Progressive rock

And after this short ad break, crazy prog from Spain.

Welcome to episode 55 of Ken Slater's Progressive Musings.

Do you have a band that needs to be heard on the radio or are you a manager or PR person who has bands or artists that need airplay? If so, please submit your digital files or CDs by emailing us at librarian at progzilla.com.

That's librarian at progzilla.com. We can help progress your musical dreams one track at a time on Progzilla Radio.

So, you know, when when Geddy Lee's singing and and there's the the climactic moment in the twenty one twelve overture, like eight minutes into the fucking thing where you hear the water trickling and he's inside of the cave and says, oh, what strange device is this? Did he finds the guitar?

Prog Rock has been, like, those guys have just been terribly responsible for elevating the worst shit imaginable.

I say this as someone who actually is an affinity for quite a lot of prog rock, it's like, these dudes should not be allowed to, like, this is what influenced me, it's like, shut the fuck up, don't,

don't do it,

you're all idiots, like, you guys are, oh no, it's really, speculative fiction really changed my life, it's like, you're a moron, don't even try and think.

The hard-working men working in the UK generally are, and women usually are in the north, So why would that change the sound of punk? Why would that make punk be any different, or music in general, any different from the South to the North? There's a couple of reasons I look at it.

If you think about punk itself, punk is about a rebellion... about DIY ethic, about making your own future, breaking out from the mould, crashing away from the 10, 11-minute epics that you get in Prague.

The music was taken away from the youth in the 50s.

It was a youth music and then it became an adults-only music where only the adults could buy the singles and then... punk comes along and we can buy the singles again we can become we can be a part of that industry that part of that movement but if you think about the lives of the people that are being that are being um influenced by the way they live.

People tell us that we play too loud But they don't know what our music's about We never listen to the record company man They try to screw us and ruin our lives Girls come over and it really gets hot We don't wanna be watered down Taking orders from record company clowns . . .

and good evening and welcome everyone as we watch jesse jarno quietly leave the studio guest on tectonic up till just a few seconds ago and welcome this show is called it's complicated an hour of prague and prague adjacent music i'm your host dave mandel i'm here with this program every monday evening at 7 p.m happy to be here always we're going to start tonight's show with A group that included as one member one of my very, very favorite musicians in the world, and that is drummer Clive Bunker.

Clive Bunker was the original drummer in Jethro Tull.

I'm not going to wax nostalgic here, but... really, really just one of the greatest rock drummers that ever lived, in my opinion.

In fact, before they really became a prog group, but an incredible drummer.

And when he left Tull, he played in various bands.

He played with Steve Hillage, speaking of prague but played with various people and briefly in the late 70s he played with a group called aviator that put out only one record that kind of went nowhere and you know it just kind of kind of fell flat and were forgotten no no judgments here i'm just just giving you just the facts so we're gonna hear a track from that group now this is aviator and It was a self-titled album released in 1980, I think.

I'm looking at my notes here.