his audience with his mouth open. The phrase of the day is "do not go there's still more." Those were times of Peter Gabriel doing theater, costume and become a character in Lewis Carroll , a Keith Emerson torturing his hammond and piano playing a flying!, About Pink Floyd with hallucinogenic projections and Robert Fripp soloing carrying ecstasy or boredom. 
was a time of lavish record folders. Of artists who developed the image of the Rock and the concept of what was a cover of an album, the wonderful times and evocative covers of Roger Dean for Yes, the great Hipgnosis designs for the label Harvest of HR Giger illustrating a cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer . Those were times of direct double in any other decade appeared points, triple and even quadruple. Issues were times of twenty minutes of wildly imaginative self-taught musicians. Times of excess ... 
British groups were undoubtedly the most imaginative and pioneers of the genre, which contributed most fruitful ideas for the new style. Although born in the U.S. psychedelia, progressive rock as a concept and musical movement was born in England. The pioneers of the genre are British pop group whose approach to arrangements more sophisticated places like Arrowhead new germ, both groups who stepped forth to experiment, as is the case Cream, The Pretty Things or of Traffic Steve Winwood or groups that come with that concern and explore new avenues, such as The Nice , The Moody Blues and Procol Harum. 
The five key names, the great progressive rock groups, are English: Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer . But many more came in the shadow of those: Atomic Rooster, Renaissance, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, Caravan ... The list is endless, but they are the most prominent of a genre that represented their most shameful excesses the middle of the decade. I'm a big fan of Rick Wakeman, but I have to admit that his idea of \u200b\u200bmaking the Arthurian legend is an ice show too much even for minds as twisted as mine. U.S. contributed little to progressive rock as an exception can name any American group, as Vanilla Fudge and Spirit , or at great inspiration was Frank Zappa , without being an artist known progressive as one fuse these two worlds, rock and classical, in an unparalleled musical world. Without doubt, one of the most fertile imaginations and influential of the century, and the only American artist who was a notable reference to gender. 
Zappa was a reference especially for musicians from other European countries began to develop their own vision of progressive rock music fused with its traditions and enriching the world to the absolute limits Progressive far talent and virtually no business sense. It may due to the European musical roots, the symphonic strongly rooted in many European countries, resulting in remarkable groups in countries like Italy ( Bank, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Le Orme ), France ( Ange, Lard Free, Magma ), Sweden ( Samla Mammas Manna), Netherlands ( Supersister, Focus ), Denmark ( Savage Rose ), Greece ( Aphrodite's Child ) ... but if there is a place that Progressive reached a status notable was in Germany, where he became a form of expression native with a peculiar name: Krautrock. This is her story ... For some strange reason several musicians from Germany, Austria and Switzerland came up with the great idea of \u200b\u200bgiving us history lessons, biology, astronomy, and even annoying do geology through progressive rock concept albums. The label that encompassed such a creative stream called Krautrock and if there is something to admire about these "geniuses" is the tenacity with which he sought to unite concepts as exciting as the instrumental virtuosity, outer space, electronic music and Wagner. In the late 60's, after two decades of American music had totally dominated the entertainment of millions of Germans because of the semi-colonization experienced by the country with the installation of North American military bases after World War II and in a period when everything was purely Germanic associated with Nazism, some groups began to provide its own personality, ie the German spirit, to rock'n'roll. Did so mainly through sound offered by the new keyboards and moog synthesizers. A solemn sound, baroque and bombastic perfectly suited to the musical tradition of this country. The first public indication that things were changing was the emergence in 1968 of two German groups in Tagen Song Festival Essen (traditionally dominated by American groups) were Tangerine Dream and Amon Düül . In the years following two stamps, Ohr and Brain, edit records of new groups as Ash Ra Temple, Embyo, Guru Guru, Neu Cluster or , and in 1972 had already published an incredible 500 discs German rock. Soon all the majors wanted to have in their ranks and a representative of Krautrock bands like Passport, Can Kraftwerk and took to the international level. The invasion had begun. 
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