hansx wrote:Chris Monk wrote:hansx wrote:
Yep, but cannot call TD progressive, isn't it.
You will be lucky if they publish some bits of it in such a magazine.
TD are the ultimate kings of Prog IMHO.
Sorry, not for me. These days they are more symphonic rock, but not at all progressive.
Yep.
I mean Progressive Rock in the original meaning of the phrase; which, as I understand it, was bands performing new sounds and interesting ways of playing music.
Wikipedia has a nice quote: The Oxford Companion to Music states that progressive rock bands "...explored extended musical structures which involved intricate instrumental patterns and textures and often esoteric subject matter".
-which sums it up quite nicely for me and also describes TD in a nutshell.
For me symphonic rock is played by bands like Stratovarius, Symphony X, Rhapsody, Kamelot, etc, which bare little relation to what TD does.
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