How do you define "Prog-Rock"?!
Question:
How do you define "Prog-Rock"?
I checked out a "Prog-Rock" site today and as well as seeing bands that I expected, I also noticed some I didn't expect listed: Kansas, Styx, Journey and a few others.
Answers:
Well, I don't like every group that may be prog just like I don't like every rock band. Journey originally was a spin-off of Santana when several key members left Santana well before Steve Perry joined. Maybe the site thinks of Santana's early stuff as progressive. Kansas was a southern version of prog rock in the beginning, although aside from a couple of okay songs on their first few, I wasn't a big fan. I never did like Styx although they did rip off Yes(check out Prelude 12 by Styx and then listen to Steve Howe's acoustic passage in And You And I), Emerson, Lake and Palmer(Styx has a song called A Day which is a rip of Take A Pebble) and King Crimson(Styx has a song called Serpent which is a rip of a song called Pictures Of A City by King Crimson).