>Progressive rock is anything that doesn't sound like regular rock. Regular rock is everything that sounds like itself. All songs which sound the same. Every thing on MTV, every thing on the radio. That's rock. Progressive rock is stuff that doesn't sound like that.
Is Procol Harum considered progressive rock? >No Traffic? >No Pink Floyd? >Sometimes Jethro Tull? >Sometimes Genesis? >Sometimes Emerson, Lake & Palmer? >Sometimes Yes? >Sometimes King Crimson? >Sometimes Devo? >No
Is that how being patrician is like? What would be his say on today's music?
and i think he considered "real prog" bands like gentle giant
Wyatt Wood
dont forget that zappa was doing his thing and writing music before the term prog ever came around
Ian Rogers
thanks dweezil
Julian Hughes
He was doing faggy ass doo wop and straight edge psychedelic rock the wilde flowers did prog before zappa and better
Owen Thomas
He's right, you know. There was proto-this and that, but the first "fully fleshed out" prog was Zappa.
Joseph Jenkins
I wouldnt even say the first fully fleshed out prog was from zappa. All you can say for sure is that his views on music and his musical taste/appetite were themselves progressive. What he thinks of as progressive music is going to be unique to him and him alone. This might explain his iconoclastic views on prog a bit.
Nathaniel Hernandez
That's a pretty funny interview. Constantly shitting on Mtv who's interviewing him, not giving direct answers to any of the questions, talking shit about Lennon stealing his song.
Cameron Lee
Jesus Christ, could he be any more smug and full of himself?
Robert Thomas
I actually think he's just spitting the truth that only a few would've spoke at that time.
Jonathan Turner
If Zappa's fusion of rock with jazz AND classical wasn't right at the front lines of prog, what else was?
Caleb Ward
he acts like a 15 year old who just read his first Vonnegut book
Jayden Fisher
Zappa is true, but pretentious about it
Samuel Walker
He's being extra pretentious in this interview since It's for MTV and he doesn't give a shit about it.
Jaxson Long
The little smartass acts like he's God's gift to humanity
Gabriel Barnes
He doesn't though, he just thinks the music industry is shit