Post the most ridiculous image of Prog-Rock excess you can find....

[XNASA]

I'll go first.



"My roadies hate me."

[Westegg]

1. Good one! The great Keef Emerson...

I guarantee you my wife's vibrator has more memory in it than that ten-foot bank of ancient electronics. Looks positively medieval, don't it? Prog to the max!

(Hey, no jokes about the vibrator, OK? She got it before she met me, and hardly ever needs it now....)

[Whitacre D_WI]

2. Completely superfluous:

[FDRrocks]

40. He uses it all

Not that I dig that approach in the first place.

[tigereye]

41. hey nice cymbals

wish I had some cymbals like those

I do have one really nice Zildjian.

Actually you could do a lot of damage with that many drums

[On the Road]

3. I Was Trying to Find a JPG of the Back of Pink Floyd's 'Ummagumma'

in which they have all their equipment spread out over a runway in the shape of a huge jet. Can't seem to locate it on the web.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Actually, I must admit I rather enjoy this mad recording.

http://www.collectable-records.ru/images/GROUPS/Wayne/War%20Of%

[Imagine If]

5. That's a good one - how about this?

David Lee Roth

[XNASA]

14. Van Halen is not Prog-Rock, it's Hair Rock.

Or judging by the image, maybe it's Crotch Rock.

[DS1]

6. Guitar with 5 necks

[XNASA]

13. That's one of Rick Nielsen's guitars.

He not a Prog-Rocker. He's just a Rocker.

[Ellen Forradalom]

20. No, it's one of Mrs. Westegg's..

..oh, never mind.

[XNASA]

7. "Now, where did I set my beer?"

[Westegg]

9. Ah, Wakeman! Master of prog excess...

I'm surprised he never got his hair caught in the gears and had his scalp ripped off his noggin. Hell, his hair alone said "prog over-kill." That, and "The Six Wives of Henry VIII."

[tigereye]

42. I saw some of those shows

[annagull]

37. is this the guy who had the medieval ice-skating ballet?

can't remember who the keyboardist was (one of the big progrock groups) but one of the last shows had these people dressed like warriors from medieval times ice skating--would love to see a pic of that!

[phaseolus]

8. The great-grandfather of the genre??

well... maybe stretching a little. But you wanted "excess"...

[XNASA]

11. I used to have that record.

Small world.

[Ricdude]

10. Early Genesis...

[XNASA]

12. I was waiting for someone to post the Watcher of the Skies costume.

Thanks for not letting me down Ricdude.

[Ricdude]

43. Rick Wakeman's sea of keyboards was already taken...

...And I too, could not find the Ummagumma shot in a suitably short period of time...

[Ellen Forradalom]

17. Nice pic of Zomby Woof

And I bet he's not ashamed of it at all.

[Mike Daniels]

33. PG era Genesis is about the only old prog-rock I can actually listen to

Actually, there was a method to the costumes as most of Genesis's songs did tell a distinct story. Plus I guess it gave the audience something to look at during the instrumental wanking off sections.

In terms of the music, there was a certain pastoral sound to the albums and their lyrics had a literacy to them that other groups like Yes, ELP and others of a similar ilk discarded in order to sing nonsensical strings of phrases that sounded deep only when if you were fall on your ass stoned, tripping out or impossibly naive.

Plus you have to give points to a band that gives four sides over to a story about a New York street punk who falls into his own Alice in Wonderland alter-reality.

On second thought, King Crimson still remains listenable if you start with Larks Tounge in Aspic and go from there.

38. good thing you mentioned Crimson

or I would have been forced to flame you.

Oh and PG Genesis does kick solidly. Been awhile since I listened to Lamb. I may have to do that soon.

[BurtWorm]

15. Ah, the lovely 1970s!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. John Anderson of Jethro Tull? (nt)

[BurtWorm]

24. Don't bring me down

Brrrrrrrrrrruce! ;)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Ah, ELO.

I didn't know the song lyrics, so I resorted to Google (the third hemisphere of my brain)

[BurtWorm]

26. It ain't Jethro Tull!

(It's ELO.)

[Westegg]

31. You sure that's not Roy Wood of The Move?

Precursor to ELO? Nah, I guess you're right. That must be Jeff Lynnne, innit? The early ELO stuff was kinda prog, but they went so mainstream in the end. Hell, so did everyone else, I guess! Except for King Crimson. Long live Fripp!

[BurtWorm]

32. Roy Wood was in ELO, wasn't he? That might be him.

It doesn't look like Jeff Lynne.

[Westegg]

35. Roy Wood led The Move, founded in '66.

When it disbanded, in '72, he was, for a very brief time, part of the group that rose from its ashes, namely ELO. But Wood split quickly and formed his own band while Lynne, a Move member, took ELO to hit singles and silliness.

[Whitacre D_WI]

19. Is that a picture of matcom?

[XNASA]

22. matcom wearing his tin-foil hat?

[Ellen Forradalom]

16. Oh, is that a picture from your debut the other night?

C'mon XNASA it only looks like excess because it's old fashioned analog electronics.

[XNASA]

21. I think that Emerson's synth is bigger than the stage we played on.

Here a picture of Prog Excess using more modern equipment.

[ulysses]

23. here ya go

oh, wait...

39. I heard the original Kansas

before their record deal around about 1972. (I lived in their hometown) Completely different band.
Only 2 of the originals (actually maybe only 1) were in the band everyone knows.
The original band had a heavy Zappa/King Crimson influence, believe it or not.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

27. Here you go

[BurtWorm]

28. Regressive Rock excess?

[ulysses]

29. yikes

Just the image, and the intro to that damn song starts in my head.

Ah, Eileen, we hardly knew ye...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

30. Does this scare yer?

[alarcojon]

34. How about some FLoyd

I had a hard time choosing just one...

http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/walll/html/wall104.html

[annagull]

36. "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto"

Can't find a concert pic, but Mr. Roboto's head is available