Reconstructionism

[thebarguest]

Wow, a response !! Thanks !

Lots of the old "prog" bands had some of their biggest successes
during and after 1977 eg Yes, Tull, Genesis, ELP, Barclay James H.
Pink Floyd etc. But, yeah, punk influenced those bands to trim their
excesses and stop those awful 20 min drum solos !! So maybe they
were not prog any more ......... but they were still called prog by
the media.

You've got to remember, at the height of prog, glam rock/pop (like
Slade) was the 'punk' of the day.

Incidentally, you can't get more 'prog' than Van der Graaf Generator
who were loved by Rotten, Mark E. Smith and no doubt other punks.



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, markbursa@... wrote:
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> >>"Reconstructionism" as opposed to "revisionism" (which says  that
> prog was murdered by punk in 77), ha ha !!<<
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> revisionism is saying it wasn't!
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