[atlantaprog] Re: Controversy

>Did Trevor Rabin save Yes or ruin it?

I'd have to say he did neither.  The albums he made while with the band have 
some pretty good stuff on them and Yes had considerable commercial success 
with two of them, but it can also be argued that if Yes had split following 
Drama 
that they probably would have gotten back together in the late eighties and 
enjoyed a Pink Floyd style resurgence.  Instead of ABWH we might have gotten 
the first new Yes album since Drama and Squire's involvement would have 
improved 
that album immensely.  They never would have ruined their reputation with 
crap like Union or Open Your Eyes and they might actually have a higher profile 
today with a legendary reputation closer to that of Pink Floyd and Led Zep, 
which is really where they belong in the rock music pantheon anyway.


>Genesis was better after Peter Gabriel left.

Heck no...A Trick Of The Tale and Wind and Wuthering are pretty strong 
musically, but the Phil Collins blandness factor is all ready creeping into the 
mix. 
 He really must be one of the least interesting singers in the history of 
rock music.    

>Prog is progressive. It progresses. It's about progress. That's why 
>anything prog has to include samples from a 1936 Hammond organ and a 
>1967 Mellotron, and at least one authentic large monophonic 
>transistor device with patch cables which refuses to remain in tune.

I've just always thought the older keyboards sounded better as a purely 
asthetic thing.  Even in the 80s when I had no idea what "progressive rock" was 
or 
the difference between analog and digital or any of the technical jargon I 
couldn't figure out why the keyboards on my albums by The Who and Pink Floyd 
sounded "cool" while the Mister Mister sounding keyboards on the stuff I heard 
on 
the radio "sucked".


Chris H.

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