Metamatic

Just in case some of you don't know and for those that were/are into 'late 60s/early 70s' progressive rock, this is a quick pointer to a 90 minute BBC4 programme that is first showing tonight Fri 2nd Jan, and if well done could be very interesting as well as producing deep melancholia for your now faraway youth

Here's some copy from the beeb site:

Documentary about progressive music and the generation of bands that were invloved, from the international success stories of Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson and Jethro Tull to the trials and tribulations of lesser-known bands such as Caravan and Egg.
The film is structured in three parts, charting the birth, rise and decline of a movement famed for complex musical structures, weird time signatures, technical virtuosity and strange, and quintessentially English, literary influences.
It looks at the psychedelic pop scene that gave birth to progressive rock in the late 1960s, the golden age of progressive music in the early 1970s, complete with drum solos and gatefold record sleeves, and the over-ambition, commercialisation and eventual fall from grace of this rarefied musical experiment at the hands of punk in 1977.
Contributors include Robert Wyatt, Mike Oldfield, Pete Sinfield, Rick Wakeman, Phil Collins, Arthur Brown, Carl Palmer and Ian Anderson.

Here's the link also, so that you can check repeat dates and times:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g8tfv

Hope we all can enjoy in one way or another,
Garden

Cheers for posting.You beat me to it.

Also Prog @ the BBC on at 9pm before it.

Brian

Thanks for spotting this one chaps.

Not quite sure how to balance an interest in Prog' with all things Electronic.

Yours eclectically,

Boris

Have you tried Yes. Hawkwind. Can. Kraftwerk...?

These bands exemplify some of the earliest connections

or even the more up to date,Muse sound very prog to me.

For "Yes" - more partial to the mid/later stuff.
Hawkwind, I've never picked up on - likewise Can.
Kraftwerk however I like a lot, but only caught up with them properly recently - due mostly to mentions/credit from JF.

Looking forward to the rest of this series though,
as these groups seem to have bypassed TV in most cases.

For Hawkwind all you ever see is the same clips of
"Silver Machine" for instance... :rolleyes:

Thanks - B.

thanks for posting this topic Garden, I missed it, but hope to get a chance to watch it online.

It's a pleasure, Core.

By the way, the documentary is repeated tonight on BBC4 at 9.00pm with the programme of performances also repeated at 11.15pm, so maybe you can catch it all then. There was some good stuff and some not so good, but overall most enjoyable!

Out for now,
Garden

Listening now to the remaster of 'The Frozen Ones'.

Some almost surreal prog keyboard from Billy and freestyle work from Chris...

Bit annoyed with myself as I started watching the programme online but didn't manage to finish all of it, and now its no longer available to view :rolleyes: