"A decade ago prog was the preserve of the diehard. Now [2011] is set to be a glorious summer of prog." Nick Shilton, Classic Rock Presents: Prog! Between June and September 2011, bands such as Caravan, Arena, Focus, Wishbone Ash, Magma, Jethro Tull, Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Hawkwind, Supertramp, and Van der Graaf Generator (to name a few) descended upon England either as part of multi-legged tours, or during extravagant Progressive Rock festivals (oftentimes, both). Progressive Rock
Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy Led Zeppelin is arguably one of the best rock n’ roll bands of all time. They were collectively some of the best musicians ever to play rock n’ roll music, and were also great lyricists. Robert Plant (the lead vocalist) was quoted as saying that for some of the songs that he wrote, he felt that someone pushed the pen for him. Whether some mysterious force was moving his hand or not, one things for sure, Led Zeppelin wrote some timeless masterpieces of music.
the timbral palette of the then-traditional rock instrumentation of the guitar, organ, bass, and drums by adding instruments more typical of jazz music. Some unique instruments from the jazz period - most noticeably the Moog Synthesizer and the Mellotron - have become closely associated with the Progressive rock genre of music (Jazz-rock 1) Drawing on their classical, and jazz experimental influences, progressive rock artists are more likely to explore time signatures other than the usual 4/4 and
60s Research Document 4.1.1,2 History and development of the Multitrack Recorder Multitrack recorders were originally developed in the early 1950s in Germany. The initial principle of multitracks was to divide a tape in two parts and record different sounds onto each and play them back concurrently. The fact that both tracks would be on the same tape would mean they would be synchronised exactly. In classical music recordings of the 1950s, the early two track machines were first used and recorded