The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (597 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MF7N3Y5 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 177 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The wildly entertaining story of progressive rock, the music that ruled the 1970s charts—and has divided listeners ever since.The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive (“prog”) rock. Pepper. He reveals how prog’s best-selling, epochal albums were made, including The Dark Side of the Moon, Thick as a Brick, and Tubular Bells. Epitomized by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Emerson Lake & Palmer, along with such successors as Rush, Marillion, Asia, Styx, and Porcupine Tree, prog sold hundreds of millions of records. And he explores the rise of new instruments into the prog mix, such as the synthesizer, flute, mellotron, and—famously—the double-neck guitar.The Show That Never Ends is filled with the candid reminiscences of prog’s celebrated musicians. It also features memorable portraits of the vital contributions of producers, empresarios, and technicians such as Richard Branson, Brian Eno, Ahmet Ertegun, and Bob Moog.Ultimately
Weigel delivers a fun, compulsively readable account.” - Rob Salkowitz, Forbes“A well-researched, informative, and entertaining chronicle of the music’s emergence, golden era, and eventual transition from rock’s future to its past.” - Phil Freeman, The Wire. His knack for lean, efficient music analysis is refreshing and his obvious passion for the music elevates the narrative.” - Jason Heller, NPR“As is only appropriate, given the ambition, audacity, andnow and thenlifestyle of the musicians whose fondness for 10/8 time signatures and tritone chords have found a deft and sympathetic chronicler in Dave Weigel,
David Weigel is a national reporter for the Washington Post. . He has written for Bloomberg Businessweek, Slate, Reason, GQ, Esquire, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Politico, and many other journals. He lives in Washington, DC
Mike Luoma said Progressive Rock Treated With Respect!. Tired of mainstream, too-cool music critics who ignorantly dismiss Progressive Rock as some aberrant, abhorrent "thing" that happened in the early-mid 70's? You'll find - as I did - author Dave Weigel's new book a welcome change, as he respectfully looks back on the Progressive Rock era through new interviews and years of archival material. The stories of King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, and - as you might expect from the title - ELP form the core of the work, but Weigel delves into many different bands' histories, successes and failures. Prog fans being what they are, . Highly entertaining An easy read which I thoroughly enjoyed, even though it's largely an assembly of old interviews and reviews, with some all-too-short analyses (well, descriptions) of the major works of the most important bands. But Weigel apparently knows nothing about classical music. Page 1: Bach walking in Hanover Square? I think not. Handel's the man (and later, Hendrix). One can find other gaffes, like "baroque symphony." Clearly he doesn't speak from a position of musical authority, but as a fan he does a great job making the story interesting. Highly entertaining.. "I really liked this book and would recommend it to any rock" according to Napoleon. I really liked this book and would recommend it to any rock fan that lived through the era, is interested in prog rock or in rock in general. It was a nice summer read. One thing I found a bit of a negative is how it all but ignored Pink Floyd, the biggest of the bunch (admittedly, always a bit of an exception to the rule of prog rock in that it really never suffered the fate of other bands or really any need to modify its approach, but then again maybe that is why they should have been discussed more). Oh, and for the author, I was born and raised in the Mahoning