Maurice Rickard wrote:
At 11:12 PM -0700 4/10/02, Russ Van Rooy wrote:> For some reason, I've been in kind of a math-rock phase - Okay, since it's been brought up here - what the HELL is math-rock?A kind of metal rock that looks to King Crimson and Rush (and many others)Ah, you kind of beat me to it in a way, Russ. I'd say keep the "complex" structures and weird time signatures (especially) and drain out all the D&D S/F imagery (because it's often instrumental, thankfully...but see below), and remove the virtuosi solos in favor of whole-band texture.
As an old Crimson fan (which is to say, I was a Crimson fan back in the old days - don't care much for prog-rock anymore), I have to rise to their defense and point out that they were always (or at least after the earliest records) rather sparse with the elves and aliens, played a fair number of instrumentals (esp. in the Fripp/Bruford/Wetton/sometimes Muir days, which were my faves), and didn't pile on the solos.
I don't know if it's math-rock, but I know I've been surprised by how often I walk into my local hipster coffee shop and think, on hearing the music playing, "This sounds kind of like Crimson circa Lark's Tongue in Aspic!"
My favorite prog-rock band, however, was Gentle Giant. Now, how many of us have GG albums in our collections (alongside the apparently ubiquitous Mimi & Richard Farina)?
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